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AFL great Jimmy Bartel breaks silence on divorce to Nadia Bartel
AFL great Jimmy Bartel has spoken out about his divorce with Nadia Bartel with a rare comment. The pair called time on their relationship in 2019 with both remaining tight-lipped on their divorce and marriage breakdown. Now the former Geelong superstar has opened up and revealed why he stayed silent after the break up. 'There's nothing that I can do and say. And other people's opinions of me are none of my business. And so they'll form their own narrative, their own thinking or their own thought,' Bartel said on the A Life of Greatness with Sarah Grynberg podcast. 'The only thing that matters to me is the people that I care about and I just foster those relationships and it can be tough at times. You do want to bite back and you do want to respond … but people don't care, deep down they don't. 'The only people who care, are the people that actually care about you. And so that's all I worried and focused about.' The 41-year-old stated he would never speak publicly about the end of his marriage and what caused the pair to drift apart. 'I've never commented on anything to do about my separation. I never will because I just don't think it's needed. And so I just go about my business,' he added. The former couple tied the knot in 2014 and were married for five years before separating, they share two sons, Henley and Aston. 'It's been a very difficult month for me and the boys,' Nadia said shortly after the separation. 'My single focus now is to continue to protect, care for, and provide for my two beautiful boys as this is a personal matter. I am so thankful for my very supportive family and friends.' The pair have both since moved on with their love lives with Jimmy welcoming a baby girl into the world with his girlfriend Amelia Shepperd in April, 2023. Nadia on the other hand went public with former footballer Peter Dugmore early last year with the pair said to still be going strong. Bartel also detailed harrowing incidents from his childhood in the wide-ranging interview, revealing his mother had been given a life or death ultimatum from his father. The 2007 Brownlow Medal winner said his parents separated when he was just one, but it was his father's alleged violence towards his mother and others in the family that opened his eyes. 'Even though my parents had separated, he'd come around home and my mum had placed an AVO on him, he came around and told her to lift the AVO or else he was going to take mum,' Bartel said. 'And he did. He took my mum out of the house and took her. I remember looking out the lounge room window and he was taking my mum and I only found out until I was older, he was taking mum out to the back of Geelong and pretty much gave her the ultimatum, either remove the AVO or this is the end for you. 'And so it was a tough decision for my mum, do you leave three kids with no mum or you come back home and you remove the AVO and you try and manage things a different way. 'So it was, it wasn't until I was older, you know, in your teenage years where you start to work out, hang on, this is not the hero that you want as a dad.' The terrifying incident resulted in Bartel striving to become a better father to his two sons, and now daughter, in the wake of what he and his family went through. Despite what his mother endured, the AFL icon said she never said a negative word about his father.
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Forgotten film that launched Margot Robbie's career
Everybody has to start somewhere, and same goes for Margot Robbie. Before the Aussie actress became a big deal in Hollywood, starring opposite the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling, she was a wannabe actress trying to get her foot in the door right here in the Australian entertainment industry. But Robbie's star quality was undeniable, and it wasn't long before she was cast in her first-ever feature film. Aussie filmmaker Aash Aaron was Robbie's acting coach back in the day, who also cast and directed the star in her first two films: Vigilante and I.C.U.. Although the horror thriller I.C.U. was technically her first film, the action drama Vigilante was released first in 2008 – and it's available to stream now for free on Tubi. Speaking to Andrew Bucklow, Aaron recalled the exact moment he met Robbie and immediately knew she was destined for the big screen. 'When I met Margot, I was casting my first movie with acting students of mine that I wrote for them, which is I.C.U. And the main girl who was playing the lead actress in that movie was struggling with her schoolwork and couldn't really commit to the movie. So I was ready to go and I didn't have an actor.' So the director put feelers out and one of the actors on the film brought half a dozen actresses to audition for Aaron, among them was an 'enthusiastic' Robbie, who at the time wanted to be an actress so badly, she was studying events management as a way to hopefully get into the entertainment industry. 'Someone said to me, 'You gotta meet this girl because if anyone's gonna be the first female prime minister of Australia, it's gonna be this girl. She's a go-getter,'' he recalled. 'I talked to all the girls, but I didn't even need to see them act. I'm an acting teacher, and I just said to [Margot], 'If you are prepared to do exactly what I tell you to do, and allow me to train you for six months, you can have the lead role in this movie.' And of course she said yes. She just didn't believe it was ever possible.' In I.C.U., Robbie plays one of three teens who spy on their neighbours, one of which they've uncovered is a sadistic killer. Meanwhile, in Vigilante Robbie plays the girlfriend of a rich young man who goes rogue after her rape and murder, training himself to become a deadly weapon against any wrongdoers who cross his path. 'It's kind of like a realistic take on a Batman character as in, you know, he's got some money, so he's gonna go and learn martial arts and drive around the city at night and basically just take his aggression out on anybody who's doing wrong because he believes in his mind that he'll never be able to find the people that did this to him. So he takes his anger out on bad people he encounters,' Aaron said. Vigilante was such a low-budget film that Aaron revealed 'guerrilla tactics' were used to get the entire movie filmed in two weeks on the Gold Coast. However, it was still a 'do-ability budget', and it helped that Robbie was a class act. 'I've taught a lot of actors and people have asked me what is different about Margot than most actors, and I said to them, 'She is the perfect student where she will do what you tell her to do.' Like, if you had to tell someone that they had to stand on their head in the corner to find a character, most people would go, 'What? Why?' She would just go, 'OK.'' 'Whatever you ask her to do, she would do. So when I trained her in acting, because I was the first person to train her in acting, she would just do exactly what she was told to do. We rehearsed the movie and when we shot all three kids in the first movie, they were just perfect.' It was in I.C.U. that Aaron knew a star was born. 'It was only in the climax of the first movie that I actually turned to my wife – who was on set with me and Sarie [Kessler], Margot's mum – and I just looked at her and said, 'There is a star.' And her mum was like, 'Really?'' 'I said, 'She's like an a young Angelina Jolie. She's amazing.' She flicked at the climax of the scene and that was when I believed that she could actually go for it. Then I cast her in the next movie I did, six months later, Vigilante.' Robbie caught the acting bug and went on the score a role in Neighbours, with a little guidance from Aaron. 'I helped her get her first couple of agents and when she said, 'How do I get onto Neighbours?' I told her what she needed to do and then she was like, 'OK,'' Aaron recalled. 'That was just her. She's like the Terminator. You tell her what to do, and she would just go for it. That's the difference. A lot of people just wait for the phone to ring, but she was just a go-getter.' 'I've always said that I teach actors to be Hollywood-ready rather than just all the rubbish that a lot of acting teachers teach,' he added. 'And she was the one who put everything into practice and proved that my techniques work.'
