Luke Cook, a Sydney native who moved to Los Angeles 18 years ago to pursue acting, has finally landed his first lead role in a television series. Surprisingly, the show, titled , is an American sitcom filmed entirely in Australia.
Luke Cook moved from Sydney to Los Angeles 18 years ago, when he was just 20, looking to break into acting. It’s a familiar story: kid chases dream in Hollywood , hustles for work, and eventually suffers well-meaning but depressing questions about when he’ll admit defeat ., or his skits on social media .
But what happened next was much stranger. After “18 years of slogging”, he finally scored his first lead role in a TV series … and it was on the Gold Coast. With a star from“My acting teacher in LA used to have a saying, ‘You’re going to Australia tomorrow’. It was his way of saying to an actor, ‘Are you ready?’ I’ve been thinking about that line forever. And last year, I got that call.”Outwardly, it’s a very American show.
“It’s funny to have my biggest success so far in this industry be shooting in Australia, on the Goldie,” Cook says.“But it doesn’t surprise me. No one’s shooting in Los Angeles any more. It went down after the strikes. And after the fires, it’s gone down even more. Meanwhile, Australia is a beautiful place that people are excited to go, we have some of the best crews in the world, and we have a government that’s aware you incentivise creatives to make stuff there.
He actually first declined the opportunity to audition for the role simply because he didn’t think he would get the part. “I never saw myself as the Dwight Schrute character,” he says, and thought he could more economically spend his time. Like“I love my life. I love the hustle,” he says. “But my wife did say to me the other night, ‘When do we catch the break? Is the break coming?’
“This feels like the break, in many ways ... But if you see my bank account, you’ll know it’s not,” he says, laughing.
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