![]() ![]() Webber added to his growing list of troubled characters in 2015 with a season-long run on the popular Australian soap "Home and Away" (Seven Network, 1988- ) as an deranged fan of aspiring singer Phoebe Nicholson (Isabella Giovanazzo). A minor role in the crime drama "The Combination" (2009), about gangsters in Australia's Lebanese community, increased his profile, and was soon followed by more substantive roles in features like "Sleeping Beauty" (2011) before making his debut as a leading man in "Deceit" (2013), playing a recently released convict who becomes involved in a complex scam. Born Daniel Peter Webber on Jin Gosford, New South Wales, Australia, he began his career on television, with guest roles on the long-running medical drama "All Saints" (Seven Network, 1998-2004) and "K-9" (Network 10/Channel 5, 2009-2010), a British-Australian children's program spun off from the long-running "Doctor Who" (BBC One, 1963-1989, 2005- ) series. Acting has been with me the whole time.Australian actor Daniel Webber's gallery of emotionally and at times morally conflicted characters on projects like "Sleeping Beauty" (2011) and "Home and Away" (Seven Network, 1988- ) led to his American television debut as presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on "11.22.63" (Hulu, 2016- ). It was something that I didn’t want to have as my career. ![]() I’ve done a lot of it in my life – landscaping, tree lopping – so I know what it is to work very hard and to work with my hands for a living. I think I realised early on that as a labourer, you have to work so, so hard and it’s so physically demanding. I wanted to be what my Dad was – a tree lopper. I didn’t realise acting was a job until I was sixteen. With Lee where there was just a mountain of research to get through and a mountain of different things to understand so I could do it. I always fear not doing a good enough job. It’s nice for me personally to have played a man like him, and know that I can, and so can have a bit more trust and faith in my own skill set. It’s great to get attention from the show because I’m really proud of what I did. He has the skill set and the emotional patterns throughout his life which indicate that he is somebody who would easily find motive and reason for it.įAULT: What is it like being written about and reviewed, and to have so much attention on you now? My research was more specifically on him, so I didn’t really go into the conspiracy theories. ![]() Whether or not he was aided or there were other people involved, I honestly don’t know. He was a man very capable of having done it. There was more of an aggressive, shut down, defensive thing going on still. I still hadn’t quite gotten back to Daniel and my own energy. There was a little bit of Lee in every audition room I went into for the next month after we wrapped the show. Once you finish a shoot and you’ve been working on a role and a character for so long, there is a process of having to detach yourself from it, because the characters carry such a different emotional weight and baggage. Is it hard to turn that off when the cameras stop rolling? When you get a role, the onus is on you to find it in yourself to be that character, to go to every length that you can to reach into the deepest parts of yourself to figure that out and there is something… that’s scary in a sense, but there’s also there is something very powerful and exciting about it.įAULT: There have been incredibly powerful moments for your character in the show. I’m a bit of a perfectionist and I fear not doing a good job. This role was everything that I could have possibly wanted. It’s an added challenge coming from Australia.įAULT: How was playing Lee Harvey Oswald? I think anybody who’s in this profession has to do that. My focus, because it’s such a competitive market here, it gives you a little bit more fire in your belly. ![]() When we come here, if Australian or British or anybody, you have to go all in and give it your all.įAULT: That sounds like a lot of pressure. Coming from Australia and living in America, you really don’t have an option to fail. Daniel has been receiving rave reviews for his performance, something made all the more impressive given his relatively young age, 27, and the fact that this is his first break, aside from Home and Away.ĭaniel: There’s been a lot of sticking with it. ![]()
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