Ryan Kwanten
Very insightful interview with Ryan Kwanten from the Australian Magazine WAToday.
Virtually unrecognised in Australia, Ryan Kwanten is a huge star in the US, thanks to his role in cult HBO series True Blood. Amanda Hooton meets the Manly boy who’s making quite a splash.
Oh, the hell of being beautiful. It’s a Friday morning in the city, on one of those early summer days when Sydney sparkles like a showgirl: bright-eyed and shining, all cancan kicks and tassels and showing her teeth when she smiles. In a rooftop pool in the centre of the city – right in the showgirl’s dimple – Ryan Kwanten is floating on his back.
He’s fully clothed, and his white shirt is transparent, and his waterlogged jeans must feel ridiculous, but he still manages to look not only relaxed, but ineffably cool.
On the edge of the aquamarine water, a photographic team of nine stand watching him, bending and cooing and sometimes breaking into little rounds of applause. A nine-person photo-shoot – 10 if you include me, lurking on the outskirts – is not unheard of for superstars, but it’s unusual for ordinary mortals. It’s the kind of thing you might expect for J.Lo, Madonna or Mariah Carey.
Ryan Kwanten is not Madonna, but he is a kind of superstar – at least in the United States. In Australia we may have largely (and perhaps mercifully) forgotten his long-ago role as Vinnie the lifeguard on Home and Away, and his new role as Jason Stackhouse in the HBO vampire series True Blood is only just beginning to register on our viewing radars. But in the US, both show and actor are spectacularly successful.
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Great interview – thanks ZZ.
Great interview. What a cutie pixie he is!
Yes, I read it from the mag. He is becoming very well known here in OZ.