HAPPY TO BE HOME

THE ACTOR OPENS UP TO WHO ABOUT FATHERHOOD, FAMILY AND TURNING 50

- Naomi Toy

There was months of training and team bonding on the set of Joel Edgerton’s new movie The Boys in the Boat so that the cast could unite and become one, just as the remarkable US rowing crew they were portraying did in real life at the 1936 Olympics. But playing the coach meant the Aussie actor could watch the impressive process of them morphing into a group from afar – a vantage point he’s very pleased to have these days.

“For me, I was a little bit on the outside of that,” he explains to WHO. “But [I was] sort of happy to not be the guy that felt that I had to go out drinking with them or hanging out with them all the time because I was the coach and the coach doesn’t get to do that. The coach goes home to his family – thank god.”

Getting home to his 2-year-old twins and partner of more than five years Christine Centenera was front of mind while shooting this film and will remain so from now on.