Why Stranger Things star’s Hollywood agent fired him – and struggles with OCD, anxiety

Obsessive compulsive disorder. Panic attacks. Anxiety caused by bullying as a child.

In the afternoon of Wednesday, in an old-style bar, Whitms, Silverchair and Powderfinger, Australian actor Dacre Montgomery-of Grimy Band posters are stuck in an old bottle shop covered with posters. Stranger Things Fame – he speaks personally.

“I have the lowest self -esteem so far, or he says. “I’m afraid of everything.”

Mental health, when there is a taboo topic for almost everyone, get a young actor who speaks about a new film. Considering the image of Montgomery in the Hit Netflix series, Hawkins High and Montgomery’s image, as a virgin student in a lodge Cankurtaran plays Billy Hargrove, the image of Montgomery.

His pessimistic good appearance and the Dapper mustache, the player grown by Perth made a young heart Throb with the names of Instagram fan pages “Lovelydacre” and “Dacremontgomeryseys”. (The first name is, by the way, with rhymes and rhymes and an old family surname with “Acre”.)

He was on the magazine covers and was developed in fashion ads with the image of a cool young actor, only when he came to red carpets with his model girlfriend Liv Pollock and arranged his own rhythm poem to music.

The 12 -class classmate in Mount Lawyley Senior High looked on money when they voted for him, “the highest probability of being a Hollywood star”.

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But as in fun, the image believes in the truth.

Montgomery didn’t like where his career went, so he stepped back from activating the best part of the five years.

After the third season Stranger ThingsWhen Billy was captured by the malicious mind Flayer, it was in 2020 Romcom Broken Hearts Gallery. In the fourth season, he had a 2022 guest role as a hallucination. Stranger Things. In the same year, he had a small role in Baz Luhrmann’s concert film director Steve Binder. Elvis.

However, Montgomery turned down so much paid commercial opportunity that the Hollywood agent expelled it. Instead, he wanted to work on Arthouse projects with Auteur directors who are important to him.

What he calls his career with a more supportive agent seems to work. 30 years old, Montgomery returns to the center of attention with two new films this month: Australian -based kiwi director Samuel van Ginsven’s intense drama He went up the hill (Opening in Cinemas) and American Gus Van Sant’s real crime drama Dead Man’s Wire (Premiere at the Venice International Film Festival).

In addition, two Arthouse American films shot and the last part of the financing puzzle will be guided for the first time when it came into force Engagement partyIt will also produce and play.

Montgomery wants to be clear about who he is, instead of entering his old image. This means being open to mental health.

“Indeed, I really suffer from the weakening OCD, Syen says Sydney’s Black Roast Jacket under a black cover in Broadway’s Old Clare Hotel in Broadway. Every bulb in Montgomery’s home in the eastern suburbs is so weakening that it has a geographically dissolved timer for sunrise and sunset to control light levels.

“I am really special about light, space, color, or he says. “Each broomboard, the ceiling and the wall are painted the same color, so I can focus. Very spectrum… I am stuck in a channel of thought that I locked the door five or six times and unlock it because it is not true.”

Ironic that Stranger Things The character is a bullying because Montgomery was bullying because he was heavy as a child. The film did not help with the drama encouraged by parents working in the industry. His father Scott was a solid recorder; His mother Judith was the first director and production coordinator to change his career to become a psychologist like his father. Montgomery’s little sister Saskia is also working to become a psychologist.

“I had a lot of energy and I didn’t know where to do it, and he made me a very unhappy child, Mont says Montgomery. Im I had a hard time. I failed drama in high school. I failed in the media.

“I went home every day, I locked myself in my bedroom and watched a movie after the movie, after the TV show, it was a TV show and escape.

Montgomery now sees that this concern is positive in his life. “He feeds my business ethics and passion as a child, or he says.

Before the Australian premiere, I interviewed Van Grinsven at the Adelaide Film Festival. He went up the hill last year. He plays Jack, who goes to a distant house in New Zealand for his funeral of his departed mother Elizabeth; Vicky Krieps (Ghost yarn) He plays his mother’s lover Jill.

As they get to know each other, they are alternately by Elizabeth. Van Grinsven calls it a ghost story. Atmospheric and poetic, a film about grief.

Montgomery said that the shooting of the film in Adelaide was so raw and confronted that most of the film had a panic attack by entering a brutal simple house where the film was first adjusted.

