Profile: Richard Roxburgh

Richard Roxburgh plays Cleaver Greene with conspicuous conviction

By: MEGAN LEHMANN

From: The Weekend Australian Magazine 

February 01, 201412:00AM

 

 

Roxburgh: "I assumed I'd probably do acting as a hobby." Picture: Steve Baccon Source: Supplied

IF we could pinpoint the place where the morally malleable world of Cleaver Greene intersects with that of his creator, Richard Roxburgh, it would be here: on the northern edge of Sydney's Hyde Park, at the crossroads of justice, in a bar.

Important men and women sail down nearby Macquarie Street, black barrister gowns flapping like Hollywood Transylvanians, as the elegantly wasted man in a suit launches into his second midday martini. Straight up, two olives. "You've always been a sexual version of Doctors Without Borders," hisses the dark-haired beauty opposite, before raising her voice so nearby drinkers swivel in their seats. "Sex Sans Frontieres!" she shouts wildly.
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