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[rm]

Casting for Australian looking people. Australia had a huge wave of immigrants post-WWII from Italy. The only place I've ever seen more people who look like me than Sydney was in Sicily. But American casting people? Would think I am smoking crack. So weird.

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[jo02]

Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman.
It's true, we have a mix of more races in one place than almost anywhere else in the world, but Hugh and Nic, and the classic tall, tanned, fit and blond/e type is still the image here.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I would be shocked that if, other than Hugh Jackman, American casting folk would even acknowledge someone with dark hair as "Aussie looking."

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

Russell Crowe? ooh, or Mel Gibson (though that might go back too far for them..)