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Billy battlesdiseases ontwo frontsLONDON: Billy Connollywill continue to perform onstage and screen despite un-dergoing surgery for pros-tate cancer and being treatedfor the ‘‘initial symptoms’’ ofParkinson’s disease.

The 70-year-old star start-ed his showbusiness careeras a folk singer before de-veloping the stand-up actthat made him famous andled to a TV and film career.

His spokeswoman said:‘‘Billy has been assured byexperts that the findingswill in no way inhibit oraffect his ability to work.’’

The Glasgow-born starhas become an in-demandcharacter actor with rolesincluding starring along-side Judi Dench in MrsBrown and playing a dwarfwarrior in the forthcomingHobbit movies.

There is no cure for Par-kinson’s and scientists havenot worked out why peopleget the condition.

Former Territorian Chris Hemsworth in a scene from Rush Picture: AP

Nudingupmaindangerfor ChrisBy PETER MITCHELL

TORONTO: James Hunt wasthe British golden-haired For-mula One champion of the1970s — a barefoot playboywho lived a life of booze, drugsand many, many women.

To portray Hunt in the newbiopic Rush, directed by RonHoward, Australian actorChris Hemsworth had a longlist of things to do to prepare.

Hemsworth spent fourweeks on the track learninghow to drive an F1 car athigh speed.

After packing on 10kg ofmuscle to play superheroThor just a few months ear-lier, the hulking 191cm tallformer Territorian had toshed 14kg to squeeze into thethin F1 car.

Hemsworth also had tomaster Hunt’s hyperactivefidgeting, mannerisms andaccent. All of the above waseasy compared with one oth-er aspect of the role.

‘‘Probably the nudescenes,’’ Hemsworth, whenasked what the toughest partof the role was, laughed dur-ing an interview at theToronto Film Festival. ‘‘Theywere more intimidating.’’

Sex was a big part of Hunt’s

life, with the driver reportedlybedding 5000 women, some-times just minutes before heslipped into the cockpit of hisF1 car and raced against greatrival Niki Lauda.

That meant Hemsworthhad to shed his clothes in thefilm, something that prob-ably explains why Rush, setin the 1976 F1 season and fol-lowing Hunt and Lauda asthey fight for the world cham-pionship, scored so high withfemale audiences duringearly test screenings.

Howard and screenwriterPeter Morgan, whose resumeincludes The Queen andFrost/Nixon, searched highand low for an English actorto play Hunt — but simplycouldn’t find one.

‘‘James Hunt’s beauty washe is very un-English,’’Morgan explained.

‘‘In England we do sexymen in a different way.

‘‘We do Mick Jaggers andpeople like that.

‘‘We do spiky, clever, weirdguys who are charismatic.

‘‘We don’t do gorgeous,blond, confident males withswagger who look like theyjust walked off the beach andthat’s what James Hunt loo-ked like.

‘‘He was this Adonis whowould walk around barefoot.

‘‘We couldn’t find anybody,so of course we had to findan Australian.’’

Hemsworth, 30, who istipped to get an Oscar nomi-nation for his performance,long ago gave up the playboylifestyle himself.

Married to Spanish actressElsa Pataky since 2010, thecouple has a one-year-olddaughter, India Rose.

To get an idea of what typeof a life Hunt, who died of aheart attack aged 45, lived,Hemsworth looked back tohis early days when, as a19-year-old, he moved from

Melbourne to Sydney to be onthe long-running Australiansoap Home & Away.

‘‘All of a sudden I was onTV five nights a week andthere was all of this fame andcraziness that came with it,’’Hemsworth said.

Rush opens in Australian cin-

emas onOctober 3.

Thriller inWAnetsbagful ofbaddiesPERTH: Australian actorBryan Brown will play acorrupt cop in a crime thril-ler being shot in Perth star-ring English comedian Si-mon Pegg, the productionteam has revealed.

Shooting began on Kill MeThree Times this week andwill continue for about sixweeks at 10 West Australianlocations, including thesmall fishing and touristtown of Lancelin, 110kmnorth of the city.

Directed by Kriv Stendersof Red Dog fame, the film isset in a surfing town wherea young singer, played byElysium star Alice Braga,is the link between threetales of murder, blackmailand revenge.

Pegg plays a mercurialassassin hired by herwealthy husband, played byZero Dark Thirty and Un-derbelly star Callan Mulvey.

But there’s more than oneperson gunning for her.

Animal Kingdom’s Sul-livan Stapleton has beencast as a gambling addictwho attempts to pay off hisdebts through a risky life in-surance scam, while TeresaPalmer, who acted in WarmBodies, plays a small townLady Macbeth who master-minds the scheme.

Brown also tries to get hiscut. Neighbours regularLuke Hemsworth is Braga’slove interest, a local surferwho hopes to rescue theyoung woman from Pegg’stelescopic sights.

‘‘Kill Me Three Times is agreat script and the chanceto work with Kriv Stendersin Perth made the wholething an opportunity I didnot want to miss out on,’’Pegg said.