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Herald Sun
Nov. 28, 2005
Movie talent is its own award
Article courtesy of Rosemary.
By Mike Edmonds, Luke Dennehy & Chloe Adams
HOLLYWOOD star Michael Vartan may have snubbed the red-carpet media at the L'Oreal Paris AFI awards on Saturday night, insisting he wasn't there for publicity, but he couldn't have been more friendly to guests once inside.
The Alias actor, currently working on Rogue, Greg McLean's follow-up to Wolf Creek, was happy to pose with star-struck guests for photos and chatted happily to fans.
He told The Eye he had fallen in love with Australia.
"I have found my people,'' he said. "I love the attitude people have here, the sense of humour and the sarcasm."
He was matey with McLean and actor Sam Worthington and reunited with Aussie actor and Alias on-screen wife Melissa George.
We asked him how the event compared with the glitzy equivalents in Hollywood.
"It was really great and so less uptight here,'' he said.
Vartan and the cast and crew of Rogue expressed relief to be in cooler Victoria after just wrapping up at the Northern Territory set.
Vartan told us the temperature soared to 51C during filming at Katherine Gorge.
And Sam Worthington has a story to tell the grandkids one day. He told of his terrifying experience of swimming in a gorge known by locals to be home to a 3.5m saltwater croc.
He said he finally summoned the courage to get into the water after his boss, McLean, deciding to show the cast there was nothing to fear, stripped and took to the water.
But things got worse for Worthington after an hour in the gorge.
"After the seventh take, I was pretty bloody ready to get out," he said. "I was like, 'mate, this isn't fun any more.'"
But then the rescue boat broke down and he was stranded out there for another 10 minutes.
The cast have moved to Warburton, where filming begins today and is expected to last for six weeks.
© Herald Sun 2005
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