That’s not your everyday occurrence."
For many Australians, Kelly is a polarizing figure.
But no one sees him quite like director Justin Kurzel.
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“And he said, ‘They were angry, ambitious, confused, young men trying to define themselves.
So I see them as a punk band.
Therefore, I booked you a gig in Melbourne in three weeks.'”
Just like that, this Kelly gang formed their own band, quite literally.
Two of the songs even made it into the film.
Hoult says he was understandably left out of the musical proceedings.
In a gender-bending twist, Kelly and his gang wear dresses on their violent escapades.
“We lean pretty heavy on the dresses.”
The outlaws weren’t the only ones who got to play around in women’s wear, though.
One of the film’s more,ahem, memorable moments involves Hoult’s character in a brothel.
It was memorable for Hoult, too.
“That’s not your everyday occurrence.”
“It kind of got a little bit overwhelming for me, by the end.
Luckily, it was with lovely people, so I still have fond memories of it.”
MacKay was given a mullet instead.
Let’s just give him a mullet.’
Genuinely I loved my mullet.
For what I lack in facial hair, I can grow in mullet."
“I think humans are a lot of things all at once,” he says.
“And that’s what the film is about, first and foremost.
We are all of these things, and we are none of these things.”
