Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn
Paul Benjamin "Ben" Mendelsohnis an Australian actor, who first rose to prominence for his role in the Australian film The Year My Voice Brokeand continued to have major roles in Australian films such as The Big Steal, Metal Skin, Cosi, Mulletand Australia...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth3 April 1969
CountryAustralia
films
One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
genre sort
'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.
great
'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?
again outlaw watched
'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS.
bob coming people
The people that impress me are Bob Dylan. The ones who keep working, year in and year out, and keep coming up with stuff.
asked
The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.
jet morning wake
Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, just weird sleeping hours.
lady
You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.
crack found happiest life next reached sissy spent trying twenty
As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek's was the happiest of my working life.
alan laura placed quite san tom
I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.
age home paying skip start
I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
kept
I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.
hope intensive relationship
I have an intensive relationship with the thing that I'm working on, and I hope that comes through. It's better for me to not worry about the things I can't fix once they're done.
along cried crying days five four happened mom suddenly
I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.