Lucy Lawless doco Never Look Away on Kiwi war correspondent Margaret Moth: ‘It’s almost like the story chose me’

She plays a retired detective in the TV show My Life is Murder, but actor-turned-director Lucy Lawless tells Joanna Wane how she became a real-life amateur sleuth for her new documentary on legendary Kiwi photojournalist Margaret Moth Lucy Lawless remembers being riveted to the television when news broke that “one of our own” had been shot in Sarajevo. Gisborne-born war correspondent Margaret Moth had already become the stuff of legend at CNN as a fearless photojournalist who danced with death – striding purposefully towards danger while everyone else ducked for cover or ran for their lives. In 1992, Sarajevo was under siege and civilians in the Bosnian capital were being deliberately targeted by Serbian forces.

Travelling along a notorious stretch of road known as Sniper Alley, Moth was hit by a bullet that shattered the lower half of her face. Her injuries were so catastrophic, she wasn’t expected to survive. Some thought it might be kinder if she didn’t.



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