Baz Luhrmann, Sarah Snook on what Australian stars bring to Hollywood | 60 Minutes

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Plus a shout out for the Australian film and television crews who just get on and get the job done.

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Toni Collette is one of the most underrated actresses EVER

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❤Love Australia! Beautiful country❤love from Finland

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American film director Ron Howard said once that he prefers to work with Australian actors and actresses because he sees in them a work ethic that for some reason he believes is rare in the British and American actors and actresses.

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They overlooked Peter Weir! Picnic at Hanging Rock is an education in film.

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I love Peter but that movie gave me the absolute creeps watching it at school with that bloody strange music!! I’d much rather watch A Bush Christmas! Not Peter but geez a better movie to watch!

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And the Truman Show! Also George Miller

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Master & Commander is his masterpiece.

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Don't forget the fabulous Judy Davis

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and Eric Bana ... and Jackie Weaver ... and Jason Clarke ... and Rose Byrne ... and Yvonne Strahovski ... and Sarah Wynter ... and Katherine Langford ... and Rebecca Breeds ... .... just sayin'

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Underrated directors include George Miller of the Australian "Mad Max" series and Peter Weir ("The Year of Living Dangerously", "Witness," "Dead Poets Society") come from the Land Down Under

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Peter Weir also directed the classic The Truman Show and the underrated Masters and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Good director, indeed!

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​@@michaelmonthey5974 directed Gallipoli too. Superb director.

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Sarah is a treasure chest of gifted, crafted & thoughtful talent. So enormous in range, scope & delightful deception. That one hardly realises what one is seeing, until it's already seen.❤🦄✅

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Tip for Americans: “Aussie” is pronounced Ozzie as in Ozzy Osbourne 🤘😂

[@emmaburley5374]

I was going to say the same! It creeps me out when they say it wrong! 😅

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@@emmaburley5374Me too!

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@@tj-nu7iu and all continental Europeans. Very uncomfortable. You tell them and they absolutely ignore it, insisting on “Ossi”…

[@davidodonnellfilm]

An addition - Australia has space. Yes less population of Texas inside a country the size of America. Australian performers tend to inhabit space. It's part of their presence and nature, and part of what makes their performance style work.

[@nichobee]

That is such a wise point and not something I ever considered about ourselves. Now that I think of it, watch the average aussie male sit down on a chair and their feet are wide apart, their arm is hanging over the back side and their chest is open. Contrast this to the average English man who sits with his leg folded onto his knee.

[@Ulbre]

Australia's 5th largest state (or territory, not including the Antarctic territory) is New South Wales which is 15% larger than Texas!

[@emanderson5453]

meanwhile let’s totally forget about WAAPA (West Australian Academy of Performing Arts) which is where Hugh Jackman went bc it’s hidden in Perth

[@darrenwilliamson1226]

Perth is easily forgettable

[@Drdavthomp]

This is such an interesting story. The belief that being in an American Movie, TV, Broadway is still a dream, an honor, not a job is so clear!

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Australian’s are born actors

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As an Aussie so proud to know that other countries are taking notice........❤

[@andrewhall7704]

What about Errol Flynn, Frank Thring . We made the first feature film, “The Story of the Kelly Gang” in 1906. Don’t forget about Jackie Weaver. Sarah Snook voiced in an Australian film “ Memoire of a Snail” We also have the Second oldest continuously running cinema in the world, the State Cinema in Hobart and Frank Thring’s father invented the clapper board.

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Rod Taylor (The Time Machine, Sunday in New York), Peter Finch

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Talent in the Land Down Under!

[@allymayful]

So proud of these wonderful Entertainers. We also had Mel Gibson our first NIDA international Star. Olivia Newton John - Grease. Also two mature champs Jackie Weaver and Jack Thompson. My favourite Brian Brown in Cocktail.

[@allymayful]

Plus Paul Hogan - of course.

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Jackie Weaver has been in a couple American movie and TV series

[@Ulbre]

Australia's 5th largest state (or territory, not including the Antarctic territory) is New South Wales which is 15% larger than Texas!

[@loub1733]

Punching above our weight but not sure they are up on the Rush situation. Love Sarah’s non bogan Aussie non American accent music to my ears .

