Australian - Actor | April 3, 1969 -
'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
Ben Mendelsohn
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I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.
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For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.
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If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.
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I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
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I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.
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I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
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If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.
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'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.
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I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.
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I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.
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I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.
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