Karl Stefanovic lands blockbuster movie role in Independence Day: Resurgence

KARL Stefanovic has gone from breakfast TV host to movie star, landing what he calls his “breakthrough role” on the big screen.

KARL Stefanovic is going from breakfast TV host to movie star, landing a role in the new big screen blockbuster, Independence Day: Resurgence.

Stefanovic announced on Today this morning that he has a speaking role playing himself as an Australian “dodgy TV host”.

“It’s not easy playing me,” he told his co-hosts. “I play myself, which is very complex. Getting to the bottom of my own personality is not easy.

“It’s a breakthrough role.”

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Stefanovic said he travelled to New Mexico last week where they’re filming the movie, for the International Press Conference.

“I went onto the set and there was this blue screen thing happening and then [cast and crew] all sat down and they said ‘Righto, there’s going to be a speaking part given to one of you press people’ from around the world.

“You’re going to have to see the movie to see this speaking part,” he said, “It may not be long, it may not be very involved, and it may be awful.”

Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth and Vivica A. Fox have all been cast in the sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, though star Will Smith will not return.

Smith reportedly opted out because he had just filmed After Earth and the new sequel had a similar storyline.

“In the very beginning, I wanted to work with him and he was excited to be in it but then after a while he was tired of sequels,” said Director Roland Emmerich, “and he did another science fiction film, which was his father-son story, so he opted out.”

The film is due to be released in 2016, nearly 20 years after the original broke box office records for the biggest opening of all time.

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