At the Movies
20th April, 2005
Wednesday 20 April 2005 on ABC (Australia)

David Stratton reviews In Good Company , White Noise and Three Dollars , while Margaret takes a look at The Extra and Birth . Margaret also provides a solo review of Dreams For Life . Margaret interviews the actors Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall and Danny Huston, as well as director...

David has a tattoo of a small blue turtle on his right bicep, a souvenir from when he filmed the movie Molokai. (edit) David is an ambassador for The Wayside Chapel, a community support and outreach center in Sydney. (edit) David was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Australian Catholic University in 2006. (edit) David conributed his voice and narrated and 4 part Four Corners documentary entitled Salinity: The Silent Flood (edit) Upon starting his acting career, David was rejected from NIDA, a high profile acting school. (edit)

David Wenham: I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realise I don't need to rush it or force it. I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body. I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab. At the moment Robert's working on another film that, all going well, I'll be involved in, in an acting capacity. (edit) David Wenham: (one LOTR) It was daunting when I first arrived because they had been shooting for over a year on principal photography, so I was sort of the new boy on the block, It was really like being the new boy at school and that was rather intimidating at first. It didn't take very long before the passion and the absolutely driving enthusiasm of the crew became infectious. I just got swept along with it (edit) David Wenham: (On LOTR) I'm in parts two and three. I was there for four or five months, which in terms of the whole scale of the thing was a relatively short time. But it was one of those occasions where you pinch yourself and think, "Did I really do that?" It's out of your wildest dreams.
(edit) David Wenham: (On why he loves acting) Quite simply, I think, the opportunity to play. That's it. It might seem extremely simple, but that's all it is. That's where I consider myself to be very lucky. Not all the froufrou that comes with it, although I love the travel and whatever. (edit) David Wenham :I've just come to Melbourne to do this play Sam Shepard's True West for no money, which is a strange career choice in a way. But the work's the thing, you know. I try to control my career by having my finger in projects that I facilitate myself, like The Boys.
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Return To Jupiter Ghrobak	Seachange Daniel "Diver Dan" Della Bosca (Season 1 - Episode 15)

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