Australia
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Bruce Spence, Jack Thompson
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Release Date: November 26th, 2008
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox
Synopsis: Luhrmann’s film is set in northern Australia prior to World War II and centers on an English aristocrat who inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.
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Australia has been posted in the following categories - Adventure, Baz Luhrmann, Bruce Spence, Bryan Brown, David Wenham, Drama, Hugh Jackman, Jack Thompson, Nicole Kidman, November 2008, War, Western.
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October 7th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Hugh Jackman got into character to play a stockman in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia by learning to ride a horse like a pro, working out daily and eating every three hours.
The Aussie actor was so committed to bulk up his skinny frame for the film, he’d get up in the middle of the night to just eat egg whites.
Jackman admits he adopted the diet of a Australian bodybuilding champ, who “wakes at four in the morning, has egg whites on dry toast, then goes back to bed so he gets some food in him before he trains at 6am.”
The regular snacking took time to adjust to, but he tells Men’s Journal magazine he was “pretty strict” on his eating habits, adding, “It’s pretty fine eating. I got used to it - and my energy level went through the roof.”
Australia co-star Nicole Kidman was more than impressed with the actor’s commitment, especially when it came to riding horses.
She explains, “Hugh’s amazing because he has such athleticism. He could barely ride at the beginning of the film, but by the end he was a great horseman. He will make Aussie stockmen proud.”
October 8th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Director Baz Luhrmann has tipped Nicole Kidman’s 12-year-old Australia co-star to become the country’s next big thing.
Aboriginal boy Brandon Walters was hand-picked by Luhrmann to appear in his forthcoming film, which also stars Hugh Jackman - and the director is convinced the youngster is going to achieve major success in the movie industry.
He says, “Our next leading man is about four foot high, (with) long, sort of gold hair, and is an Aboriginal boy.”
October 15th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Aussie moviemaker Baz Luhrmann still can’t believe he completed work on outback epic Australia - because the set was struck by a string of problems.
The Moulin Rouge! director had to cope with cast and crew illnesses, food poisoning and a host of other setbacks to complete the film, which stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
Luhrmann tells Outside magazine, “(It was) punishing. There was an equine flu outbreak. It rained for the first time in 100 years as we were about to shoot the desert scene. There was nothing that could have happened that didn’t.”
But the director was encouraged through all the problems by his cast, who dealt with the hardships like professionals.
He explains. “Nicole is at her best in the unusual and difficult. I think it’s one of her great characteristics. And no one camped out in the bush with me except for Hugh.”
October 20th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman has purchased a cattle ranch in her native Australia after she learned how to be a cowgirl while shooting her new movie.
The Oscar-winner stars alongside Hugh Jackman in new film Australia, and had to herd cows for her role in the film.
And Kidman insists that despite her initial reservations about the gruelling stunts, she now loves the lifestyle so much she has bought her own ranch.
She says, “I was terrified beforehand. I even had to learn how to cut cattle. But once you master it it’s so much fun. Now I can crack a whip, herd cattle, cut a cattle out of the herd, which is amazing. I can’t believe I can do it.
“I’ve bought a company out in the country outside of Sydney. We don’t have to muster them though, because there’s only 40. they are basically on the property to keep the grass short.”
October 25th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Could you please tell me where the beach is in the movie? I heard SW Australia, somewhere near Margaret River. Thanks. Helen highflt@hotmail.com re: Australia