What is the best thing about your profession? The best thing about show business is you get to see and do things other people rarely can. When I was shooting Power Games the prequel to the Kerry packer story where I played Sir Frank Packer we played a scene at the printing press where he shuts down the publication of the newspaper. I got to actually shut down one of the biggest printing presses in the world while acting in a scene and then turn it on again. You look at your fellow actors and think "well that’s something you don’t get to do every day". The next thing you find yourself being dragged behind the Croc Hunter’s truck on a dirt road in far north Queensland going 80km an hour while Steve, just before filming, sits on the back of the truck and pulls out a live two metre king brown snake saying “don’t worry if it bites you I have the anti-venom in my sock”. Who gets to say they have done that? I know its acting and the fun is doing these wild adventures.
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16 | PENINSULA
January 2018