[@Manseb]

Adelaide accent

[@andrewlampe6116]

Can there be a new class at NIDA for Americans to say Aussie the way Australians say it

[@allymayful]

Pronounced Ozzie.

[@Bellas1717]

Then they’d get Brissie and others too.

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No Angela White?

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😁

[@ClarkKent71]

Her performances are very stimulating.

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No mention of Alvin Purple?

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😂

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"Ossi"...

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Hugo Weaving

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Good on ya!!

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"Bloomin'"? Where are we... the East End of London?

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Flamin' Galahs!

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Good 🎉

[@iloveentertainment]

Russell Crowe is technically a kiwi 😂

[@njb1528]

Also, Naomi Watts was born in England and Nicole in Hawaii. Just learned Keith Urban was born in NZ.

[@nichobee]

​@@njb1528 ok so Keith moved when he was 2 and Nicole moved when she was 3 after her Aussie parents were temporarily living in Hawaii. Crowe moved when he was 4, left at 14 and came back at 18, calls himself an Aussie and has failed citizenship twice because he can never stay in the country long enough due to work. We can't claim Naomi though, she's a pom

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Russell crowe hasn't lived in NZ for 50 YEARS

[@emanderson5453]

He considers himself Australian

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Lol yeah but only when he's chucking a tanty & throwing a phone at some dude in a random hotel in the States 😂

[@Go1239w]

Google Famous ethnic actor in Australia and you will see Nicole Kidman

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straya!

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lol not NIDA front and centre of this spot.

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Russell Crowe is a New Zealander not an Australian

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Rusty’s a kiwi

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baz lurhman is a flagrant self mutilator which makes me question his judgement.

[@RoboticsJoe]

Baz has become too American with his plastic surgery. Yuk

[@Go1239w]

Umm , to the interviewer who said something about Kenyans ? You need to focus on the continent you are speaking about. NYCer by way of east Africa . Stop it . 💁🏽‍♀️

[@LikkieAU]

There was a time when Kenyan runners absolutely dominated long distance running, that’s what he meant… it may not be true any more, I don’t know, but it certainly used to be. His point was that Kenyans were over represented in that sport just as Aussies are in movie making.

[@Go1239w]

Does Australia have people that are like this ✋🏾, I’m curious because the continent does produce awesome actors . 👩🏽💁🏽‍♀️ What Kenyans are to what now? Hush , where are the ethnic folks???

[@brianandrea3249]

Not sure what you point is but there are plenty who have immigrant backgrounds. Are there many internationally famous Aussie black or brown or Asian actors…well, no not really, although locally there are.

[@Go1239w]

What Kenyans are to marathons , these folks are the winner of? Stop it. 🙏🏾✋🏾🤦🏾‍♀️💁🏽‍♀️🗽🐫

[@LikkieAU]

Why don’t you google Kenyan Running and see what he’s on about…. They dominated the sport.

[@tuskanu]

The only reason Australian actors move to Hollywood is that it is so expensive to live here, there is a housing crisis, too many migrants, terrible woke government, bad transportation and everything is so far away from everything else. So Hollywood feels just like home

[@nichobee]

Lol

[@allanahquinn7277]

@@nichobee have you left Australia ? We have an amazing multicultural beautiful country 🇦🇺🐨

[@nichobee]

@@allanahquinn7277 I agree with you, and I've visited many places overseas. I'm pretty sure OP is trolling but aussies aren't risking it all in Hollywood because of inflation back home 😂

[@Nathan-gd7xq]

Thank you for inserting politics into a subject that has nothing to do with politics. I bet you have loads of friends.

[@davidbell1676]

Oh fark off.. get a better paying job and stop whining about nothing. Hous3s in Dubbo are cheap.

[@kkpenney444]

Snook is way overrated. She was easily the worst actor on Succession.

[@allanahquinn7277]

You obviously haven’t seen all her work 🤦🏼‍♀️

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No one cares what you think - BOT

[@samanthacristinaburgosmera4160]

Overrated? on the contrary her acting was phenomenal beginning with the accent her acting skills and so more you should see more of her work

[@ThisalTallberst]

Dear Lord that face on Baz girl- what the hell is it. Stretched as far as a rubber band will go