He impressed co-star Mel Gibson right out of the gate on this Roland Emmerich historical drama. “He does his stuff really well, he's got a real good screen presence and a lot of talent,” said Gibson at the time.

“He's more mature than I was at that age. He seems more worldly, seems to know his way around." - Hey, I'd let him even take my daughter out to dinner. And that's weird, huh? No tomahawks involved."

The film kicked his stardom up a level too – something for which he wasn’t really prepared. “I was really slapped with the change when I went back home for two weeks. My hometown, Perth, is tiny - 2 million people - and it's the most isolated city in the world. So it's a big deal if you're from there and you're in this industry.

“It was a shock. Every move I made was written down and documented and released the next day on the front page of every f***ing paper. You kind of want to feel that if there's one place in the world that is always the same, it's your hometown or the town you grew up in. And it's gone now.”
 

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