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Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur - who cast Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush in Elizabeth - says Australian actors can thank their country’s isolation for their international success.
“They feel cut off and need to reach out and explore the world, and that need is transformed into craft,” he said in Melbourne yesterday.
Elizabeth, about the early reign of Elizabeth I, earned Blanchett and Rush BAFTA awards in Britain.
Kapur also cast another Australian, Abbie Cornish, in the recently finished sequel, Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
“All three of them, in every scene, explore rather than define their characters,” he said.
“There is a certain aura of mystery because they are guessing at how their characters behave and that keeps the audience guessing about their exact motivations.”
The Mumbai-based director said he saw this characteristic in another Australian, Heath Ledger, whom he cast in the war film Four Feathers.
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