‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ with Serena Joy … who’s got a darker soul. Sofie to me was the complete opposite.“Having that springboard into this character was a treat for me.”“Stateless,” which premiered on Australia’s ABC network, was inspired by the true story of Cornelia Rau who, in 2004, was unlawfully detained for 10 months in Australia.“Even though [the show] was based on true events, we kind of did our own thing with Sofie.
She’s her own person, really,” says the Australian-born Strahovski, who grew up in New South Wales. “The biggest takeaway for me out of that whole true-life element is that it took an Australian white woman being caught up in a detention center to draw the amount of attention that it did on what was going on, and what.
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