, and upending last year’s commercial crime thrillerStephen Curry, front, as Dale Kerrigan in The Castle.Viewed over 25 years, however, and it’s the embodiment of a working actor’s dream – dramas and comedies, star turns and supporting parts, film and television, and even a memorable series of AFL-themed commercials for Toyota. Watch enough of these performances and you’ll appreciate how, on screen, Curry excels at revealing barely buried regret or giving loopy comic delusion genuine momentum.
Whatever the role, Curry’s interpretation presents someone who you can imagine – for better or worse – walking among us. At a post-screening Q&A of the harrowing 2016 drama, an audience member asked writer/director Ben Young why he cast Curry as John White, a sociopath manipulating his partner into abducting and murdering women in the Perth suburbs. Young replied that he needed an actor a 17-year-old would plausibly get into a car with. That was Curry.
“If J.J. had miscast that role it would be the death of the film, but Noni is absolutely astonishing,” Curry says. “Tour-de-force is a word people mostly use to sound intelligent, but she really is an unstoppable force. She carries the film so beautifully, so heartbreakingly, and so hilariously. I’ve seen it three times now, and she’s something to behold.”
Curry’s performance shapes itself to Hazlehurst’s – providing a reflection or a target as required for the character of the formidable matriarch. Curry does so unobtrusively, even as he continues to publicly insist that he simply has “four serious faces” that he cycles through because his acting process is essentially just being really good at pretending.
“I’ve said that there are actors and there are pretenders, and that actors do vocal exercises. I’m an untrained actor and what I mean by that is that I’m instinctive – I don’t need the Stanislavski Method to give me a framework to bring a character forward,” Curry says. “I like to be instinctive, and as such I make a lot more mistakes than people who’ve studied and have a technique.
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