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I'm not someone who likes to live in the gym.
Jai Courtney / Actor
Gym
Likes
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My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.
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Dad
Teacher
Electrician
Mum
School
School Teacher
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I like to eat. So it's often a battle to try and control that.
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Battle
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I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.
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Facts
Film
Realistic
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I don't want to name drop, but Russell Crowe is the most famous person in my phone.
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Drop
Famous Person
Russell
Russell Crowe
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If you get just a bit of exercise in before every meal, you'll really see a difference.
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Meal
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Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.
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Accent
American Accent
Auditioning
Cent
Per
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A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.
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Healthy
Sadness
Thinking
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I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.
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Attention
Attention Span
Exercise
Lengthy
Routine
Span
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I got into the guitar at a young age, and it's a big part of what I like to do during my down time.
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Young Age
Big Part
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I wish I did something like yoga or Pilates. All the people I know who do it tell me it's incredible.
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Pilates
Me People Wish
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I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.
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Passion
Playing Dress Up
School
Dress-Up
Loved Playing
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I had this alter ego where I would go to the theater with mom. I wasn't embarrassed by it; it was separate for me.
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Mom
Ego
Embarrassed
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The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.
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Busted
Last Time
Rugby
Incentive
Nose
Park
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I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
Jai Courtney / Actor
Sports
Athletics
Cricket
Guy
Involved
Rugby
Sport
Outdoors
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I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.
Jai Courtney / Actor
Immigration
Months
Three
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I went to the Avengers: Age of Ultron and I'm like, "These guys are Olympians now." There's no place for a Walter Matthau in a movie anymore.
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Age
Guy
Olympian
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I don't handle creepy crawlers well. I had a spider problem at a house in Australia, and one of my female friends had to come rescue me from it.
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Australia
Creepy
Handle
Rescue
Spider
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I do love doing action, but if I can balance the scale by doing other kinds of films that satisfy my creative ambitions, that feels really important.
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Ambition
Scale
Satisfy
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I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a reputation of being an action guy. That's something I probably try to avoid, but I seem to keep making action movies.
Jai Courtney / Actor
Reputation
Action Movies
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You get involved with a studio, and optional pictures and sequel options and that sort of thing are becoming part and parcel with the roles they're handing out.
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Optional
Parcel
Handing
Part And Parcel
Sequel
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I was a show-off as a kid and loved to dress up. I was constantly in costume, drawing mustaches on with eyeliner and letting my sister plait my hair and all that.
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Kids
Mustache
My Sister
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To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well.
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Ambition
Evolution
Thrill
Lead Role
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I would much rather have a couple of hundred grams of chicken in the afternoon than neck a shake. You're better off just keeping your diet relatively lean and eating simply.
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Diet
Afternoon
Better Off
Hundred
Neck
Chicken
Lean
Relatively
Shake
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Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.
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Depp
Johnny
Prevent
Trappings
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When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.
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Crazy
People
Surreal
Thinking
Bogged
Hundreds
Minute
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I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.
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Forever
Hate
Stars
Boxed
Shaping
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I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on.
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Avid
Billions
Children
Friday
Friday Night
Night
Pizza
Popcorn
Enthusiast
Die Hard
Franchise
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I'm more likely to give you a cuddle than a punch in the face. I have a soft side, especially with my girlfriend. I send her flowers and use my culinary skills to pull off romantic meals. I do great Thai dishes.
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Culinary
Dishes
Meals
Skills
Thai
Flowers
Pull
Send
Soft
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The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.
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Needs
News
Simple
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I kind of missed out on those years when a lot of my friends did big backpacking trips around Europe and that sort of thing. So to be able to travel and see parts of the world on the job is kind of a double whammy.
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Travel World See
Double
Missed
Trips
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I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.
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Imaginary
Backyard
Battles
Dressing
Enemies
Fort
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For 'The Terminator,' I was asked to drop a bit of weight to get less physically imposing because it wasn't about an athletic build; the build they were looking for was something more unassuming or boyish. And it was tough!
