![]() It’s heaps of fun, as is the show’s exceptional ensemble cast, which boasts fantastic comedic performances from Hunt for the Wilderpeople’s Rachel House, Kerry Fox, Yael Stone, Pamela Rabe - who shot the series fresh from her stint on Deadloch - Matt Nable and Stephen Curry. “I really wanted to present (my character) as the mother that I am, which is chaotically in it.” “I don’t want to talk about it too deeply because it gives things away, but it made me think, ‘What would you do if you were in that position?’ “We got to chat to an undercover policeman who had to pull someone out (of their life), actually,” she explains. ![]() Though thoroughly out there, Stella’s story is not beyond the realms of possibility and Dusseldorp says she drew on real-life experiences, as well as her own as mum to two daughters (she is married to fellow actor Ben Winspear), to help ground her performance. Stella and her two children, Otis and Iris (played by Imi Mbedla and Ava Caryofyllis, who give some fabulous performances), are forced to adapt on the run as some truly surreal events play out around them. ![]() There’s something wholly relatable about the way Dusseldorp’s character handles things when she’s thrust into her strange new situation. “I love dramas, but I have done a lot of them, and Andrew had always said to me, ‘You are very funny, Marta. “Post-pandemic, we figured no one wants to sit there and be bludgeoned over the head (with negative things). “(Co-creators) Andrew Knight (Jack Irish) and Max Dann (Spotswood) and I really pushed it into as dark as we could go, but also with incredible levity and entertainment. “We wanted to create a tone that we hadn’t been involved with before,” says Dusseldorp, who is nominated at this year’s TV Week Logie Awards in the most outstanding actress category for her work on The Twelve. Camera Icon Marta Dusseldorp, pictured here with her on-screen children Otis and Iris, plays a mother on the run in the new ABC comedy series. While promo shots make things look like some sort of intense scandi-noir, it’s far closer to recent Prime Video series, Deadloch, which also explores what life can be like in quirky small-town Tasmania.Īnd it’s ripe for comedy. ![]() She’s rushed into witness protection, ushered to the middle of nowhere, given a new identity as ‘Stella’, and forced to live with her two children in the appropriately-named tiny town of Mystery Bay, a small town on Tasmania’s West Coast, full of inhabitants who seem to be hiding secrets of their own. ![]()
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