A few days ago I posted an excerpt from an interview with Alex O’Loughlin at If Magazine. That interview was conducted by conference with a couple of other online media outlets and so there’s some follow-up stuff. Mostly the same material, but the If interview was a bit abbreviated. They didn’t include this question, and it’s probably one of my favorite answers from Alex:

What actors or actresses do you draw your inspiration from, or who are your favorites?

Alex O’Loughlin: There are so many wonderful actors. Sean Penn got up at the Academy Awards when he won his award and said “everyone knows there is no best in acting” and there is no best, there are lots of performances that have inspired me over the years. Sean Penn is certainly one of them. Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Daniel Day Lewis is a phenomenon. He’s like an enigma, I’ve watched his performances and I can’t for the life of me work out how he transforms as he does.

Marlon Brando. I love Marlon Brando, for all of his arrogance. I love actors that don’t make half decisions. Mel Gibson, I probably shouldn’t say that. I know he sort of fell off the wagon recently and said some stupid stuff. But growing up as a kid in Australia and seeing him do the movies he did, the “Mad Maxes” and stuff, and then move over to America and cross the bridge to producing and directing as well, and come up with films like “Braveheart.”

It’s hard for any young man who’s in the industry not to, I would imagine, not to find that inspiration. But then there’s other actors that the world doesn’t know about that I’ve grown up with, that I’ve seen on stage, that have breathed life into performances that have changed my life. They’re some of my best friends, so that’s as influential to me as those big stars that we all see in movies.

You can read the rest at Daemon’s TV

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