Joel Edgerton, The Gift

Joel Edgerton carries a heavy load as writer-director-producer-star of his 2015 film The Gift. The Australian hyphenate discusses the origins of this psychological thriller, which Edgerton reworked intensely to avoid clichés.

Also, Edgerton talks about his two upcoming 2015 and 2016 films. In Black Mass, the actor adopts a Boston accent to play the corrupt FBI agent John Connolly, while in the action-drama western Jane Got a Gun, he plays Natalie Portman's former fiancé--listen in to hear why the film lost its original director and many of it actors.

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