Show Notes
Tak & Matty step off Ramsay Street this week and sit down with George Burgess - from NRL powerhouse to rising force on the big screen 🎬🔥
What we get into: The transition from South Sydney Rabbitohs enforcer to rising actor, now sharing the screen with Ethan Hawke, Luke Hemsworth and Dan Macpherson Learning the craft alongside close friend and mentor Russell Crowe, and what it’s really like working with one of the greats The unbelievable on-set moment he accidentally broke Dan Macpherson’s hip while filming Beast Growing up in Yorkshire before making the life-changing move to Australia at just 18 Losing his father at just 15, a defining moment that drove him to become a young dad and build a strong, supportive family of his own Becoming a father in his twenties, raising three children by his late twenties while balancing elite sport and a new acting career
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