Australian filmmaker P.J. Hogan has come full circle with his award-winning international hit comedy “Muriel’s Wedding.” Not only is Hogan observing the 25th anniversary of the release in the U.S. …
Collette played the zaftig, socially awkward Muriel Heslop, who lives in the quiet Gold Coast town of Porpoise Spit. Her politician father bullies his family and is especially cruel to Muriel. All the ABBA-obsessed Muriel wants to do is get married.
First-time filmmakers often draw on their life for their debut features, and Hogan is no different. Like Muriel, he grew up on the Gold Coast of Australia in Coolangatta on the border of New South Wales and Queensland. And just as Muriel, he adored ABBA growing up in the 1970s. Moorhouse recalled in an e-mail interview that the two talked about the idea for years. “When I got pregnant with our first child, he would read scenes out to me while I was lying on our bed like a beached whale. We would riff on dialogue and act bits out. Then after we met [producer] Lynda House and made ‘Proof’ together, I decided to produce ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ through our new company — House and Moorhouse. It completely changed our lives.
Hogan referred to “Muriel’s Wedding” as the anti-‘”Crocodile Dundee,” adding that he and Moorhouse didn’t want to do “fantasies of Australian macho culture,” which he felt the 1986 Paul Hogan smash reflected. Griffiths loved her character’s lifeforce and sexual openness. “The wonderful thing about her was that her vitality was self-defining,” said Griffiths, an Oscar nominee for 1998’s “Hilary and Jackie” who recently directed her first feature film “Ride Like a Girl,” a big hit in Australia last year.
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