Interviews and other Articles
TheSunday Age July 10, 1993 As an actor Hugo Weaving is a dominating presence; off stage he is more vulnerable. Muriel Reddy reports. HUGO Weaving, the highly lauded theatre, television and film actor, was standing on a chair in the middle of a stage during a performance of ‘Ring Round the Moon‘ in Adelaide four […]
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The Age by Graham Reilly May 23, 1993 Hugo Weaving’s eyebrows have landed him many a villainous role. He spoke to GRAHAM REILLY about playing a different part. IN his early teens, Hugo Weaving attended a boarding school near Bristol, England, built around 1600. Its pupils were required to wear as a uniform an anachronistic […]
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The Sydney Morning Herald by James Waites June 10, 1994 EVEN a leading actor as unassuming and modest as Hugo Weaving gets a kick out of being in a movie that hits the big time at Cannes. While Proof (1991) and Frauds (1993), both starring Weaving, were well regarded at the annual film festival, […]
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The Sydney Morning Herald by Catharine Lumby September 5, 1989 BABIES are the last people you’d expect to spark off a love triangle. Sweet, unblemished and innocent, they don’t exactly look like romantic interlopers. Nonetheless, the birth of an infant may be the beginning of a sexual rift between its parents.On a physical level, Tupling […]
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UrbanCinefile Paul Fischer 1997 Award-winning actor Hugo Weaving seems to have been absent from the big screen since the hit comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. But Weaving is back on the road with True Love and Chaos Revolving around a group of disparate characters’ journey from Melbourne to Perth, hotly pursued […]
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The Sun Herald by Jaqueline Lee Lewes February 28, 1988 LET’S set the record straight. Hugo Weaving is kind to cats, nice to his girlfriend and is always polite to elderly people.A cad he is not. Cats, particularly, know about these things.Weaving already has Eve and Thisbe and now a third moggie has decided that […]
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Sydney Morning Herald October 21, 1987 IN truth, Hugo Weaving has a boyish vulnerability that belies his present role as the dissipated womaniser in the Nimrod’s production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses – a play by Christopher Hampton adapted from an 18th-century novel about elegant over-rich people who can’t get enough sex. Perhaps because of a […]
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Celluloid Jayne Margetts 1997 An Interview with Hugo Weaving WITHIN his character portrayals, actor Hugo Weaving twists between sexually frustrated and cantankerous blind men in Proof, the schmalzy glitter, flamboyance and heartache of Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert, and a lonely and self-destructive Nick Cave-esque figure in his latest picture, the Stavros Andonis Efthymiou directed […]
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