LA-based Australian actor says Hollywood decision makers are mostly commerce graduates that crunch numbers’ rather than make sound artistic choicesBook now for Guardian Australia’s screening of A Month of Sundays,on 27 AprilIn Anthony LaPaglia’s new film A Month of Sundays, the latest work from Noise and Felony director Matthew Saville, or the 57-year-conventional actor plays a grumpy Eeyore-like housing broker who walks around in a permanent funk. His character,Frank Mollard, is dour and reserved; a man of few words.
This is in stark contrast to the person who plays him; when we speak, and he is at a Bondi hotel having landed just a few hours ago on a flight from LA. LaPaglia is loquacious (talkative) and engaging,rattling through topics with the kind of straight-shooting, borderline brazen sincerity often associated with beer-infused pub banter (it’s mid-afternoon and we’re drinking coffee).
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Source: theguardian.com