STRONGER THINGS
DACRE MONTGOMERY is skylarking about on the top-floor balcony of his new apartment in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Erskineville. Barefoot, in a grey suit with a white flat cap and gold tinted glasses, he moves easily for the camera, performing a highwire act on the balcony ledge that’s causing his publicist considerable alarm. “Please be careful, Dacre,” he repeats a couple of times.
Montgomery, who’s absorbed in a variety of freeform poses, seems oblivious to the 30m drop on the other side of his balcony’s narrow herb garden. He looks every inch a movie star, his blue-eyed, sharp-jawed intensity recalling Hollywood heartthrobs of yesteryear, not least original bad boy James Dean.
Indeed, Montgomery looks as at ease with his burgeoning success as he does in any of the outfits he’s wearing today for shoot. His scene-stealing turn as beefcake villain Billy Hargrove in (season 3 out July 4) has made him one of Hollywood’s hottest properties at just 24. Watching him tap-dance so assuredly against the rooftop skyline, you can’t help feeling his seemingly meteoric rise has an air of inevitability about it.
