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Herald Sun
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Herald Sun
Role Aussie loss to US star: ‘More famous'
Don't miss out on the headlines from TV. Followed categories will be added to My News. British actor Jim Sturgess and Australian actress Teresa Palmer play high school sweethearts who reunite after decades apart in the new Aussie series Mix Tape. In a case of life imitating art, both Sturgess and Palmer also experience a reunion of sorts on the set, as they actually met years ago in Hollywood. That year was 2008 and Palmer had auditioned for a role in the drama 21, a film about a group of genius college students who use maths to win big at blackjack in Las Vegas. Sturgess scored the lead opposite Kevin Spacey, but Palmer didn't get the role. 'Kate Bosworth got the role ultimately. She was a lot more famous than me back then,' Palmer, 39, told But doing the audition process together at the time marked the start of a beautiful friendship between the stars. 'When they do those screen tests, they really kind of put you through it. And so me and Teresa spent a whole day together and got on really well,' Sturgess, 47, tells 'I'd always been aware of her work since that day and always sort of follow [her career].' 'Then literally 20 years later we're coming back and shooting Mix Tape together. We messaged each other about it and we were excited that we were both getting on board.' Stream Mix Tape now on BINGE, available on Hubbl. In Mix Tape, which is now streaming on BINGE, Sturgess and Palmer play former 80s high-school sweethearts Daniel and Alison who are now living in Sydney and Sheffield, respectively. As high-school sweethearts, the pair would make each other mix tapes, but a tragic event pulls them to opposite ends of the world. Through modern technology, they reconnect after a chance encounter and discover that the songs from their shared past evoke feelings that never went away. Off set, Sturgess and Palmer also connected through music – not through mix tapes, but through playlists. 'We made each other some playlists, but it was about as unromantic as you could imagine,' he laughs. 'We were sending each other hip-hop music basically. T's a big hip-hop fan, and I was sending her a lot of English sort of grime, hip-hop music, and she was sending me stuff back.' But fun and music aside, Mix Tape is more than just a rom-com. The four-part series explores missed opportunities, second chances, and childhood trauma. 'It sort of exists in this really interesting space where it's gritty enough and romantic enough and it's all these things just coming together to make the show. So that's all really of exciting and deeply nostalgic,' Sturgess says. 'This is definitely not a gushy kind of romance film. It's difficult and it's traumatic at times.' Palmer's character of Alison lives through a traumatic experience that forces her to leave town for Sydney where she now resides with her husband (played by Ben Lawson). But her troubled and impoverished childhood in Sheffield is never far from her mind. And in some ways, Palmer could relate to Alison. 'I would not say my upbringing was anywhere near what Alison went through. Not even close, but I grew up in government housing,' Palmer reveals. 'I went to a private Catholic school that my dad paid for, but I lived with my mum who was on a disability pension. I remember feeling like I was the one at school who couldn't have people over to my house because my house was so tiny and embarrassing and I didn't really want to have a lot of friends over.' 'But my place ended up being the place everyone wanted to go to because my mum was very open with her rules. We didn't really have any rules, to be honest. So all my friends suddenly were like, 'We want to be at our house. We're going to go to Teresa's house.'' Mix Tape will hit home for many people who have ever asked 'what if' – and both Sturgess and Palmer loved the 'beautiful, nuanced way' the story was told. 'I think it is hugely romantic for anyone looking back,' Sturgess says. 'There's a generation of 40 year olds that are really going to be moved by the nostalgia of it.' Mix Tape is now streaming on BINGE, available on Hubbl and watch On Demand on Foxtel Originally published as Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess reunite 17 years after almost starring together in Hollywood film
Sydney Morning Herald
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
How this British star's teenage efforts to impress girls finally came in handy
Music, you might add, is one of Sturgess's great unresolved loves. Growing up in Surrey, England, he was always in bands, running the gamut from hip-hop to indie. He has never lost his fervour, even as he scaled the Hollywood ladder to A-list acclaim, through movies including 2012's Cloud Atlas and the original 2011 adaptation of David Nicholls' One Day. Loading Tousle-haired, bearded and sleepy eyed, he looks as much a wan troubadour as he does a gleaming celebrity. Even last year he released an album as his alter ego King Curious. Spoiler – it's good. But it's also telling that Sturgess chooses to perform under another name. 'I get it – there's always a bit of an edge to it when an actor puts a record out. It's always, a bit, 'Uh-oh, hold your breath.' And rightly so, I would be exactly the same if I saw an actor put a record out. But the reaction [to his own record Common Sense for the Animal ] was amazing. I was so stoked that all these music magazines really took it on.' It meant that when he first got the script for Mix Tape what he most wanted to know was what was going to be on the soundtrack. Because frankly, if the tunes weren't right, then Sturgess wasn't on board. 'The music made me a little bit nervous because when I got the script it wasn't established what tracks we would be using,' he says. That's also part of the subject in Mix Tape. 'Everyone has such a difficult relationship with music and what tracks were important to them,' he says. 