Swept Up to Down Under, Baz Luhrmann style

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Thanks to Australian reader, David M., for pointing us to two new Oz Tourism ads directed by Baz Luhrmann and featuring Brandon Walters, the 12-year-old kid costarring in Australia who Luhrmann says is destined to become the country’s next leading man.

“Our next leading man is about four-foot (1.2m) high, (with) long, sort of gold hair, and is an Aboriginal boy.”

Luhrmann says Brandon is the next Paul Hogan, but wouldn’t “the next Keisha Castle-Hughes” be a better comparison? The second tourism commercial, after the cut, seems to intentionally echo the romantic longing of a Wong Kar-wai relationship.

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