To prepare for his death-defying job in Extraction 2, Australian acting royalty Chris Hemsworth revealed what it takes to become a highly skilled commando in Hollywood.
“Extraction 2 was a gruelling shoot with long days and nights in the cold that required so much of me physically and mentally,” he wrote on Instagram ahead of the film’s Netflix premiere on June 16.
Hemsworth says he relied on his own health and wellness brand, Centrfit, (which is a program designed “to fuel movement, meals and mind”), to push him through the big scenes and “stay consistent”.
Hemsworth revealed his own health battle late last year after filming Disney+ series Limitless, where he learnt he was between eight and 10 times more likely than the average person to acquire Alzheimer’s disease.
A series of genetic tests found that he has two copies of the APOE4 gene, which is closely associated with the disease.
“I used specific programs to make sure I was physically ready for all the action sequences we shot, but just as important was how I could mentally prepare by using their daily exercises and meditations.
“It helped me stay focused and deliver a performance I’m proud of, and a movie I’m sure people will love.”
I’m sure we’ll love watching Tyler Rake take on another dangerous mission – saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.
Special mention also to Australian actress Sarah Snook, whose next big role after Shiv Roy on Succession is Run Rabbit Run, starting on Netflix on June 28, a psychological horror thriller shot on location throughout Melbourne, regional Victoria and South Australia.
Here’s what else is on the June streaming radar.
Deadloch: Prime Video, June 2 (episodes 1-6)
Written by Melbourne-based comedy duo Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, who made their mark with two satirical series about a cooking show and breakfast TV, the pair have re-emerged with Deadloch.
Set in a fictitious town in Tasmania and starring a large ensemble cast including Kate Box (Fires, Wentworth), Madeleine Sami (The Breaker Upperers), Nina Oyama (Utopia) and Tom Ballard (Tonightly with Tom Ballard), the series opens with the shocking discovery of a local man washed up dead on a beach.
“Deadloch puts a high-comedy spin on the crime genre and questions Australia’s relationship with truth, gender, and race, while keeping you guessing (and laughing) at every turn,” Prime states.
A-League Grand Final and Socceroos: Paramount+, June 3 and June 15
The A-League Grand Final between Premiers Melbourne City and the Central Coast Mariners is on Saturday night. Then, on June 16, the Socceroos take on FIFA World Cup 2022 winners Argentina, in China.
Revealed: Reefshot, World Environment Day: Stan original, June 5
Led by Andy Ridley, the founder of Earth Hour, the documentary is about the race to save the Great Barrier Reef from being destroyed due to warm and acidic seas caused by climate change.
The Idol: Foxtel, June 5
Featuring an all-star cast – including Abel ‘The Weekend’ Tesfaye, Lily-Rose Depp and Aussie Troye Sivan – and some serious heavyweights behind the camera, “the sleaziest love story in all of Hollywood” centres around a cult leader’s romance with an up-and-coming pop star.
Avatar: The Way of Water: Disney+, June 7
If you didn’t make it to a cinema to see this James Cameron masterpiece, you can now watch the three-hour-plus movie at your leisure at home, at an airport or on your winter vacay.
Arnold: Netflix, June 7
Arnold is an intimate docu-series that follows Arnold Schwarzenegger’s multifaceted life and career, from bodybuilding champ to Hollywood icon and politician.
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The Crowded Room: Apple TV+, June 9
Set in New York City in 1979, Tom Holland, 26, (who is also executive producer on the series), plays Danny Sullivan, a man who is arrested following his involvement in a shooting.
Over 10 episodes, the thriller is told through a series of interviews with interrogator Rya Goodwin (Amanda Seyfried).
His life story unfolds, revealing elements of the mysterious past that shaped him, and the twists and turns that will lead him to a life-altering revelation.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Holland describes the series as “an insight into the power of the human mind” and “the ways in which we can deal with trauma.”
The 76th Annual Tony Awards: Paramount+, June 12
Hosted by Ariana DeBose, the awards will be presented for the first time at the historic United Palace in New York City, which opened in 1930 as one of five Loew’s “wonder theatres” that were top vaudeville and movie houses in four Big Apple boroughs and across the Hudson in New Jersey.
