Wish You Were Here Pt. 2
It has been my experience that most, if not all of the Aussie actors who make it in Hollywood, even the most successful ones, are dying to come back home to make local films.
For Joel Edgerton, it helped that his company Blue-Tongue Films was producing WISH YOU WERE HERE with his best mate from drama school Kieran Darcy-Smith writing and directing. The irony being that since Joel was fielding amazing offers from Hollywood, Kieran never thought Joel would be interested in participating in their low-budget project.
Watch Joel describe that even though initially he was slightly dismayed at the casting process, it was all a big misunderstanding that worked out for the best.
Then hear Teresa Palmer reveal how she learned everything about the South-East Asian drug scene from the movies and how Kieran needed to reign in her 'partying' performance.
And both actors, along with Anthony Starr, explain how they hit the ground running and shot from the hip for the montage footage in Cambodia, capturing heaps of film of them mixing it up with the locals and improvising in a very guerilla-style manner of film-making.
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