“For the cast, it’s about sharing the screen with some deeply important stories based on truth. We have to honour that – you can’t ham it up in the background,” Mulvany says. “It has to be truthful because ultimately it’s a very serious and important story, but you have to fall in love and hate with the characters. It’s a delicious conundrum of a show, but we all work so well together on and off the screen.”

The headline name in that cast is Al Pacino, who made Hunters his first episodic television work after a Hollywood movie career spanning half a century. Pacino returns in season two, although in reduced circumstances due to events in season one.

Mulvany didn’t have as many opportunities to talk Shakespearean shop with her fellow Richard III obsessive. “He wanted to see all the pictures of the production,” she says. “Who played that role? Who played this role? How they’d play it? He’s a theatre animal. Which was a joy for this theatre animal.

“Al said, ‘What’s your thing? What’s your thing with Richard?’ And I said, ‘Well, I have his disability.’ And he said, ‘Oh, that’s smart.’ It was the most beautiful response I’ve ever had to telling someone I’ve played Richard III.”

Mulvany was just three years old and growing up in Western Australia when she was diagnosed with a cancer of the kidneys, leading to a childhood marked by chemotherapy and hospital confinement, and resulting in irreparable organ and vertebrae damage, as well as ongoing chronic pain.

She has campaigned extensively as a disability advocate, while speaking openly about her need to sometimes walk with her silver skull-tipped walking stick, which she calls Yorick. It now features in season two of Hunters.

“David’s genuinely intrigued about how we relate to our characters and how we can bring our authentic selves to them,” Mulvany says. “He wanted to get Yorick on screen to represent disability and make a fashion statement for Harriet. I asked if I could add ‘threatening’ to stick it up [another character’s] arse to the script, and David said, ‘Love it! Do it!’ It’s a rare gift of an artist who lets another artist pepper what’s already there with their own self.”

Hunters concludes with the current season, but Mulvany, who also had a role in one of 2022’s biggest box-office movies, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, has no shortage of options for both the theatre and screen, writing and acting, available. The youthful struggle to stay afloat or get established has passed, and now Mulvany is playing the long game.

“I’ve reached the age where I can go, ‘I don’t want to do that.’ There are certain things I’d like to do, but I don’t have the time, and I have to take care of my body,” Mulvany says. “I live with a disability, and have to take really good care of myself so I can continue to perform and write and create for the rest of my days.”

Hunters season two is on Amazon Prime from Friday, January 13.

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