Joel Edgerton: ‘I’d be terrified to fight Tom Hardy now’
How did you get the job of Uncle George Lucas was shooting in Australia. I have the Australian Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance to thank for saying: “You need to hire some local actors.” I was the right age and had the physical similarity. My brother [Nash Edgerton] left university to become a stunt man – much to my parents’ upset – and started working on the big Hollywood productions that came through Sydney, like The Matrix and Mission: Impossible 2. He got the job as Ewan McGregor’s stunt double. Any of the big, serious, dangerous stuff Ewan does in Episodes II and III, like fighting Jango Fett in the rain, my brother is likely getting a knock on the chin.
