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Feb 23 2017
“Those doors would never be opening now were it not for Muriel’s Wedding,” Toni Collette says in an interview with Stellar. The Blacktown-born star said that she still gets stopped in the street by fans of the film who say ‘you’re terrible Muriel’, more than two decades after it first hit the big screen. She said that playing the repressed, underdog character who became the unlikely heroine changed her life. ‘It’s pretty incredible that a film has stayed with people on such a deep level,’ she said. Reminiscing her early days film the 1994 hit, she said she enjoyed the process of making the film without contemplating what would happen next. From there Toni had a succession of roles that catapulted her into international recognition with films such as The Sixth Sense, In Her Shoes, and Little Miss Sunshine. In late 2015, she returned to Australia to film Jasper Jones in Pemberton, WA. The coming-of-age movie sees the actress play the mother of a young boy from a small mining town who finds himself in a moral dilemma in 1960s Australia, which is set for release in March. The full interview can be read over at the Daily Telegraph’s Stellar website. Read posts from the archive:
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