Australian - Actor | April 3, 1969 -
There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear.
Ben Mendelsohn
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I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.
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'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS.
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Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
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I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
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My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.
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In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
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I think Kyle Chandler is something of a national treasure.
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I've been a Ryan Reynolds fan since the first time I saw him.
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The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
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Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.
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I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.
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