Kiwi actors' starring roles at Sundance
Taken from NZ Herald, by Helen Barlow.
When Sydney-based director Kieran Darcy-Smith auditioned 70 actors in Australia for a pivotal role in his film, Wish You Were Here - which opened the Sundance Film Festival last week - he couldn't go past New Zealander and former Outrageous Fortune star Antony Starr.
"Antony had the natural charisma, the effortless charm, the dark sex appeal we'd written into the script. He was Jeremy."
It's important that in the movie we are on Jeremy's side, and with his gleaming blue eyes and garrulous smile we certainly can see why the gorgeous, blonde Steph (Teresa Palmer) would be attracted to him.
Jeremy's a furniture importer who invites Steph's sister Alice (Felicity Price, co-writer of the screenplay with her husband, Darcy-Smith) and her husband Dave (Joel Edgerton) to join him at a resort in Cambodia where he does a lot of trade.
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