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Joel Edgerton's Guilty Pleasures

By Danielle de Wolfe

29 October 2014

Joel Edgerton is a heavyweight actor in more than one sense of the word.

Warrior? Well, Exodus

Black Mass

Felony

Animal Kingdom

FOOD

Sugar - cannot get enough of it. I just ate a jellybean a minute ago, and I'm planning on having more. I also love my chocolate. I don’t have a pantry full of it, but if you put it in front of me I will just eat it. And, believe me, my chocolate taste is highbrow, I like dark chocolate. Not sure about the new trend of infusing chocolate with bacon and chilli, mind, which is a thing in LA right now. No lie. Despite enjoying a relatively healthy lifestyle to get in shape for films, there's nothing wrong with a bit of American junk food either; so if you see me at a baseball or basketball game I’ll be enjoying a hot-dog.

MOVIE

Most of the films I don't want to watch at the cinema, or wouldn't watch at home, are films I watch on planes. I'll scroll though and pick out all the ones I would never watch in any other context than sat in mid-air. Everyone says that's when you also cry - but one of the biggest cries I ever had at a movie was at the cinema for Into The Wild. I was even watching a trailer the other day when I started to feel myself well-up. It was for the Stephen Hawking biopic [The Theory Of Everything]. One watch of that trailer and I already know I’m going to be teary-eyed come the cinema trip.

TV

HannibalKing ArthurHome & AwayNeighboursHome & AwayNeighbours

SONG

Now I’m going to blame the same girlfriend from high school for something else bad: she was the reason that at the age of 14 I went along to a Bros concert. It’s hard to call it a guilty pleasure but I feel guilty just talking about it. I was there all right, at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney. So yeah, any live songs from those guys will count because, to my shame, I saw them live.

BAND

I’m going to start by telling you about Hozier, who I’m really into at the moment - I was recently working in Boston and caught him live without knowing anything about him, and he was amazing. Now, one of my relatively unknown pleasures is listening to old Run DMC stuff. I narrowly missed bumping into Chuck D in a radio station a few weeks ago - I almost waited around just to meet him, so as soon as I got home I threw on an old album and loved it immediately. Public Enemy were another rap group I really liked growing up. Not sure if they count as guilty pleasures but I am still a hip hopper at heart.

WEBSITE

YouTube is my dark hole. If I open it, I’m getting lost in it. It’s one of those sites that just will put a smile on your face as they have all that weird and funny shit. There’s a video I recently got sent with Darth Vader edited so he has different dialogue from other James Earl Jones movies. Some kid put it together these clips, so Vader’s walking through the halls of the Death Star saying [a high pitched impersonation of Jones: “I’m having the time of my life”. The other big win is the video of the laughing quadruplets, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Four identical babies all laughing exactly the same time, it’s ridiculous and I’m embarrassed to even tell you about it.

MAGAZINE

I want to murder all gossip journalists. And yet if I see a gossip magazine I can’t help but pick it up. It’s so weird, like crack, you can’t stop reading them. But believe me, as a reader, I’ll be flicking through it while fantasising about killing the journalists who contribute to it. Jokes aside, it stretches to the whole element of embarrassing other human beings, and for what? Money. That's not cool, and it isn't nice. I should probably stop buying them.

Felony is now available to watch on VOD platforms such as iTunes, SKY Movies, Virgin Movies, Film4 OD, Amazon Prime and Blinkbox; Itunes.apple.com

[Images: Rex, AllStar, YouTube, Shutterstock]