Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgertonis an Australian actor and filmmaker...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth23 June 1974
CountryAustralia
real fighting dna
There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.
land feet made
The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.
enough know-yourself accents
The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.
horse way firsts
The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.
ideas way half
I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.
boxes
The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.
thinking luxury differences
The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.
pay privilege actors
That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
character interesting quality
The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.
responsibility self anchors
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
team feelings actors
There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
hard-work thinking fiction
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.
people skins enough
When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.
moving silence actors
One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.