#australian actor
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Ben Lawson : Secrets & Lies (2014)
“I love a good story…I don’t think it’s worth taking the bigger pay cheques just to tell dumb stories.”
– Joel Edgerton on his “picky” approach to accepting film roles
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“I steer clear of things that I feel just aren’t acting, or if I feel that any number of people could do the job, like it could be me or any one of a hundred guys. A gauge for me is, would I want to watch this movie?”
“There’s nothing worse than playing a morally upright, all-round good guy - you know, the handsome, romantic type - unless there’s something ballsy in there as well, a problem or a character flaw.”
– Joel Edgerton
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“I’m not so much fascinated with people making mistakes. I’m fascinated with what they do after they make a mistake because that’s where I think the real kind of moral fibre of a person is tested.“
– Joel Edgerton on the type of characters he likes to portray and write
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“What makes Edgerton interesting is that on the one hand he’s an all-Australian lad who’ll just about try anything; on the other he’s a discriminating, hard-working actor who’s taken almost 15 years to harness his talent fully, to reach the career sweet spot he’s now.“
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“I’m not that into preening. Some might just call me lazy.”
– Joel Edgerton on his decidedly low-maintenance personal style
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“My worst on-set habit [is] internal self-sabotage. And it’s usually the first two weeks of a job – I always walk around like paranoid that they hate me and they wanna get rid if me.”
– Joel Edgerton
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Steve McGarrett
Alex O'loughlin
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