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In case you were wondering, here is a clip of the stunt Joel mentioned in the previous post where Nash stepped for him in order to be violently hit by a car. The scene is from the 2007 television series “Dangerous” in which Joel played a deliciously evil cop, seen here preparing to murder one of his former informants. Although Joel gets to shoot people, it’s brother Nash who is appointed to be hit by the car and go flying head over heels.

Watch closely and you’ll see some of the fragments of the shattered windscreen that Joel mentions bursting around (and into) Nash. To Joel’s credit, he was at least willing to put down his tea and blanket long enough to lie down on the grubby car park ground for his ‘dead guy’ close-up…..  :-)

Yes, Joel will be appearing on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” this Thursday (8 June) the day before “It Comes at Night” opens in the US and Canada. The film will be released worldwide later in the month (though Australia must wait until 6 July).

Whilst you wait for Thursday’s show, here is a clip from one of Joel’s earlier appearances on “Late Night” where he has some fun talking about Nash’s stunt career and laughingly compares his soft, pampered life as an actor to that of his beaten and battered stuntman brother.

“The other film school you get as an actor is you’re on set with directors and watching them work. Every few months you move from one set to another, and you get to learn from different people, and I think that a lot of directors will never get that luxury of being able to hang out on another’s person set and learn, good or bad, the qualities of another director. It’s been a real blessing for me to have that information filling me up as I’ve sort of gotten closer and closer to wanting to direct a movie. It also broke down the elements of fear that were stopping me from doing it sooner.”

–  Joel Edgerton; photographed observing the directorial techniques of directors Gavin O'Connor, Jeff Nichols, Nash Edgerton,Baz Luhrmann, and Kieran Darcy-Smith on the sets of “Jane Got a Gun,” “Loving,” “The Square,” “The Great Gatsby,” and “Wish You Were Here”

When asked where he is mostly likely to be found at the many industry parties he must attend, Joel Edgerton had a quick answer: “Try the bar."  :-)

“There’s an underpinning of just complete love between [my character] and Moses in the movie that also has a space for conflict to be there, and jealousy to be there, and envy to be there, and I think that’s true of real relationships." 

"I’ve got a real supreme, undying, unquestionable love for my brother, and then some days I look at him and I go, ‘Oh, God, I really envy what you do.’ And sometimes I’m jealous of him and sometimes I’m angry at him, you know, so it’s everything in those relationships [that] is so rich, and I think it’s sort of why I was drawn to [the role of Ramses].”

–  Joel Edgerton explains how his relationship with his brother Nash helped inform his portrayal of Ramses in “Exodus: Gods and Kings”

“I always check with my brother when I’m offered a role. And he’ll say, ‘Take the money away from the equation, do you really want to do that movie?’ And when I say, ‘No, but they’re going to give me X amount of dollars,’ he tells me not to do the movie because I already get paid enough. And he’s right.”

–  Joel Edgerton