There was months of training and team bonding on the set of Joel Edgerton’s new movie The Boys in the Boat so that the cast could unite and become one, just as the remarkable US rowing crew they were portraying did in real life at the 1936 Olympics. But playing the coach meant the Aussie actor could watch the impressive process of them morphing into a group from afar – a vantage point he’s very pleased to have these days.
“For me, I was a little bit on
