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JOEL
EDGERTON
Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is known for his portrayal of Will McGill on the first two seasons of the Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us (2001–2002), and for playing Owen Lars in the Star Wars films Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005), a role he reprised in the
Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022). He also voiced Metal Beak from
Warner
Bros. Pictures' fantasy adventure film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010). For his portrayal of Richard Loving in the 2016 historical drama Loving, he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, and a further nomination in the same category for his critically acclaimed performance in Train Dreams (2025).
In Australia, Edgerton won the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor for his work on The Secret Life of Us. He has appeared in several Australian films, such as The Square (2008), Animal Kingdom (2010; for which he received the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor), Wish You Were Here (2012), and Felony (2013). Edgerton's other film appearances include King Arthur (2004), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Black Mass (2015), Bright (2017), The Green Knight (2021), Master Gardener (2022), and The Boys in the Boat (2023). He has also starred in the
Amazon Prime miniseries The Underground Railroad in 2021 and the Apple TV+ science fiction series Dark Matter in 2024.
For his work on The Gift (2015), a thriller he wrote, directed, produced, and co-starred, Edgerton received critical acclaim and a nomination for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. In 2018, he wrote, directed and co-starred in the conversion therapy drama Boy Erased, and the following year he co-wrote and starred in The King.
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According to advice from AI, by way of a casting matrix, as
to the role
of 'Victor
von Woolfe' - Richard Armitage, James D'arcy, Tom Ellis, Jack Davenport, Andrew Lincoln, Joe Anderson, Tom Hardy, Matthew Goode, Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke, Sullivan Stapleton,
could portray Victor aged 50ish. While,
Mark Strong, Clive Owen, Damian Lewis, James Purefoy, Rufus Sewell, Hugo Weaving,
Richard Roxborough Bryan Brown, Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn,
and Peter Mullan - might all be suitable to play Victor von
Woolfe as a 70 year old - in Muzzled
and Victor
Unchained, docudramas based on real events, involving
corruption in the system, the frame up of a whistle blowing
campaigner, and subsequent fight to survive prison and clear
his name, finally involving the CCRC and European Court of
Human Rights (ECtHR). With a referral to the International
Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). These are all respected actors, none
of which were approached as to the role by any company, but
were all mentioned in AI
searches of the web as potential
players, should the series go from script to silver
screen, or streaming. The same applies to any production companies AI
searches may have mentioned. AI
being a modern tool, that does a lot of the ground work, but
ultimately cannot replace that human touch for decisions as
to film
projects, or the choices and preferences of investing angels.
And of course, actors have the final say, in accepting or
declining any role.
REFERENCE
https://www.imdb.com/
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