“The fans that I’ve spoken to, they kind of understood.Congratulations are in store 100 times over for Eliza Taylor and Bob Morley. So, if anyone was going to kill me, I’m glad it was her. Eliza is my favourite acting partner of all time to I knew it was going to be a very honest acting performance out of both of us. ![]() I wouldn’t have wanted anyone else to kill me. “But I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. “It was an interesting experience, that’s for sure,” he says. He says he still feels guilty for not being able to finish Bellamy’s story in the way the production or the fans might have liked but insists that his own wellbeing must always take priority. He took some time off from the seventh season of the show to deal with some mental health issues – about which he is a passionate advocate – and ended up being killed off by Taylor’s character just a few episodes before the finale. Morley hasn’t had the chance to fully process his “life-changing” experiences on The 100 yet. With us both being actors, there’s a fair chance that she’ll be away or I’ll be away, so it was quite nice to have some time together.” “When the pandemic had hit and we’d finished (The 100) and Eliza had come home, we hadn’t spent that much time together. “I mean, she’s my best friend so it was kind of fantastic in that sense. ![]() “We ended up playing a lot of Yahtzee and Uno and we started building a lot of Lego,” he says. Like many actors he’d had “a bit of an existential crisis” but also embraced the chance to take some forced down-time after his seven-year stint on The 100 and spend some time with Taylor, who he married in 2019. Morley says he was grateful for the chance to be working again after the coronavirus pandemic had wrought such havoc on the TV and film industry in his adopted home of LA. If was really kind of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”īob Morley with wife and fellow Aussie Eliza Taylor in a scen from The 100. “I’d never seen Melbourne like that before – just totally empty – and I kind of had to stop and take stock and just be like, ‘wow, like this is this will probably never happen again’. “The vacancy of Melbourne actually adds to the show in a way,” he says. And frustrating though it was to come all the way back to Melbourne and not be able to see his family, Morley says he had a feeling that they were making something special. Not only did the safety protocols add a degree of difficulty to the filming itself, there were also anti-lockdown protests and even an earthquake to contend with. Morley says the Covid-safe bubble helped bond the cast together during the tricky shoot as they really only had each other for company a lot of the time. It’s a drama, but there are funny bits in it.” “It was funnier than I thought it was going to be. “It’s full of really genuine moments,” he says. While he’s been based in LA for best part of a decade now, Morley says he’s always on the lookout for opportunities to work in his homeland – and the fact that the six-part series was to be directed by Emma Freeman (Stateless, The Newsreader) sealed the deal for him to make the long trip back across the Pacific to film in the middle of locked-down Melbourne earlier this year. Morley describes Love Me, adapted from the Swedish show Alska Mig, as a “very authentic, heartfelt show” that deals with grief and love across multiple generations and also stars veterans Hugo Weaving and Heather Mitchell, along with rising stars William Lodder, Mitzi Ruhlman and Shalom Brune-Franklin.īob Morley, with Bojana Novakovic, says it was surreal shooting in locked down Melbourne. For me, it was a shift I was looking forward to.” “It’s the first time I’ve played a parent – albeit a pretty crappy one. And I’m so glad that it’s this show and allowed me to step up. “So that transition is always one that I knew was coming. “I think for most guys, there’s certain periods in your life where you’re too young to play old and too old to play young,” he says. ![]() Morley admits there were times he was worried about making that very transition, especially having spent so much time in the soap and YA world, with their passionate, but mostly younger fanbases. ![]() “I think the last time I was there was probably eight years ago, when I was playing a high school student or something like that.” “It was cool to come back to Australia and to be playing in an older age bracket,” he says from the LA home he shares with Australian wife and The 100 co-star Eliza Taylor and their new puppy. Bob Morley and Bojana Novakovic in a scene from the new Aussie drama Love Me.
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