Lisa McCune silent on sexual fetishes in The Little Death Lisa McCune and Alan Duke on the set of The Little Death. All the characters in Josh Lawson's directorial debut, The Little Death, have a secret sexual fetish. But Lisa McCune's lips are firmly sealed on the subject of what hers might be. "We shouldn't give too much away," said the four-time Golden Logie winner on the film's location in Sydney's northern suburbs on Thursday. McCune's on-screen partner, Alan Dukes (Beneath Hill 60), was marginally more forthcoming. "It's quite poignant and sad but it's got a comic edge to it as well," he said. Being filmed at a cracking pace - 11 Sydney locations in four weeks -The Little Death, which also stars Lawson, Bojana Novakovic, Lachy Hulme, and Damon Herriman, is based on Love Actually-style structure, interweaving the stories of five different couples. Kym Gyngell is the paedophile who links them all together when, after moving into the neighbourhood, he is required to door knock to identify himself. Unlikely as it might seem, the actors describe the screenplay as laugh-out-loud funny. "Josh has a fantastic take on comedy," says McCune, who first worked with the actor-turned-filmmaker on Sea Patrol. Where I have a natural ham bone, he wants truth out of his comedy. While some of the characters' behaviour is weird and even perverse, according to those who have read the screenplay, at heart, the story is warm and tender. LA-based Lawson, who has been developing the project for seven years, came home to film The Little Death during a break between his commitments on US TV series House of Lies and upcoming promotional duties for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, in which he appears opposite Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and Kristen Wiig.