![]() But within a week, I had an audition for Wasted on the Young (2010). I have ruined many auditions by not being prepared enough. I walked out of there and I was like, “I will never, ever do that again.” Of course subsequently I have, many times. They started letting us do auditions and I really buggered it up. I was still at drama school I was in my final year. Years later again, it’s more of a deeper love for the craft and storytelling.įIRST AUDITION: My first audition was for a TV show in Australia. When I got a bit older, in those awkward teen years, it gave me confidence. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be like Jean-Claude Van Damme in Street Fighter (1994). The reasons have just changed over the years. The cliché thing is that I’ve always wanted to be an actor. When I found acting at a young age, I think my parents were excited because I found something that made me feel happy and gave me confidence and that I felt I was good at that I didn’t have previously. I wasn’t the most socially adept young lad. My parents and my sisters still live there, so I still go back all the time.ĬURRENT LOCATION: Los Angeles, CaliforniaĬHILDHOOD AMBITION: When I was a kid, I didn’t really have many interests other than video games. ![]() “There were times when it was hard not to be in the moment, because Sully was so intimidating and overbearing. “It’s a lot more disturbing-like Sully in the brothel,” he continues. “ isn’t as bloody as Carrie, but I find it a lot more violent,” explains Russell. Merv has never mentioned Pommie and doesn’t seem too eager to see him, but he doesn’t turn him away. Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton) claims to be an old friend of Merv’s, whom he calls Sparra. Set in the ’70s and loosely inspired by real events, Cut Snake begins when Pommie, a gruff, twitchy convict, appears at the home of a young couple, Paula (Jessica De Gouw) and Merv (Russell). While Russell and Jack O’Connell, who plays Louis, don’t bear a striking resemblance, Russell assures us that, “You dye two people’s hair black and bada-bing, bada-boom.”Ĭut Snake, however, is probably Russell’s most exacting role to date. In December, Russell will star as Pete Zamperini, the older brother of the Olympic runner and war hero Louis Zamperini, in A ngelina Jolie‘s Unbroken. On Friday, Believe Me, a comedy about a faux-Christian band with Nick Offerman, came out in limited release. Earlier this month, Cut Snake, a brutal Australian indie, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Jordan and Dane DeHaan Carrie (2013) with Julianne Moore, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Ansel Elgort and one movie about a great white shark trapped in a supermarket with Xavier Samuel (2012). Since landing his first professional job four years ago, the drama school grad as appeared in eight films, including Chronicle (2012) opposite Michael B. “I feel ripped off.” Circumventing his nation’s two favorite soap operas-a stepping stone used by everyone from Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, and Russell Crowe to Heath Ledger, Chris Hemsworth, and Isla Fisher-certainly hasn’t hindered Russell’s career. “I’ve never been in Home and Away or Neighbours,” laughs Australian actor Alex Russell.
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