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NOYCE, PHIL – SALT
In this wide ranging video interview, Salt director Phillip Noyce tells Andrew
L. Urban how Tom Cruise turned down the central role which led to the character
getting a gender re-assignation: it is now a female CIA officer accused of being
a sleeper double agent for the Russians, and Angelina Jolie is playing her dream
role - as a female James Bond, Evelyn Salt.
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TASS, NADIA & PARKER, DAVID - MATCHING JACK
Based on true stories, Matching Jack is an amalgam of real human experiences
– and that’s what drew director Nadia Tass and co-writer/producer David Parker
to the story. But Parker got a bit of a shock when he saw the first cut: his
script had been changed, he tells Andrew L. Urban in this frank and revealing
audio interview together with Tass, in which they also discuss the creative
clashes they managed to survive as husband and wife. And below, Tass explains
why she is passionate about the film, in her director’s statement.
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FITZPATRICK, MARK – THE NOTHING MEN
Two different stories in the news fused in the mind of filmmaker Mark
Fitzpatrick to trigger the creative process which resulted in one of the most
engaging Australian drama of recent years: The Nothing Men. And after 10 drafts,
he returned to the original, he tells Andrew L. Urban. Watch the interview
(under 7mins) recorded at the Dungog Film Festival where the film had its world
premiere.
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BROPHY, GERALDINE - SECOND HAND WEDDING
Second Hand Wedding a small film but it’s about the sort of epic themes that
make up everyday lives, about family engagements and conflicts, its star
Geraldine Brophy tells Andrew L. Urban.
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OKONEDO, SOPHIE – SKIN
There’s not much English actress Sophie Okonedo can’t do on screen – or on
stage – as she proves in the lead role in Skin, the amazing fact based story of
a black daughter born to white Afrikaners in apartheid era South Africa. Acting
comes easily to her, she tells Andrew L. Urban.
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COLLEE, JOHN - CREATION
There is more to Charles Darwin than a bearded old bloke with a thick book to
his name, as Australian writer John Collee shows in his screenplay about the
man, adapted from the biography by Darwin’s great great grandson. Collee spoke
to Andrew L. Urban.
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MCCARTHY, CLAIRE - THE WAITING CITY
Her experiences in a Calcutta mission played a key role in formulating the story
of a young Australian adopting couple, Claire McCarthy tells Andrew L. Urban.
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GIANNOPOULOS, NICK - THE KINGS OF MYKONOS: WOG BOY 2
Good casting and good luck (combined with long years of hard work on the
script) helped to make Nick Giannopoulos’ Wog Boy sequel a success, he tells
Andrew L. Urban.
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GILLIAN ARMSTRONG – LOVE LUST & LIES
She’s maturing with her three subjects, Gillian Armstrong tells Andrew L. Urban
after making the fifth in her series on Kerry, Josie and Diana, the three
teenagers in her 1976 film, Smokes and Lollies. They’re 47 now, and two of them
are grandmothers – and very honest ones, at that as can be seen in Love Lust &
Lies, the latest in this revealing audio-visual photo album
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LIORET, PHILIPPE - WELCOME
Luck smiled on Philippe Lioret when searching for the right 17 year old Kurdish
lad to play the lead in his acclaimed and award winning drama, Welcome.
“Filmmaking is 50-50 luck and hard work,” Lioret tells Andrew L. Urban during a
visit to Sydney.
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