The Australian collection “Firebite” places a brand new spin on an age-old bloody vampire story.
For starters, it’s from the viewpoint of Indigenous foremost characters — and it’s received an uncommon setting of an underground city.
“As lots of people of my technology do later of their grownup life, you begin leaning increasingly about our colonial previous in Australia,” collection star Rob Collins, 42, informed The Put up.
“One story that caught with [creator Warwick Thornton] was discovering out that there have been vials of smallpox on the primary ships that arrived in Australia again in 1788, and that began him pondering, ‘What if the vials have been truly vampires?’
“It was a cool idea to have the ability to have a look at Australian historical past by way of this fantastical style lens. It’s not simply studying a textbook. It’s partaking, it has motion, it has the whole lot you’d count on from a style present however type of subversively laying in some highly effective messages about what it means to be an Indigenous individual in Australia, and having a severe have a look at points round colonization.”
Now streaming on AMC+, the present follows Indigenous vampire hunter Tyson Walker (Collins), and his adopted daughter Shanika (Shantae Barnes Cowan) as they shield their neighborhood from blood-sucking fiends.
“I’ve executed style TV collection earlier than,” stated Collins, who has a Tiwi Islands background and has additionally appeared in different Australian reveals equivalent to “Glitch” and “The Unsuitable Lady.”
“Nevertheless it’s been some years, and definitely nothing to do with vampires. So it was a very completely different challenge for me. On the coronary heart of it, it’s an actual cool story between this father determine and this younger lady. Having children myself, it was one thing I may simply relate to. Tyson is reckless, he’s the type of character that – to make use of a well-liked phrase repeated typically by my mother-in-law – ‘snatches defeat from the mouth of victory.’ He’s his personal worst enemy. However within the midst of all that, he’s an actual sweetheart, and actually attempting to do the proper factor by this younger lady in his life.”
The present’s uncommon setting of Coober Pedy is a city largely made up of underground caverns (so that folks can keep away from the unforgivable desert warmth). That sounds just like the stuff of fiction that’s a handy place to set a vampire story, however it’s an actual place in Australia, and “Firebite” was filmed on location.
“Whereas it was wonderful, it was a fairly attempting location to be in,” stated Collins. “Coober Pedy is that this stark opal mining city, and we have been working underground. The situations have been very dusty, very sunny and scorching on the floor. It was my first journey there. It’s a really explicit type of city, with explicit folks in it. The one sport on the town is opal mining, actually, and that draws all kinds of colourful characters. I actually love the time that I spent there.”
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