'And Lucy the director [Lucy Gaffy, Totally Completely Fine] was Australian, so I was hoping that she would get on board with the same music I thought Daniel should be listening to. Even my wife and I started arguing about different possibilities for what music he'd like.' Thankfully the tunes are right, at least to my ears – many of the high points of Madchester (the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Tte Charlatans) and the era just preceding it (Joy Division, New Order) are all present and correct. But Mix Tape is also interested in the way we consume music, now and then, and how that affects us. Back then it meant a C90 crafted over weeks from a twin cassette deck. These days it's streaming, shared playlists, likes and comments. 'With the tech now, you just send over a playlist of a track on YouTube to each other, but it doesn't hold the same value, I don't think,' Sturgess says. 'Back then you had to put real effort in to recording a song on a tape, do a bit of artwork on the front, call it something funny and cool …' That doesn't mean that Sturgess is a Luddite. He sees the storytelling possibilities inherent in the new tech. 'On the other hand, phones and relationships is interesting. They provide this secret link to another world in everyone's back pocket and it means that a two-way relationship always has a third party – the phone.' Loading Music also engenders nostalgia, a what-was-I-doing-when-I-first-heard that frisson, and that goes for Sturgess, too. He filmed the Australian sections of Mix Tape in Sydney, taking him away from his home and family in east London and back to a city he last visited when he was barely older than the young Daniel. 'I went to Sydney in my 20s with one of my best mates, who strangely enough is half Australian and half from Sheffield. Back then it was all hostel beds and bars and beaches … I didn't remember much. So it was really nice to go back and get a real idea of the place. It's a wonderful city.' Talking of nostalgia and lost love revisited, it would be remiss to interview Sturgess in 2025 without mentioning One Day. Last year Netflix scored a huge hit with their series adaptation of the David Nicholls comedy-romance, but it was Sturgess who played Dexter in the original 2011 film opposite Anne Hathaway. 'It was actually really nice for me to watch One Day,' he says. 'I'd just worked with Ambika Mod [who plays Emma in the Netflix series] on another TV show that we did for Disney [ The Stolen Girl ] and I was grateful for our friendship because it gave me a personal connection to this new version of One Day that was coming out. It was very nostalgic for me. But I just felt happy for them. They were having their time and we had ours. It was a special time in my life, making that film.' That's the thing with the past. You can't change it. But you can still wallow in the memories and the what-ifs. Now go dig out that old mixtape and see where it takes you.
TimesLIVE
03-06-2025
- Sport
- TimesLIVE
Blast from the past: Boks beat Canada in WC group match, huge scuffle steals the show
1951 — Eric Sturgess, who had rallied from 1-4 down in the fifth and final set to win his semifinal against Australian Ken McGregor, goes down to his Czech-born doubles partner Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt 3-6 3-6 3-6 in the final of the French championships in Paris. Drobny, who won an Olympic ice hockey silver playing for Czechoslovakia in 1948, retained the French championship the following year and went on to win a Wimbledon title, the only man with African citizenship to do so. For Sturgess, 31 at the time, it was his last singles final in a grand slam, having lost in Paris in 1947 and at the US Open in 1948. Sturgess, an accountant, was a Spitfire pilot in World War 2 and was captured after bailing out during a sortie. He spent the last seven months of the war in the Stalag Luft III camp made famous by the Steve McQueen movie The Great Escape...
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Atlanta World War II Nayy veteran dead at 103
The Brief Atlanta World War II veteran Albert Henley "Hank" Sturgess Jr. died on Sunday at the age of 103. Sturgess earned nine battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation for his bravery while serving in the South Pacific during World War II. He lived in Georgia for the rest of his life after coming home from his service. ATLANTA - An Atlanta World War II veteran who fought in the South Pacific will be laid to rest this week. Albert Henley "Hank" Sturgess Jr. died on Sunday at the age of 103. The backstory Born in 1921 in Pennsylvania, Sturgess moved to Atlanta in 1931 with his parents. Outside his time in the Navy, he lived in Georgia for the rest of his life. Good Day's Buck Lanford met Sturges in 2023 when the veteran was celebrating his 102nd birthday. The metro Atlanta man worked as the CIO on the destroyer USS Radford, and received a Presidential Citation from the Secretary of the Navy for his bravery in combat. He once led the rescue of hundreds of survivors of the sunken cruiser USS Helena while under attack from Japanese warships. Sturgess told Lanford that he remembered being at "the tip of the spear" serving near the Solomon Islands. "We had to act very quickly with the information we had," he said. "We couldn't contemplate it. We just had to act." After the war, Sturgess remained active in his community, eventually being named Atlanta Realtor of the Year. He was also president of the Sandy Springs Chamber of Commerce and president of the Sons of the American Revolution. What they're saying When asked by Lanford about his secret to living a long life, Sturgess was extremely modest. "It's all by God's grace because I didn't do anything different. I lived the same life that you're living now. It's just by God's grace that he's allowed me to live as long as I have," he said. What's next A celebration of Sturgess' life will be held at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church in Sandy Springs 30327 at 10 a.m. on Friday. In lieu of flowers, the family says contributions may be made in his name to the missions fund at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, where Sturgess served as deacon and elder. He is survived by his son, Robert Henley Sturgess, daughter-in-law Anne Sturgess, granddaughter Frances Julia Sturgess, stepsister Eleanor Whitfield, cousin Jerry Mowell, and several nephews and nieces. The Source Information for this story came from a previous FOX 5 report by Buck Lanford and Albert Sturgess, Jr,'s obituary.
