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| Article: BROOKE (HERALD SUN) | |
Darren Devlyn and Erin McWhirter The memory is haunting - indelibly etched in the memory of actor Brooke Satchwell. In a textbook cased of being in the wrong place at the wrong time , Satchwell felt her time was up when terrorists stormed the lobby of Mumbai's Taj Mahal Hotel last November. A terrified Satchwell, who'd been in Mumbai working on a travel documentary with boyfriend David Gross, had met workmates at the Taj restaurant for dinner. Late in the evening she walked outside for a cigarette, visiting a restroom near the lobby after re-entering the hotel. It was then that the jolting, terrifying sound of machine-gun fire rang out. People began pushing into toilet cubicles, locking themselves in. Convinced this would prove a futile attempt at saving themselves should the terrorists burst in, Satchwell, 28, encouraged them to come out. All were to cram into a closet, about 2m by 50cm. They closed the doors and hoped for the best. Forty-five minutes latter, they were coaxed from the closet by hotel staff. Satchwell, a co-narrator of Channel 9's new factual series about holidays gone wrong, Trouble in Paradise, had to step over a dead body to exit the closet. When she raced outside, she discovered gunmen were roaming the street. Asked if she feared for her life when she heard the machine-gun fire, Satchwell says: "It was a terrifying moment, you look around and when other people start to go into panic, you go into survival mode. i was just looking around trying to find anything I could use as a weapon if somebody forced themselves through the door. "There was a lot of confusion. We were in there about 45 minutes and then hotel security staff rushed us through the lobby. "I ran downstairs, over more dead bodies, and ran up the street to plan my next move. it was just terrifying, the most stressful experience of my life. "It (terrorism) was something we only ever saw on the news. Obviously we feel impact from large-scale events that get media coverage, but we are a bit immune to the day-to-day atrocities that are going on around the globe. "I think that's the biggest thing you have to come to terms with is that this is a random event. "We were incredibly lucky in that situation we were in. it was definitely a very large blip on the radar, but others were worse off." Still the scars of the even remain. Bumps in the nigh startle her - a reminder of the night of terror. "We were staying in this place up in the mountains (on the Gold Coast), which was beautiful, but avocados would drop on the tin roof and scare the living daylights out of us," Satchwell says. "I don't think you can place value on having someone (partner) who understands the experience. I mean, how do you communicate that?" Her personal experience, and sense of curiosity, attracted Satchwell to the role of narrator on Trouble in Paradise, which explores stories of Australian travellers who've been subject to terrifying overseas experiences. In the first episode, we hear the story of two Aussies on a surfing holiday in the region of Mexico renowned for police corruption and drug-related murders. When one of the surfers is offered a joint, police swoop. The Aussies are dragged into a derelict building, where they are beaten and interrogated. The drug dealer is shot in an adjoining room. Also in episode one, a sightseeing tour of China turns to terror when a suicide bomber holds a group of Australians hostage. Ten Australian women are on a tour of Xian when a man steps on to their bus with a bomb strapped to his chest. "I guess when it comes to submissions for narration of the show it ticked a couple of boxes for me," Satchwell says. "It's very much about those wrong-time, wrong-place experiences that happen in a split second and I've had my own brush with what a few seconds means. I'm very interested in what happens behind these random events and where they come from and all those different moments that lead to that one point in time." Through her first trip to India was terrifying one, Satchwell hasn't ruled out returning there. She says many who've endured trauma overseas feel the same way. "Trouble in Paradise isn't saying 'the world is a terrible place and don't travel there'. In fact the beautiful thing is most of the participants at the end of their stories say they actually love the place and they would go back in heartbeat." she says. "That's absolutely on the cards for India. I was bitterly disappointed that I only got to spend 12 hours in the country. It definitely wasn't enough." | |
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Article Source: HERALD SUN Published: 22/06/2009 Member Rating:  5 STARS |
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| -dyni- (01/07/2009 12:19:54) |
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I saw the Taj lobby from the CCTV in that Dispatches docu a 2nd pair arrived and they got shot at by the first pair by mistake LOL So there were 4 and I was thinking theres Brooke hiding in the mens room but then they went upstairs "God Willing" :P All the captured controller telephone conversations were really interesting, he was like why haven't started the fire yet just threw a few grenades how hard is it to to take the pin out and just throw it (imagine a Punjabi accent) LOL | ||
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| captainsplat (25/06/2009 09:34:54) |
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Brooke's experience in India and her great voice must have made her the obvious choice for the programme-makers. | ||
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| martins1472 (24/06/2009 08:43:14) |
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She's right it's impossible to give someone who hasn't experienced that sort of trauma any real understanding of what it means, words just can't convey what it feels like. | ||
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