A set visit to the epic ‘Australia’ directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 5, 2007 in Directors, Filmmaking
In a darkened warehouse in a Queensland coastal town, the director Baz Luhrmann issues an unlikely instruction.
“Can we have a little more sweat for Jack, please?”
Given the baking heat, Jack Thompson, playing a sozzled accountant named Kipling Flynn in the epic romance Australia, must be sweating heavily already in an improvised studio in Bowen. But details matter on a $US100-million ($120-million) film, so more sweat it is.
Thompson, in white breeches and waistcoat, is playing a scene opposite Nicole Kidman, buttoned up in white as the English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley, who comes to Australia after inheriting a vast cattle station.
(Source: The Sydney Morning Herald)
