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world here, [director] Martin Scorsese would
be pretty extraordinary to get to work with.
I won’t hold my breath!
What’s the best advice you’ve been given?
One would be a boring one, like always
have some kind of [career] back-up. The
other one is: it’s just a job; you’re no more
important than anyone else, so don’t allow
yourself to get carried away with success
that might come your way. It’s true the
people you meet on the way up are there
on the way down, so be nice to everybody.
Is that the advice you’d give, also?
Yeah, I think so – don’t be a dick! [Laughs]
There are too many actors out there who
are lovely to work with that I think the era
of still hiring people who are a pain to
work with or are rude or are difficult, that
era’s kind of moved on.
You turn the big 5-0 next March – do you
have any ideas on how you’ll celebrate?
Well I’ll probably have a party with [fellow
Australian actor] Dan Wyllie, who a lot of
people will know. Dan and I are very good
friends, but we’re also born on exactly the
same day, month and year – so we will be
turning 50 on the same day. We’ve had
joint parties in the past and I think we will
probably try to plan something in Sydney.
Well now you can invite Quentin and Leo
along and it’ll be one heck of a party!
Sure! I’m sure they would love to come!
[Laughs]
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The second half of new Foxtel Original
drama Lambs of God brings a very familiar
face back to our screens: Damon Herriman.
While his character, Father Bob, initially
appears to be a trustworthy churchman,
it soon becomes crystal clear that he’s
far more sinner than saint.
“Father Bob is kind of like the fixer for
the Catholic Church,” Herriman explains.
“He’s the guy that gets brought in when the
Bishop (John Bell) realises he has a problem
that’s a bit trickier to get done. When we
meet Father Bob, we get the sense that
there’s something a little menacing about
him, and then we get to see him in plain
clothes, pretending he’s not even a priest,
trying to infiltrate the life of Frankie –
played by Kate Mulvany.”
From the “wonderful actors” already
linked to the project to the script and the
opportunity to re-team with his Riot director
Jeffrey Walker – a role which won Herriman
a best actor AACTA Award last year – Lambs
of God was simply too good to pass up,
despite Herriman’s busy schedule.
“I was always going to jump at it. When
it came up and it was able to work [timing-
wise], it was a no-brainer really,” he says
with a smile, adding of getting to work
closely with his one-time Quarry mum
Ann Dowd: “She’s awesome. That was also
a huge drawcard. We only worked together
on Quarry for two days, which is amazing,
because there are a lot of scenes with us
together. But she had availability issues.
So basically they just slammed all our scenes
into two days and shot them for the whole
season. We had the best time and it was
so lovely to get to work with her again.
She’s just a darling woman.”
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WE TRUST
Herriman talks reuniting with
co-star Ann Dowd and director
Jeffrey Walker as a man of
the cloth in Lambs of God
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co-stars and pals Dan Wyllie
and Claudia KarvanHerriman’s Father Bob is
a priest who solves difficult
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