ON- DEMAND TELEVISION PLAY FRY EXORCISES ACTING SKILLS

actor Lucy Fry had a very strange audition with Hollywood star Will Smith involving an exorcism and a made- up language, all to land a role in the Netflix film Bright.

The fantasy film, directed by Suicide Squad’s David Ayer, stars Smith as a cop working alongside an orc played by Aussie actor Joel Edgerton in an alternate version of LA in which supernatural beings live side by side with humans. Fry landed the role of Tikka, an elf, but only after four auditions, including that strange one with Smith. “David Ayer got me to improvise and to scream, so I was yelling and making up words because at that point, for the Elvish, they just got us to speak the English words backwards just to see if we could deal with speaking gobbledegook and making it make sense,” Fry says.

“And then after that scene David said, ‘ OK now I need you to perform an exorcism on Will,’ so I stood up behind him and put my hands over his head and was pretending to pull stuff out of his head.”

Fry starred in the first series of Stan’s Wolf Creek and in the adaptation of Stephen King’s novel starring James Franco. But the Brisbane actor says she was starstruck when she first met Smith and found a way to deal with her nerves. “I was sort of in character the whole time that we were on set. I was so nervous that I thought it would be better if I stayed in character and Joel sort of did, too,” she said.

Every day Fry spent two- and- a- half hours in the make- up chair to be transformed into her elf character.