Zen McGrath in 'The Son'.

‘It felt very surreal’: Zen McGrath on taking the title role in Florian Zeller’s ‘The Son’

In Florian Zeller’s The Son, Zen McGrath plays the offspring of Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern and the grandson of Anthony Hopkins.

It’s a significant step up for the 20-year-old Melbourne actor, with the follow-up to Zeller’s Oscar-winning The Father his first feature since 2016’s Red Dog: True Blue.

He told IF being the youngest member of a film family that has more than 300 screen credits between them was not lost on him.

“It felt very surreal,” he...