It was a privilege to be at Ballarat's Palace Regent cinema last night to hear Bryan Brown in conversation with Renee Price, representing Collins Booksellers. The main reason the event was on was to launch Bryan's latest novel titled The Hidden and to sell his other books, The Drowning and Jimmy Sweet.
But he talked about is early years, his upbringing by his mother and how he got into acting in the first place, acting in the theatre and in film. Acting is all about story telling and all these experiences fuelled his desire to eventually write his own books and invent his own stories. Even though he told us he was 78 years old, writing is a relatively new direction in his life.
It was such a pleasure to have a brief chat with Bryan as he signed our two books, The Hidden and Jimmy Sweet. I'm looking forward to reading all of them. Deborah had already bought The Drowning which explains the two books purchased.
Bryan is such an engaging speaker, and I'm sure the entire audience, which was in the hundreds, would have stayed all night to listen to him tell us about his experiences and the people he has met. But he spoke with an energy that bought his words to life and engaged the attention of the audience.
