As the beer-and-pizza-loving Dominic, Angus Sampson is so much more than the cliche of the deadbeat dad.
) returned to Australia with his family last year during the pandemic and was therefore available forand their mutual affection and admiration is evident as they speak via Zoom, just prior to production wrapping on the second season.On screen, they convincingly play a couple separating after decades together, characters with very different temperaments – her nervy, him laidback – who also seem complementary.
“My first question to Claude was, ‘What’s attractive about this guy?’,” recalls Sampson. “I needed to reconcile what these two characters had as a connection, aside from their children, why someone as clever and beautiful as Angie, as dynamic and cerebral, was attracted to him. And there were clues everywhere.
“I liken Dom to a labrador and maybe my kids would say that about me,” Sampson adds. “He’s like, ‘What’s going on? Let’s run around in the water! Oh shit, now my clothes are wet and I don’t have a towel.’ Then he’ll get home and check out the chafing from walking 17 kilometres back because he left the keys in the car. I’m not that hopeless, but once you have children, you’re not trying to get life right, you’re just trying to not fuck up.
As to why Sampson was right for the role, Karvan says, “he’s warm, lovable, funny. He can play the clown, I find Angus funniest when he’s playing angry, he’s hilarious. He’s also resilient, you don’t feel sorry for him, he doesn’t go into bleak. When you’re dealing with the breakdown of a family, it can get quite bitter and dark, and Angus just doesn’t go there. That’s not the tone of the show. It doesn’t go to a nasty place, or a bitter, depressing place, and that’s really important.
The show’s third season starts shooting early in 2022 and as he looks forward to the challenges awaiting Dom, Sampson says: “When the writing is as good as it is on
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