The royal family marked Christmas Day by attending the traditional festive church service on the King’s Sandringham estate.
05.12.2023 - 23:19 / variety.com
John Bleasdale Guest Contributor A full house greeted Chris Hemsworth as he dropped into the Red Sea Film Festival for an In Conversation event with jury head, Baz Luhrmann. It was something of an Oz fest as the beginning of the conversation was dominated by George Miller and littered with references to fellow antipodean superstars like Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Mel Gibson. It was natural Miller was predominant as Hemsworth had flown directly from Comic Con in Brazil, where the first trailer of Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” was premiered.
“There was a lot of enthusiasm,” Hemsworth said. “We finished filming a year and a bit ago, so there was a lot of anticipation from me and the fan base.” Both Luhrmann and Hemsworth credited Miller as an inspiration on their careers. Luhrmann quoted Akira Kurosawa in praising Miller’s ability to create an “immaculate reality” as a storyteller who showed Australians a way of telling a story.
Hemsworth said: “Talking to George in Broken Hill where the first ‘Mad Max’ was shot, and we went and watched ‘Top Gun,’ and we were watching it in the same cinema where he watched the rushes 45 years ago. I remember watching it and as an actor, a lot of Australians saw Mel Gibson as a bridge to Hollywood. It was a dream to be a part of that world.” Luhrmann noted that when he was starting there was only Mel Gibson and Judy Davis as internationally recognized Australian artists.
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