Profile: Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne is the toast of Hollywood

By: MEGAN LEHMANN

From: The Weekend Australian Magazine 

October 05, 201312:00AM

 

Rose Byrne: "Comedy can only really come from something authentic." Source: AFP

HERE'S Rose Byrne, sitting pretty in her high-ceilinged New York apartment, looking down on the bustle and blur of the East Village and contemplating a bike ride.

The season's in that sweet spot between extremes: the honey locust and ginkgo trees on the street below wear an autumnal blush and the summer crowds have thinned. The 34-year-old Australian actress has a new boyfriend, the blockbuster comedy Bridesmaids has made her a household name, and her Hollywood career is in overdrive. There's Vegemite in the fridge and a girlfriend is winging her way from Sydney with emergency Tim Tam rations. All is right with the world.
But if you were a New York pigeon, say, and you alighted on the windowsill to peek inside, the look of melancholia etched on this young woman's fragile-looking face might break your heart. It's as if Byrne has just been struck by the beautiful impermanence of all human existence and the realisation has brought her to the brink of tears.
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