Simon Baker is making his grand return to TV, 9 years after hit collection The Mentalist wrapped up on-air.
The Aussie actor is starring within the new Australian drama collection Boy Swallows Universe in an emotionally-charged position as a functioning alcoholic father-of-two.
Nevertheless, the 52-year-old tells 9honey Movie star that a part of the attraction to the Brisbane-set undertaking was that he wasn’t the principle character this time round.
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“[A] good optimistic for me was that the burden of the present shouldn’t be on my shoulders, it is good to be a part of an ensemble,” Baker says.
“Felix Cameron and Lee, who play Eli and Gus, that they had the burden of accountability with this however then the entire the opposite characters, all of them have nice tales inside the greater piece and so it was an attention-grabbing position.
“There’s not many occasions as an actor that you simply get alternatives to get extra into character, like do extra character stuff, and I have been searching for {that a} bit extra extra not too long ago in my profession.”
Alongside Baker, the variation of the best-selling e-book of the identical identify by Australian creator Trent Dalton additionally boasts the likes of Bryan Brown, Travis Fimmel, Phoebe Tonkin and Anthony LaPaglia.
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Plus, Aussie actor and director Joel Edgerton is among the Government Producers of the seven-part restricted collection.
It is one thing Baker, who can be a director, needs he’d jumped on earlier.
“The e-book had a sense to it after which the e-book was massively profitable,” Baker tells 9Honey Movie star.
“I bear in mind my mum studying it and telling me about it and she or he was like, ‘I feel it is best to learn this, you’d love this’ and my agent referred to as me early on when the e-book first got here out, and I feel she was even saying to me, ‘it is best to attempt to get the rights to this’ however different folks already had them, I missed that boat, nevertheless it was good to be concerned anyway.”
After making a begin in performing on reveals like A Nation Follow, E Road and Dwelling & Away, Baker’s huge breakthrough in Hollywood got here from his position as Patrick Jane on The Mentalist.
By way of movies, arguably his largest position to this point has been within the cult-classic rom-com The Satan Wears Prada however Baker tells 9Honey Movie star he is “by no means seen the movie” so in contrast to his former co-stars Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway did not too long ago, he could not say what his character – journalist Christian Thompson – could be as much as as of late.
“I can not even bear in mind what the character [does at the end of the film] I do not know – possibly he’d be working at 9.com,” Baker tells 9Honey Movie star with amusing.
Boy Swallows Universe can have it is crimson carpet premiere in Brisbane earlier than all episodes stream on Netflix from January 11.
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