Teresa Palmer and Phoebe Tonkin get zen with their fans

Aussie actor and rising Hollywood starlet Teresa Palmer has started blogging on happiness, health and spirituality with friend and actor Phoebe Tonkin. Source: The Daily Telegraph

Briana Domjen, The Daily Telegraph, reports

Hollywood Starlet Teresa Palmer is preaching about love, wellbeing and spirituality to her fans.

Palmer writes a health food and fitness blog called Your Zen Life with her friend and Australian actress Phoebe Tonkin, however has recently taken to YouTube to broadcast video diaries for her followers.

“My very first #Teztalks video blog for @yourzenlife The theme for today is 'Self Love', she posted on her twitter site.

My very first #Teztalks video blog for @yourzenlife The theme for today is "Self Love" Check it out here youtube.com/watch?v=PUE-3f…

— Teresa Palmer (@tez_palmer) May 31, 2013

The cute actress talks to her audience about how she believes some people associate self-love with being stuck up.

“I have been working on loving myself, accepting myself for everything I am, the things I do and the things I say,” she says.

“It is actually very difficult to love yourself.”

A day in the life of Teresa Palmer

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Joel Christie, The Daily Telegraph, reports

As far as alarm clocks go, there's nothing quite as effective as two puppies.

Each day, Adelaide-born, LA-based actress Teresa Palmer awakes to let her two dogs out from their "dog dungeon", a soundproof rock room attached to the side of the house she shares with actor/director boyfriend Mark Webber in Beachwood Canyon, a community in the Hollywood Hills.

"We call it that because it's decked out with all this dog furniture and toys and they absolutely love it," Palmer laughs.

Mixing together an almond milk protein shake, the recently turned 27-year-old sits outside by the pool and watches Kohda Bear, her labrador pit bull, do about 20 laps while monitoring the online health scrapbook she co-edits, Your Zen Life.

Then it's time to work out, which Palmer tries to do between four and six days a week, be it Pilates, kettle bell classes at her gym Equinox, or hiking.

"I love to run through Griffith Park and take the hike to The Observatory, which has one of the best views in Los Angeles," she said.

"When I started doing it a few years ago I managed it in about 40 minutes but I've got it down to 30 minutes.

"Just because I'm so competitive with myself, I have to do it every time in 30 minutes now otherwise I'm just ... not happy."

On this particular day Palmer and Webber head off to a pool party being thrown by US dance music maestro, Moby, in his "beautiful, historic castle".

"It's one of the most amazing houses I've ever seen," Palmer says.

"(Moby) is a sober guy so he has these parties with lots of great, diverse people, which are really just like a big picnic," she says.

"There's no drinking and it has this great family vibe. It's so nice just to be outdoors having fun."

By early afternoon, the Warm Bodies star is ready for a recharge of energy. "I started meditating maybe eight months ago and it's very grounding," she said.

"I do it for 20 minutes every day and it helps me understand the thoughts coming in and out of my head."

At the moment most of those thoughts are The Fun In Forever, a film Palmer and her beau have written and plan to star in, with filming beginning later this year on Palmer's dad's South Australia property.She describes it as a hybrid between The Tree Of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, and Blue Valentine, with Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.

"It's the most connected I've ever felt to a project and we're literally throwing everything we have at it," she said.

"My mum is actually going to play my mum in the film, too.

"She's a very sweet, gentle, religious woman who has never acted before and is very shy but she's excited."

Keeping with one of Confidential's favourite questions, we quizzed Palmer on her beauty regimen.

"OK, I have one product that is my absolute favourite," she says excitedly. "It's called Creme L/X by Artistry and it really has changed my skin.

"I love it. I use it twice a day. I've tried not to be a person that has to put on make-up before leaving house, so I really am mostly about moisturiser."

The catch?

L/X costs about $400.

"It's definitely an investment, but if you are going to choose to do with one beauty product I would say this is it, definitely."

Maybe next month.

