Simon says, it's time for return to Oz
From:Herald Sun
Date:27nov05
By FIONA BYRNE
HANDSOME Hollywood star Simon Baker is calling Australia home once more.
The former soapie star, who got his break in the long defunct E Street, has packed up his family and moved out of LA after almost a decade in the US.
It is believed Baker, his wife Rebecca Rigg and their children, Stella, Claude and Harry Friday, will live in an elegant terrace home bought in the Sydney suburb of Paddington.
Baker, who is currently filming the movie The Devil Wears Prada alongside Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway, said he was keen to do an Australian film.
"When I went over there, (the US), I could not get a job in Australian films because they were always employing Tom Selleck and guys like that to be the star of Australian films," he said.
"I went over there figuring one day I could come back and get a job in an Australian film.
"I have been looking at Australian scripts the whole time I have been over there.
"I have been loosely attached to a few of them. Maybe coming back and being here I might be able to focus more on helping to get a few of those things going."
Baker confirmed he had looked at the script for the proposed Clancy of the Overflow film and had been sounded out several months ago about a role in The December Boys, now in production in South Australia, starring Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe.
He said he was also interested in a proposed film by top director Fred Schepisi.
Baker said it had always been his plan to eventually bring his family home to Australia.
"When I went over there (US), I only went there really with a plan to stay for three months, but it extended and I bred and things sort of developed," Baker said.
"I always knew there would be a point where for my kids I had to leave, otherwise I would lose them completely to that culture.
"It was the right time. My daughter starts high school this year."
Baker, in town over the weekend as a presenter at the AFI Awards, starred for several seasons in the hit TV show The Guardian.
FromHerald Sun.
Date:27nov05
By FIONA BYRNE
HANDSOME Hollywood star Simon Baker is calling Australia home once more.
The former soapie star, who got his break in the long defunct E Street, has packed up his family and moved out of LA after almost a decade in the US.
It is believed Baker, his wife Rebecca Rigg and their children, Stella, Claude and Harry Friday, will live in an elegant terrace home bought in the Sydney suburb of Paddington.
Baker, who is currently filming the movie The Devil Wears Prada alongside Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway, said he was keen to do an Australian film.
"When I went over there, (the US), I could not get a job in Australian films because they were always employing Tom Selleck and guys like that to be the star of Australian films," he said.
"I went over there figuring one day I could come back and get a job in an Australian film.
"I have been looking at Australian scripts the whole time I have been over there.
"I have been loosely attached to a few of them. Maybe coming back and being here I might be able to focus more on helping to get a few of those things going."
Baker confirmed he had looked at the script for the proposed Clancy of the Overflow film and had been sounded out several months ago about a role in The December Boys, now in production in South Australia, starring Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe.
He said he was also interested in a proposed film by top director Fred Schepisi.
Baker said it had always been his plan to eventually bring his family home to Australia.
"When I went over there (US), I only went there really with a plan to stay for three months, but it extended and I bred and things sort of developed," Baker said.
"I always knew there would be a point where for my kids I had to leave, otherwise I would lose them completely to that culture.
"It was the right time. My daughter starts high school this year."
Baker, in town over the weekend as a presenter at the AFI Awards, starred for several seasons in the hit TV show The Guardian.
FromHerald Sun.
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