For a man best known as Hollywood’s spikiest villain, Ben Mendelsohn sure is happy to see us. “NME – as in New Musical Express?” he asks, just after we’re introduced on a phone call from London to his base in Los Angeles. “Fuck me – had I known that my life would bear such fruit… Fucking hell.”The 51-year-old Melbourne-born actor quickly tells us his memories of buying the magazine during the mid-’70s – and about the artists that he discovered in its inky pages, like ska legend Prince Buster. “Now, we’re talking the days of NME old. [Buster] really was the king of ska,” he says. “Jamaica is, pound for pound, the heavyweight champion of the world when it comes to music.”“Jamaica is, pound for pound, the heavyweight champion of the world when.
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