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
anyone approach best general job work
My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can.
trying work
Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
basic expressed needs outside people stuff work
There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear.
almost generally niro quite talk work
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.
changed family fantastic job work
I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
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.
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.
asked
The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.
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.
again outlaw watched
'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS.
great
'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?
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.
films
One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
adds enormous peter
My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.