SBS Australia
2 hours ago
- SBS Australia
I was an NRL player who locked himself in the toilet to read fantasy books in secret
More than 50 years ago, the women's liberation movement reshaped society's expectations of womanhood. As commentary around 'toxic masculinity' persists today, Insight asks if men need to be liberated from traditional masculinity. Watch episode Male Liberation on SBS On Demand . Many people might look at me, a country boy and an ex-NRL player, and think I seem like a 'pretty tough fella'. Something they may not guess about me, though, is that I'm an avid fantasy fiction reader. I grew up on a cattle property in western Queensland, surrounded by hard country men — who themselves were raised by hard country men. I was a sensitive kid with a vivid imagination who loved (and still loves) magic and dragons. I always felt weird being around gruff, straight-edged men who weren't interested in such things. My first memory of buying a book was at age 6 at my school's book fair. I couldn't read yet, but I would sit down, open the book and pretend to; I remember my older brother mocking me for doing so. I felt I didn't belong, but I find a sense of belonging with books. Stories became my sanctuary, and I'd escape to fantasy worlds where I could be me. However, I started to hide this part of myself as I grew older. As a young man, I found myself in cultures — like the NRL — where I felt weakness was a liability, and wonder was for fools. I hid my books in my footy bag, and I would only ever read them in secret — if I could. If we were on an away game — and I was sharing a hotel room with a teammate — I would sit on the toilet for half an hour with the door locked and read my book. That was how I read because I felt there was no way I could pull out a book about magic or fantastical worlds in front of the boys. Luke played for the Canberra Raiders NRL team from 2015 to 2019. Source: Supplied Pretending to be someone else What most people didn't see was that from about 2018 to through to 2021, I had severe depression and a harmful gambling addiction. Gambling was how I silenced the inner parts of me that felt rejected. It came at a cost, however — becoming a vortex of pain and misery that lasted years. I think getting up every day and pretending to be someone I wasn't really contributed to this difficult period. In 2021, I did a month in a rehabilitation clinic for my addiction. This was the catalyst for me that began a journey of positive change in my life. Looking back, I wonder if it was just a coincidence that my darkest season began after I stopped reading. Maybe. Maybe not. I'll never know. But when I finally accepted and sought help, books returned to my life. And believe me when I say, books were a cornerstone of my journey back to stability. When life became too loud and overwhelming during recovery, books were my safe haven. Along with the professional help I received, books gave me the map back to myself. Back to magic. Back to the kid I had cast aside when I felt the world told me I had to. The photo of Luke he has as his phone background to remind himself of his boy self. Source: Supplied Finding role models in fantasy characters I think we currently have a poor definition of what masculinity and strength are. I was given the checklist: money, car, house, status. This is what you do to be successful. I had all of that — earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, I drove around in a brand-new car, lived in an amazing house, had renown and status. And yet I was the most broken, shallow, hollow, miserable person or version of myself that I've ever been. I think that boys are starved of stories that teach them how to feel. We give them stories of action and fighting. Rarely do we give them stories of affection and intimacy. We then question why they're emotionally cold. Why they become men who can't cry. Why they don't know how to ask for help. In my eyes, a man worthy of being a role model is someone who takes responsibility for their mistakes and is willing to talk about them — not someone who tries to pretend they're perfect. I've found many of my role models within books. Some of the best role models in the world are made-up characters. Fantasy books let boys journey with characters who are flawed and who doubt themselves. Characters who wrestle with shame and fear but still have the desire to grow and overcome adversity. 'A boy who reads will know better' Books give boys a platform to understand themselves. It keeps magic alive inside them as they grow up. The world is going to challenge them every day. It might try to box them in, define them by what they earn, what car they drive, how much they lift at the gym, tell them that softness is weakness. But I know firsthand that a boy who reads will know better — even if it's not right away. He knows that heroes are flawed and imperfect. He knows that what makes them heroes is that they don't give up when times are tough. He knows that inside him, that same strength waits patiently. Luke has found role models within the pages of his favourite fantasy novels. Source: Supplied Now for the first time at age 30, through BookTok (the TikTok book community), I have other blokes (and women) to speak to about dragons and magic. I believe magic is real and it permeates our world. It's real in the stories that wrap around us and remind us of who we are. It's real in the boy on the cattle property pretending to read. It's real in the man who picked fantasy books back up in his darkest season. It can be real for all boys if they continue to read; I think it's important that they do. I don't want young men and boys to go through what I went through. I want them to pursue magic and wonder — whatever that looks like to them. For gambling addiction support you can visit the National Gambling Helpline or call on 1800 858 858. All services are free, confidential and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For crisis and mental health support, contact Lifeline (13 11 14), SANE Australia (1800 187 263) or 13Yarn (139 276), a 24/7 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders crisis support line.
