Sam Worthington is impossible to predict. In December, the Aussie actor starred in Avatar: Fire and Ash, a blockbuster sequel that grossed nearly $1.5bn, and is currently the 16th biggest movie of all time. Worthington, reprising the role of interstellar marine-turned-insurgent Jake Sully, was front and centre. Now, the star reappears in the scrappy heist thriller Fuze, in a fairly minor, almost dialogue-free part. In the original script, he tells me, the character was basically written as “Henchman Two”. To go immediately from one to the other is, I suggest, a little bizarre. “It’s always been bizarre,” he replies. “I’ve never had a plan in that regard. I think people have looked at my career and gone, ‘What the f*** is he doing?’”
He smiles at me, through the lens of his kid’s iPad. Worthington, 49, is currently in snowy Colorado with his family, his scraggly beard giving him a rather wilderness-appropriate look. “I look a bit like I’m in The Revenant,” he jokes. He speaks fast, in an idiolect peppered with metaphors and the occasional swear word. There’s a slight air of restlessness to him. “I think it’s well known I find interviews and all those things kind of excruciating,” he admits. “I can get very anxious.”