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Boyish
Imposing
Unassuming
Drop
Terminator
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It's funny: a lot of roles I do read for mention physical presence - like, 'built like a quarterback' - and for me, it's pretty boring because I don't want that to be the most important thing. I'm not trying to be Dwayne Johnson.
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Johnson
Quarterback
Important Thing
Mention
Most Important Thing
Presence
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With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it's a vigilante military, the state is in disarray, and there is no reference point for authenticity, so it's just weapons work and circumstantial fighting.
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Authenticity
Divergent
Emphasis
Fighting
Insurgent
Military
Uniformity
Vigilante
Weapons
Reference
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After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it's all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn't really get that.
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Crisis
Good Day
Identity
Represent
Good Business Myself
Die Hard
Business Good Myself
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I've been approached by a couple of people who've recognized me from 'Jack Reacher.' It's great... when the feedback's positive. I don't know if I look forward to the day when I can't go out and get a cup of coffee. I kinda hope that day never happens.
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Coffee
Feedback
Cup
Jack
Recognized
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Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.
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Cinema
Hub
Nationality
Pop Culture
Western
Western World
Best Men World
American Men
Obsess
Suggest
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Ideally, really ideally, you want to get to a place where you can have creative control over the material you do - choices, at least, anyway. And you want your choice of script and role. But do you really want your life to revolve around trying to maintain your privacy?
Jai Courtney / Actor
Privacy
Life Your Control
Anyway
Creative Control
Ideally
Maintain
Revolve
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Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times.
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Champagne
Shooting
Filming
Grueling
Tougher
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I did this film with Russell Crowe called 'The Water Diviner,' which took place just after WWI. It was fascinating because the weapons between WWI and WII were very different. I had to learn how to ride horses in a battle setting. It was important that we rode a certain way.
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Battle
Fascinating
Setting
Weapons
Certain Way
Horses
Ride
Ride Horses
Rode
Russell
Russell Crowe
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It's a funny thing because I don't want to wish away my privacy. Do I want 'Terminator Genisys' to explode? Absolutely. Do I want to take my career to the next level? Absolutely? You have to trade some things for that. It's all about how you conduct yourself and what you make of the experience.
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Next Level
Privacy
Conduct
Explode
Funny Thing
Some Things
Terminator
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If I had the chance to spend a day with Werner Herzog, I would want there to be a canoe involved. I want to be down in Patagonia or something, and kill some kind of wild beast and skin it and gut it and cook it. And then turn its fur into some kind of layer of warmth. And then trek through the hills.
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Chance
Kind
Skins
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There are roles out there I want to play that I don't know if I'll ever get the chance to. But I'm not going to waste time waiting for those phone calls, passing up the chance to do these sorts of things. I'm more likely to go see a smaller, darker indie film, like Felony for instance, than I am to see an Avengers or perhaps even a Terminator.
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Chance
Waiting
Wasting Time
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And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.
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Guy
School
Smoking
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Some people have this really clear memory of making that decision, and I don't. My earliest memories of being involved with drama or acting were in elementary school. My sister and I got dropped off at an after-school improvisation class, a time-killer for kids while parents were doing the groceries. I'm 6 years old, and I remember running amok and playing these games.
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Running
Drama
Memories
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I was always trying to perform, but never with some dream to be on the stage. The stage was wherever I was standing at the time. I was lucky that the department of education in Sydney had a program where you could try out for these ensembles - kind of like extra-curricular sports, but for little drama kids. I got into that system, and it took me right through high school.
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Dream
Sports
Drama
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I love that about filmmaking - seeing final product and getting to see everyone else that you don't necessarily engage with on set every day and getting them to showcase their talents. Whether it's effects, music, the edit, the rhythm of a film is driven by that, so it's cool to see it come together. It's great to be standing in front of something you're genuinely proud of.
Jai Courtney / Actor
Proud
Talent
Together
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