Wentworth’s Bernard Curry has plenty of experience guarding inmates as Jake Stewart on the hit prison drama, but in real life it seems he’s actually spent time BEHIND bars.
As it turns out, the 44-year-old actor was once taken to prison for a (kind of hilarious) misdemeanour.
“I have been in jail,” he tells TV WEEK.
“It was in Albury, on the border of New South Wales and Victoria. I was with my friend Ben, and we got kicked out of this RSL and we were like ‘what are we going to do, go and cause some trouble?’ So we climbed up on some roofs and did some crazy stuff.
“These police officers – who were just doing their job – came up and we were kind of giving them a little shtick… A little lip service,” he continues. “But we hadn’t done anything wrong so we were giving them a bit of a drunken shtick.”
Bernard’s character Jake is on the other side of the law.
“They zoomed off and we were walking down the street and we both needed to relieve ourselves, so we walked down this side alley and the cops came zooming around,” the Wentworth star says.
“They grabbed us mid-stream sort of thing and chucked us into cells and were like ‘what is the charge?’ and they said it was ‘indecent exposure.’ So we got put in the slammer for a whole night.”
It wasn’t long before he found his own hilarious way to stage a prison break, however.
“We ended up annoying these cops so much by singing show tunes – ‘Oliver’ from the musical Oliver – and they ended up kicking me out of the prison because I was too annoying. They couldn’t charge me with anything so they said ‘you get out.’ So there’s a little trick for you if you ever end up in prison.”
Bernard (far left) with the cast of Wentworth.
Fortunately, that seems to have been Bernard’s only brush with the law, aside from playing roguish guard Jack on Wentworth.
Wentworth season six premieres next Tuesday 19th of June at 8:30pm on Showcase on Foxtel.
