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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Interviews by Simon Bland

How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’

From a town called Porpoise Spit … Rachel Griffiths, Daniel Lapaine, Toni Collette and Bill Hunter in the 1994 favourite.
From a town called Porpoise Spit … Rachel Griffiths, Daniel Lapaine, Toni Collette and Bill Hunter in the 1994 favourite. Photograph: Film Victoria/Allstar

PJ Hogan, writer and director

The kernel of the story was my family, and my sister’s stormy relationship with our dad. He was a local politician and, like Trump, obsessed with success. I’m one of seven and my sister and I are the oldest. To use my dad’s language, we were the most useless because we wanted to be artists and so were unemployable. He was very dismissive of us.

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