Jai Courtney is making his mark in Hollywood,
playing Bruce Willis's son in the new Die Hard
film. Picture: Nicole Cleary Source: News Limited
Neala Johnson, The Daily Telegraph, reports
Twelve months ago, Jai Courtney snuck into the
Australian F1 Grand Prix on his bicycle.
The red carpet rolled out for the Sydney actor this past weekend as he
returned a movie star - co-starring with Bruce Willis in A Good Day to Die
Hard.
"It was a very different experience, there was no corporate hospitality, that’s for sure," Courtney laughed of his previous Grand Prix adventure. "Next year, I’m going to put a little more pressure on them to get me in that celebrity race - that looked like fun."
Courtney, 26, is already in top gear on the big screen, facing off against Tom Cruise in January’s Jack Reacher and now playing son to Willis’s iconic Die Hard cop Jack McClane.
A Good Day to Die Hard has so far grossed $256.7 million worldwide. It opens in Australia on Thursday.
"It was a very different experience, there was no corporate hospitality, that’s for sure," Courtney laughed of his previous Grand Prix adventure. "Next year, I’m going to put a little more pressure on them to get me in that celebrity race - that looked like fun."
Courtney, 26, is already in top gear on the big screen, facing off against Tom Cruise in January’s Jack Reacher and now playing son to Willis’s iconic Die Hard cop Jack McClane.
A Good Day to Die Hard has so far grossed $256.7 million worldwide. It opens in Australia on Thursday.
"It’s certainly opening up some more interesting opportunities for
me,” said the now LA-based Courtney. “I don’t think life has changed
dramatically, but it’s a great thing."
Courtney said the toughest part of following in Willis’s action hero
footsteps was “how confusing things can be”.
"This film is in a sense one big action sequence - it’s like a 90-minute chase. So many times you’ll forget where it is you are. You might sustain an injury and then three weeks later you’re shooting the scene that immediately follows that and it’s like, ‘Hang on, didn’t I have a piece of glass in my shin?’
"It’s quite a chaotic thing to do."
"This film is in a sense one big action sequence - it’s like a 90-minute chase. So many times you’ll forget where it is you are. You might sustain an injury and then three weeks later you’re shooting the scene that immediately follows that and it’s like, ‘Hang on, didn’t I have a piece of glass in my shin?’
"It’s quite a chaotic thing to do."
Kate Winslet could be Courtney’s next co-star, with the Aussie
confirming he has “jumped on board” the movie Divergent, based on a
series of best-selling young-adult novels.
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