The Munich star plays a federal agent investigating a gruesome crime in new whodunit.
I share an office with my close friend Robert Connelly, who is our director.
We share ideas, projects, thoughts, hopes, and dreams.
Eric Bana in The Dry.Credit: IFC Films
One day he got off the phone and told me he was looking at directing Jane Harper’s novel.
I told him I’d read it and loved it.
We just looked at each other and it just kind of happened.
We thought, let’s do this together.
I was thrilled to take responsibility for Aaron.
You shot in the middle of nowhere, really.
What was that like?Oh, look, it was amazing.
The locals were wonderful.
We couldn’t have made the film without their assistance.
The town that we shot in did not have enough hotels and motels and so forth.
We literally had people moving out of their houses so that the crew could be accommodated.
I’m a locations guy.
I hate shooting in a studio.
I always avoid it all cost.
There’s something very special about the location we were in.
It’s on the road to nowhere so that creates a very very special different feeling.
I believe this was the first time you’ve shot a film in Australia for 12 years.
Did it seem strange at all?
It’s hard finding good material in any country.
It’s not through lack of looking.
I would rather take massive swings at things I really really believe in.
So the success of the film has been incredibly rewarding for me.
In some ways, it didn’t feel any different from any other film.
[Laughs]
The Dryalso features Genevieve O’Reilly, Keir O’Donnell, and John Polson.
Watch the film’s trailer above.
