When looking for a word to describe Melanie Lynskey’s latest project, “harrowing” comes to mind. The prolific Kiwi actress is no stranger to creating impactful and thought-provoking characters. But in playing real-life author Heather Morris in the small-screen adaptation of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, she found herself smack bang in the centre of a heartbreaking story of love and survival.
The novel – which recounts the incredible true love story of Lale Sokolov and Gita Furman, two Slovakian Jews who found each other while imprisoned in Auschwitz – was a bestseller around the world. But “it somehow had missed me”, Melanie tells The Weekly over a Zoom call from her home in LA.
“When I was asked to do the limited series, I was talking to a friend about it and she was like, ‘How have you not read that book?’ as though I was crazy. But then, of course, I did read it, and I was so moved by the
