Baker's about-turn to keep up with Smith
From:Sydney Morning Herald
Date:June 9, 2006
No sooner had heart-throb Simon Baker and his wife Rebecca Rigg come home to Sydney after a decade in America than, PS discovers, they and their three children are heading back to Hollywood.
A former Sanctuary Cove pool boy, Baker has already returned to the US to start shooting a new television series called Smith, being made by the team behind the hugely successful ER series for Warner Bros.
Smith deals with the inner workings of a team of criminals, with Baker playing a larrikin, laid-back surfer dude by day, and a shrewd crook by night. He co-stars in the new series with Ray Liotta.
It was only a week after jetting back into Australia last November that Baker and his wife bought a home. The actor, who has made a slew of big-budget Hollywood films and achieved widespread fame in the US following his role in The Guardian, spent about $2.5 million on a five-bedroom, three-level Paddington terrace.
However, the bright lights of Hollywood have called him back to the US, where he is receiving rave reviews for his role in the Meryl Streep film The Devil Wears Prada, which is reportedly based on the life of the US Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Baker plays plays a staff writer for New York magazine.
According to The New York Times: "There is nothing slight about Mr Baker in Prada, even though his role is secondary. Amid the over-the-top fabulosity of the movie's fashionistas, his Christian [Thompson] is the one wholly believable character. He's the kind of smooth, ambitious journalist who does serious work if the assignment calls for it but will happily sell his soul, brain and maybe even his body for a shot at big-time bucks and glamour."
From Sydney Morning Herald.
Date:June 9, 2006
No sooner had heart-throb Simon Baker and his wife Rebecca Rigg come home to Sydney after a decade in America than, PS discovers, they and their three children are heading back to Hollywood.
A former Sanctuary Cove pool boy, Baker has already returned to the US to start shooting a new television series called Smith, being made by the team behind the hugely successful ER series for Warner Bros.
Smith deals with the inner workings of a team of criminals, with Baker playing a larrikin, laid-back surfer dude by day, and a shrewd crook by night. He co-stars in the new series with Ray Liotta.
It was only a week after jetting back into Australia last November that Baker and his wife bought a home. The actor, who has made a slew of big-budget Hollywood films and achieved widespread fame in the US following his role in The Guardian, spent about $2.5 million on a five-bedroom, three-level Paddington terrace.
However, the bright lights of Hollywood have called him back to the US, where he is receiving rave reviews for his role in the Meryl Streep film The Devil Wears Prada, which is reportedly based on the life of the US Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Baker plays plays a staff writer for New York magazine.
According to The New York Times: "There is nothing slight about Mr Baker in Prada, even though his role is secondary. Amid the over-the-top fabulosity of the movie's fashionistas, his Christian [Thompson] is the one wholly believable character. He's the kind of smooth, ambitious journalist who does serious work if the assignment calls for it but will happily sell his soul, brain and maybe even his body for a shot at big-time bucks and glamour."
From Sydney Morning Herald.
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