Lucy Lawless on Her Margaret Moth Sundance Doc: ‘The Spirit of Margaret Grabbed Me by the Scruff of My Neck and Booted Me Through the Door’
variety.comGregg Goldstein When you’ve spent the most memorable years of your career battling gods and single-handedly defeating an army, what’s left for a warrior to do?
For “Xena: Warrior Princess” star Lucy Lawless, the answer was making her directorial debut with a doc about a fellow New Zealand icon, daredevil CNN war camerawoman Margaret Moth.
Her spellbinding feature, “Never Look Away,” which premieres Jan. 18 at Sundance, was selected for the fest’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.
It’s a remarkable achievement, especially when you consider that she hadn’t even helmed a short before making it. “I received an email from [CNN cameraman] Joe Duran saying, ‘Would you want to make a movie about my best friend Margaret?’ It took about 90 seconds for me to say ‘Yes!’” says Lawless, speaking from her home in Auckland, New Zealand.
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