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
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?
films
One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
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.
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.
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.
came
Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.
good surf
It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
It would be excellent to do a 'Star Wars.'
darkest humor matter pinch sour subject sweet
In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
best
If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.
If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.