“I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.”

Australian actor

Ben Mendelsohn is an Australian actor who first came to prominence in the late 1980s. Born Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn, he is known for his breakout role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987) and for later work in film and television. He drew wider international notice with his lead performance in the crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010). Since then he has appeared in films including The Dark Knight Rises, Starred Up, Lost River, Mississippi Grind, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Darkest Hour, and Ready Player One.