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"Whenever I am acting, it's everything."" align="center"/><p>Abbie Cornish ... "Whenever I am acting, it's everything."<br/><small>Photo: <em>Sahlan Hayes</em></small></p> </div> <div id="adSpotIsland" class="islandad"></div> </div> <bod> <div class="pageprint" id="contentSwap1"><a name="contentSwap1"></a><p>Abbie Cornish is a star on the rise, the new Nicole Kidman even, but acting is something she does to fund more important things - a life in perpetual motion.</p> <p>Australia's next big thing sits in a Sydney hotel en route to somewhere else, looking nothing like Nicole Kidman. With her legs kicking against the skirt of her old-fashioned black dress and a silver traveller's ring on her finger, actor Abbie Cornish looks more like a gypsy.</p> <p>"I like doing my own hair and make-up because it's me," she says in her soft, unaffected voice. "This is my own dress, it's me, and I'm happy with it. It's nice not to be too full-on."</p> <p>No deodorised princess here. Even Cornish's blonde beauty, incandescent on screen, is more terrestrial in person. She gestures with the earthy ease of a farm girl and seems downright uninterested in her looks. What makes her eyes sparkle and her voice quicken is talking about travelling.</p> <p>For the past six years, the 23-year-old has been in perpetual motion, trekking, often by herself for months, across Morocco, Brazil, Italy, France and America. She doesn't have a permanent base in Australia. When she's in this country, she shuttles between Newcastle and the Hunter Valley, where her parents are, and Melbourne, where her friends and ex-boyfriend live.</p> <p>Now Cornish is on a new trip. In 2004, she won an AFI award for her turn in the moody <em>Somersault</em>, Cate Shortland's coming-of-age film about a runaway teenager at Jindabyne which was screened as an official selection at Cannes. She stars alongside Heath Ledger in <em>Candy</em>, Neil Armfield's harrowing film about a heroin-addicted couple, which will be released in Australia next month. The film was well-received at the Berlin Film Festival in February, although Cornish did not win an acting prize.</p> <p>She has just finished working with Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe on <em>A Good Year</em>, and this month will start work with Cate Blanchett on the period drama sequel <em>Elizabeth: The Golden Age</em>, directed by Shekhar Kapur.</p> <p>With this curriculum vitae - and gushing descriptions of Cornish as "the new Nicole Kidman" doing the rounds - the young actor from the Hunter Valley seems perched on the brink of Hollywood success.</p> <p>Along with her bohemian air, Cornish radiates maturity. Although she's friendly, she has a resilient self-sufficiency that won't be ruffled or goaded. When the possibility of stardom is mooted, she picks at her skirt and shrugs politely. "I think it's something that's not for me to say," she says. "It's not the way I see myself."</p></div><div class="pageprint" id="contentSwap2"><a name="contentSwap2"></a> <p>Directors Cate Shortland and Neil Armfield are willing to say it for her. "Determined" is the first word both of them reach for to describe the young actor.</p> <p>Armfield says he didn't exactly choose Cornish for his movie. "In a way, Abbie chose herself," he says, adding that the actor chased the role for years.</p> <p>"When I first saw Abbie she was really too young for it, and it took the full length of the four years it took to get the film up for her to be right to play it. It was the difference between being in late adolescence and being a woman. It's to do with the quality of rage that's inside Candy, and also the sense of humour."</p> <p>Armfield realised Cornish was right for the role when she tested years later against Heath Ledger. "Abbie has an incredible determination. She has an uncanny sense of her own strengths," Armfield says. "There were things she felt very strongly about and we would fight about some things in a creative way."</p> <p>Cornish is also exhaustively diligent. She came to the <em>Somersault</em> set having read the script 30 times. "She's like someone like Claudia Karvan in terms of the preparation of the role," Shortland says. "When she comes into rehearsal she is incredibly prepared, which means that she can play. She's not freaking out because she doesn't know the lines."</p> <p>Both struggle to express the magical connection Cornish has with the camera. "Chemistry is really elusive," Shortland says. "We all know what it is when you see an actor on screen and you're sitting in the darkness and you feel this amazing pull. When you see someone across the room and look into their eyes and your stomach constricts. She has that."</p> <p>Cornish's teenage years were as unorthodox as she is. For example, where other 18-year-olds celebrate their coming of age with a raucous party, Cornish spent her 18th birthday alone on a hill in northern Italy. She gazed at the lush countryside. She wrote in her journal. She ruminated.</p> <p>"It was one of the greatest times of my life," she says. "I think when you're by yourself you go <em>through</em> things."</p> <p>As she talks about the hills, she uses her hands to mimic the path of a roller-coaster. What she's talking about is how she is forced to focus her attention inwardly when she's alone, rather than being distracted by the chatter of people around her.</p> <p>Cornish is the second of five children. She grew up on her father's 70-hectare property near Maitland. He still lives there, but is now separated from her mother, a keen amateur photographer. Cornish remembers an "awesome" childhood of learning to drive through paddocks, lying on the trampoline under a sky crammed with stars, surrounded by bush and kangaroos. "It was like a humungous playground," she says. "We used to trek up the back paddock and we'd be gone until dark. We'd just play, making mud cakes and swimming in the dam, and building cubby houses."</p></div><div class="pageprint" id="contentSwap3"><a name="contentSwap3"></a> <p>She remembers witnessing the birth of her youngest brother and sister. "I was only 12 or 13; I remember every tiny detail. I was in the hospital, front-row seat. It was amazing! The first time was really scary because it seemed like my mum was in so much pain, and I couldn't understand it. But within an hour I was going, 'Oh Mum, you should see! Wow!' "</p> <p>When she was 13, Cornish dabbled in modelling, reaching the finals of a <em>Dolly</em> magazine competition. It's an experience she's eager to disown. "It was just something me and a couple of friends would get together and say, 'What are you doing this Saturday night?' We'd get dressed up and have girly time."