JOSH HEUSTON AND I are sitting on some low-slung white chairs at the back of a photographic studio in Sydney’s Brookvale, when the actor makes his first reference to logging his “10,000 hours”. It’s a pet phrase for Heuston, a riff on author Malcolm Gladwell’s...
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. There’s a scene in When We Were Kings, the seminal sports documentary about the 1974 title fight between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman, in which Foreman, then heavyweight champion of the world, is hitting the heavy bag. Each time Foreman sinks one...
The Rock is just finishing off a text when he pops up on my screen. “Be there in 20 minutes,” he says aloud to himself before hitting send and looking up at me. “How you doing, man?” he says with a wide smile. The Rock, or to use his given name, Dwayne Johnson, is...
Adam Goodes is standing on the headland at Bondi gazing intently at a whale frolicking out at sea. “Look at him, look at him,” Goodes yells out to our crew. “Whoa, he breached there. That was like a side flick on your BMX. He got out of the water and then bang!” The...
Olav Stubberudhere Hatfield, North of London, England, 1997: The rain machines have been running for nearly two days straight. Tom Hanks, already the winner of two Oscars at this point in his career, is soaked. This particular sequence includes one of the few times...
A youthful outlook and an old soul are proving a potent combination for Australian actor Sam Corlett in his quest to heal the world.
In an exclusive interview with MH Australia.
At age 57, Lenny Kravitz is still the ultimate rock god and a divorced dad who actually gets along with his ex (and everyone around him). He didn’t choose to go into seclusion, but it’s only made him stronger. One thing Lenny Kravitz has been trying to tell us all...
Actor Alex Russell was a bullied kid who grew up to become a Hollywood star. The key to his storybook transformation? He learned to get out of his own way
A transformation that proved every bit as satisfying as a Test hundred.
Back on home soil after conquering the world as a teenage singing sensation, Simpson is hard at work trying to realise his next incarnation.
The star of this month’s Shang-Chi – and the first Asian to lead a Marvel movie – talks about playing a superhero onscreen, being a change agent IRL, and the challenges, responsibilities and powers that come with those roles . - by Ebenezer Samuel
Kiwi actor KJ Apa came out of nowhere to land the coveted role of Archie Andrews on hit teen drama Riverdale. As his star continues to rise, though, Apa’s managing something very few of us could hope to achieve: to go from nobody to next-big-thing without losing...
