Kat Stewart has revealed what it was really like working with Travis Fimmel on crime series Black Snow.
The Australian actress, 52, joined the cast of Black Snow as Julie Cosgrove for the second season after the huge success of the first season of Travis.
While the show introduces an entirely new cast for its second season, Travis has returned as tenacious Detective James Cormack as he investigates another tragic unsolved case.
And Offspring star Kat has revealed what it was like working with Travis, describing the Boy Swallows Universe star as a ‘powerhouse’ as she gushed about his talent.
She told Daily Mail Australia: “He’s fantastic, he’s absolutely fantastic, that was a big draw because I thought his central performance as (Detective James) Cormack was intriguing, unexpected, vulnerable, multi-layered and nuanced.”
“He’s an absolute powerhouse.”
Kat Stewart has revealed what it was really like working with Travis Fimmel on crime series Black Snow (pictured from the show)
Of her “spontaneous” work style, she added: “You want to be in a scene with someone you can play with and you want to be surprised in a scene, that’s my job!”
Kat also praised his performance as Lyle Orlik in the Netflix adaptation of Trent Dalton’s best-selling novel, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Logie Awards.
“He’s super talented, he deserves all the praise and I thought his performance in Boy Swallows Universe was fantastic too,” she gushed.
As well as being impressed by Travis’ talent, Kat was also interested in working on Black Snow so she could have the opportunity to meet director Sian Davies on set.
“Sian Davies was the director and I’ve worked with her a lot,” he shared.
‘I worked with her on Offspring and Mr & Mrs Murder, we’re friends. “It’s so wonderful to work with her, she’s so good.”
Kat admitted she has been very lucky with her colleagues over the years and said there are few she wouldn’t work with again, as she shared her hopes of reuniting with her Offspring co-stars.
She starred alongside the likes of Asher Keddie, John Waters, Matthew Le Nevez, Deborah Mailman and Richard Davies in the cast of the long-running series.
The Australian actress, 52, joined the cast of Black Snow as Julie Cosgrove for the second season after the huge success of Travis’ first performance as Detective James Cormack.
Describing Travis as a “powerhouse”, Kat also praised his performance as Lyle Orlik in Boy Swallows Universe (pictured), which earned him a 2024 Logie Awards nomination.
“I worked on Offspring for seven years plus a TV movie and we had some usual suspects there who I haven’t worked with for a long time and who are doing well internationally,” he said.
“But there aren’t many I wouldn’t work with again, I’ve just been very lucky.”
The second series of Stan’s original crime drama Black Snow is set to premiere on New Year’s Day and a trailer recently showed off what viewers can expect from the show.
In the new six-episode series, fans will delve into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a woman who has not been seen since she turned 21.
While investigating the unsolved case, Cormack (Fimmel) will struggle with a personal journey: the search for his younger brother, whom he has not seen since they were children.
The creepy trailer begins with Cormack standing alone in a forest and appearing to have “visions” of missing woman Zoe, played by Bad Education’s Jana McKinnon.
Cormack then picks up a card announcing Zoe’s disappearance while floating in a river, teasing that the stage might contain a clue to the mysterious case.
Set in a fictional community in northern Queensland’s South Sea hinterland, the new season was filmed around the Glasshouse Mountains.
The second series of Black Snow will premiere on New Year’s Day and will see Cormack attempt to solve the disappearance of a woman who hasn’t been seen since she turned 21.
The first season of Black Snow debuted on Stan in 2023 and focused on a 30-year-old unsolved fictional murder that shook a community of South Sea Islanders in northern Queensland.
The crime novel series, produced in northern Queensland, was about the murder of a teenager, Isabel Baker, in 1995.
No one was ever caught for the murder, but in 2020, a time capsule unearthed a vital clue that put Cormack (Fimmel) on the path to solving the crime.
Fimmel starred in the first series alongside Brooke Satchwell, Alexander England and actor and comedian Rob Carlton.