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AFI Profiles – Joel Edgerton
Edgerton speaks about problems with the local film industry and why he'll always shoot films at home...
Although Joel Edgerton has appeared in a number of international productions - such as King Arthur, Star Wars: Episode 2 and 3 and the upcoming prequel The Thing - he has marked himself as a producer and writer of note, helping to facilitate works such as his brother Nash's The Square to the screen with production company Blue Tongue Films (which is now shooting Say Nothing, starring Edgerton and Teresa Palmer).
This year, Edgerton earned an AFI Award for his intelligent performance as a criminal looking to improve his life in Animal Kingdom.
Here is an amalgamation of a red carpet interview before the show and a media conference after his win.
Edgerton on Animal Kingdom...
"It is always really good to be involved with any movie because that is a privilege. But it is a real privilege and honour to be involved in a movie that turns out so well. You always go into them expecting, all having faith in the project, and sometimes they don't turn out so well and sometimes they do. This one has even exceeded my expectations and it is really my privilege to be a part of that."
Edgerton on the Aussie film industry...
"First of all, my major beef with the industry is that there is not enough development at the script level. You will never make a great movie out of a terrible script. You might make a mediocre film out of a great script, but at least if you have a great script, that could become a great movie. David (Michôd), as well as being an accomplished and - in my mind - a good director, is also an excellent writer. And so he took an excellent script and he managed to make it into an excellent movie."
Edgerton on maintaining a balance between local productions like Animal Kingdom and The Waiting City and international blockbusters like The Thing...
"It is a very easy balance for me. I will always come back to work in Australia. I always saw my work overseas as really to come back to Australia and do things on my own terms. I am very much a homebody. I love shooting things here. I am shooting an Australian movie right now. And, as much as there are opportunities overseas, I will always choose to do things at home. And Blue Tongue films is very much a part of my life, our life, the guys that we work with whether we are making films overseas or here. Hopefully, here. It is not hard to culminate at all. And a bit of jet lag does not matter really."
Picture caption: Edgerton at the 2010 AFI Awards, courtesy of Getty Images. Taken by Graham Denholm.
