It sounds like LA-based Aussie actress Elizabeth Debicki has no interest in returning to live in her home country.
In a new interview, the 29-year-old came out swinging against her countrymen, musing that tall poppy syndrome holds Aussies back from being “too ambitious” and declaring that the Australian way of life is “too comfortable” for her liking.
Debicki, who has worked with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Mick Jagger and Robert Pattinson theorised to British newspaper The Observer that being Australian-based holds actors back from “being too ambitious, not too provocative or transgressive” in their careers.
She also said she feels local actors are treated as though they shouldn’t be outwardly proud of their craft, and must remain self-deprecating.
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Debicki, who was born in France and raised in Melbourne, seemed to boil her issues with Australia down to “tall poppy syndrome”, a term referring to the idea poppies should grow at the same rate and any plant that gets too tall should be cut down.
Debicki, who has roles in The Great Gatsby and Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2under her belt already, and is set to appear in Christopher Nolan project Tenet, told the publication tall poppy syndrome was the reason talented Australians “often have to leave the pool and collect experience, collect people, and then come back to it. Or, they just sort of leave – and they don’t necessarily go back.”
“If you’re an actor, you mustn’t get any ideas about your craft. In Australia, you’re barely allowed to say this is a job,” Debicki said.
“You’re supposed to be like, I don’t know, sometimes I just do this thing, the camera rolls, then like, I go home! You can’t own any of it, they’ll just knock you down.”
Speaking from her adopted home in Los Angeles, the actress said she she’s not interested in the “comfortable” Australian way of life — having opted for the harder route by relocating to LA.
“I understand that makes for a pleasant drink at the pub, but I’m not really interested in being too comfortable,” she said.
“I understand what it means to one day pack your suitcase up and leave the thing that was familiar to you, and have to come to Los Angeles or wherever and do that rite of passage. I get that, because I’ve done it. I think that is common ground for us,” she said of the connection she feels with other Australian actors making it in Hollywood.
Debicki made her debut in The Great Gatsby in 2013 alongside Carey Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio, which was filmed in Sydney and directed by fellow Aussie Baz Luhrmann.
“I was such a baby when I made that movie,” she said of the experience.
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Since then, she has appeared in a number of movies including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Vita and Virginia, Widows and The Cloverfield Paradox as well as television series’ The Kettering Incident and The Night Manager.
She’s certainly not the first Aussie actress to rag on tall poppy syndrome from the comfort of a life overseas.
Melissa George famously claimed she’d “rather be having a croissant in Paris” than return to Australia in a 2012 interview, while telling the Sydney Morning Herald she was sick of the media “disrespecting” her by often mentioning her teenage role as Angel in Home And Away.
“I don’t need credibility from my country any more, I just need them all to be quiet. If they have nothing intelligent to say, please don’t speak to me any more,” she said.
“I’d rather be having a croissant and a little espresso in Paris or walking my French bulldog in New York City.”
George, 43, had a change of heart in 2019, however, declaring her love for the land Down Under.
“Whenever I come to Australia, I feel complete,” she said while filming Bad Mothers in Melbourne.
More recently, British-bornHarry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes described Australia as “brutal” and “greedy” ahead of the release of her ABC documentary series, Almost Australia, in May.
The 79-year-old actress, who is best known for playing Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films said she found popular tourism destination Surfer’s Paradise particularly confronting.
“There is a brutality there and a greed in Australia, which I don’t like,” she told TV Tonight of her visit to the highly developed Queensland stretch of coastline.
“You know, the developers. Those horrible structures along the coast, that people should be ashamed of living in Surfers Paradise, it’s disgusting. I think that actually shocked me because I don’t go there. It’s not my world and I don’t want to go there.”
The BAFTA-winning actress became a citizen in 2013 after years of dividing her time between London and Australia.
She now lives in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales with her longtime partner, Heather Sutherland.
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