t is Vanessa Kirby’s lot in life to be surrounded by Australians. Her aunt lives in Australia, she says, and one of her best friends has just relocated Down Under. Elizabeth Debicki is a close pal in London - “She’s like a sister to me,” - and Cate Blanchett was the jury president at the Venice Film Festival the year that Kirby was awarded Best Actress for , the gaping open wound of a film in which Kirby commanded the screen in a 26-minute single-take birth scene. And next month, in , she stars opposite Australians Hugh Jackman and Zen McGrath, a father-son duo with a fractured relationship that takes a sharp turn into tragedy. Kirby plays Beth, second wife of Jackman’s Peter, the pair of them living in the
