Rose Byrne

I think I have a recollection of that now that I feel like that.

I was 18 and I got cast in a film called Two Hands.

opposite heath and heath was the lead he with the same age were just kids in the film um it did very well in australia it was brian brown myself and a cast of wonderful australian actors and um heath and i traveled to sundance together and the film didn't ultimately really translate here as as well as we'd hoped but um it's become like a beloved classic in australia and yeah he was integral in

Getting me agents and getting me to auditions.

And he would always have a house full of Australian actors and friends.

He was a very generous guy.

Also shy, actually.

There was a kind of reserve about him, even though he was surrounded by people often.

But he was really instrumental in those early years and very, as I say, a hugely generous spirit.

But, yeah, we were just kids.

He was 18.

He had done a show called Roar.

It was interesting.

He always had such great creative talent.

instincts and he was being offered so many kind of corny tv shows he was a heartthrob you know after it when he kind of hit and he really had a specific goal of what he wanted to do and whose careers he loved and i admired that he had confidence inside i still think that his joker i mean that performance had nothing to do with any performance he had done before

Yeah, he had a creativity about him and a goofiness.

And that role in particular was so unexpected, right?

The performance he gives, it's so, talk about a pivot.

It was really, and it, you know, stands the test of time, obviously.

It's like, I remember going to see it in the cinema and the gentleman next to me had obviously seen it several times.