Good, you've got to learn a lot of medical stuff and say it convincingly. It's not that big a stretch, you've got to learn the lines but that's the job. It's really fun.

Did you do any doctor training?
Vanessa Pain, The Entrance, NSW

Well Bart starts as a newbie, he's a real green-horn. It's good for me not to know too much and play along. It's been good in that way.

Are you anything like your character?
Luke Armstrong, Rooty Hill, NSW

No. Bart's so far removed from me. But that's what acting is. You just find the elements in yourself to bring the character to life, you find parts of yourself that are there and you expand on them.

You recently had a very big storyline with Anne-Marie's character. How was that for you?
Maddy S, Newcastle, NSW

That was a really long haul doing that story for me emotionally. I mean, you are dealing with cancer everyday pretty much for half a year. It was a big thing for Bart to go through. It took an emotional toll on him. So I had to put myself in to that position every week for six months, and that's a long time to work on depression as your motivation for a character you are playing. It's a big toll on your personal life too. As you do take it home, you do wear the skin of your character. I find that I can't take it off necessarily as I want to try and keep in that headspace. You just can't avoid being affected by it. It was really difficult for me, and then I started getting associated pain in my body and in my bones because you just spend so much time thinking about cancer and you get lack of sleep and then those things start happening to you if you are dwelling on them. You've got to keep yourself immersed in it, otherwise it's easy to slip and you are playing stuff that is not on the right level. So you try to keep in it so it takes a big toll. But that's part of the job. It's the great thing and also the difficult thing about acting, you've got to live it in your own life because that is your life. Then when the story line ends it kind of lifts off you.

Do you think the storyline with Bart and Anne-Marie was a bit drawn out?
Harry, Melbourne, VIC

It was a story of two people going through that journey on their own essentially, the isolation of it, it wasn't a story with the whole cast and so it is a story that takes a long time. And that is the reality of cancer, you just don't die from it overnight, the writers wanted to be realistic with the fact that it just keeps going and going and when you think something will happen it just gets worse and keeps deteriorating. It felt like a long time playing it.

Bart hasn't had many bad things happen to him, so this is the first really heavy experience he's had would you say?
Tabitha Reed, Melbourne, VIC

Yeah, this is his first real experience with the other side of life. He's always been the driving force behind everything that's happened to him. He wanted to be a doctor and he worked really hard to be a doctor, he wanted to work in the ED and he worked really hard in the ED. This was the first time in his life where something else was controlling his feelings and his direction in life. So yeah, Bart's grown up, through pain really.

How hard was it losing Anne-Marie in the end?
Dougal, Box Hill South, VIC

We went to acting school together. We had a really close relationship from being friends for a long time anyway. So playing it, we already started at a really special level anyway. And when you work so close with someone and you go through all this stuff, yeah it was heavy, the final day was a massive day cause you are leaving a work colleague as well and it gets all mixed up. But that's really good when you get those moments in your life when life and art come together, it really drives more emotion in you and brings you closer to the truth of what the scene is about. Here you are saying goodbye to a friend on the same day the character is dying.

Did you agree with Anne-Marie dying?
Caroline, Sydney, NSW

Well yeah it comes to me and I just play it. I don't have the ability to let it go the way I want. And as an actor it's all about the biggest hurdles you can jump, in terms of acting it's more satisfying to play something far more difficult than just have it rollercoaster along.

Do you have any tips for any young, aspiring actors?
Chim, McLaren Vale, SA

It's so impossible to plot a journey as an actor, your career, what's best for you. You just have no idea how it will work out. What characters you will play? Whether you will get in to drama school? If you will get any acting work? It's just sticking at it. If you want to do it then you just have to go as far as you need to go to get there and if that means picking up and moving house, and changing cities and chasing work and stuff. If you want to do it, you've got to really go for it. And in that way the journey finds itself. There is no point copying someone else and saying I want to be like that actor, you've just got to be your actor and find out how to do that truthfully, and then your journey will really unfold.

What is your favourite film and why?
Moni, Melbourne, Victoria

I've got so many favourite films. My favourite film I've seen of late was "Darleeling Limited". It was so great. I loved the making of that film, it was such a beautiful film. Also, my all time favourite is "Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf". Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor at the point when their marriage is completely falling apart doing a film together, you see the destruction on the screen, it was incredible. I really love that film. And I'm getting in to a bit of Humphrey Bogart at the moment, Dark Passage and stuff like that, yeah they're pretty cool. I watch a lot of movies. Last night I was watching Blade Runner until about 2.30 in the morning.