Miranda Tapsell & Gwilym Lee On ‘Top End Bub’, The Follow-Up To Rom-Com Hit ‘Top End Wedding’ And “What Happens After Happily Ever After?”

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Top End Wedding was a rom-com road trip that ended with the nuptials of Lauren and Ned. The series follow-up to the hit Australian movie picks up the couple’s story as they unexpectedly become parents. “I thought there was more to Lauren and Ned, we only saw them within the very few stressful days leading up to their wedding,” says Miranda Tapsell who plays Lauren and co-wrote the movie and series with Joshua Tyler. “Josh and I always entertained the idea of what happens after happily ever after?” It turns out what happens is parenthood.

The couple assume parental duties for Taya (Gladys-May Kelly), aka the Bub of the title. Her mother, Lauren’s cousin, has died unexpectedly.

Lauren, a dynamic Indigenous lawyer ticking off life goals and Ned, her British husband, move back to the Top End (where the outback meets the tropics) to raise Bub.

As they juggle the responsibility of becoming unexpected parents and try to keep their marriage together, Lauren must also come to terms with her responsibilities within her culture. “This is a couple that have made a conscious decision to be child free, which is a life choice that I don’t think is explored very much in drama,” says Gwilym Lee, who plays Ned, and is soon to be seen in season two of boy’s own action-drama SAS Rogue Heroes. “They’re thrust into parenting.