We do have great taste! And the richness goes both ways, as stateside viewers have gotten to know both Marta and Australia through telly from Down Under - from its major cities and the Outback, to its history, its Indigenous peoples, and beyond. When Americans appreciate what we do, it means a lot to me.” And certainly playing Andrew Knight’s scripts through Jack Irish showed me how skilled he was, how much the audience responded to his ability to weave and plat a story so that it never got bogged down or sentimental or too unbelievable or too much of a stretch - although I have to say the Americans’ palate for shows is so incredibly rich and nuanced, and it is a thrill to know that America watches our work because you’ve got really great taste. For me this business is all about connections, deep connections, and you find the people you love to work with. MD: “What is interesting to me is you create synergies with people. So thankfully those two things coincided… It’s a completely unique creation that me and Andrew Knight and a guy called Max Stan - actually, they’re all about to arrive to continue to plot - so it’s our own unique world that we’ve created.” So it will be the end of Jack Irish but the beginning of something that I can’t wait to share with the world. “But luckily enough, and you’re the first person I’ve really talked to about this, I became very close with all of the creators of all of the shows, and Andrew Knight, who is probably the main creator of Jack Irish originally, we’ve created another show, which has just been picked up. I’ve said goodbye to each of them, as you know, at different times, so this was a bittersweet farewell because it really was the last of that moment for me as an artist and a storyteller, and you can’t help but think,’‘Oh, is that it?’
So as a young woman, I found it to be overwhelming, exciting, challenging, and everything I had ever dreamed, which is, really, to tell Australian stores that travel around the world - and they all did and they all have. I also got A Place to Call Home and I also had done Crownies, which turned into Janet King, so it was this moment where it felt like I was finally ‘seen,’ I suppose, in the industry here to be able to lead a show and play opposite someone of the caliber of Guy Pearce.
MD: “It was such an interesting time for me when I first started that show. What she shared included a bit of very cool news! (Text has been edited for clarity and to prevent spoilers.)
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Marta’s been in the Jack Irish universe since the first TV movie, Jack Irish: Black Tide, came out in 2012, so having entertained viewers over the course of a decade in what became three Jack Irish TV movies and the three-season series, I asked Marta about her experience being a part of one of the best crime thrillers on television today. Marta stars alongside Guy as Linda Hillier, an investigative journalist who becomes Jack’s on again-off again love interest and his main go-to person when he needs help on an investigation.
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When Marta and I did a now-ubiquitous Zoom meeting for our chat, it was a week before the North American series finale of Jack Irish - a top-notch noir thriller that stars Emmy® Award winner Guy Pearce as Jack Irish, a lawyer-turned-debt collector and investigator-attorney with a knack for getting into scrapes with criminals and still haunted by the murder of his wife. Say the name Marta Dusseldorp and it’s likely that fans of Australian television programs will immediately think of three hit series and her characters in them: Janet King/Janet King, A Place to Call Home/Sarah Nordmann Bligh (née Adams), and Jack Irish/Linda Hillier. Guy Pearce as Jack Irish, Marta Dusseldorp as Linda Hillier - Photo Credit: Easy Tiger Productions / Acorn TV In advance of hit Aussie crime thriller Jack Irish completing its run in the US and Canada, I had the pleasure of chatting with the show’s leading lady, Marta Dusseldorp.
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