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James WigneyHit.TV Editor/Scene editor

James Wigney is the editor of the Hit.TV and Scene entertainment liftouts in the Herald Sun and Sunday Herald sun and has been writing about film, music, television and comedy for more than two decades. In that time he has interviewed some of the biggest names in the entertainment world – from Pink Floyd and Pink to Harrison Ford and Jennifer Lawrence – and been behind the scenes on Marvel and James Bond films and backstage with Coldplay and U2. He’s also a pop culture tragic, with a particular interest in sci-fi, and very broad musical tastes (and a particular soft spot for classic rock).

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Guy Pearce promo shot for coming album The Nomad.

How Guy Pearce fought off divorce despair

AUSSIE singer-actor Guy Pearce has revealed how his marriage breakdown left him barely caring if he lived or died, drinking heavily and sobbing for hours at a time. But somehow he found his way back.

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‘It’s more fun to play the bad guy’

IT’S easy to see why Hollywood has made the 49-year-old Australian its go-to villain — and it’s the sort of typecasting he can live with.

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Jason Byrne in The Man With Three Brains.

Master of improv reliably brilliant

PUNTERS beware as long-time festival favourite Jason Byrne runs riot with his supreme mastery of audience improv in a hugely entertaining, freewheeling show of absurd nostalgia.

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Ben Mendelsohn in a scene from

How Aussie Ben became No. 1 villain

AUSSIE actor Ben Mendelsohn has become Hollywood’s go-to bad guy, but he doesn’t hold back in an assessment of his vain “d—head” character in sci-fi Spielberg blockbuster Ready Player One.

AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 11: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been edited using digital filters) Tye Sheridan poses for a portrait at the

Why Steven Spielberg ‘is a god’

READY Player One star Tye Sheridan totally geeks out about working with master director Steven Spielberg and warns of the dangers of social media

Actor Joel Edgerton attends the premiere of

Edgerton: Bond’s not for me

JOEL Edgerton might be living out a childhood fantasy opposite Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow, but says he’d make a terrible spy

WARNING EMBARGOED FOR H/S WEEKEND MAGAZINE. Magda Szubanski interview ahead of her appearance on new Channel 10 drama Sisters. Picture: David Caird

Magda’s comedy tribute to mum

MUCH loved Aussie comedian Magda Szubanski says she’s nowhere near as funny as her late mother, who passed on a sense of humour and outrageous Scottish accent

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Jonah Brown and Paul Gilbert are keen for a new Dundee movie after seeing the Tourism ad during the Superbowl.Picture: Justin Kennedy

NT megastar Hemsworth keen to make Dundee movie

THE Territory’s own megastar Chris Hemsworth has thrown his support behind making a new Dundee movie

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ONE TIME USE - FEES APPLY Tourism Australian and Foxtel Ambassador actor Chris HemsworthMUST CREDIT: Jason Ierace/Foxtel Magazine

Is Hemsworth the nation’s $6bn man?

HE helped prank the world in Tourism Australia’s Crocodile Dundee Superbowl ad. And now Chris Hemsworth is poised to front a massive $36 million marketing push into the US.

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In this Dec. 3, 2017 photo, actress Daisy Ridley poses for a portrait to promote her film,

‘Rey’s better than I am’

DAISY Ridley says coming back to the Star Wars world was even more terrifying than the first time, and that the script of The Last Jedi reduced her to tears

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