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
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You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
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It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
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The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'
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It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.
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I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.
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I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.
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As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek's was the happiest of my working life.
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'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.
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I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
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I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.
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I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.
I don't have memorabilia but try to take a bit of wardrobe, usually because they dress me better than I dress myself.
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I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.
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I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.