Countdown to the big 7-0...
Here’s the first of my planned sketches for my GR big 7-0 countdown. I hope to do one for each of his many film/TV roles (though perhaps not the really obscure ones), and I may squeeze in some theatre roles if I can. This is ofc Rush as David Helfgott in “Shine” (1996), the film role which landed him an Oscar and catapulted him to international stardom.
Sketch of Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott in "Shine" 1996
And here’s a nifty, wee article from 2013 about “Shine” from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/australia-culture-blog/2013/dec/27/shine-rewatching-classic-australian-films It’s a fantastic film; I re-watched it recently and had forgotten just how powerful it was. Always worth a revisit if you haven’t seen it for a while - or worse, have never seen it!