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Edgerton spoke about how the film shows similarities between his home country and the US. “America, that was about the movement west,” he said. “In Australia, we had our own versions of that, homesteaders and pioneers and explorers. I think, to put aside any politics around colonialism, this sense of people being the first to kind of move out into a space and make a life and grow their own food—I really have a lot of respect for people who have put themselves [to] the task of the hard work of building a life outside of a city, and rural people are very much an Australian identity.” The full conversation with Edgerton will appear on the January 6 episode of Little Gold Men.
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