“Conversation with” actor and director Simon Baker at the 20th Marrakech IFF

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Simon Baker, actor and director in "In Conversation" section at the 20th Marrakech International Film Festival.

"Conversation with" actor and director Simon Baker at the 20th Marrakech IFF Bénédicte Prot

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Actor and director Simon Baker was back in Marrakech (after the tribute to Australian cinema organised there in 2019) to participate in the In Conversation section.

He tells us more about his “renaissance” as an actor, after dedicating many years to TV shows such as “The Mentalist” and various Hollywood projects, at a time when he felt what he needed was first and foremost to support his family.

The public of Marrakech was also able to discover one of his latest acting endeavours, Ivan Sen‘s “Limbo”, which brought the director back in competition in Berlin this year after winning a Silver Bear there twenty years ago with his debut feature, “Beneath Clouds” (2002), and materialised a collaboration with Sen that Baker had long been wishing for, as he appreciates him as a “true auteur” and a friend. In “Limbo”, Simon Baker sports quite a different look from what we’ve seen before to play Travis Hurley, “a jaded detective [who] arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the now twenty-year-old cold case murder of Charlotte Hayes, a local Indigenous girl. As the investigation unfolds, a series of truths is revealed, highlighting the complexities of loss and the impact of the justice system on Aboriginal families in Australia.”

Written by: Bénédicte Prot

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Simon Baker

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Marrakech International Film Festival

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