Bali 2002

2022 - 9 - 25

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I was really taken aback by, irrespective of what she's been through, just this real, full love of life that this woman has and she's incredibly strong." It's quite a journey." "What is really beautiful about this show is yes, it shows what human beings are capable of in terms of how horrific we can be to each other, but it also shows us the other side of that coin, of resilience, strength and being able to try and put it in a bow at the end and say, 'OK, this is what this is and this is how I move forward now,' and we get to see Polly do that. "I think the importance of this piece, Bali 2002, what we're doing, is that we're showing the resilience of the heroes who survived and the lives of the heroes who sadly didn't survive," she said. "I don't think human beings get over anything, like people who lose children and people go through unthinkable things, I don't think we ever get over stuff, I think we learn to walk differently with it and that's what we get to see Polly do," she said. "To play a British person that came over to somewhere she loved and had always loved with her new husband and to survive such a horrific event, I think it would have been a real missed opportunity to not tell such a beautiful story," she explained in an interview with 9Entertainment.

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