</p> <p>Cornish, who did her HSC at a Catholic school in Maitland, landed her first acting job when her modelling agency sent her to audition for a part on the ABC's <em>Children's Hospital</em>. Playing a quadriplegic, Cornish realised she'd found her medium.</p> <p>When she was 16, her parents split up and she left home - two incidents that she says were unconnected. "I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split," she says. "You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family."</p> <p>Newcastle beckoned, with its artists and musicians and actors, and Cornish shared a warehouse in the city with an artist. "Moving out was quite easy, to tell you the truth," she says. "I was 16 so I was fearless, I didn't worry about anything.</p> <p>"If I didn't have money, I just wouldn't eat. If I didn't have money for three days, I just wouldn't eat. By the third day maybe I'd scram some change and get some money for a laksa and that would do me for two days."</p> <p>While Cornish was studying at high school with the aim of becoming a veterinarian, she crammed in acting gigs on television shows such as the hard-boiled ABC cop drama <em>Wildside</em>, for which she won an AFI Young Actor's Award in 1999, and the horsey teen series <em>Outriders</em>. During her HSC year, she worked on her first feature film, <em>The Monkey's Mask</em>, directed by Samantha Lang, which took her away from her year 12 classes.</p> <p>"I never felt like I was an actor or anything," Cornish says. "It was like I had this lucky part of my life, but I never thought, this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life."</p> <p>By the time Cornish was 17, Newcastle had become too small for her and she took off for New York and Western Europe for six months, during which time she held her solitary 18th birthday celebration in the Italian hills.</p></div><div class="pageprint" id="contentSwap4"><a name="contentSwap4"></a> <p>"And I feel like I'm still going," she says. "All the little bits in between ... are a waiting period for me, where I'm making the money to be able to travel again."</p> <p>Although she talks of becoming a veterinarian if her acting career doesn't work out, it's hard to believe she thinks that will happen. The occupation of acting, where dissociation is in the job description, seems in accord with her character. Like drifting from country to country, an actor journeys from imaginary world to imaginary world.</p> <p>"Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time. It's a really amazing experience and the only other thing I get it from is music."</p> <p>Like her former boyfriend, Kid Lyrical from the Melbourne hip-hop band Blades of Hades, Cornish is transported by music. Between acting gigs, she composes.</p> <p>She wrote music in a tiny mountain village in Provence, France, in her spare time, while she was working on Scott's film <em>A Good Year</em>. The film is about an investment banker, played by Crowe, who inherits a chateau in the south of France. Enter his long-lost American cousin, played by Cornish.</p> <p>Cornish also plays guitar and piano and loves hip-hop - she has often rapped onstage in Newcastle, Melbourne and Sydney.</p> <p>"The other music I make is more experimental for me; it's not one genre in particular, just whatever I feel like," she says. "Sometimes with the electronic stuff it's beats, sometimes I use a computer, also to record. I'm portable. I carry a laptop, and a little recording studio on my back."</p> <p>The music is a matter of instinct, but then so is Cornish's acting. Although she took a few acting classes at NIDA and the Australian Theatre for Young People, she is largely self-taught. She learns, she says, by working with other actors.</p> <p>"I see part of the way some people work or operate," she says.</p> <p>"When I worked with Russell [Crowe] I realised you're the supporter of your own ideas and your own creativity. He's very strong in what he believes and thinks - when you work with someone like him you realise how important your own personal opinion is within your work.</p> <p>"And then I work with someone like Heath [Ledger], who is so free and so spontaneous within his work, which is refreshing. I learn to just be within it, let it happen."</p> <p>For her role in <em>Candy</em>, Cornish had to appear naked onscreen, but the nudity didn't bother her too much. "I've met people who don't come out of the shower naked but I run around everywhere naked; I love it, I think it's great."</p></div><div class="pageprint" id="contentSwap5"><a name="contentSwap5"></a> <p>She says watching herself naked during a film screening isn't confronting. "The hardest part is getting your clothes off at first in front of the people who haven't seen you naked before. The first time you get nude in front of someone, it's hard, and then it's, 'Well, you've seen everything now; it's OK, we can shoot the rest of the day'."</p> <p>Since <em>Candy</em> is a cursed romance - "I love love stories, no matter how dark," she says, with a smile - the conversation turns to talk of love. The actor, who is single after ending her long relationship with Kid Lyrical, admits she was deeply, headily, in love. "Yeah, for sure, I've been that in love, I've felt that," she says, plucking at her skirt again. "I'm still actually completely in love with this guy. Things just change, but I still adore him."</p> <p>That's all she has to say on the subject.</p> <p>Cornish is now abroad again, shooting <em>Elizabeth: The Golden Age</em> in Cambridge and eastern England, which means months of corsetry and a decent pay packet. It's a far cry from her previous years overseas, where she worked in bars and youth hostels, and answered the phones for an internet company. "Safetydirector.com! How may I help you?" she says, chucking on a chirpy American accent.</p> <p>Her current goal is to take an acting job, make enough money to tide her over, then go travelling until the money runs out. "The money does me until usually a month or a month and a half before I get my next job," Cornish says. "So I go home. I go home to Mum, you know: 'Oh Mum, let me in! Let me in!' " Judging by the calibre of the film roles she's attracting, she may never be forced to go home to Mum again.</p> <p>As Cornish turns to leave, she lifts her chin and casts a warm, sure smile my way. As abruptly as a flood of electric light, her face is charged with some of that onscreen glow, recalling Shortland's most striking comment about Cornish, something that stays with me long after the interview: "She's filled with light - and filmmaking and cinema is all about light; light and shade. She shines when you look at her. That's it. 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