It’s not all that always you get the possibility to place your inquiries to an honest-to-goodness greatest actor Oscar winner, however that’s what we’ve received coming down the pipe. Geoffrey Rush received the massive one again in 1997 for his position as pianist David Helfgott in Shine, and he’s received a ton of others, together with Baftas, Golden Globes, an Emmy, a Tony and 4 Display screen Actors Guild awards. In truth it’s simpler to ask what award hasn’t he received?
Now, Australia has produced greater than its justifiable share of premium performing expertise, from Cate Blanchett and Hugh Jackman to Nicole Kidman and Man Pearce, however Rush is unquestionably up there with the perfect of them. Apart from Shine, he’s excelled in The King’s Speech (one other Oscar nod), Quills (because the Marquis de Sade), Pirates of the Caribbean (as undead buccaneer Hector Barbossa), literary drama The Eye of the Storm, and within the title position of The Life and Dying of Peter Sellers.
He’s additionally received a great line in heavyweight political and authority figures, together with spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham in Blanchett’s Elizabeth movies, Leon Trotsky in Salma Hayek’s Frida, Albert Einstein in an episode of the TV collection Genius, and (what’s this?) the god Ra in trash fantasy epic Gods of Egypt. And he performs a former choose residing in a care house in his spooky-looking new movie, The Rule of Jenny Pen.
Off display, Rush has finished a ton of theatre – again within the early days, clearly, but additionally in eyecatching productions in a while, together with Exit the King, Diary of a Madman, and King Lear. He even shared a flat with Mel Gibson once they have been each struggling younger actors within the late Seventies. So there’s little doubt tons to get into – go away your questions within the feedback under, and we’ll print his replies in Movie & Music.
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