Clearly it’s more than chance. In 2010, he appeared in Animal Kingdom, starring in the film as Andrew "Pope" Cody, a criminal on the run from the law living in the notorious Melbourne Underworld. 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There seem to be three phases of my working life so far. You also play a villain in Slow West, which I saw at Sundance and think is great. HE LEFT school while still in his mid-teens to devote himself to acting, making ends meet by working as a busboy in a Melbourne nightclub. His streak of prestige work continues with Mississippi Grind, in theaters this month, an Altman-esque road movie directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck in which he stars opposite Ryan Reynolds, and—in a coup for a Star Wars fan who was eight when the original film came out—in next year’s Rogue One, the first in Disney’s new line of spin-off Star Wars movies that will exist apart from the main Lucasfilm franchise. [6], After several early television roles, including The Henderson Kids alongside Kylie Minogue, he attracted notice in his breakout film, The Year My Voice Broke (1987), and won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor. But it came out really well. He was also named by GQ Australia as Actor of the Year for 2010.[11]. All rights reserved. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Saeed Adyani/Netflix Mendelsohn has been on the fringes of some notable films in the past five … In September 2016, Netflix announced that the show had been cancelled, and that it would end after its third season in 2017. Confirmed: Stephen King’s The Outsider Wasn’t a Limited Series, What’s New on DVD in September: ‘First Cow,’ ‘Blumhouse of Horrors,’ ‘Roman Holiday’ and More, IMDb Picks: Our Favorite Sci-Fi Mystery Series, January Picks: The Movies and TV Shows You Can't Miss, Actors Not Cast as The Joker in Batman Movie, 2016 Independent Spirit Awards: Best Male Lead. 12 wins & 34 nominations. In 2012, he appeared in Florence + the Machine's music video for "Lover to Lover". They were very difficult days on a beach in the middle of the sun, but it’s also freezing in the water at that particular time. It’s on a mannequin at the moment. In 2005, he was preparing to play Mark Antony in the Sydney Theatre Company-produced Julius Caesar,[10] and he was in the Terrence Malick-directed film The New World. It also found convicts on his mother's side. Mendelsohn’s deceased alter ego will, however, maintain a presence in the series’ 10-episode farewell. HE WAS a sort of Australian analogue to Anthony Michael Hall and Matthew Broderick in the late 1980s and early 90s, among his juvenile hits a movie called The Big Steal, in which he tried to impress a pretty girl by commandeering a Jaguar XJ6. After several early television roles, including The Henderson Kids alongside Kylie Minogue, he attracted notice in his breakout film, The Year My Voice Broke (1987), and won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor. When I saw the death (scene), I was quite taken aback by how ugly it felt, and the underwater stuff, how horrible it feels to look at. But through the events of the season, there’s a reason why Danny comes back… We wanted to use him sparingly and, hopefully, to great effect.”, As it is, Kessler and his fellow EPs Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman had a lot to cram into 10 episodes. A family finds themselves forced to face their past secrets and scars when the black sheep returns home. HE IS the eldest of three brothers, with two further half-brothers from his father’s second marriage. Unfortunately, Danny’s return isn’t exactly welcome, and instead stirs up long-buried secrets and resentments. He has a way of visibly rendering the mood further down the track without you being aware that it’s going on. We never did a scene together where we weren’t trying stuff out on each other. Mendelsohn starred in the Netflix original series Bloodline (2015–2017), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2016. Your performance is one of the best in Season 2. Well, he’d been backed by [Oscar-nominated actor Michael] Fassbender, which was a very significant thing in and of itself. Ad Choices, Ben Mendelsohn breaks down his career and makes a compelling case for why. I don’t know. Then they thought of me as what in Australia is know as a larrikin, which is kind of a dude, y’know? We got there on the morning of the first day and we ran it a few times and tried to figure out where and how it would all take place, and then we shot. HE SMOKES, in movies and in real life, like the Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood, cigarette dangling from a corner of his mouth. It’s unthinkable not to know how to drive a manual.”. 