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“#The Dry and Playing Subtle Characters \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Eric Bana<\/strong>\u2018s performance in\u00a0The Dry<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is one of those reminders that less is more. Sometimes more is more, yes, but in the case of the hit Australian crime mystery, silence speaks loudly. Bana stars as Aaron, a man investigating a murder-suicide involving his old friend back home, where he is not welcomed with open arms. Similar to the cast of colorful supporting characters in director Robert Connolly<\/strong>\u2018s depiction of rural Australia, as an audience, you\u2019re suspicious of Aaron because Bana gives everyone so little.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mystery Bana sells in the patient but a propulsive thriller, based on Jane Harper<\/strong>\u2018s novel. Harper\u2019s hit book hooked the actor, who\u2019s returned to Australian cinema with a bang. \u201cIt was a book that I loved and that our director Rob Connolly loved,\u201d he told us, \u201cand we tried to honor the book and try to elevate it as much as we could from a cinematic perspective and felt like it had the potential to really pack a punch.\u201d<\/p>\n

As usual in The Dry<\/em>,\u00a0Bana doesn\u2019t use bells and whistles as a performer. When we think of his most well-regarded roles, he never goes for the wild transformations always bound to generate headlines. Instead, Bana\u2019s work is more natural and, to the actor, more relatable as a result. During our interview with Bana, he told us why he\u2019s drawn to subtle characters, as well as his fondness for his breakout film,\u00a0Chopper<\/em>.
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\nCharacters either have an inherent trust or distrust of Aaron, and for the first hour, you don\u2019t quite know how to feel about him, either. What choices did you want to make to create that uncertainty?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s an inherent level of uncomfortableness for Aaron because he\u2019s returning to a town that he left 20, 25 years ago under the worst circumstances to come back to for the funeral of his best friend, who\u2019s been involved in potentially a murder-suicide. And when I read the book, I had this feeling of like, it\u2019s almost like the school reunion that you really don\u2019t want to return to, that sense of dread and emotional baggage that comes from it. So, the raw ingredients have so much angst and emotional edge to them for Aaron and for the audience because everyone can relate to it. Then we discovered that there is a crime to be solved, both in the past and in the present, and no one is off the hook, including my character, Aaron. And so the lens shifts, we experience the story through his eyes, but everyone has a level of suspicion cast upon them. So, that really helped.<\/p>\n

His sense of stillness creates that feeling as well. Was that in the book?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s there in the book and I think because the landscape is such a big character in the film, it gives you the ability to anchor the story in a very real way because you want the audience to feel like they\u2019re in this town, this drought-stricken town. And I think it helps the emotional experience of the audience that we have those moments of quietness and it draws you in and makes you feel you\u2019re a part of that landscape, but it was a very deliberate thing. Rob, the director, and I worked really hard on Aaron from an emotional perspective. And in terms of the twists and turns in the storyline and the edit, where does it shift and who are we suspecting it at what point is most definitely deliberate.
\nSpeaking of the landscape, Victoria, are there nuances in the movie about that community that maybe I wouldn\u2019t know, but to you, those little things resonate?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think they\u2019re intrinsically international. When I read the book, I felt emotionally connected to it because it\u2019s the landscape of my home state, Victoria. I live here in Melbourne, but that countryside is only three, four, five hours away so, that\u2019s where we shot. It\u2019s a rural part of Australia that I really identify with. In fact, this depiction of a regional country Australian town is probably the most deliberately accurate depiction of Australia that we\u2019ve seen on screen for a long time.<\/p>\n

Quite often, our films do pick the outback and there\u2019s a lot of caricatures. This is the opposite. This is the Australia that most of us relate to, these little towns that we spend time in or that we travel<\/a> through in order to get somewhere. Australians recognize this version of Australia very, very well, so the pressure was on us to make sure that the picture was highly accurate with the casting and with the way that we shot it. But I can\u2019t wait to hear Americans\u2019 reaction because you can\u2019t travel right now, but you couldn\u2019t feel more like you\u2019re in Australia than when you watch this film.<\/p>\n

We shot at the beginning of 2019, which was the height of the drought. And I think for any person that\u2019s part of a rural landscape where you\u2019re weather affected, you can relate to it. We were just so lucky that Jane Harper\u2019s novel was set in this particular landscape because of the toughness that comes from this drought and that landscape definitely adds to the tension in the film.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a very haunting use of \u201cUnder The Milky Way\u201d by The Church that creates tension, as well. In the movie, it\u2019s played as one of those songs that bring you back to your youth. Is that one of those songs for you? What other Australian bands do that for you?<\/strong>
\nYeah, absolutely. And for me, most of those musical references are intrinsically Australian because I grew up with those local bands and so forth. But yeah, that version of \u201cUnder The Milky Way\u201d by The Church is sung beautifully by young BeBe Bettencourt<\/strong>. It was something that we replied with on the set. And initially, there was actually a different song that she sung and we had to do another version and she\u2019s just got a great, beautiful voice and it was a great song choice. We could have had a more recognizable song, but in this case, it\u2019s something very Australian and it\u2019s great. And as you say, there\u2019s a haunting quality to both the song and her version of it. But yeah, Australian Crawl, Midnight Oil, and all Australian bands are the ones that take me right back to that period of my life.<\/p>\n

Aaron is one of those challenging roles that don\u2019t get talked about enough. There\u2019s no major transformation. No prosthetics. Yet, you still disapp<\/a>ear. Is a role or\u00a0disappearing, in general<\/a>, trickier when there is no drastic transformation involved?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yep. You\u2019re right. They\u2019re the sort of characters that tend not to get the same level of focus in some ways because it\u2019s less flashy. They usually only make a deal about big flashy roles, whereas I\u2019m really attracted to those subtle characters. I love the internal work that goes into them. And you need to work with filmmakers who are confident in that style of character because you need to sit with them. You need to sit with those performances. But I do feel like they\u2019re very immersive as well because we can relate to them and it\u2019s quieter and that definitely Aaron\u2019s character, and I love doing them.<\/p>\n

Since this is your first Australian movie in a while, I couldn\u2019t help but think of Chopper<\/em>, in which you did get to transform and go big. Is that a role you have a lot of nostalgia for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I guess I had my hands full at the time. It was very enjoyable. We shot the film in two halves. The first half was quite stressful, the second half was a lot of fun. And I do have a lot of affection for the film and the people I worked with, with honor. It wasn\u2019t a huge hit at the time and it\u2019s just been reflected upon. It took a long time to find an audience along the way, particularly overseas, so I\u2019m thrilled with the reaction it still gets this many years on. It felt special at the time. Those characters are super rare. You\u2019re lucky to come across one in your career if you\u2019re lucky. To get one so early, I felt very, very fortunate.<\/p>\n

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The Dry\u00a0<\/em>is now in theaters.
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