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AFTER more than two decades living in the US, working with Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce was the perfect homecoming for Julian McMahon.
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AFTER more than two decades living in the US, working with Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce was the perfect homecoming for Julian McMahon.
The stars were all newly famous around the same time in the late 1980s before going off and making names for themselves internationally and have just wrapped shooting upcoming Aussie film, Flammable Children, together on the Gold Coast.
“It felt like getting the band back together,” McMahon, 48, told the Confidential on Nova radio show.
“All of us were familiar with each other or very close to each other over that particular time, which was the late 80s/early 90s. So it was kind of like coming home to be honest.
“To reignite those relationships and spend some quality time together in a prolific manner was a lot of fun.”
Flammable Children is the much anticipated new film from Priscilla Queen of the Desert director Stephan Elliott with McMahon playing the partner of actor Radha Mitchell.
“Stephan is a prolific and talented Australian director,” he said.
“The film itself is about growing up in the 70s in Australia as an overview and a little more particularly about these two kids who are forced together by the misconceptional parents that are running their lives in a slightly obtuse and bizarre manner that was the 70s.
“It is a coming of age.”
As well as Flammable Children, McMahon recently filmed BBC series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
McMahon is known internationally for his work on hit TV series Nip/Tuck as well as Hollywood films Fantastic Four, Fire With Fire and Paranoia.
He has lived in the US for so long that he naturally speaks with an American accent.
“It took a bit to get a handle on it (an Australian accent),” the son of former Australian Prime Minister, the late Sir William McMahon said.
“I’d get up and start talking Australian in the shower or go for a run and speak Australian as broadly as I could so it was really a bit of a process.
“It wasn’t completely new, it was about retraining and rethinking.”
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