Hundreds of Australian Actors take the Hollywood challenge! Packing their life up in a box, saying farewell to family, friends and vegemite and heading to the bright lights and big city of La la land, with their dreams in toe.
…It has certainly paid off for Australian actor Jason Clarke, who has been cast in his first major movie role, as the leading man in The Human Contract, the directorial debut of Jada Pinkett Smith (the wife of Hollywood heavyweight Will Smith) and scoring a meaty part alongside Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in Michael Mann’s crime drama Public Enemies.
…His acting career with in Australia saw him guest role in popular series, such as Blue Heelers, Home And Away and Stingers, and working on the Phillip Noyce-directed film Rabbit-Proof Fence.
…Clarke succumbed to the lure of Tinseltown just over five years ago. “It’s hard because you pack everything up and you completely start again in a new country and it was a big risk, if it doesn’t happen I guess I go home, but then at the same time I always looked at it like it’s a necessary step if you want to be an actor,” Clarke says.
…It was his gripping portrayal of Caffee in The Brotherhood that Jada Pinkett Smith chose him for the lead role in The Human Contract.
“It’s an insane cast. It’s the story of John Dillinger (Depp) and gangsters in the 1930s and I play Dillinger’s right-hand man, his best buddy. I am feeling good about everything at the moment.”
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