Kiwi star Roxie Mohebbi discusses her new series, Critical Incident , its take on the Australian juvenile system and how she approached the project with empathy. Nobody wants to play the “bad guy”, especially in a story currently being told in different variations across the globe. But Roxie Mohebbi found playing bad cop both a challenging and revealing experience.
“As artists, we have a responsibility to tell those stories.” Her new series does just that, shining a light on the Australian juvenile system. A contemporary drama set in Western Sydney, Critical Incident centres around another police officer, played by Akshay Khanna, who, when chasing a teenage suspect onto a busy train platform, unexpectedly hurts a bystander.
Soon after, turmoil unfolds and the lives of both the pursued and pursuer shift course into chaos..