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While he learned much about his Jewish ancestry on his father’s side, the show was unable to establish a connection to the composer Felix Mendelssohn, or—his big hope—to the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. HE PRONOUNCED the name of the vehicle “Jehg-yoo-wah.”. Was there any trepidation about that, or did that make it more exciting? In that regard this is no different. “Paid in Full is their album that history has held on to,” he says, “but Follow the Leader is where Rakim starts to loosen up and really fly with his rhymes.”, HE DOES not view himself, despite his recent run of villain roles, as a combustible, combative fellow. Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Carole Ann (Ferguson), a nurse, and Frederick Arthur Oscar Mendelsohn, a medical researcher. Aside from Mendelsohn, the show boasted a stellar cast that includes Kyle Chandler, Norbert Leo Butz, Linda Cardellini, Sissy Spacek, John Leguizamo, and Beau Bridges. In 2017, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talos in Captain Marvel (2019) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). Since then he has had roles in films such as The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Starred Up (2013), Mississippi Grind (2015), Rogue One (2016), Darkest Hour (2017) and Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018). Despite his prominence in Hollywood as a character actor known for playing villains and criminals, Ben Mendelsohn has been a leading man in Australia since starting acting as a teenager. You get a sense. The briny stink of sleaze and fish guts upon him, Ben Mendelsohn entered streaming America’s consciousness this year in the debut season of Bloodline… © 2020 Condé Nast. It was an overwhelming couple of days.”. Mendelsohn starred in the second (2005) and third (2006) season of the TV series Love My Way and in 2008, he appeared in Baz Luhrmann's Australia. That’s a hard thing. I was pretty impressed by that. [7] His next major role was in The Big Steal (1990), and Spotswood (1992), co-starring with Anthony Hopkins;[8] this was followed in 1994 by Metal Skin[9] and in 1996 by Cosi and Idiot Box. Since his breakthrough performance in the 2010 crime creeper Animal Kingdom, Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn has gotten to play a whole host of sinister characters on film. The briny stink of sleaze and fish guts upon him, Ben Mendelsohn entered streaming America’s consciousness this year in the debut season of Bloodline, the Netflix series by Glenn Kessler, Todd A. Kessler, and Daniel Zelman, the team behind Damages. Allison Williams/Ben Mendelsohn/Jacob Banks/Will Dorsey Jr. Darkest Hour: Gary Oldman - Becoming Churchill, Debra Messing/Ben Mendelsohn/Old Dominion, The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story', Rogue One Cast Does Their Best Vader Impressions, The Weapons of Rogue One and Behind the Scenes of the Red Carpet Live Stream. The 46-year-old actor has been a known and respected quantity in his native Australia since the 1980s, when he co-starred in the coming-of-age movie The Year My Voice Broke and the enduring soap opera and national institution Neighbours (back when Kylie Minogue was on it!). And in between all that meta framing, there’s been a lot of different work. So this is very much the early days of this kind of novelistic long-form writing. Ben Mendelsohn discusses "Bloodline" season one, episode 12, working with Kyle Chandler and Carl Franklin. So that was the first surprise. 5:12 AM PDT HE DOES not have a default American accent but, rather, works with the dialect coach Thom Jones (who is also a professor of theater arts at Brown University) to tailor his speech patterns to his part. And in the third season, John is somewhat free of that. Everyone sort of accepts that premise. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Looking for some great streaming picks? In 2013, he guest starred in the TV series Girls as the father of Jessa, played by Jemima Kirke. All of those implications, I think. STARZ (621). The main component was lots of people. Getting ... Tue, Oct 13 He called the opportunity to act in a Star Wars film "a childhood dream come true". The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. [1][2] His father is a prominent medical researcher who previously headed the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne, where he maintains the status of Professor Emeritus. You’re the one that [series creator] Todd [A. Kessler] and I were talking about. Still, he says, “there are some people that have invited, if you like, that kind of exchange.”, Related: Bloodline’s Ben Mendelsohn Knows Why You Think of Him as a Villain. In 2014, Mendelsohn joined the cast of Bloodline, a Netflix original from the creators of Damages. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.

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