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Don’t Call Her Muriel – Toni Collette

Toni Collette reunites with Muriel’s Wedding director P J Hogan to make Mental.
From working-class Sydney to Sunset Boulevard is quite a journey, but Toni Collette has made it look easy. Amanda Hooton meets the instinctive actor and hands-on mother who has taken the “t” out of can’t.

You can tell Toni Collette is a celebrity because of her hair. It’s blonde (art, not nature) and thick, and it has an excellent kink in it, swinging over her forehead and brushing her cheekbone. Even when celebrities shave their heads – as Collette has done on more than one occasion – you just know the great hair is there, waiting to spring forth again upon an astonished world.

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Joel Edgerton: Enjoying life on ‘the list’

Joel Edgerton is rapt yet philosophical about his ‘overnight’ success.

In the past year, Joel Edgerton has gone from Animal Kingdom, via Warrior and The
Thing, to The Great Gatsby, becoming the next big thing in Hollywood on the way.

But far from being an overnight sensation as some in the industry might perceive
him to be, the actor, writer and director from Blacktown has worked diligently at his
craft for decades in Australia.

”By the time I got any kind of real momentum in the States, I’d done a tonne of work
here,” he says. ”Now I feel equipped and I feel ready and yet at the same time people
over there are saying this guy’s a relatively new person.”

Instead of focusing all his energy on Hollywood, the 37-year-old will continue
making films in Australia, too. In his latest, Wish You Were Here, Edgerton plays
Dave Flannery, a family man whose holiday with his wife (Felicity Price) goes
horribly wrong. Shifting back and forth in time, the film gradually reveals the details
of a fateful night in Cambodia alongside the consequences back home in Australia.
The story also reveals more about Edgerton than he is entirely comfortable with.

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