“It’s always tricky, such as Detective Jack Robinson needing to be not totally emasculated so he’s still worthy of Phryne’s attention.”Įssie Davis is keen to make another Miss Fisher movie. Of course, Davis says, the challenge is always to give other characters their weight when Phryne is such a commanding presence. “She’s glorious to put on but I hope to always be surprising and to take her character forward and to have new and exciting things the audience may never have seen before, and for it to still be joyous and frivolous in a really surprising way.” “Phryne is an independent woman who can get herself out of trouble,” Davis says. Kerry Greenwood’s books were adapted into the ABC series in 2012, finding a whole new legion of fans from all over the world, especially after the series hit Netflix internationally.įor many fans, Phryne Fisher is a lifeline, an inspiration. Phryne Fisher first appeared in print in 1989, the first novel of a series of 20, a financially independent, fierce and smart woman who stumbles into sleuthing at a time when women were definitely not to bother themselves with such ugly business. Great fun.”Įssie Davis says she hopes to always surprise Phryne fans. And it was like, whoa, OK, everyone, hold on because we’re going to be toppling, rolling down a sand dune! “It was quite wonderful when we were walking across the tops of the sand dunes, and even the camels were having a hard time sliding down the sand dunes.
And I have been on them before, in Broome and South Africa. “I think I must have had a past-life as a camel rider. “I am suspiciously comfortable on a camel,” Davis says with a cheeky twinkle. Other times, her laugh comes out like a delighted scream when I mention she looked very comfortable riding camels across enormous sand dunes when co-star Nathan Page didn’t. Sometimes the laugh sneaks up, as it did when she recalled watching while her TV co-stars Ashleigh Cummings and Hugo Johnston-Burt mourn her character’s supposed death in the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ cinematic spin-off. The Tasmanian-born star of Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears and The Babadook has a great laugh – a full-throated, infectious chortle that bursts into melodic peals heard in the next room. The thing you should know when you talk to Essie Davis is she likes a laugh.
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