Simon Baker is making his grand return to TV, nine years after hit sequence The Mentalist wrapped up on-air.
The Aussie actor is starring in the brand new Australian drama sequence Boy Swallows Universe in an emotionally-charged position as a functioning alcoholic father-of-two.
However, the 52-year-old tells 9honey Celebrity that a part of the attraction to the Brisbane-set challenge was that he wasn’t the primary character this time round.
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“[A] good positive for me was that the burden of the show is not on my shoulders, it’s nice to be part of an ensemble,” Baker says.
“Felix Cameron and Lee, who play Eli and Gus, they had the burden of responsibility with this but then all of the the other characters, they all have great stories within the bigger piece and so it was an interesting role.
“There’s not many instances as an actor that you get alternatives to get more into character, like do more character stuff, and I’ve been looking for that a bit more more just lately in my profession.”
Alongside Baker, the difference of the best-selling ebook of the identical title by Australian writer Trent Dalton additionally boasts the likes of Bryan Brown, Travis Fimmel, Phoebe Tonkin and Anthony LaPaglia.
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Plus, Aussie actor and director Joel Edgerton is likely one of the Executive Producers of the seven-part restricted sequence.
It’s one thing Baker, who can be a director, needs he’d jumped on earlier.
“The ebook had a feeling to it after which the ebook was vastly profitable,” Baker tells 9Honey Celebrity.
“I keep in mind my mum studying it and telling me about it and he or she was like, ‘I feel you must learn this, you’d love this’ and my agent referred to as me early on when the ebook first got here out, and I feel she was even saying to me, ‘you must strive to get the rights to this’ however different folks already had them, I missed that boat, however it was good to be concerned anyway.”
After making a begin in appearing on exhibits like A Country Practice, E Street and Home & Away, Baker’s massive breakthrough in Hollywood got here from his position as Patrick Jane on The Mentalist.
In phrases of movies, arguably his largest position up to now has been in the cult-classic rom-com The Devil Wears Prada however Baker tells 9Honey Celebrity he is “by no means seen the movie” so unlike his former co-stars Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway did recently, he couldn’t say what his character – journalist Christian Thompson – would be up to these days.
“I am unable to even keep in mind what the character [does at the end of the film] I do not know – perhaps he’d be working at Nine.com,” Baker tells 9Honey Celebrity with a chortle.
Boy Swallows Universe could have it is pink carpet premiere in Brisbane earlier than all episodes stream on Netflix from January 11.
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