{"id":42023,"date":"2014-12-23T12:43:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=42023"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:27:27","slug":"profile-luke-bracey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2014\/12\/23\/profile-luke-bracey\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile:  Luke Bracey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme sports addict turned actor, Australia&#8217;s Luke Bracey is trading in his board for life on the big screen.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Luke-Bracey-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42024\" alt=\"Luke Bracey 1\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Luke-Bracey-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p ><em>Luke wears vintage leather jacket, white cotton tee and black jeans both by Tom Ford.<\/em><\/p>\n<p >If you don\u2019t know Luke Bracey\u2019s name just yet, don\u2019t worry \u2014 you\u2019ll almost certainly recognise the 24-year-old Australian\u2019s face, and since his new film, a Nicholas Sparks adaptation called <i>Best of Me<\/i>, came out last month, it\u2019s probably plastered over every teenage girl\u2019s bedroom wall. In the film, he plays the young protagonist Dawson (the older Dawson is played by the equally irresistible James Marsden.) When we catch up over the phone for <i>Wonderland<\/i>, I subtly question him about his thoughts on his imminent heartthrob status and he bursts out laughing, acknowledging the absurdity of the situation in his charming Australian drawl.<\/p>\n<p >\u201cI can\u2019t say I\u2019ve given it much thought,\u201d he finally concludes. \u201cIt\u2019s something that I\u2019ve been avoiding and not thinking about. It\u2019s a strange idea to me, but I guess it\u2019s something that comes when you make a film like this. I mean the whole time I was filming I just kept thinking, \u2018This Dawson dude is such a nice guy, he\u2019s just such a good bloke.\u2019 You understand people are going to see the movie and fall in love with Dawson, he\u2019s such a great guy.<\/p>\n<p >It\u2019s an attitude that sort of sums up Luke\u2019s approach to his career thus far: open, positive and enthusiastic. But he has been lucky: while thousands of hopeful actors fail to catch a star-making break, Luke fell into acting by accident, after being spotted by a casting agent when he was a rugby-playing teenager. \u201cI kind of did a casting and didn\u2019t know what was going on at all, and then the next day I got the job,\u201d he recalls. The job in question was a prominent part in Aussie institution <i>Home and Away<\/i>, and three days into the gig Luke concluded that acting might be a career worth pursuing.<\/p>\n<p >Fortunately the show became his vehicle into wider success, and taught him much of what he knows about acting, providing him with a chance to learn on the job. \u201cYou realise that for TV shows and movies to work and be successful everyone has to be putting in everything they\u2019ve got, and that\u2019s showing up on time, knowing your lines, being fit and healthy and ready to go,\u201d he tells me. \u201cI couldn\u2019t think of a better place to start: the pace is really intense, you\u2019re filming five episodes in five days, and filming exteriors for next week\u2019s episodes in that week: it\u2019s sink or swim. Either you get through it or it\u2019ll break you. And luckily I took it day by day and I learnt so much. I\u2019m very thankful for the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p >Luke has adopted that same grateful attitude to each part he has won, from upcoming spy thriller <i>The November Man<\/i>, with Mr Bond himself Pierce Brosnan, to the forthcoming remake of cult classic <i>Point Break<\/i>, for which he\u2019s stepping into Keanu Reeves\u2019s well-worn shoes, to play an updated version of hero Johnny Utah. Casting Luke in a film about surfers seems a canny move from the producers, given his sportsman pedigree \u2014 did the shoot give him a chance to flex his extreme-sports-loving muscles?<\/p>\n<p >\u00a0\u201cOh, absolutely! I mean I actually grew up surfing in Sydney, but surfing\u2019s only one part of the film,\u201d he says.\u00a0 \u201cIn this new version there\u2019s snow boarding, rock climbing, windsurfing, motocross and wing-suiting. It covers all extreme sports, and we\u2019ve got the best people in these fields doing these stunts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p >\u201cI got to do some pretty gnarly skateboarding in and around this car park, which was a lot of fun. I got to be towed around and do some surfing in Tahiti. It was a dream come true. And I get to go to Barcelona on Wednesday and do four days of rock climbing with Chris Sharma who\u2019s the best rock climber in the world,\u201d he enthuses, listing some of the better perks of the job. \u201cIt\u2019s kinda surreal,\u201d he admits. \u201cYou\u2019re meeting all these people who are at the absolute top of their game, and it\u2019s a thrill to talk to them and try and take something away from meeting all these people who\u2019ve achieved so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p >At 24, Luke is totally living the dream. Before saying goodbye I make sure to ask him where it\u2019s all headed. Are we going to see him writing? Directing? Or even packing it all in to become a professional rugby player? \u201cHonestly, I\u2019m just trying to get acting down and trying to get better at that. I think that\u2019s a tough enough task as it is. It\u2019s a complex art form and craft, and it\u2019s something I really want to work on,\u201d he says. \u201cBut there\u2019s a part of me that still wants to be a fireman, so you never know\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Luke-Bracey-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42025\" alt=\"Luke Bracey 2\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Luke-Bracey-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Words:<\/strong> Maya Hambro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photographer:<\/strong> Doug Inglish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fashion:<\/strong> Sarah Schussheim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme sports addict turned actor, Australia&#8217;s Luke Bracey is trading in his board for life on the big 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