When Bryan Brown starred in Aussie movie Winter of our Dreams back in 1981 with a young, starstruck actor no one had ever heard of in a supporting role, neither could have imagined they’d be working together, on a much, much bigger scale, all these years later.
The young bloke was Baz Luhrmann, who didn’t have much of a future in front of the camera
(he did appear in six episodes of A Country Practice), but he certainly made his mark behind the camera.
A fan of Brown’s ever since their first collaboration 27 years ago, the director cast the veteran actor as the scheming cattle baron King Carney in his romantic epic Australia.
Carney sets out to ruin Nicole Kidman’s Lady Sarah Ashley so he can seize her ranch Faraway Downs, the only property he doesn’t own in that part of the Northern Territory.
“It was good fun to play a character as colourful as Carney,” says Brown. “He
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