“She doesn’t have a place in that world any more and it’s important to do that so you’re not doing a disservice to the audience by telling them the same story again. The first season ended with her being sent to jail, and the second begins two years later, with a recently released Harriet on the outside of the Canberra system as an unemployed “ex-con”. In the first season of Secret City Torv’s Harriet Dunkley was a political journalist for a fictional daily newspaper working out of the Parliament House bureau, pursuing threads linked to abuses of national security that involved data smuggled out of China and the death of Harriet’s former husband, transgender woman and Australian Signals Directorate analyst Kim Gordon (Damon Herriman).Ĭaught between the intelligence services and the likes of Jacki Weaver’s Catriona Bailey, a ruthless attorney-general looking to use a crisis to amplify her hold on the reins of power, Harriet found some answers but no satisfaction. “There’s something lovely about going into a first reading and basically knowing everyone in the room because we all used to have a beer together after the show in our early 20s.”
“To work in Australia I need a good project and the time, that’s all,” Torv says. She also headlined one of Foxtel’s best Australian dramas, the 2016 security state mystery Secret City, which returns next week for a second season. Abrams’ science-fiction labyrinth Fringe and Netflix’s serial killer period drama Mindhunter. The 39-year-old, who now calls Los Angeles her “work home”, has built a successful career playing resolute and multi-layered women on successful American series such as J.J. “You would get online and use a map program to figure out where you had to go for that day’s auditions, and if you deviated from that route you got totally lost.”
“My show reel was on a DVD and I was going to internet cafes every day to check my e-mail for possible meetings and because it was prohibitively expensive to call home,” remembers Torv. When the Australian actor first relocated to the capital of commercial television in 2008 to pursue roles the world was far less wired and phones were definitely not smart. One way to measure Anna Torv’s successful stint in Los Angeles is through technology.
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