Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgertonis an Australian actor and filmmaker...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth23 June 1974
CountryAustralia
difference films low people stage time vastly
People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.
approval festival given local offshore seal
I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience.
destroy
One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
hard manages
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
aspect good issue money
I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.
becomes involved nourishes thank trouble work
I blame my work for a lot of things. I thank my work for a lot of things, too, but the trouble with being so passionately involved in work is that it becomes like a lover, like your partner, because it nourishes you.
desperate waving
There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'
experience normal rather wonders
Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.
real believe privilege
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.
character larger-than-life boyhood
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
fit
I always kept myself fairly fit.
i-can
I can't sing or dance.
jobs skills extras
Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
attitude tree way
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.