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The Age
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
‘I told my mum I had met my husband': Emma Lung's second chance at love
This story is part of the May 18 edition of Sunday Life. See all 14 stories. Actor Emma Lung has starred in films alongside some of the industry's biggest names, including Hugo Weaving and Brian Cox. The 43-year-old, who stars opposite Asher Keddie in streaming series Strife, also discusses how she and her now husband had a second chance at love. My grandfather, James, was born in Guangzhou [China]. He moved to Papua New Guinea after he finished high school. From there, he moved to Sydney, where he met my grandmother, Colleen. Together, they had seven children. I called my grandfather Y éye (Mandarin for paternal grandfather). I didn't know him for a lot of my early life, as our family lived in Tokyo, where my father, Gary, and mother, Heather, taught English. But when we returned to Sydney, I knew him as a gentle and wise man. I couldn't ask for a more loving father. He's been in my corner since day one and continues to be. There's really nothing he wouldn't do for me. Dad is gregarious, hilarious and impatient. He's also an absolute cinephile, and so I grew up watching Woody Allen and Rob Reiner and all the films of the 1970s. From him, I've inherited my sense of curiosity, adventure and tenacity – probably my loudmouth tendencies, too. My teenage celebrity crush was River Phoenix. I still can barely say his name without my heart missing a beat. My first serious relationship came when I was 13. I'd met Thorald at [Sydney's] Newtown School of Performing Arts. When I was 15, I managed to convince my parents to let me attend an acting school in New York for the last term of year 10, and so I moved there with Thorald and his mum. When I came back, I sent a video audition to the Professional Performing Arts School of Manhattan. I got accepted, and so I completed my final year of drama school in New York. When Thorald and I came back to Australia, he wanted to return [to New York]. I wasn't ready for that, and six months or so later, we split up. We're still very much in touch. My 10-year-old son, Marlowe, and his first child were born six hours apart. I was 19 when I appeared with Hugo Weaving in Peaches. The love scenes were really intense, but there was no sort of worry as Hugo is the most kind and gentle soul. Looking back, it would have been extremely hard for him, too, as he had a daughter around 10 years younger than me. But you'd be hard-pressed to find too many actors as professional as him.
Sydney Morning Herald
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘I told my mum I had met my husband': Emma Lung's second chance at love
This story is part of the May 18 edition of Sunday Life. See all 14 stories. Actor Emma Lung has starred in films alongside some of the industry's biggest names, including Hugo Weaving and Brian Cox. The 43-year-old, who stars opposite Asher Keddie in streaming series Strife, also discusses how she and her now husband had a second chance at love. My grandfather, James, was born in Guangzhou [China]. He moved to Papua New Guinea after he finished high school. From there, he moved to Sydney, where he met my grandmother, Colleen. Together, they had seven children. I called my grandfather Y éye (Mandarin for paternal grandfather). I didn't know him for a lot of my early life, as our family lived in Tokyo, where my father, Gary, and mother, Heather, taught English. But when we returned to Sydney, I knew him as a gentle and wise man. I couldn't ask for a more loving father. He's been in my corner since day one and continues to be. There's really nothing he wouldn't do for me. Dad is gregarious, hilarious and impatient. He's also an absolute cinephile, and so I grew up watching Woody Allen and Rob Reiner and all the films of the 1970s. From him, I've inherited my sense of curiosity, adventure and tenacity – probably my loudmouth tendencies, too. My teenage celebrity crush was River Phoenix. I still can barely say his name without my heart missing a beat. My first serious relationship came when I was 13. I'd met Thorald at [Sydney's] Newtown School of Performing Arts. When I was 15, I managed to convince my parents to let me attend an acting school in New York for the last term of year 10, and so I moved there with Thorald and his mum. When I came back, I sent a video audition to the Professional Performing Arts School of Manhattan. I got accepted, and so I completed my final year of drama school in New York. When Thorald and I came back to Australia, he wanted to return [to New York]. I wasn't ready for that, and six months or so later, we split up. We're still very much in touch. My 10-year-old son, Marlowe, and his first child were born six hours apart. I was 19 when I appeared with Hugo Weaving in Peaches. The love scenes were really intense, but there was no sort of worry as Hugo is the most kind and gentle soul. Looking back, it would have been extremely hard for him, too, as he had a daughter around 10 years younger than me. But you'd be hard-pressed to find too many actors as professional as him.
The Star
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
Australia, New Zealand pledge support for film industry after Trump proposes tariffs
From left to right: Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving in The Matrix Revolutions. Australia was the filming location for the Matrix franchise. - Jasin Boland SYDNEY: Australia and New Zealand vowed to advocate for their film industries on Monday after US President Donald Trump announced a plan to impose 100 per cent tariffs on foreign-made movies. Australia and New Zealand have emerged as popular filming locations for Hollywood movies in recent years, given lower costs and tax incentives from federal and state governments. Earlier, Trump said in a post on Truth Social that it was due to incentives offered by other countries to lure filmmakers that the American movie industry was dying a "very fast death". He said he was authorising the relevant government agencies, such as the Department of Commerce, to immediately begin the process of imposing a 100 per cent tariff on all films produced abroad that are then sent into the United States. Australia's home affairs minister, Tony Burke, said he had spoken to the head of government body Screen Australia, which offers funding to support the development, production and marketing of screen content, about the proposed tariffs. "Nobody should be under any doubt that we will be standing up unequivocally for the rights of the Australian screen industry," Burke said in a statement. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said the government was awaiting further details on the proposed tariffs. "We'll have to see the detail of what actually ultimately emerges. But we'll be obviously a great advocate, great champion of that sector and that industry," he said. The Australian film and television sector was worth over A$4 billion (US$2.58 billion) in 2022, according to the country's statistics bureau. Australia was the filming location for the Matrix franchise and is a permanent base for studios including Marvel, while New Zealand is best known as the filming location of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. The Australian government has committed A$540 million in tax incentives since 2019 to attract international productions, with the bulk going to Hollywood movies such as Marvel's "Thor: Love and Thunder", Universal's "The Fall Guy" and Legendary Pictures' "Godzilla vs Kong". In New Zealand, the film sector generates NZ$3.5 billion (US$2 billion) annually, with around a third of revenue coming from the US, its foreign ministry said in a March 2025 report. - Reuters
