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Joel Edgerton Biography

Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor, director, writer, producer and filmmaker. He has appeared in films such as Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), Black Mass (2015), Loving (2016), and Bright (2017).

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The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

Accents, Enough, Know, Know Yourself, Portray, Tricky

I always kept myself fairly fit.

Fairly, Fit, Kept

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

Dna, Fighting, Real, Sense

Basically you want as many people as possible to see your movie.

Movie, People, Possible, See, Want

I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.

Ages, Brother, Jobs, Sitting, Squares, Working

My brother and I are best friends.

Brother, Friends, My Brother

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

Actors, Know, Learn, Pay, Privilege, Privileges

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

Central, Character, Grey, Indulge In, Play

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

Feet, Future, Land, Made, Somehow, Sum

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

Half, Ideas, Okay, Way

The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

Everyone, Horse, Video, Way, Wrong

At some point, you have to disconnect, if the obsession with playing a real person gets in the way of the movie at large. At the same time, we're all interested, as actors in trying to get as close to the real thing as we can, and whatever you can do in order to create that transformation feels fun and, for me, the furthest I can get away from myself is fun. It's all part of the costume, the accent, and all that stuff. It's about trying to get close without it being a detriment to the point of view of the story that you're trying to tell.

Fun, Movie, Real, Same, Trying, View

The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.

Differences, Five, Luxury, Schedule, Think, Thinking

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear. ' I don't know. They're tough moments.

Bears, Grizzly, Imagine, Okay, Rocks, Tennis

When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.

Enough, People, Prove, Skin, Skins

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

Drama, Letting, Shocks, Thinking, Three, Work

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

Fiction, Hard Work, Science, Stuff, Thinking, Unpredictability

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

Attitude, Thrown, Tons, Tree, Way

I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

Heavier, Levity, Onscreen, Screens, Situation, Times

I can't sing or dance.

Dance, I Can, Sing

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