Baz Luhrmann And Chris Hemsworth Talk Tom Cruise “Saving Cinema,” How George Miller Inspired Their Careers & Hemsworth’s Desire To Direct
deadline.comThe Aussies took over Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival this evening as Elvis filmmaker Baz Luhrmann sat down for a career Q&A with actor Chris Hemsworth. “We’re a couple of Aussies telling Aussie stories,” Luhrmann described their chat, which was shaped around their experiences working in their home country and branching out internationally as artists.
Hemsworth told the packed crowd here in Jeddah that he’d arrived in the city from Brazil Comic Con, where he’d debuted the first trailer for Furiosa, the latest edition of the Mad Max series from George Miller — another Aussie that the pair said inspired them both to try their hand at craft. “45 years ago, I saw George Miller make this film as a kid in Australia and it’s what Akira Kurosawa would have referred to as an immaculate reality.
That inspired me and all of us as Australians that we can have our way of telling stories,” Luhrmann said of Miller’s first Mad Max film.
Hemsworth added: “I remember watching Mad Max and have vivid memories of its messaging and the type of storytelling. It was a sort of iconic Australian vision, but post-apocalyptic and had this universal appeal.
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