‘I got a bit terrified’: Simon Baker on filming Tim Winton’s Breath

Debut director on his fear of adapting this Australian paean to surfing and the challenge posed by its most taboo subject: autoerotic asphyxiation“I’ve done a lot of work as an actor making a living that I’m not necessarily proud of, and I’d be quite happy if it just sort of disappeared, to be honest,” Simon Baker confesses.

“I wanted something that might last a bit longer.”The actor is best known in Australia for his television work, on procedural The Mentalist and drama The Guardian, but he’s currently promoting his feature film directorial debut: a big-screen adaptation of Tim Winton’s controversial novel Breath, in which he also stars.

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