During the six years of the show, there’s been huge leaps and bounds in terms of gay rights in Australia, culminating in the legalising of same sex marriage just last year - but there’s still a way to go. There’s perhaps more responsibility on David's broad shoulders to sensitively convey his character’s challenges. James’ message is one of acceptance – not just from other people, but from himself. “His writing always has a political message and he’s not shy about that. “I think all the characters had a huge responsibility to the integrity of Bevan’s writing,” David says. His breakout role in the gripping period drama has seen him carry the emotional burdens of James Bligh, a young gay man who struggles to accept his sexuality during the testing times of the 1950s. I think for him not to be able to have that when it ended the first time was very distressing.”ĭavid Berry can certainly attest to that. He told me about this ending when we started Season 1. “It’s actually a full closure and the way Bevan always wanted it to end,” Marta says. Finding a new home on Foxtel – after famously being saved first by the fans, and secondly, and more importantly, by the streaming platform’s executive director of television Brian Walsh – this time its creator Bevan Lee was able to sketch out a more dignified goodbye. It’s not the first farewell for the cast - the show was unceremoniously axed after just two seasons and reasonably solid ratings on Channel 7. It’s no surprise emotions are running high at the event to celebrate the final season of the Foxtel show. “I think like anything - you organise it in your brain and heart when your to-do list is finished so that you’re safe, so yes, I’m prepared,” Marta says. “I just love her poise and her pace so I will miss that, being of that time.”ĭespite Marta’s tears, she is ready to say goodbye. We are so stuck in these machines (gesturing to our smartphones), I can’t breathe sometimes. I do like going back and actually decluttering my mind and my thoughts. “I don’t want to be in this time, all the time. “She is so unusual, so complicated and she’s not of this time and that’s what I’ll miss, “ Marta adds. “When I first read her I thought ‘it’s not possible that I will be able to play this woman’,” she reveals, as we chat in the luxurious Swifts Mansion in Sydney’s Darling Point, an almost time capsule to a more decadent era, which plays home to A Place To Call Home city scenes. ” Marta Dusseldorp pauses, taking a deep breath as tears threaten to overwhelm her while she explains mixed emotions at saying goodbye to her beloved character Sarah Adams.
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