Age appropriate role for Rush

At 65, vetran actor Geoffrey Rush want to play characters closer to his age

He is one of the most celebrated character actors in Hollywood and after spending more than four decades in films and theatre, Geoffrey Rush says it is now that he has started looking for roles that are closer to his age.

“I have realised in the last five years that I am older. So, I look at the roles like that. I never thought about the age of the characters before. I have played Lady Bracknell in The

importance of Being Earnest Ra in Gods of Egypt and now Albert Einstein. These are the roles that I think I am in the right age to do,” Rush said

The actor made his film debut with the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. Since then, he has starred in Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for best actor, Les Miserables, Elizabeth, Shakespeare in Love and Quills. He starred in Pirates of the Caribbean:

The Curse of the Black Pearl, as Captain Hector Barbossa, including sequal

Salazar's Revenge, the latest film in the franchise. Rush is returning sea adventure franchise with Johnny Depp.

In this film, Barbossa’s story has a new twist and there is a big revelation in the end. Rush says he is impressed with the graph and the development of his character. “I have been fortunate enough to play a character that has transformed a lot. He was first a harsh psychopathic, self-serving villain, then a politician, later he worked for the King. Now, in this story he is older.You get the back story and a deep secret in Barbossa’s life,” the Pirates of the

Caribbean star said. The movie also starring Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario and Orlando Bloom, the film releases on May 26.