Spy
Author: LUCY BEAUMON
Date: 17/04/2005
Publication: The Sunday Age
 
Legs 11, David Wenham 
 
AN ACTOR'S life is all about making hay while the sun shines, a credo that rings especially true for straw-haired Seachange graduate David Wenham. Currently starring in Three Dollars, a film about an upstanding family man down to his last pennies, Wenham told Spy he had real-life experience of such a quandary. "When I was at acting college I certainly had $3, probably less," said the redcarpet walker at the film's Melbourne premiere at the Kino Dendy cinema on Tuesday night (pix in Spy 2).
 
Wenham wrapped his thespian tongue around the numbers as a bingo caller for a few years to make ends meet. "And I did hay carting in country NSW," he told the city-dwelling Spy, who asked whether making that kind of hay had any advantages over the Hollywood kind. "One word: no," came the very definite reply.
 
Also at the premiere, Spy noted evidence of the common lament by expectant mothers, that they become something of an invisible vessel once with child. Frances O'Connor couldn't make the screening because she's due to give birth any day.
 
Was that why everyone else's name was up in lights at the cinema entrance while O'Connor's name had slipped down to the underside of the sign?