{"id":824,"date":"2009-12-03T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T01:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandralee.com.au\/?p=824"},"modified":"2009-12-03T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T01:27:12","slug":"joel-edgerton-is-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/2009\/12\/joel-edgerton-is-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Edgerton is on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Joel<\/a>

Joel Edgerton and Cate Blanchett in the New York production of A Streetcar Named Desire (picture Sara Krulwich, The New York Times)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sydney actor Joel Edgerton<\/strong> is on fire – and so is Cate Blanchett, but we already knew that.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em><\/strong> theatre critic Ben Brantley<\/strong> has just anointed him for his \u201cexcellent\u201d performance alongside massively praised\u00a0Cate Blanchett<\/strong> in the Tennessee Williams<\/strong> epic, A <\/em><\/strong>Streetcar Named Desire<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

(The play was universally applauded by critics, including John McCallum in\u00a0The Australian<\/a>,\u00a0when it premiered at The Sydney Theatre Company<\/a> <\/strong>in September).<\/p>\n

And his next film, Animal Kingdom<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>is the only Australian movie chosen to screen at the prestigious 2010 Sundance Film Festival<\/a><\/strong> where it will make its world premiere.<\/p>\n

Only 14 films were selected for the \u201cworld cinema narrative competition\u201d from a staggering 1022 entries.<\/p>\n

Not bad going, and great kudos for the Australian film industry.<\/p>\n

Animal Kingdom<\/em> was written and directed by David Michod<\/strong> and filmed on location in Melbourne during a tight seven-week shoot earlier this year. It stars a string of exceptional Australian actors including Melbourne-based Guy Pearce<\/strong>, Ben Mendelsohn<\/strong> and the indefatigable Jacki Weaver<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to a report<\/a> by InsideFilm.com.au earlier this year, Animal Kingdom<\/em> is a \u201ctaut thriller set amid the explosive world of a family addicted to crime, as experienced through the eyes of a na\u00efve 17-year-old youth who enters their lair. It\u2019s the Wild West where criminals and police wage their war on the city\u2019s streets, while the innocent suffer the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Animal<\/a>

Animal Kingdom film poster<\/p><\/div>\n

With Edgerton and Pearce (he plays a cop) in the same film, it will be cheekbones at 10-paces.<\/p>\n

Edgerton\u2019s career has been on the rise in recent years (even Blanchett forgave him for throwing a prop-telephone at her during a Streetcar<\/em> performance at the STC recently) and Brantley\u2019s glowing review of his Stanley Kowalksi<\/strong> (originally shaped by the great \u2013 in every sense \u2013 and late Marlon Brando<\/strong>) has got to be among the highlights.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Edgerton brings out the childlike side of Stanley, both its simple joyousness and thoughtlessness, and it has rarely been clearer that Stella\u2019s husband has the winning strength of youth,\u201d Brantley wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sydney actor Joel Edgerton is on fire – and so is Cate Blanchett, but we already knew that. The New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley has just anointed him for his \u201cexcellent\u201d performance alongside massively praised\u00a0Cate Blanchett in the Tennessee Williams epic, A Streetcar Named Desire. (The play was universally applauded by critics, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,11,18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebrity","category-crime","category-film","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}