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    Shoot for the moon

    Jun 12, 2022 5 minutes
    by RUSSELL BAILLIE

    Judging by his past decade on screen, when Damon Herriman turns up, it’s time to worry. After all, he has played Charles Manson, twice. The Australian actor was a neo-Nazi hillbilly – though a funny one – in the Elmore Leonard-inspired Kentucky crime series Justified. In the Australian movies Judy and Punch and The Nightingale, his characters did terrible things to women, in films directed by women.

    He did start out playing nice guys, though, way back when he was young Frank Errol in Aussie period drama in the late 70s and early 80s. That seeded an acting career as an adult, which, in Herriman’s words, was “pretty lame” until his mid-thirties. That was about the time he cornered himself a

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