He jumped into his car and went to Christchhurch – a response told Jack’s character to go deep into the character, play an Australian for the first time since his career, and reconsidered a “complex” relationship with the father of the family in New Zealand.

“I have a lot of common point with Jack, or he says. “Going to New Zealand – I have a kiwi family – a little pilgrimage to face some things I have experienced… Many real world dacre things went to Jack and Elizabeth and He went up the hill. This has led to too much panic attacks, too much melting, too much turmoil ”.

Van Grinsven (Payet in a blue room) In his first phone call on the film, Montgomery says that he was surprised by “fragility and honesty and how raw it is as a person”.

“The person in this character has too many dacre, or he says. “It is a really remarkable talent, but it works from a very personal place for him. When the character goes through something intense as well as in the film, he sometimes becomes a bit overwhelming.”

Van Grinsven, two stars after the intense scenes decompressed. A pit of fire behind the house was the place where they talked about what we’re dealing with on the stage, and slowly what’s going on to ourselves and what is going on right now.

Montgomery, famous graduates Hugh Jackman, Francis O’Connor, Jai Courtnor, Lisa McCune and Tim Rinci, including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Waapa), even before reading Hollywood career had begun. A self -recruitment for another project, 2017 for restarting attracted attention during casting Power Rangers.

“They flew to La and tested the leadership of this great franchise – four painting agreements, $ 100 million film – and I reserve the role, or he says. “I was very lucky. I came home, I went to 21 years of age, graduated from the university, then I got on a plane in Canada a few months and started my first film.

“I had to work for 17 hours a day a week without knowing anything, I led a film.”

Montgomery played Jason Scott, a high school players of Red Power Ranger.

When the film was opened to the box office that created a disappointing, the Montgomery, who had scraped three sequels in his contract, was already shooting Stranger Things. He joined the series in the second season and everything changed when Netflix landed.

“I lost my type of anonymity overnight,” Montgomery says. “Netflix worldwide. Such a show can reveal all sections at once and [almost 100 million] Household is watching. There is no such thing as the moment that changed life and scared me.

“I would put a lot of work on the show and the character – and I would think about the craft of what I was doing – then suddenly I had all these attention.”

Montgomery’s role expanded in the third season, then began to step back from the star. Ads and approvals meant that he could continue to pay his bills. So what did he do all these years?

“I made a lot of short films, or he says. “I was teaching myself how to edit, how to write, how to give myself information about photography, how a camera works. What is expected to manage a film if I don’t understand other departments?

“To answer without making an encrypted sound, I watched a lot of movie and television hell. I really entered this artistic balloon.

Montgomery read the script after finding a movie he wanted to move He went up the hill He told Van Ginsven how much he moved three times on one plane – he watched other projects.

Hit Death faces With Director Daniel Goldhaber (How to explode a pipeline) Pop star Charli next to XCX and Dan Kay What we keep Opposite McKenna Grace (Handmaid’s Tale).

Montgomery is in Venice for world premiere Dead Man’s WireBased on a real crime in the 1970s. “This is a kind of Luigi Mangione story and the CEO of a bad company, and Bill Skarsgard is playing a man holding me hostage, or he says. “Al Pacino plays my father and Colman Domingo, who was nominated for Oscar this year Sing SingThe disc plays the jockey about the film. “

Although Montgomery has not yet been announced, “Memory meeting Beginning meeting Shutter island”.

But he hopes to manage first Engagement party. This is the drama of two couples celebrating their lives on a distant pastoral island broken by a contradictory moment. Written by He went up the hillJory Anast will also play Abbey Lee, Lily Sullivan and Arlo Green. The plan is hitting in Western Australia near the Margaret River.

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Montgomery thinks it will be an entity when OKB directed.

“The film says the most special thing,” he says. “You have 100 people working on a frame, and they are all about specificity. The best directors I work with are special. Everything is detailed.

Orum I’m really interested in people with a brain similar to me, and this is usually in the film industry and artists.

“This is the person I am. [that’s important]. That’s what you do with him. This is what I do with my OKB, my concerns, my failures, when I overthrow my trust and when I overthrow my feet a little ‘. “

Going at the age of 30 was not a big thing for him.

Mont I felt I felt 42 years old since I was 12, Mont says Montgomery. “I just feel that I’m getting older. It makes you feel thirty.”

He went up the hill It opens in theaters on September 11th.

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