I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.
I'm in kind of a strange position - I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there's the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places.
All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.
As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.
I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.
The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.
My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'
I want to go back home and make movies in Australia. There's so many stories that we haven't captured yet. In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.
After going to Australia, it's hard to go anywhere after that. I want to move there. I'm obsessed with it.
I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.