Jonathan Rhys Meyers to shoot thriller in Australia

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has arrived to shoot new thriller The Room Below with Australian model-turned-actor Alyssa Sutherland.

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Picture: Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, of Velvet Goldmine, The Tudors and Match Point fame, has arrived in Australia to shoot new thriller The Room Below.

The Room Below is from Australian writer/director Kurt Martin, who had his cinematic feature film debut with 2019’s Moon Rock for Monday.

Meyers is set to co-star with Australian model-turned-actor Alyssa Sutherland in the film that tells the story of an expectant mother and children’s book author who starts behaving suspiciously when a boy resembling her dead son disappears.

Filming, reports Variety, was set to get underway this month with the movie co-produced by Byron Bay-based Lunar Pictures.

Alyssa Sutherland ahead of the Sydney premiere of Evil Dead Rise. Picture: Richard Dobson

LA-based Sutherland has returned home for the production. The actor, 42, will be familiar to Australian fashion fans who may recall that after winning a 1997 Girlfriend magazine model competition, she found fame as a Vogue cover girl, She has appeared in campaigns for Bulgari, Ralph Lauren, Garnier and a host of others.

Sutherland is enjoying a moment thanks to her turn in 2023’s Evil Dead Rise.

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