Burning brighter
For the second season of Bay of Fires, Marta Dusseldorp revisits a series where she’s more than just the star. She tells DQ about expanding the show’s story, juggling multiple roles behind the scenes and catering for some unexpected visitors. It’s a piece of advice Marta Dusseldorp isn’t likely to forget in a hurry. The Australian star was on the Tasmanian set of Bay of Fires, filming a season two scene that finds her character Stella and Toby Leonard Moore’s Jeremiah moving a body bag – weighing heavy with a corpse inside – onto a truck before picking up another. Then during one take, they noticed a mysterious figure standing nearby, smoking a cigarette. “We keep acting, because we’re professionals, and this guy we’ve never seen before just looks at us and goes, ‘That’s a shit way to move a body,’ and walks out,” she tells DQ. Sadly, that particular take didn’t make the final cut. “But it was just one of those moments where I went, ‘This place is solid gold. There’s nowhere else I’d rather be.’” Co-created, written, produced by and starring Dusseldorp, Bay of Fires was Australian streamer ABC iview’s most watched local drama of 2023, enthralling viewers with the trials and tribulations of Stella and her two children when their lives are suddenly upended and they are forced to relocate to the town of Mystery Bay. There, the locals – who dub the town ‘Misery Bay’ – are decidedly unwelcoming, and Stella soon discovers that they, … Continue reading Burning brighter
