IMAGINE TOUCHING DOWN in a foreign airport and being thrust a wad of immigration forms to fill out, but all you see is a swarm of unintelligible hieroglyphics.
This was the frequent experience of Ian Roberts, rugby league hard man and legend (now an actor), who regularly chased a football around the world.
“Reading was like this secret code that I could never tap into… I could never decipher it,” Roberts explains from his Sydney home, where he's based while filming the latest Mad Max instalment, Furiosa (due out next year). “Going through immigration was always such an awful experience. Knowing that when you land, Oh my God – there's forms. I'm going to have to ask someone what this stuff is or pretend I don't speak good English or ask them to spell words. You pick up all these coping mechanisms, but you feel fraudulent.”
Roberts, now 57,
