EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Lucy Lawless On Her Sundance Doc ‘Never Look Away:’ ‘I Love Bad B—’

In an exclusive uInterview, Lucy Lawless discusses her new documentary Never Look Away, which tells the story of CNN correspondent Margaret Moth, and premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

“I just love bad girls, and she was the baddest,” Lawless said about Moth. “There’s so much stuff that I couldn’t even fit in this film that I would have loved to explore if I had the time, but she’s truly raging and iconic and I find it inspirational. We are all coloring inside the lines, and people like her are bursting with color and life.”

Lawless, known for her role as Xena: The Warrior Princess, said it took her a long time to understand the famous camerawoman, who was known for her work in various combat zones.

“I think for Margaret, unless she was at the burning cold face of history and life and intensity, that she didn’t fit in. That’s where she felt the most zen. I believe that drove her and put her in some really sticky situations.”

“The magic ingredient that took me so long to learn,” Lawless continued, “is that what enabled Margaret to push through was the utter pitilessness of her childhood. It’s that thing of ‘what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger,’ and this rather cruel childhood meant that she was inured even to her own pain.”

Lawless explained that “rules were not for Margaret,” as the film portrays her as driven and independent.

“She was such a bundle of extremes, and that’s why I could never find her dependable heart,” she said. “Nobody could forget her. If you met her once, you would be impacted by her. She was a unique, charismatic beast.”

The public’s perception of Moth, according to Lawless, varied greatly from reality.

“You would expect her to be kind of ballsy and dude-like, but she wasn’t. She was Victorian, very mannered and had a posture like a ballerina,” she observed. “She was a bundle of contradictions, and very loyal to her people.”

When speaking to her roster of projects, Lawless noted that she has always liked “bad b—.”

“Margaret was the worst. She really wasn’t a conscious voice, it was a very knee-jerk reaction to receiving this probably generic mail-out email saying, ‘Would you want to make a story about Margaret Moth,’ and I was like, ‘Oh I remember, she got her face blown off.’ I wrote back immediately and said, ‘I would make it happen.'”