The Great Australian Bake Off (season 6): Foxtel, June 13
Twelve new amateur bakers will put it all on the line, competing in a series of challenges designed to separate the best from the rest as The Great Australian Bake Off returns for its sixth season, with new judges Rachel Khoo and Darren Purchese at the helm, joined by co-hosts Cal Wilson and Natalie Tran.
The Betoota Advocate Presents: Paramount+, June 14
An iconic name on all social media feeds, delivering their own polarising spin on the serious news stories of the day.
No sugar-coating here, people.
Fronted by Editor At Large Errol Parker and Editor Clancy Overall, the pair dig deep into the controversies that shaped our nation. Across four episodes, corruption, money, religion and tribalism are key themes, with no stone left unturned to get to the crux of the headline.
For fact-checking purposes only, The Betoota Advocate will devote an entire episode each to The Hillsong Story, Super League, Cronulla Riots and The Fine Cotton Affair, about the strangest racehorse controversy in our nation’s history.
Paul T Goldman: Stan, June 15
Directed by Jason Woliner (Parks and Recreation, Nathan For You), Paul T. Goldman is an American true crime documentary miniseries that revolves around Paul Finkelman, a man who uncovers fraud and deception caused by his ex-wife.
An inscrutable blend of true crime and true-crime satire, the documentary features storytelling and dramatised re-enactments of Finkelman’s life to uncover the dramatic double life of his wife.
Revealed: The Cape: Stan, June 18
The disappearance of a father and son in a tropical Australian bayou of crocodiles and mangrove swamps unravels a dynastic alliance between formidable fishing clans.
In the fearless hands of Emmy Award-nominated filmmakers Michael Ware and Justine A. Rosenthal (Only the Dead), this documentary film journeys into the deep north and the human psyche “to uncover what we’re capable of when our humanity is stripped bare in this fascinating portrayal of an insular and isolated community”, according to Stan.
Director Michael Ware said: ‘Collaborating with Stan empowered us to keep alive the memories of a missing father and his 10-year-old son and to keep questioning those surrounding an unending mystery that haunts Far North Queensland.”
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Secret Invasion: Disney+, June 21
In Marvel Studios’ new series, set in the present day Marvel Cinematic Universe, Nick Fury (played by the great Samuel L Jackson), learns of a clandestine invasion of Earth by a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls.
Fury joins his allies, including Everett Ross, Maria Hill and the Skrull Talos, who has made a life for himself on Earth.
Together they race against time to thwart an imminent Skrull invasion and save humanity.
FX’s Class of ’09: Disney+, June 21
Class of ’09 is a suspense thriller, limited series that follows a class of FBI agents set in three distinct points in time, who grapple with immense changes as the US criminal justice system is altered by artificial intelligence.
Sound familiar?
Spanning multiple decades and told across interweaving timelines, the series examines the nature of justice, humanity and the choices we make that ultimately define our lives and legacy.
Break Point: Part 2: Netflix, June 21
The most promising players in tennis, including some familiar Aussie faces, see dreams realised and hopes dashed as the second half of the 2022 season takes them from Wimbledon to the US Open.
Dead Hot: Season Of The Witch: Paramount+, June 22
This provocative documentary film featuring actress Vanessa Hudgens, and Australian musician GG Magree captures their intimate journey into the supernatural realm.
“As self-taught students of witchcraft, intuitives and empaths, they have been experimenting with and connecting to the spirit world. They have begun to pull back the thin veil between the living and the dead, the darkness and the light, and good and evil,” Paramount’s logline states.
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Bruce Springsteen – Wings For Wheels: The Making Of Born To
Run: Paramount+, June 29
Now for a change of pace.
The Boss, now 73, still has it, don’t worry about that. Check out his Born to Run performance with his E Street Band at Murrayfield Stadium in Scotland on May 30.
This doco chronicles the definitive story of Bruce Springsteen’s
breakthrough album from songwriting to production and
beyond and includes archival film shot between 1973 and 1975, but
never shown publicly.
