{"id":90510,"date":"2016-08-31T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T09:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=90510"},"modified":"2016-08-31T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T09:13:32","slug":"john-jarratt-wolf-creek-tv-series-is-unforgiven-but-scarier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/john-jarratt-wolf-creek-tv-series-is-unforgiven-but-scarier\/","title":{"rendered":"John Jarratt: Wolf Creek TV series is “Unforgiven but scarier”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wolf Creek: The Series<\/em><\/strong> has finally hit the UK, bringing John Jarratt’s terrifying Mick Taylor back to our screens with a brand new twist. This time, Mick’s the hunted, not the hunter.<\/p>\n

The show is the story of Eve (Vampire Academy<\/em><\/strong>‘s Lucy Fry), who survives an encounter with the Outback’s deadliest creature and sets out to\u00a0avenge the murder of her family.<\/p>\n

“With the first movie it was like letting the monster out of the cage,” explains Jarratt.\u00a0“The second movie was ‘The monster is out of the cage,’ and this is ‘Let\u2019s chase the monster!’ We can\u2019t just do the same old boring piece of crap, you know what I mean? We\u2019ve got to change the tune and the dance steps occasionally to keep it interesting. It\u2019s turned it into more of a psychological thriller.<\/p>\n

“Every time you see Mick the horror fans get their little bag of lollies throughout the series, but it\u2019s basically about Eve, Lucy\u2019s character, chasing me all over the Outback. And it\u2019s a great premise; it\u2019s like Unforgiven<\/em><\/strong> but a little scarier and with a similar climax, only Lucy Fry plays Clint Eastwood.”<\/p>\n

It’s the third outing for Jarratt as Mick Taylor, and he tells us that he wasn’t entirely sure that TV was the best route to take when Wolf Creek<\/em><\/strong> writer-director Greg McLean called him\u00a0up.<\/p>\n

“I said ‘It\u2019s getting a bit gratuitous now, mate, isn\u2019t it?’ And I said I couldn\u2019t see it, honestly,” he remembers. “Not that I\u2019m nervous, it\u2019s quite simple. If he can prove to me that it\u2019s good then I\u2019ll do it and if he can\u2019t then I won\u2019t, so there\u2019s nothing to be nervous about, really. And they sent me the scripts, and mate, the scripts were fantastic. We shot like six little feature films with extraordinary production value; it\u2019s up there with any television on the planet. So I ended up a very happy boy.”<\/p>\n

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While the second film placed Mick very much front and centre, the series will focus more on the character of Eve. As Jarratt said, she’s the Clint Eastwood-in-Unforgiven<\/em><\/strong> character, and he tells us that his co-star most definitely has the chops to pull that off.<\/p>\n

“We had plenty of opportunity in the make up bus to get to know each other, and\u00a0it\u2019s extraordinary, I watched her more than acted with her, I just liked watching her do her thing,” he enthuses. “I\u2019m not the kind of guy that sits in a Winnebago all day looking in the mirror, I get bored, so I go on set, and it was great just to watch her do her scenes. When I met her I thought, ‘Oh my God, I don\u2019t know whether she\u2019s going to be able to cut it, you know?’ It was such a powerful character she was about to play, and she\u2019s kind of butterfly-ish, if you know what I mean, like ‘Hi! Great to meet you!’<\/p>\n

“And then you stick the clapperboard in and go clack and this other thing comes out. She\u2019s got a lot of depth and goes straight there. She\u2019s a really good actor, really good. I say ‘Look out Cate, here comes Lucy.’ I think she\u2019s that good.”<\/p>\n

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The series has already aired with great success in Australia and Jarratt tells us that they’re currently putting together a case for a second season, so we had to ask: what is it about Mick Taylor that keeps audiences coming back?<\/p>\n

“I think the fact that the audience can\u2019t help liking him, especially people who love the genre,” he explains. “And the fact that you\u2019re sitting there, liking someone who\u2019s got a policeman by the leg and breaking it and then burning him, and you find yourself laughing, and you think ‘Oh my god, I\u2019m laughing at this?’ You start laughing at something that he says and you think, this is not funny! So it\u2019s that thing that you just can\u2019t help liking the guy but in a crazy kind of way. And we know that and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working on, and that\u2019s what keeps it intriguing. And they want me to cop it, and get slightly disappointed that he doesn\u2019t. Yeah, I think that\u2019s what keeps it intriguing.<\/p>\n

“He doesn\u2019t care if he dies, he just doesn\u2019t want it to go slowly. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s worried about death, if it happens, it happens. ‘Ah well, it\u2019s been cool so far,’ but he\u2019s not really frightened of anything.”<\/p>\n

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It might be difficult to scare Mick, but Jarratt’s certainly got scaring people down to a fine art with this character, and the actor explains that the key to the character is keeping his sense of humour.<\/p>\n

“He finds it all very amusing, even being scary,” says Jarratt. “He knows he\u2019s being scary and gets a giggle out of scaring people too.\u00a0He\u2019s just playing a game and having the time of his life, and it\u2019s a lot more fun than chasing kangaroos or pigs or buffalos. It\u2019s humans who don\u2019t matter much because they\u2019re tourists from England or America or whatever, and he\u2019s just having a fun time. It\u2019s very amusing, it just colours up a dull day for him.\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s very shallow, there\u2019s not a lot of depth there, he doesn\u2019t scream and yell. <\/span><\/p>\n

“I always say he never runs, he never yells\u2026and never dies. [laughs]”<\/span><\/p>\n

Wolf Creek airs on Tuesdays\u00a0<\/b><\/span>at 10pm on FOX.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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