Rugby league ‘legend’ Braith Anasta will make his acting debut this off-season.
Anasta will star in the new Netflix rom-com The Ex-Player, with shooting to begin in America in December. Anasta plays a former rugby league player who moves to Los Angeles after a messy divorce and falls in love with a quirky indie rock singer/owner of a local karaoke bar (played by Zooey Deschanel).
While Anasta didn’t return the Everyday News Staff Writers’ calls to confirm this, mail is that he “knew the right people” to score the role.
But Anasta’s co-star Deschanel actually had manners and spoke to our Staff Writers.
“I had no idea who he was when we had our initial meeting. I assumed he’d won some Australian reality show and this was his prize? He said he was a ‘Bulldogs, Roosters, and Tigers legend’, whatever that means. At least he likes animals,” said Deschanel. “Then he showed me his highlights packages on YouTube, which comes in handy when I want to get to sleep. I’m out less than two minutes in.”
Deschanel (who made her film debut in 1999) said she wasn’t phased by’s Anasta acting inexperience. “The main reason I took this role is because I get to sing a lot. The soundtrack’s gonna go through the roof on Spotify.”
Though Deschanel said there was an ulterior motive for Braith’s new role.
”He’s been trying to recruit me for some 360 show. He says he can teach me enough about ‘footy’ so I can replace Buzz. If he wants to get rid of a bee so much, I’ll buy him some fly spray.”
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