Article - Redcliffe and Bayside Herald - 12 July 2006
McInnes acts on his love of home town;
Redcliffe & Bayside Herald (Queensland, Australia) 07-12-2006
YOU can take the boy out of Redcliffe but you can't take Redcliffe out of the boy. So goes a variation on the old theme and it's very evident when you speak with actor William McInnes.
We are sitting in the public bar of Woody Point's Palace Hotel and you can see that he's enjoying himself. "What's better than being in Redcliffe and enjoying a glass of Fourex,'' he says.
McInnes and his family are up from Melbourne for a week. "To see Mum, friends and visit the Redcliffe Show,'' McInnes explains. He has entered some homemade bread in the show's cookery section, son Clement, 12, has also entered a plate of scones. His eight-year-old daughter Stella has some toffee entered in the confectionery section.
His family is very important to McInnes. "When you start a family it's a choice you make life is not just about yourself any more,'' he said. "Sarah and I are very lucky we've got two great kids. Along with Sarah, the kids are the best things in my life.''
McInnes has just spent the morning fishing off the Hornibrook bridge with the children. "We only caught toad fish but it was great,'' he said.
He met his wife, movie director Sarah Watt, 17 years ago at a party. "We started off by having an argument over buying some beer at a pub. But we soon resolved that.''
Watt recently directed McInnes in the award-winning movie Look Both Ways and he found it a good experience. "She's a very good director,'' he said.
McInnes started his acting career while at university, acting in various plays and reviews. It was only after completing a commerce degree that he decided to try out for a place at Western Australia's Academy of Performing Arts. "I finally got a place because someone went to NIDA.''
He didn't tell his father he was about to become an actor, as his father had once said: "No son of mine is going to become an actor.''
There were times when his father's words would ring in his ears. "In the early days it was tough. I worked with both the Sydney and Melbourne theatre companies, acting in plays such as Arthur Miller's The Crucible and several of Noel Coward's plays like Blythe Spirit and Private Lives.''
He has acted Shakespeare's MacBeth and Henry V and was recently offered the role of Oedipus. "It's great classical theatre but I don't think I'll do it it's too much like hard work,'' he said.
He's not anxious to go to Hollywood. "I've been offered some overseas work but it hasn't suited me,'' McInnes said. "At present I seem to have enough to keep me busy here. Along with the family and my writing, I've got plenty to do.''
His first book has been an instant success: A Man's Got to Have a Hobby, about McInnes's growing up in Redcliffe, and it is now in its 10th reprint.
Next month he will launch his new book, Cricket Kings. "If it's as successful as the first, that'll be fantastic," he said. His publishers have asked him to write another book. "This time it'll be a fictional work,'' he said.
What does he think his father would say if he knew that McInnes had become a successful actor? "Oh, I think he'd be happy I was making aquid.''
Redcliffe & Bayside Herald (Queensland, Australia) 07-12-2006
YOU can take the boy out of Redcliffe but you can't take Redcliffe out of the boy. So goes a variation on the old theme and it's very evident when you speak with actor William McInnes.
We are sitting in the public bar of Woody Point's Palace Hotel and you can see that he's enjoying himself. "What's better than being in Redcliffe and enjoying a glass of Fourex,'' he says.
McInnes and his family are up from Melbourne for a week. "To see Mum, friends and visit the Redcliffe Show,'' McInnes explains. He has entered some homemade bread in the show's cookery section, son Clement, 12, has also entered a plate of scones. His eight-year-old daughter Stella has some toffee entered in the confectionery section.
His family is very important to McInnes. "When you start a family it's a choice you make life is not just about yourself any more,'' he said. "Sarah and I are very lucky we've got two great kids. Along with Sarah, the kids are the best things in my life.''
McInnes has just spent the morning fishing off the Hornibrook bridge with the children. "We only caught toad fish but it was great,'' he said.
He met his wife, movie director Sarah Watt, 17 years ago at a party. "We started off by having an argument over buying some beer at a pub. But we soon resolved that.''
Watt recently directed McInnes in the award-winning movie Look Both Ways and he found it a good experience. "She's a very good director,'' he said.
McInnes started his acting career while at university, acting in various plays and reviews. It was only after completing a commerce degree that he decided to try out for a place at Western Australia's Academy of Performing Arts. "I finally got a place because someone went to NIDA.''
He didn't tell his father he was about to become an actor, as his father had once said: "No son of mine is going to become an actor.''
There were times when his father's words would ring in his ears. "In the early days it was tough. I worked with both the Sydney and Melbourne theatre companies, acting in plays such as Arthur Miller's The Crucible and several of Noel Coward's plays like Blythe Spirit and Private Lives.''
He has acted Shakespeare's MacBeth and Henry V and was recently offered the role of Oedipus. "It's great classical theatre but I don't think I'll do it it's too much like hard work,'' he said.
He's not anxious to go to Hollywood. "I've been offered some overseas work but it hasn't suited me,'' McInnes said. "At present I seem to have enough to keep me busy here. Along with the family and my writing, I've got plenty to do.''
His first book has been an instant success: A Man's Got to Have a Hobby, about McInnes's growing up in Redcliffe, and it is now in its 10th reprint.
Next month he will launch his new book, Cricket Kings. "If it's as successful as the first, that'll be fantastic," he said. His publishers have asked him to write another book. "This time it'll be a fictional work,'' he said.
What does he think his father would say if he knew that McInnes had become a successful actor? "Oh, I think he'd be happy I was making aquid.''
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