Posted by KB on June 29, 2010
Joel Edgerton hardly needs an introduction. As a star of film, TV and theatre and one of Sydney’s best-loved exports, he has appeared in episodes 2 and 3 of the Star Wars trilogy, alongside Cate Blanchett on stage in A Streetcar Named Desire, in his AFI Award-nominated role in TV’s The Secret Life of Us, and recently, in the acclaimed Animal Kingdom, among other things. Here he talks to The Waiting City director Claire McCarthy about his latest film and what it was like shooting in India.
Covered: The beauty of India, drawing crowds of adoring fans, filming for 18 hours on a train, doing another prequel.
Claire McCarthy: What attracted you to being involved with The Waiting City?
Joel Edgerton: It’s always a script that attracts me to a project first. I loved your script and the story itself drew me right in. The icing on the cake was that the film was set and to be shot in India.More...
joel edgerton, claire mccarthy, the waiting city, kolkata, john carpenter, interviews, cate blanchett