Hopes of dream life at home
BLINDSPOT ACTOR KEEN TO ONE DAY WORK AND ‘LIVE THE DREAM’ BACK AT HOME IN QUEENSLAND
He stars in a hit US TV series, but Queensland actor Luke Mitchell (above) dreams of following in Chris Hemsworth’s footsteps by working at home. Mitchell left his role on Home and Away in 2013 and booked a role on popular TV series The Tomorrow People within a month of moving to Los Angeles. The 32-year-old actor dreams of one day being able to “live the dream” by being able to return to the Gold Coast and work.
HE stars in a hit US TV series, but Queensland actor Luke Mitchell dreams of following in Chris Hemsworth’s footsteps by working at home.
“A lot of us Aussies look up to Chris Hemsworth, who is now living in Byron Bay, has an amazing family and he’s Thor and has just shot Thor on the Gold Coast.
“He is living the dream,” he said.
“I’m from the Gold Coast, so if I was able to get to that level and be able to shoot a movie in my home town, it would just be phenomenal.”
It is far from a pipe dream for Mitchell, who left his role on Home and Away in 2013 and booked a role on popular TV series The Tomorrow People within a month of moving to Los Angeles.
Similarly to Hemsworth, the 32-year-old actor has already worked with Marvel in the TV series Agents of Shield and has just wrapped filming on the second season of NBC’s Blindspot in New York, in which he stars opposite Thor’s Jaimie Alexander.
He will now spend a month at home in Australia, having appeared at Supanova on the Gold Coast last weekend, as the network decides whether to renew Blindspot for a third season.
Mitchell revealed he turned down an audition for the role of Roman, Alexander’s onscreen brother, twice last year before eventually agreeing to meet with the show’s creator.
“It was a really quick turnaround and within about a week I had to upheave everything from LA and move to New York,” he said.
“It’s been crazy and I have been lucky, but I’ve also worked very hard.”
The hard work was painful for Mitchell.
He is still unable to use his right hand after injuring it during a stunt knife fight on set last month.
He sliced his tendon and required surgery.
“The stunt guys are really amazing and they put their bodies on the line every day … and then when the actor does it he hurts himself,” he said.
“But you should see people’s faces when they ask what happened and I say, ‘knife fight’.”