Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a reason for everything.
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.
Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.
I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright.
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.
It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.
Australians are crazy, man! Every night, I feel like I'm in a scene from Brad Pitt's 'World War Z'... the kids are going to figure out a way to from a zombie rave ladder over the plexiglass and come into the DJ booth and eat me alive... Not in a bad way at all.