Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgertonis an Australian actor and filmmaker...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth23 June 1974
CountryAustralia
almost heavier levity movies oftentimes
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.
bit martial
I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.
brilliant filmmaker
Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.
hackman
Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face!
anger cage dominance fighting fueled male ring street
Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.
people time
We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.
audience people repeated shooting soon stuff takes tense
I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.
Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.
article bottom cage ends good internet line newspaper operate parrot publicity theory work
I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
charge christmas department fell worked wrap
I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.
began bullying create movies necessity rather roles time waiting
I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.
equivalent screaming shirt tearing
Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.
turning
To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.