There were tough days on set for the actors and crew dramatising the 2002 terrorist attack, but Roxburgh says the series won’t be harrowing for viewers.
– the first drama co-commission between Stan and Nine, owner of this masthead – had an extra resonance for Roxburgh.Roxburgh with Srisacd Sacdpraseuth as General Pastika.. But before I flew, the 2005 Bali bombings happened.”
On October 1, 2005, Jemaah Islamiah struck again, planting another three bombs in Bali, killing 23 and injuring more than 150. That came less than two months after disgraced iman Abu Bakar Bashir – the so-called “spiritual leader” of Jemaah Islamiah – was condemned by Indonesia’s Supreme Court to serve the full 2½-year jail sentence imposed for “inspiring” the 2002 bombings.“I arrived in Bali from London,” Roxburgh explains.
“What this series shows is the level of co-operation, across cultures and across religious beliefs. Out of the wreckage of the bombings, wonderful things were achieved. It’s the constant grit in the oyster of humanity that we prove ourselves better than the attempts to drag us down.”“When Graham arrived in Bali, he didn’t sleep, couldn’t sleep, for days. It was an unfolding, potentially cataclysmic event which someone had to step into the middle of and find a controlling and emphatic focus.