PLAY ON- DEMAND TELEVISION MURDERING MICK RETURNS
HAS been a while since John Jarratt was giving handy home hints on Better Homes and Gardens, but the Aussie acting veteran says there’s no doubt he can still use a circular saw.
“It’s not chopping off lumps of wood, it’s chopping off lumps of people,” he says.
Jarratt has achieved cult status with the role of the psychopathic killer Mick Taylor from 2005 film Wolf Creek, who has gone on to hunt down backpacker victims across the Australian Outback in the movie sequel Wolf Creek 2 and the TV series on streaming service Stan.
“The Outback is just a fantastic backdrop for this kind of scary stuff,” Jarratt says.
In season one, the hunter became the hunted when 19- year- old Eve ( Lucy Fry) tracked Mick across the desert to seek revenge for the murder of her family.
But Jarratt says the killer didn’t learn anything from the experience.
“He never changes. He remains decidedly shallow,” he says.
The villain has quite the game ahead of him in the new series which dangles a tantalising carrot in the form of a busload of tourists in front of Mick’s nose and Jarratt says the variety on offer – people of different genders, nationalities and sexualities – will add to the hunt.
After taking out the bus driver, Mick strands his new playthings in the merciless desert and goes about picking them off one by one.
“It’s just a big cat and mouse game.”