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 Radha Mitchell
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime It goes to show that you’ll never know where the next great acting talent is likely to bloom from with an actress like Radha Mitchell. Born and raised in Australia, Mitchell started out on the long-running soap opera Neighbours for one season, which ironically had many former cast members in the past becoming internationally-famous singers like Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, and Natalie Imbruglia. However, she’s gone on to acting in films ranging from Pitch Black to Finding Neverland to Melinda And Melinda to Silent Hill. Now, Radha’s latest film finds her working with Academy Award-winning director Robert Benton in his newest film, the drama Feast Of Love. In the film, which is based on a book by Charles Baxter, Mitchell plays Diana, one of a group of friends in Oregon who experience love in both positive and negative ways. When Mitchell recently discussed the film with us, one of the first things the 33 year-old actress shared was how she was won over by how antithetical the script was to other films made nowadays. “What I liked about the script actually was that it was unabashedly sincere,” Radha explains, “It’s a movie that is heartfelt and it’s kind of tricky in this climate. It’s not really cool to talk about your feelings too much and a lot of the cinema that you see is either glib, cynical, or nihilistic. So what I enjoyed about the film is that it wasn’t, it came from the heart.” However, her reasons hit a point of irony when discussing what she loved about playing the role. “What I enjoyed about my character is that she’s glib and cynical and nihilistic…within that story and you see her kind of evolve,” Mitchell says, laughing, “She’s in a tricky emotional situation and things have to go to the worst point before you move forward. In walking the line between being the bitch and being someone you kind of like and identify with is an interesting challenge as an actress.” When discussing how her character’s love interest Bradley Thomas, played by Greg Kinnear, is in many ways antithetical in nature to Diana, Radha expounds on the many complexities of Diana. “He was such a nice guy, too. How could you hurt Bradley’s feelings?” she believes, “I don’t know if David was her kind of sole connection, but it’s very rare that you find that can meet you on that level, if you’re an intense person, in that way. So how do you ignore that and let go of that? And I think her attempt is to move forward with her life and marry a really nice guy that your mother would certainly recommend, this guy’s going to be a really good guy for you. And then to be in that situation and realize it’s a lie, she has to kind of find a way out of it and it’s tricky, it’s very tricky, but life is tricky.” Mitchell also discusses a particularly eyebrow-raising scene when Diana and her ... |
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