I call it Mario Testino after my favourite photographer! (Laughs.) It’s is a practical car, something I can attach the trailer to and take the wife, the children and the dog out on road trips. What kind of car do you drive when you’re at home?Ī boring four-wheel drive. It’s a very famous race in Australia and it would be great to do the race with Mark. I’m still hoping to team up with Mark Webber for the Bathurst endurance race next year. You never get that out of your system (laughs). I got to step out of that one and you just can’t wait until the next race. I still can’t believe that it happened, but crashes are part of racing. It’s one of the best experiences I’ve ever had, except for the final result, which is a very unpleasant memory. You directed your own documentary about the race called Love the Beast… It’s just about the worst thing that can happen to you. My navigator and I were lucky to come out of that crash alive because a lot of people have been badly hurt or killed in those kinds of crashes. The Beast and yours truly were nearly destroyed when we rammed into a tree at the Targa. You had a bad scare driving your beloved 1974 Ford Falcon XB coupe, aka ‘The Beast’, in a race didn’t you? And if I wouldn’t have made the grade as a driver, I would have tried to become an engineer. If I hadn’t become an actor, I’m pretty sure I would have become a race car driver or at least tried to make it in that field. Yeah but I haven’t been doing as much racing as I would like. You have a self-confessed obsession with cars. These days you can just go online and have meetings using your computer. I still have to travel to the US or other countries when I’m shooting movies, so it doesn’t make any difference anyway. I don’t mind flying to Los Angeles for a few days or weeks at a time to talk to people in Hollywood when I need to. I love my life with my wife and kids in Melbourne and that’s my home. And even if it has, it wouldn’t make any difference to me. Do you think that this decision has hurt your career at all? Click NEXT to find out what Eric’s talking about…Įric, unlike most of your fellow Australian actors who have moved to Los Angeles for the sake of their careers, you’ve chosen to continue living in Melbourne. ‘It’s just about the worst thing that can happen to you’. Settling down for our chat, we see 45-year-old Bana’s jet-black hair is now streaked with grey, his 6ft3 frame is covered casually in jeans and a T-shirt, and his dimple creases with a welcoming smile. You can’t explain those things logically, so I’m open to the discussion.”īorn and raised in Australia by a Croatian father and German mother, Bana (real name Banadinovich), still lives in Melbourne with his wife of 17 years Rebecca Gleeson, a former TV publicist, and their two children, Klaus aged 15, and Sophia, 12. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that you can be thinking about someone and then bump into them on the street a few minutes later. “I’m pretty sceptical of these things, but I do believe that some people are more attuned to certain kinds of experiences than others. “I had trouble sleeping for a week after I saw this video that Ralph showed us,” Bana says. Based on the experiences of real-life former Bronx cop turned demonologist, Ralph Sarchie, who participated in several exorcisms in cooperation with the local Catholic church, Bana was left shaken by some of the video footage he studied prior to shooting the film, which documented supposed supernatural phenomena. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and co-starring the sultry Olivia Munn as his wife, the film sees Bana give a convincing performance as a man battling renegade priests and supernatural phenomena. Now he’s taking on a very different role as a New York City cop dealing with demons and exorcisms in the crime/horror drama, Deliver us from Evil. Since then we’ve seen him in many movies great and small, playing characters from a green monster (Hulk), to an Israeli assassin (Munich), to a Romulan villain (Star Trek) to a doomed lover (The Time Traveller’s Wife). His superb portrayal of the infamous Aussie gangster got him noticed, in particular by Russell Crowe and Brad Pitt, who then recommended him for Hollywood blockbusters Black Hawk Down and Troy respectively. Luckily, though, Bana took his first film role seriously, gaining 30lb, crafting a fetching handlebar moustache and spending four hours a day being painted in the tattoos of Mark ‘Chopper’ Read. But you might have hazy memories of the comedian-turned-actor’s impressions of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise and Sly Stallone on Oz TV shows Full Frontal and Tonight Live oh yes, he opened many-a can of laughter with those… Remember the Eric Bana Show? Yeah, we’ve blocked it from our minds too.
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