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Los Angeles bound Aussie actor sees Hollywood as a mission field

Angus Benfield, (The Holy Roller) has just landed his next feature film role. The movie titled ‘Motorvation’ follows Fatty Melvin (Played by Benfield), a struggling motivational speaker who one day has an epiphany that changes his whole message from chasing after “wealth, health and stuff,” to “living for today.” Benfield will be travelling to Los Angeles in late 2017 for the shoot...
Los Angeles bound Aussie actor sees Hollywood as a mission field
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Angus Benfield, (The Holy Roller) has just landed his next feature film role. The movie titled ‘Motorvation’ follows Fatty Melvin (Played by Benfield), a struggling motivational speaker who one day has an epiphany that changes his whole message from chasing after “wealth, health and stuff,” to “living for today.” Benfield will be travelling to Los Angeles in late 2017 for the shoot…

Angus commented, ‘I’ve been working in Australia for years and have always had the US in my sights. Now it’s finally happened…it’s incredibly exciting to get an opportunity like this, especially to be part of such an important film.’

The film is inspired by the biblical character Solomon, who had more wealth and success than anyone on earth and yet considered it meaningless compared to what is truly important.


‘We get so caught up in chasing after a life that is always WHEN…when we are richer, when we get that job, when we lose those extra pounds… that we miss out on what is really important in life.”

Angus isn’t a newcomer to the big screen. He had his big break in Australia when he was cast as ‘Lex’ in Dean Murphy’s cult classic ‘Lex and Rory’, ‘Jack’ in the indie film ‘Wait up Harriet’ and most recently as ‘Pastor Luke’ in The Holy Roller which was released in cinemas in Australia and New Zealand as well as being ‘Official Selection’ at the New Zealand film festival and selling out every screening. The Holy Roller then went on to have a hugely successful release across the US which is still going strong to this day.

‘When I give talks to young people, I constantly tell them not get caught up in thinking that the “TOP” is going to make them happy because it won’t, too many kids today are suffering from ