TV THE BEAR S2
We’ve become so used to shows dropping here at the same time as the rest of the world that the wait for the new season of this magnificent series, which aired in the US last month, has been, ahem, unbearable. But with Jamie Lee Curtis joining the cast as the mother of Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and his late brother Michael (Jon Bernthal), we know it will have been worth it. Let it rip! (Premieres Wed., Jul. 19 on Disney+)
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MARTA’S COOL NEW ROLE
Actor dishes on producing and starring in Bay of Fires.
ALONG FOR THE RIDE
The raucous new movie Joy Ride has hit cinemas.
OLIVIA’S HIT HAS BITE!
The singer’s latest single ‘Vampire’ is a chart-topper.
Marta Dusseldorp ‘I GAVE UP LOTS OF SECRETS’
THE AUSSIE ACTRESS ON STEPPING INTO HER CHARACTER’S ‘UNCOMFORTABLE’ SHOES AND WHY SHE LOVES A CHALLENGE
Holed up at home in Tasmania during the pandemic, Marta Dusseldorp decided to call up her old pal, writer and executive producer Andrew Knight. “I’ve worked with [him] on and off for probably about 20 years. I did After the Deluge that he wrote and Jack Irish. So I’d always said to him, ‘I’d love to create a show with you’ and he’d be like, ‘Yeah, yeah,’” the Aussie actress tells WHO how her upcoming series, Bay of Fires, came about.
“I called and said, ‘I bet you’re not travelling around the world right now. Is now the time?’ And he said yes. He later told me that he didn’t mean it and was just trying to get me off the phone. But I began talking to him about being in Tasmania and what it really felt like and the opportunity that was there to tell the story, in a remote place, of a woman who has been taken out of her life, like I felt I had been.”
And so the eight-part comedic crime series, which Dusseldorp produced herself, was born. Shot against the beautiful, film set-worthy backdrop of Tasmania’s west coast, it tells the story of Stella Heikkinen (Dusseldorp), a single mother-of-two, who finds herself in a small, remote community against her will.
Here, the actress shares her experience of stepping
