While Russell and Jack O’Connell, who plays Louis, don’t bear a striking resemblance, Russell assures us that, “You dye two people’s hair black and bada-bing, bada-boom.”Ĭut Snake, however, is probably Russell’s most exacting role to date. Set in the ’70s and loosely inspired by real events, Cut Snake begins when Pommie, a gruff, twitchy convict, appears at the home of a young couple, Paula (Jessica De Gouw) and Merv (Russell). Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton) claims to be an old friend of Merv’s, whom he calls Sparra. Merv has never mentioned Pommie and doesn’t seem too eager to see him, but he doesn’t turn him away. “ isn’t as bloody as Carrie, but I find it a lot more violent,” explains Russell. “It’s a lot more disturbing-like Sully in the brothel,” he continues. “There were times when it was hard not to be in the moment, because Sully was so intimidating and overbearing. My parents and my sisters still live there, so I still go back all the time.ĬURRENT LOCATION: Los Angeles, CaliforniaĬHILDHOOD AMBITION: When I was a kid, I didn’t really have many interests other than video games. I wasn’t the most socially adept young lad. When I found acting at a young age, I think my parents were excited because I found something that made me feel happy and gave me confidence and that I felt I was good at that I didn’t have previously. The cliché thing is that I’ve always wanted to be an actor. The reasons have just changed over the years. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be like Jean-Claude Van Damme in Street Fighter (1994). When I got a bit older, in those awkward teen years, it gave me confidence. Years later again, it’s more of a deeper love for the craft and storytelling.įIRST AUDITION: My first audition was for a TV show in Australia. I was still at drama school I was in my final year. They started letting us do auditions and I really buggered it up. I walked out of there and I was like, “I will never, ever do that again.” Of course subsequently I have, many times. I have ruined many auditions by not being prepared enough. But within a week, I had an audition for Wasted on the Young (2010). ![]() I’m pretty sure it was the first film I ever auditioned for, and that was the first gig I got after drama school. It went to TIFF four years ago.įAMILY: My parents have always been amazingly supportive: financially, emotionally, spiritually. I owe them absolutely everything, to be honest. Some films probably aren’t their cup of tea. Some movies they probably wouldn’t watch if I wasn’t in them because they might be too intense. Cut Snake is pretty intense-not really a movie that you watch on a Friday night with pizza and beer. But I think probably their range in the films they watch has been broadened a bit because I’m in all these really intense, graphic films. ĬOMMITTING TO CUT SNAKE: Reading the script for the first time, I was hooked in from the beginning. ![]() But there’s a massive twist halfway through the film that really knocked the wind out of me. That what made me go, “I must play this role.” The role also terrified me a little bit. I actually auditioned for it back in 2011.
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