EXCLUSIVE: Just over two months ago, George MacKay was outfitted in a designer tuxedo and sitting at the Oscars. Now, he's quarantined at home and promoting his new movie, 'The True History of the Kelly Gang.'
and in select drive-in theaters. MacKay stars as Ned Kelly, the legendary outlaw of the outback and Australia's answer to Robin Hood. The role is a departure from any character he'd played before, but more so, couldn't be further from the polite, thoughtful man he is off screen.
Kurzel's take on the 19th-century bushranger and would-be folk hero would be a crossdressing, swaggering anarchist, like punk icons of yore, so he booked MacKay and his co-stars, Earl Cave, Sean Keenen and Louis Hewison, a gig in Melbourne. The boys named their band after a certain masturbatory aid."I can't remember who it was that kind of named it first," MacKay sheepishly laughs.
"Without sounding too kind of pretentious, that's the sort of exciting point, is when things get a bit blurry," he explains."Obviously, if someone said, 'George,' I'd turn around. It's not like you stop recognizing yourself. But your channels of expression start to be shorthanded to Ned, you start seeing things in a similar way that he does. And I think once that happens, the point is that you yourself aren't as aware of it.
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