If you’re a fan of Bloodline or Ben Mendolsohn, he has given an interview to the Hollywood Reporter about his US success and mid-life career crisis:
You’ve played a lot of menacing characters. Were you always sought after for bad-guy roles?
Not always. Because of the early parts I played, people thought of me as lovesick, sensitive, wide-eyed; a sweet, puppyish type. Then, later, I was the funny dude, an Australian everyman. This latest incarnation, which started with Animal Kingdom, is now “the bad guy.” I’ve been around long enough to see the changes.
Before Animal Kingdom, were you worried about your career?
Very much. I had refashioned my expectations considerably. There was a period before Animal Kingdom when it occurred to me that I was going to have to come up with another way to make a living. It was finally time to get “sensible.” I used to tell myself, “You’ve had a great run, but it’s over. You can maybe do TV in Australia, but you can’t spend the rest of your adult life sitting around waiting for a job.”
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