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I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn’t play sport.
You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it’s because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
I’ve always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
I don’t want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
‘I Am Number Four’ definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.
Hollywood is the place to be for actors – and there’s just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there’s less of them. I guess that’s just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it’d be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.
I’m not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on ‘Paradise Lost’ to translate it.
I’m not a big texter anyway. I’m really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.
I find that you learn from others. It’s very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
I didn’t really like my Sydney accent – nobody likes the sound of their own voice – and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I’ve only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven’t been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.
I’ve never been a really big fan of theatre. I don’t know why. It’s so much for effort. It’s much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that’s piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix ‘ology’ at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn’t a bad thing… I said to myself, ‘I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.’
I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don’t want to be stupid. I’d like to have a life outside acting.