Trivia / Kath & Kim

• Acting for Two: All of the regular female cast members play more than one character:
  • Jane Turner (Kath) and Gina Riley (Kim) also play Trude and Prue, a pair of snobby shop assistants. A common gag is to have Trude mock Kath's appearance.
  • Gina Riley also plays Robyn, the demanding musical director in 'Kicking up a Stink'.
  • Magda Szubanski (Sharon) plays Brett's mother in 'Sitting on a Pile'.
• Accent Depundent: Kath and Kim speak frequently of their desire to be affluent, which in a broad Australian Accent sounds very similar to "effluent".
• Dawson Casting: Kim is supposed to be in her mid-late 20's. Gina Riley was in her early 40s when the show started (just five months younger than Jane Turner) and 51 by the time of the movie. This was part of the joke in the original (that Kim was convinced how beautiful she was even though she looked at least 20 years older than most women her age). The joke was lost in the U.S. version, as despite Selma Blair being in her mid-30s, she looked young enough to be convincing as twenty-something Kim Day. It also helped make the small age gap between her and Molly Shannon less obvious.
• Underage Casting: Jane Turner was her 40s during the show's run. Kath is supposed to be around 50.