![]() ![]() We’ve seen many versions of the kind of hyper-outback kind of caricature. ![]() It’s incredibly iconically Australian but it’s different from the vision of Australia that’s usually presented in cinema. ![]() Was it exciting to shine a light on a different part of Australia? The film was shot in the Wimmera Mallee region and unfolds in a rural town, but it’s very different from the outback that we typically see depicted in movies. Shall we do it together?’ So I basically cast myself in the film. And then some time later my dear friend, Robert Connolly, we share an office and he came in one day and said he was considering doing an adaptation of ‘The Dry.’ And I just jumped and said, ‘I just read the book and I love it. Like many of the projects I’m involved with, it started with my wife handing me a book over my pillow and saying, ‘You should read this.’ I read the book and loved it. Bana spoke with Variety about his passion for the project, his early days in comedy and why he’s done with the Hulk, multiverses be damned. “The Dry” is based on the best-selling novel by Jane Harper and is being released by IFC in theaters and on-demand on Friday. ![]()
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