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Friday September 15, 2006

Aussie actor cast with Pierce Brosnan

Australian actor David Wenham has been cast in a support role alongside Pierce Brosnan and Rachel McAdams in an upcoming Hollywood flick called Marriage.

Brosnan has described Wenham as a "good lad".

"He is a good lad, we had a nice time together," Brosnan told AAP at the Toronto International Film Festival, where his film, Seraphim Falls, is screening.

"He has a good sense of humour."

Marriage is being directed by Ira Sachs and was adapted for the big screen from the book of the same name by John Bingham.

The film also stars Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson and tells the story of a cheating husband who plots his wife's murder instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.

"Marriage is kind of a film noir, Hitchkocky love story set in Seattle in 1949," explained Brosnan.

"I play a bachelor and rogue who shags everything that comes his way. So it is a good one."

Wenham recently wrapped production on 300, starring opposite British actor Gerard Butler.

Meanwhile, Brosnan's Seraphim Falls will be released in Australia early next year.

The US western also stars Liam Neeson and is set in the 1860s, at the end of the Civil War, and follows an army colonel's attempts to hunt down a man with whom he has a grudge.

For Brosnan, the role was different from anything the former James Bond star had ever done.

"I am mixing it up you know," he said. "I have done Mr Smooth acting most of my life and gotten away with it to one degree or less so now is a time to get down and get dirty, change it, shake it up.

"You want to live as many lives as you possibly can and certainly acting allows one to do that.

Brosnan has several films slated for production over the coming year and said he would be very keen to work in Australia, although the right project had not yet come along.

"I was speaking to (director) Bruce Beresford the other day, he's got a project going down there and I had just done this period piece and his piece was a bit like this piece so it just didn't work out.

"But I will get down there."