Australian actress Teresa Palmer vies for lead role in Marvel's next Captain America film

Competition: Actress Teresa Palmer is vying for a lead in Marvel's next Captain America film. Source: The Daily Telegraph

J.Mo and Elle, The Sunday Telegraph, report

Aussie starlet Teresa Palmer is firming as one of five females vying for a lead in Marvel's next Captain America film.

Palmer, 26, has been named alongside Emilia Clarke, Alison Brie, Jessica Brown Findlay and Imogen Poots as a contender to play opposite Chris Evans in the next instalment of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Scarlett Johansson is already confirmed to play Black Widow in the film, which goes into production next year.

Palmer will next be seen on the big screen in Knight Of Cups starring Christian Bale and Natalie Portman.

Her previous film credits include I Am Number Four and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Working holiday on Aussie thriller Wish You Were Here

Team effort: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price, Teresa Palmer and Antony Starr in a scene from Wish You Were Here. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

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Even for a passion project, the story behind Sundance-selected thriller Wish You Were Here is unusually intense.

"People ask us: 'Didn't you fight?' says actress Felicity Price, who co-wrote the screenplay for the haunting, low-budget thriller with her husband, actor-turned-director Kieran Darcy-Smith.

"But it was the opposite of that. It was the creation of something."

Not only did they take their work home, the couple lived and breathed their story about a group of friends whose lives implode after one of their party disappears during a holiday in Cambodia.

"We never stopped talking about it," says Price, who plays Joel Edgerton’s wife in the finished project.

Teresa Palmer plays her sister, alongside New Zealand actor Antony Starr.

"In the car on our way to a family barbecue, we'd talk about a problem we couldn't solve," Price says. Darcy-Smith adds: "We'd talk about it while changing nappies. In the shower. While cooking dinner."

By integrating Darcy-Smith's all-important debut as a feature film director, not to mention Price's first lead film role, so successfully into their lives, the couple has put a whole new spin on the idea of a family film.

"We had two kids while we were doing it," says the director.

It's not entirely surprising, then, that when it came to the Cambodian shoot, two-and-a-half-year-old Levi had heard so much about the country, he wasn't going to be left behind.

At just seven months, Sunny was simply too young not to accompany the rest of her family.

"Our whole world shifted together," says Darcy-Smith.

Price admits that things might have been a bit easier if her second child had been just a little bit older.

"But when your film gets financed, you almost don't have a choice. And we wanted it for our lives to happen then."

As it turned out, the children adapted well to their new surrounds.

"They were the only ones who didn't get sick," says Price, who managed not to let the lack of sleep caused by breastfeeding and constant visits to the bathroom hamper her breakthrough performance.

"You learn you have such reserves," she says.

Darcy-Smith admits to having some reservations about directing his wife in his feature film debut.

"I'll be honest. In the beginning - because Felicity was always attached, there was no question she was going to play the role - I was anxious. She is a formidable actress and she has proven herself in incredible theatre shows over many years, and has done great supporting roles in movies and TV, but that's a vastly different thing to carrying a movie."

When he saw the first few days' rushes, Darcy-Smith breathed out.

The screen chemistry between Price and Edgerton, Darcy-Smith's co-founder of Blue Tongue Films, along with Edgerton's brother Nash, was clear.

"She's a helluva woman. It was pretty challenging - she's in almost every scene in the movie - but she was particularly graceful in the way she handled it."

While conditions in Cambodia were difficult - Darcy-Smith fell neck-deep into an open sewer on the first day of shooting - the director never felt he had bitten off more than he could chew.

"I can get quite overwhelmed by silly little things. But my experience of directing a movie, where there is genuine pressure, is that it's a bit like giving Ritalin to a hyperactive kid. It has a paradoxical effect. That pressure focuses me. Everything becomes crystal clear."

