The Big Picture Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan returned to the Cannes Film Festival 2024 to premiere his film The Surfer, a thriller led by an explosive Nicolas Cage that left the audience buzzing. The movie invites its viewers onto the fictional Luna Beach in Southern Australia, where the waters are warm, but the welcome wagon isn't.
JULIAN MCMAHON: Oh, that's a good one. Well, we might just go back to the beginning to watch The Power, the Passion, which was the first TV show I ever did. MCMAHON: Probably earlier on because when I first started, I kind of fell into the business a little bit, and so I was learning the craft at the same time that I was working. I did a TV show called Profiler — this is years and years ago — and I was studying method at the time, and so I made some really odd choices about doing things. And I remember actually going to another actor, this great actor, and I was like, “Oh, I did this, and I went and stayed down at the thing.
Julian McMahon Calls 'The Surfer' Brutal and "Pretty Harsh" Close One of the things that I loved about the film is how it keeps the audience off balance. What was it like for you reading the script for the first time? I'm curious how it was on the page versus what it ended up being on the screen.