He's one of Australia's most successful – and intimidating – actors, but Hugo Weaving says he's just a dag who likes to watch MasterChef
"I'm just a dag," says Hugo Weaving, leaning forward and smiling. "I get that people see famous people as someone other than a dag. But actually everyone's just a dag. For god's sake, we are."
, a Gothic two-hander with Wayne Blair based on a real-life mystery and one that marks Sydney Theatre Company's return to the stage after a six-month shutdown due to COVID-19.He jokes that he doesn't even need to be here: the play, written by Angus Cerini and directed by Jessica Arthur, is sold out due to this new age of socially distanced theatre. But being picked over by journalists is something he has become used to.
He reckons he's not very good at pop culture – when asked what else he likes to watch on TV, he responds with a slightly puzzled, "I used to watchon the ABC" – and has no desire to up his social media game like his good friend Sam Neill.bathtub cameo in one of Neill's Cinema Quarantine micro films "But it wasn't when I said yes to it," he says of his role as Hitler's villainous protege Red Skull in 2008'sIn seemingly true Weaving style, he didn't want to do it, much like his role as Agent Smith in, but was convinced after he saw the drawings of his character Red Skull, who looks like, well, a red skull.
"I'd said yes to them, to going back and doing it, but it didn't work out," says. "I'd love to be in Berlin, it'd be really nice to spend time with Keanu and Carrie-Anne [Moss] again and all of that crew. But it was fine, it wasn't like I was, 'I must go back and do.' We'd already done three of them. So I had some reservations about doing another one but not enough to make me say I don't want to do another one.
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