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Posted on 11.16.2007 in Interviews | 0 CommentsROGUE star Michael Vartan is no Robert de Niro, just ask him. But he’s getting better at his job, and he loves Australia.
It seems it’s not a Spring Racing Carnival unless Michael Vartan is here.
Obviously the races are great and so much fun, but I’m here this time solely to promote Rogue and it just happens to coincide with the races. I love Australia and I would come here for the opening of an envelope. As you can see (showing his tattoo), the little Southern Cross action. I got it the week I got back from shooting Rogue.
I’ve truly fallen in love with this country. I want to move here one day if they’ll have me. I love everything about it: the people, the atmosphere, the mentality, the difference of culture in the north and south, the landscape. Everything about this country is fascinating to me. I feel at home here, I feel free, I feel happy. No one cares what you drive, what you do. It’s a very, very honest way to live and it suits me. It’s pretty much the antithesis of Los Angeles.
I got off the plane two years ago to shoot Rogue and it was a weird feeling. I felt tingly and thought, wow, I love it here. I hadn’t even been through Customs. And it took me about two months to realise you really weren’t full of s—, that you really are that nice. I thought, come on, this can’t be real, no one’s this nice. It’s a wonderful place and I love it dearly.
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Michael Vartan shocked on croc flick ‘Rogue’
Posted on 11.12.2007 in Interviews and Rogue | 2 CommentsHe is best known for playing a cool, composed CIA agent, but Hollywood star Michael Vartan was anything but calm when shooting his new film in the Outback.
The actor was the only foreigner in the cast of crocodile thriller Rogue, the follow-up to director Greg McLean’s 2005 debut Wolf Creek.
Vartan, who found fame playing agent Michael Vaughn on hit television series Alias, says the month-long shoot in the Northern Territory was the most physically challenging thing he has ever experienced.
“I’ve been in hot places, but Darwin is a tropical heat that makes you want to put a bullet in your head,” he says with a smile. “Especially the first few weeks where we were shooting all the landscape shots and not really doing anything.
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Outback tests Michael Vartan
Posted on 11.11.2007 in Interviews and Rogue | 0 CommentsHe’s best known for playing a never-ruffled CIA agent, but Hollywood star Michael Vartan was anything but cool, calm and collected when it came to shooting his new film Rogue in the Outback.
Vartan, 39, is the only non-Australian in the cast of the crocodile thriller, which is the follow-up to director Greg McLean’s 2005 debut, Wolf Creek.
The heart-throb actor sprang to fame playing agent Michael Vaughn in the hit television series Alias, and says the month-long shoot in the Northern Territory was the most physically challenging experience of his life.
“It was horrific – you get off the plane in Darwin and you get slapped in the face and grabbed by the throat,” he says with a smile.
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‘Rogue’ Review by Herald Sun
Posted on 11.09.2007 in Film News & Reviews and Rogue | 0 CommentsAfter taking a blowtorch to “acceptable” levels of on-screen violence with the outback-torture fest Wolf Creek, Australian writer-director Greg Mclean dials down the shock factor by several notches here.
While Rogue is very much a formulaic creature feature, Mclean proves himself to be quite adept at making a few little subtle touches go a long way towards elevating the movie above and beyond its cheesy origins.
There is no real need to delve into any complex back-story analysis here. There is barely a plot to speak of anyway, and that’s exactly how it should be.
Mclean busies himself in a mercifully brief first act introducing a cast of types, rather than characters.
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Snapped Up By Experts
Posted on 11.08.2007 in Film News & Reviews and Rogue | 0 CommentsWith his debut film, Wolf Creek, Greg Mclean made it clear he was a feisty filmmaker, so when he took out the script for the crocodile thriller, Rogue, from his bottom drawer, the Weinsteins snapped it up – totally on Mclean’s terms, which included final cut, he tells Andrew L. Urban.
Greg Mclean is a nice guy; he didn’t have to fly over to Los Angeles with a rough cut of his $25 million adventure thriller, Rogue, to show it to Bob and Harvey Weinstein, but he did it anyway. And he warned them that the giant, rogue crocodile that is at the centre of the film, was still a grey blob, waiting for the CGI boys to create it. No problem, said the two movie moguls, we can imagine … we’re experienced … we know the process. But as soon as the lights went up after the screening, the Weinsteins panicked. “They just freaked out; ‘where’s the croc? The whole film depends on the croc…’ The grey animation blob that represented the fearsome croc did not impress them, did not instil that primal fear on which the film’s tension hangs.
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Snap decisions in ‘Rogue’
Posted on 11.08.2007 in Film News & Reviews, Interviews and Rogue | 0 CommentsBeing thrown from a boat into crocodile-infested waters in the Northern Territory was the nightmarish scenario Australian actor Sam Worthington endured while making Greg McLean’s horror film Rogue.
“We thought that scene was going to be fine because there were only saltwater crocs in the river and they don’t really attack humans,” McLean, 36, explains.
“But a rumour had started just before Sam had to be thrown in the water that a man-eating crocodile was in there and he wouldn’t do it. The only way to make it happen was for me to swim across the river first. The weird part is that two months later they pulled a 3m croc out of there.
It’s scary, but the reality is, no one got hurt. We took the punt and it came off.”
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Michael Vartan eyes life in Australia
Posted on 11.03.2007 in News & Gossip | 0 CommentsUS star Michael Vartan is in Melbourne for a third racing season in a row, with plans to move here permanently.
The Alias and Monster-in-Law star arrived in Melbourne yesterday to promote his new film, the Australian croc horror movie Rogue, and will attend Derby Day today.
“I would come here for the opening of an envelope,” he said.
“I’ve truly fallen in love with this country.
“I want to move here one day if they’ll have me.
“I love everything about it: the people, the atmosphere, the mentality, the difference of culture in the north and south, the landscape.
“Everything about this country is fascinating to me, I feel at home here, I feel free, I feel happy, no one cares what you drive, what you do.”
Vartan shot Rogue in the Northern Territory two years ago. The most expensive horror film made in Australia, costing $25 million, Rogue follows a group of tourists terrorised by a 7m crocodile.
It was written and directed by Greg McLean (Wolf Creek) and opens on Thursday.
Source: Herald Sun