Ben Mendelsohn on playing Christian Dior and feeling insecure: 'I tend to get cast as villains but in truth I'm pretty shy'

INTERVIEW: The Australian-born actor has become a go-to Hollywood baddie, from ‘Rogue One’ to ‘Robin Hood’. As he prepares to play Christian Dior in a new Apple TV+ show, he tells Kevin E G Perry about growing up a sensitive child in a tough Melbourne suburb, how he nearly gave it all up in his thirties, and why he doesn’t think AI will kill off acting

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