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.
– 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. “We shot for about 10 days, then the Indonesians closed the island. During that time, I got to meet David Royds, the detective I was playing and is played inby Sam Parsonson. David was there to investigate the 2005 bombings, so I got to meet the real person and talk to him in this surreal hall of mirrors.”“Immense respect for what these guys [Ashton and Royds] do. There’s so much diplomacy involved. They need empathy with the people grieving their loved ones, wherever they were born. There’s the investigation itself. And there’s the political ramifications of dealing with two cultures banging up against each other, with two methods of investigation and two completely different legal systems.”“No. Over time, terrorism constantly proves itself to be extraordinarily ineffective in delivering its ambitions. Invariably, it brings out the best in the people targeted. “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. Graham did that. I couldn’t have juggled that many balls in the air.”premieres on September 25, only on Stan. Stan is owned by Nine, the owner of this masthead.