Wish You Were Here (MA15+), in cinemas now

Liam Hemsworth is lovely say actress Teresa Palmer

Teresa Palmer. Source: Supplied

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Teresa Palmer thinks fellow Australian Liam Hemsworth is the most perfect male co-star.

Palmer, 26, and Hemsworth, who are co-stars in the upcoming romantic war drama AWOL, locked lips while filming the movie.

"I did get to kiss Liam,'' Palmer told E! Online. "Liam is lovely. He's the most perfect male co-star.''

Palmer enjoyed creating such a vivid on-screen love story with Hemsworth.

"It's very much a (The) Notebook style movie,'' Palmer said. "I try desperately not to fall in love with a soldier who's gone AWOL from the Vietnam War but that soldier is Liam Hemsworth! It's sort of a bittersweet romance between them. It's heartbreaking and beautiful.''

Last year, Palmer and actor Zac Efron dated briefly following the actor's split from actress Vanessa Hudgens.

Hemsworth and girlfriend Miley Cyrus have dated on and off for three years and she recently revealed about how proud she is of his success. The pair were rumoured to be engaged, but Cyrus recently denied the rumours.

Filming for AWOL has been completed.

New wave of well-travelled talent homes in on local projects

Australian actor Joel Edgerton at the Wish You Were Here premiere in Sydney on Monday. Picture: Getty Images. Source: Getty Images

Michael Bodey, The Australian, reports

Joel Edgerton hoped his occupation might be his passport. After travelling to Texas with a play as a schoolboy, the young actor decided he wouldn't bother travelling on a gap year.

"I thought I can be an actor and travel the world," the 37-year-old recalls. "It took me a while but then I started heading off to these weird and wonderful places."

This week, he was in his home town of Sydney with co-star Teresa Palmer at the premiere of the Australian film partly shot in Cambodia, Wish You Were Here.

Next week, he departs for places unknown, or at least not public, to begin filming Kathryn Bigelow's follow-up to the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker, a film dramatising the US Navy SEALs attack and assassination of Osama bin Laden.

"I've been involved in movies that had confidentiality agreements and, looking back at them, they all look rather cosmetic compared to this," he says with a laugh.

After a swag of films that have taken him to the US, Britain, Canada and India, Edgerton enjoyed bunkering down in Sydney filming The Great Gatsby recently for Baz Luhrmann.

"He dreams big in a country where we're a little bit shy to dream big because we know it will attract criticism," Edgerton says of Luhrmann.

As he travels the globe adding to his growing resume of Hollywood and European films, Edgerton has maintained a steady mix of Australian films.

Conversely, Palmer says she jumped at the chance to take on Kieran Darcy-Smith and Felicity Price's thriller about the fallout from a Cambodian holiday gone wrong because she wanted to experience the feel of an Australian film again. The 26-year-old actress has already starred in major studio pictures including Bedtime Stories and I Am Number Four and hadn't worked here since she filmed December Boys in 2006.

"I've carved my path in America doing these big movies and I was switching it up by moving between genres," Palmer says. "But I was missing that sense of collaboration you get on these smaller, local movies."

And for once, her US agents were enthusiastic about her heading home.

"Sometimes they want you to stick around in America and earn lots of money on the studio films," Palmer says.

The prospect of Darcy-Smith's direction appealed to them because he is part of the Blue Tongue Films collective that includes the Edgerton brothers, Joel and Nash, Animal Kingdom's David Michod and Oscar nominee Luke Doolan.

"Blue Tongue has a huge reputation in the US, especially since Animal Kingdom," Palmer says. "I've been taking meetings over there and people are asking about the Blue Tongue collective. They really like their grittier, more real films. I feel like a new wave of directors and Aussie actors is being recognised over there right now."

Wish You Were Here is very much part of that collective's success after being chosen to open the international section of the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in January. Subsequently, Darcy-Smith has signed with a big US agency, WME, and the film has secured distribution in North America. They couldn't wish to be anywhere else.

Wish You Were Here opens on Anzac Day.