I was told 'they don't hire anyone like you': Michelle Lim Davidson
Plain text size Larger text size Text size is very large Back in 2010, when Michelle Lim Davidson was about to graduate from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), she was given advice that aspiring actors didn’t want to hear. “Agents and industry people came straight to me and said, ‘I just wanted to let you know, you’re so kind. You have talent. But you’ll never work,’” he recalls. “They’re like, ‘You’re never going to work on television, and it’s going to be really hard for you to get a job in main stage theater. They don’t hire anyone who looks like you.’ ” Michelle, who was born in Korea but raised in Australia, is left shaken and filled with self-doubt. “I asked myself, ‘What am I going to do? Why am I here?’ I just didn’t realize it would be such a problem.” But just days after his WAAPA graduation performance, he proved his doubts wrong. Among the audience of the show was British comedian Ben Elton, who chose Michelle to be part of his 2011 TV sket