Ryan Kwanten to morph into first Oz superhero
True Blood star Ryan Kwanten will star in an independent flick that is being billed as Australia’s first crime-fighting superhero tale.
Kwanten had his pick of American projects, but made the dash back to his homeland on a break from filming the hit television vampire series.
Of Griff the Invisible, Kwanten said in Sydney: “This film was something that went straight to my core. It’s the kind of story that you read and, even if I hadn’t got the role, it would have stuck with me. I put myself on tape in the States, and at the end of my audition, I really just wanted to say, ‘f*** guys, believe me – I can do this. I am right for this.’”
Kwanten’s love interest is played by Maeve Dermody. The actress said of her character: “I just adore her, and in the same way, I just read it and went, ‘I completely need to be near this and be inside it. I don’t think I’ll ever let it go now, really. I refuse to. I want to own her in a way I’ve never wanted to own any other character.”
The Leon Ford-directed movie was shot in the inner-city streets of Sydney. Kwanten said: “It was really something special, and I hadn’t seen that in a while, because in the States, they tend to, rather than solve things creatively, sometimes just throw a little too much money at it.”