After you were signed to Sundance, did you feel you had to alter anything? Rosehaven has a lot of very Aussie-specific humour.
PACQUOLA It’s been good – they have been really supportive of us making the type of show we want to make. Certainly, their notes have not been too restrictive. And they’ve always been on the side of saying, “Well, they’re Australian characters, we will not have them say something that feels weird.”
McGREGOR The only thing is, when we are writing and there’s a joke where we are like, “Only Australia is going to get this,” we try to think if we can make it just as funny, but have a more universal reference. If it is going to sacrifice the joke, we’ll keep it as is.
PACQUOLA The only real change is getting the occasional tweet from someone in San Francisco saying, “Hey, I love your show!” That just blows our mind.
Didn’t you recently get a shout-out on The Simpsons, with Rosehaven listed in the background of an episode about shows to stream on TV?
PACQUOLA Yeah!
McGREGOR That was unbelievable.
PACQUOLA We still don’t know how it happened. If you can find out, that would be great.
McGREGOR It was massive. I had to ring my mum at 11.30pm!
Away from the camera, how long have you two been friends?
PACQUOLA Since we started doing Utopia. The first season of Utopia [in 2014] was when we started hanging out a lot.
McGREGOR They would write our characters together a lot.
