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Joel Edgerton

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Joel Edgerton is an Australian actor born on June 23, 1974. He is known for his performances in films such as 'Australia' and 'The Revenant', and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 'Rocky'.

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“I'm not scared of doing movies that are just about entertainment. I'm not scared of doing movies that are really challenging and cover difficult terrain. I just want good experiences and I want to challenge myself and I want to just keep learning, as an actor.”

Want Actors Difficult Challenges Scared Entertainment Terrain Keep Learning Good Experiences

Author:Joel Edgerton

“The last TV show I binged on was 'Hannibal' because it stars two of my friends, Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, who I first met filming 'King Arthur' back in 2003, and I just lapped this show up; loved it.”

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“I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.”

Way Feels Ideas Half Okay Half Way

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“The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.”

Want Character Certain Interesting Quality Recipes Very Interesting Dose

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“I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.”

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“When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.”

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“I always kept myself fairly fit.”

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“I'm really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself.”

People Judging Observing Serving Others

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“North America makes a ton of movies and there's a ton of movies that are exceptional.”

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“Basically you want as many people as possible to see your movie.”

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“There's something nice about making a night of the theater rather than sitting in front of your TV.”

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“Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.”

Fall Next Process Teaching Over It Next Time Learning Process

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“At some point, you have to disconnect, if the obsession with playing a real person gets in the way of the movie at large. At the same time, we're all interested, as actors in trying to get as close to the real thing as we can, and whatever you can do in order to create that transformation feels fun and, for me, the furthest I can get away from myself is fun. It's all part of the costume, the accent, and all that stuff. It's about trying to get close without it being a detriment to the point of view of the story that you're trying to tell.”

Trying Real Fun Transformation Point Of View Obsession Get Away

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“What I like is having a conversation that gets you on the right page. And, if that means having conversations in lieu of rehearsal - I don't wanna get up and cook the thing before we shoot it but I do wanna know that me and the director know exactly what we both want to achieve, and that we're moving in the same direction.”

Mean Moving Achieve

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“That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.”

Knows Actors Pay Privilege

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“The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.”

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“The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.”

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“The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.”

Way Firsts Horse Video Beta

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“The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.”

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“The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.”

Made Feet Land Concerned

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“There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.”

Real Fighting Destruction Dna

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“There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.”

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“Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.”

Thinking World Hard Stuff Deals Fiction Hard Work Harder Science Fiction Setting Settings Excitement Unpredictability

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“One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.”

Bigs Moving Actors Silence Fit Enjoyed Staying Stillness Physicality

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“It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.”

Way Loses Attitude Tree Standing Thrown Tricky Profile Nothing To Lose

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“Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.”

Jobs Bits Skills Extras New Skills

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“I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.”

Self Responsibility Self Improvement Improvement Fancy Anchors Footloose

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“I can't sing or dance.”

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“I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.”

Want Evil Interest Path Gun Stuck

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“I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.”

Ifs Knows Age Jobs Remember Brother Sitting My Brother Australia Squares

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“I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.”

Character Fantasy Digging Trenches Boyhood Larger Than Life

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“I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.”

Believe Real Projects Privilege

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“I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.”

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“It feels good to be fit and strong.”

Feels Strong Fit Feel Good

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“My brother and I are best friends.”

Brother My Brother

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“Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.”

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Author:Joel Edgerton

“Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.”

Thinking Three Rooms Audience Drama Window Shock Inviting Larger Than Life Drama Life

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“To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.”

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Author:Joel Edgerton

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Born: June 23, 1974
Known for: Actor
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