An offhand comment from Al Pacino on the set of 'Righteous Kill' went on to change Les Chantery's life: "Sometimes it's not the best actor who gets the role, but it's the actor who gives the best audition."
Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Heather Mitchell, Thomas Weatherall, Show Kasamatsu, Simon Baker and Charles An will join Jacob Elordi in Curio Pictures' 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North', now in production for Prime Video.
While 'Barbie' may have been snubbed by BAFTA voters for Best Film, Margot Robbie will still carry Australian hopes at the UK awards, alongside Jacob Elordi and Tony McNamara.
Australia's Oscar hopes were dealt a blow at this year's BAFTA Awards as 'Poor Things' scribe Tony McNamara and 'Barbie' star and producer Margot Robbie lost out.
The AACTA Audience Award for Best Film will this year be a duke between local titles and Hollywood blockbusters that recently called Australia home: 'Thirteen Lives', 'Thor: Love and Thunder', 'Ticket to Paradise', 'Elvis', 'The Drover's Wife the Legend of Molly Johnson' and 'Wog Boys Forever'.
'Euphoria' star Jacob Elordi will return to Australia to lead the cast of 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North', director Justin Kurzel and writer Shaun Grant's series adaptation of Richard Flanagan's 2014 Man Booker Prize winning novel.
Australians Jacob Elordi and Sophie Wilde have both been nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Margot Robbie is well positioned to add an AACTA Audience Choice Award to her Trailblazer prize at this Saturday's ceremony, getting a nod for Favourite Actress, while two of the films she produced — 'Barbie' and 'Saltburn' — are up for Favourite Film.