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klevan55604	Rose to return to Australia ? replied on: 9/15/2004 5:42:33 PM I thought she was doing so well. I'm realy surprised to hear that she is sharing a room with soomebody else, her car doesn't have an AC, and on top of it all she got kicked out of her room . And why in the world she can't get a job in hollywood?
balmain3001	Rose to return to Australia ? replied on: 9/9/2004 2:16:00 AM Rambling Rose Returns Rose Byrne is heading home after riding a Trojan horse into Hollywood. Nick Papps reports from Los Angeles 8 September 2004 Townsville Bulletin ROSE Byrne looks like the next big thing. After starring opposite Brad Pitt in Troy, winning a best actress award at the Venice film festival and having a new film out with heart-throb Josh Hartnett, Byrne appears to have the acting world at her feet. But after just a few minutes chatting inside a Santa Monica hotel, the Sydneysider completely blows apart that perception. The fact is Rose Byrne is an unemployed actress and has not been paid to work in a film for more than a year. Six months ago Byrne moved to Los Angeles to ride the Troy juggernaut through the front door of the major film studios and hopefully to some big movies. But after busting her gut for six months on the Hollywood merry-go-round of auditions, meetings and waiting for the phone to ring, the striking looking actress is heading home. Byrne reveals she's unemployed during our interview to promote her new romantic thriller Wicker Park. In fact, she makes the revelation in response to the simple, standard question, "what is your next project"? "I don't know," Byrne responds rather flatly. "I've got no idea. "There's a few films later in the year that I'm up for, hopefully one of them will come to fruition, but I don't know yet. "There's been things I have been up for that I didn't get that I really wanted to do. "That's just the way it goes." So there it is, since finishing filming Wicker Park and then wrapping Troy more than a year ago, one of Australia's most talented actresses has been unable to find a film. No vague comments about "projects" she can't discuss or people she is having "talks" with. Rose Byrne calls it as it is and without even a hint of self pity. In fact she's almost philosophical, quoting some great advice from a girlfriend who told her being an actor wasn't just about having the talent. "It's a question of whether you can handle being out of work, being financially unsettled, humiliated, rejected, depressed," Byrne recounts. "When you get the work that's the easy part, it's trying to get the work that's the hard part. "I have a two-day rule, I will be sad for a few days and then I will bounce back. It's just time. It is easy to forget Rose Byrne is only 25. Her down-to-earth attitude towards her career belies her age and may be due to the fact she has been acting in films for over a decade, debuting as a 14-year-old opposite Sandra Bernhard in Dallas Doll before really grabbing attention opposite Heath Ledger in Two Hands. Along the way there has also been parts in Star Wars Episode II, The Night We Called it a Day and a performance in The Goddess of 1967 that won Byrne the best actress performance at the Venice Film Festival. But there is no doubt the biggest break for Byrne was when she won the part of Briseis, in Troy. It was a massive opportunity and even today, the self-effacing Byrne has trouble believing she ever won the part. "Troy was a miracle, a complete miracle, that was very surreal," she said before modestly adding "it was a pretty small part". Small role or not, having a part in one of the year's most hyped releases cannot be underestimated for its power to open Hollywood doors, a fact not lost on Byrne who decided in the aftermath of Wicker Park and Troy to leave Sydney and move to Los Angeles. "I had two films coming out so I thought I'm crazy if I don't go and try to capitalise on that and just built up some networks and some connections and get to know people. And I feel like I have done that," she says. "With a film of that scale your work is exposed to people who have never heard of you before from all over the community of film-making, so you now have a reference point. "It's like `you know she was in Troy', and that's great, it's a massive, massive step for me." But while the post-Troy move has led to many meetings, it hasn't led to job offers. Today you won't find Byrne sipping sparkling water at a cocktail party in the Hollywood Hills. You will find her studying writing at Los Angeles' UCLA. And there's no exotic mansion with million dollar views for this actress either. The reality of life is that Byrne shares a house with two other people in LA and drives a car that doesn't even have airconditioning. "I try not to drive much," she says. "But I'm very lucky, unemployed actors don't need to drive anywhere so I try to stay home all day if I can and just read or do things at home that I want to do." It's clear that Byrne is hardly living a glamorous life in Los Angeles. As she prepares for home, you get the impression that the southern Californian city and the down-to-earth Byrne are not a great match and the parting won't be too painful at all. It seems that for now, she's had enough of what she calls "definitely the most superficial city I have ever lived in". "It's very vain, very vain," she says. "You feel a pressure to be a certain way. "People are trying to reinvent themselves here I think and that's exhausting. I don't have the stamina for it to be honest. "It's so big and the culture is hidden in lot of ways. "It's like one big Paramatta road." And as for the film industry, Byrne says films in this city are like "real estate". "Most of it is not about the art -- it's just about the commodity of it and it's just a matter of trying to figure out and navigating your way through it," she says. "You have to figure out how to walk through the bull...." As our chat draws to a close, it is clear that now is the right time for Byrne to head back the real world of Australia and her "community" in Sydney. "All my people are there, my community, my friends and my family. I would really like to go and spend some time at home again," she says. But before anyone thinks Byrne is in any way bowed or beaten by her experience in Los Angeles, they clearly don't know this feisty, focused young woman who clearly loves her craft. And after heading home to Sydney for Christmas, Byrne will be off to London to find work. As she puts it, she wants to stay in acting shape, to keep fine tuning her skill. "When you don't work for a while that is always what worries me, you get out of shape with the whole thing," she says. "I think hopefully I can continue to get parts in solid films and continue to grow as an artist. "Telling stories if I am lucky enough to do it, is just a fantastic thing to do. "It is a wonderful, wonderful job."

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