Australian - Actor | April 3, 1969 -
I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
Ben Mendelsohn
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The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.
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Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, just weird sleeping hours.
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$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.
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At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.
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My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can.
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Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.
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I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no.
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'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.
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You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.
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Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
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As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek's was the happiest of my working life.
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