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Hugo Weaving: ‘This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done’
Thirty years after Priscilla, Queen of the Desert thrust him on to the international stage, the actor discusses tiring of Hollywood villains and his most challenging role yetGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailHugo Weaving is striding down Wharf 4 in Sydney’s Walsh Bay where the wind is kicking up and dark rain clouds are building. Tall and lanky, he is dressed in his signature black rehearsal jeans and T-shirt, black work boots on his feet, reading glasses hooked on his shirt neck.He approaches with open arms, as if he might hug, but settles for a warm handshake before a quick photoshoot. Passersby stop for a look. He is recognised, perhaps from his roles in The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix, but today at least, no one approaches him for a selfie.As we set out for a lunchtime stroll up and down the Walsh Bay wharves, I ask what he has been up to this morning. He has, he says, spent hours in the bath. “Laughing and coughing in the bath.” Continue reading...
Thirty years after Priscilla, Queen of the Desert thrust him on to the international stage, the actor discusses tiring of Hollywood villains and his most challenging role yet
Hugo Weaving is striding down Wharf 4 in Sydney’s Walsh Bay where the wind is kicking up and dark rain clouds are building. Tall and lanky, he is dressed in his signature black rehearsal jeans and T-shirt, black work boots on his feet, reading glasses hooked on his shirt neck.
He approaches with open arms, as if he might hug, but settles for a warm handshake before a quick photoshoot. Passersby stop for a look. He is recognised, perhaps from his roles in The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix, but today at least, no one approaches him for a selfie.
As we set out for a lunchtime stroll up and down the Walsh Bay wharves, I ask what he has been up to this morning. He has, he says, spent hours in the bath. “Laughing and coughing in the bath.” Continue reading...
