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
people way dangerous
The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.
boyish coming felt girls guess left terms
I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.
throwing
Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.
fairly life likely period
At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.
playing
For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.
piece villains
For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.
basically league sat saved sydney unemployed
I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.
family
I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.
people
I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.
eastwood grew wayne
I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
thinking ideas acting
I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
lightning crash thunder
If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.
bullshit creative stuff
There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That's the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn't signed on for.
running couple boys
One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.