Anna Paquin aims to provoke viewers with immoral new show

Anna Paquin is aiming to arouse viewers with eye-popping celebrity scandals on her new TV show Flack.

The actress portrays Robyn, an American publicist living in London who covers up the outrageous wrongdoings of her famous clients, in the new dramedy series, and she hopes the programme will shock fans at home.

"(I want to) entertain people, make them laugh, and provoke them," she explains to Parade of her intentions with Flack. "The show asks a lot of interesting questions about morality, the nature of truth, where we get our information from, and how do you know that (what) you are seeing is the whole story.

"The show also asks, would you cover that up for somebody, how important is being good at your job versus being a person that you can live with at the end of the day, and look yourself in the mirror and feel OK about who you are?"

Anna produced the project with her husband Stephen Moyer, and co-stars in the series with Sophie Okonedo, who admits her research on real-life celebrity publicists was even more shocking than what was depicted on the show, with the PR leaders confessing to covering up even worse scandals for their clients.

"When I asked them (celebrity public relations professionals about the script contents), they were like, 'No, no, no, this is not over the top. I'm worse,' which, looking at it page after page, was a little shocking," Sophie details. "It's very cunning, surprising, quite shocking and hilariously funny. I was gasping when I turned the pages."

Flack premiered in the U.S. on Thursday (21Feb19).