![]() The enthusiasm in her unmistakeable voice (soft, husky and capable of a range that can be androgynously low as well as girlishly high) for that greater degree of involvement suggests that she is ready to stretch her wings beyond acting – to producing or directing perhaps? She is not ready to divulge too much but yes, she's optioned The Way Back, a psychological family thriller by Kylie Ladd and says: ''I am aching for film and to have a crew that is at least 50 per cent women.''įor the past seven years, some roles have not been offered to her simply because she was unavailable. I am there to push against Jack to feed his story but I don't have any input. Each requires a very different approach: ''My job in Jack Irish is to play my note, but not to overcomplicate. In Jack Irish she is only too happy to be a member of an ensemble, in Janet King, she is, equally happily, the lead, playing the fearless gay Director of the Public Prosecution office. Marta Dusseldorp as journalist Linda Hillier in Jack Irish, a role that takes her to India. How long will Irish and King continue? She shrugs: ''You don't stop till audiences tell you to.'' Still, she is not complaining on the contrary, she is counting her good fortune, as one of the few actors in this country who has been constantly in work for the past seven years, contracted to appear in recurring series of both ABC TV's Jack Irish and Janet King as well as Foxtel's A Place to Call Home, which has just concluded after six series. ![]() When Guy and I did a sex scene and he rolled off me, I did not pull the sheet up to cover myself because that is not who she is."įor the second series of Jack Irish, Dusseldorp went to India – her first visit, for just three days on the outskirts of Mumbai – hardly glamorous or in-depth for a self-confessed travel junkie. So that made me feel OK about taking my clothes off. "In the first book he had written Linda like a man: sex was at her centre, not as a loose woman but as a way of communicating. It was a comment she cherished on the day she learned of his death, via an email to cast and crew while shooting the current series. Famously prickly, he paid her the compliment of telling her that she had made the character of Linda Hillier, Jack's journalist on-again-off-again lover better on the screen than his original. ![]() ![]() Marta Dusseldorp only met crime writer Peter Temple once, at the wrap party for series one of Jack Irish. ![]()
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