![]() “You can’t help but let a character’s psyche inform how you carry yourself, which kind of happened organically with this role. It was both a challenge and really about feeling free to not speak a large amount of words, to let spaces flow between the characters and to really lean into the sparseness and the silence of the place.”Ĭharlie has let himself go and drinks too much. “I knew there had to be a level of restraint. But, every so often I look around at the way things are and think they could be a lot better.” “I’ve got everything I could possibly want and I’m in a really happy, contented place. It’s something that is at play, even in the subconscious, even if I live a really privileged life. It’s a story that is really familiar to me, as a person, as an Aboriginal man. “What drew me to it was this character of Charlie, and the fact that he’s been chewed up and spat out by a system that is really not designed for him. ![]() What is it about this film that attracted you? Natasha Wanganeen plays Charlie’s sister. Drug-addled detective Travis (Simon Baker) is assigned the case. In Limbo, Collins has a pivotal role as Charlie, the brother of a missing woman who was deemed murdered 20 years earlier in the fictional town of Limbo (actually Coober Pedy). Collins has also appeared in movies including Top End Wedding, Extraction and The Drover’s Wife and has a supporting role in an upcoming American movie, Arthur the King, alongside Mark Wahlberg.Ĭollins has also worked extensively on the stage, touring for two and a half years with The Lion King in the role of Mufasa and he played Lysander in a Sydney Theatre Company production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He also appears in an episode of Ten Pound Poms. ![]() His prominent roles have been in series, including Cleverman about an Indigenous superhero, The Wrong Girl, Glitch and more recently series Mystery Road, Total Control and RFDS, a medical drama centring around the Royal Flying Doctor Service. In the Mystery Road TV show, people wouldn’t recognise him.”Ĭollins came to acting late, studying at NIDA from 2011 to 2013. He can come in, he can change his look and he can change his weight and all kinds of things. He’s very, very professional, and very, very dedicated. ![]() “Rob’s great, he’s definitely got a big future,” says Sen, who is best known for Mystery Road, Goldstone, Beneath Clouds and Toomelah. Born and raised in Darwin, where he still lives with his wife and family, Collins travelled to The Berlin Film Festival to promote Ivan Sen’s Limbo, which world premiered in competition. Tall and muscular and with charisma to burn, the 43-year- old Indigenous actor has even been touted as a potential James Bond. Rob Collins may well be the next big thing. ![]()
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