Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgertonis an Australian actor and filmmaker...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth23 June 1974
CountryAustralia
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.
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Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.
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I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
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It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.
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I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.
funny
It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.
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Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.
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I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.
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The Australians are actually the worst of the criminals from the United Kingdom, but not worst as in toughest. They're the ones who did stupid little things and got caught for it. Bad criminals.
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I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'
kids
I don't have any kids of my own.
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Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
brilliant filmmaker
Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.