continues Moss, “and not dumbing something
down for them. You know, this show has a tone
and mood that is unlike anything else, and that
was fully allowed to bloom in the first season and
the audience loved it. I think that that’s one of
the great achievements of this show and in
Season 2, if anything, it only goes deeper into
those dark directions. It’s that Jane Campion
kind of thing where it’s dark but it’s kind of
grossly hilarious at times.”
The new Top Of The Lake again features two
series directors. The first season saw Lion helmer
Garth Davis join Campion; the second sees
Campion sharing directing duties with Ariel
Kleiman (Partisan). Both of Campion’s partners
in crime were relatively inexperienced when they
stepped behind the camera, something that
Moss enjoys.
“I’ve worked with a lot of new directors,”
contemplates the Mad Men star. “And I think
that I love working with them because you
potentially get in on the ground floor with
a genius. I had that experience in Season 1with
Garth, who was quite new to the industry. He
had done a lot of commercials but he was new to
this game. I had already had this amazing
relationship with him so I came into this season
being quite positive about Ariel. I think that,
honestly, he’s one of my favourite people. I really
do adore him, and I think that he’s a bit of
a creative genius.”
“He certainly makes up for his inexperience
with vision and passion,” joins in Christie,
decked out in a policewoman’s uniform a million
miles away from her knightly Game Of Thrones
regalia. Moss’s co-star, a lifelong fan of Campion
since seeing An Angel At My Table on television
at the tender age of 12, says taking the role of
Constable Miranda Hilmarson was important to
her. “My interest is in doing as many different
sorts of roles as possible — I don’t have a lot of
interest in just doing the same thing again and
again, and it was important for me as an actor to
do something set in modern day. I didn’t want to
be typecast. I wanted to have that experience of
working in a contemporary genre. Jane’s work in
Season 1 managed to deal with the extraordinary
in terms of subject matter, drama and