At 81, Fred Schepisi is fighting fit to keep his own cinematic style
The film legend, who first appearing in the Australian Financial Review in 1964 and who directed Meryl Streep and Kirk Douglas, still has the fire in the belly to make uncompromising films.
Fred Schepisi today at his home in Red Hill, Victoria. The indefatigable director wrote a five-part TV series in lockdown. Arsineh Houspian
When Fred Schepisi directed Willie Nelson in the western Barbarosa in 1981, he became one of the first Australians to crack Hollywood: a place where youth, or at least the appearance of it, rules.
Ironic, then, that 17 years earlier, Schepisi had supplied a photograph to The Australian Financial Review that he hoped would make him look older than he really was.
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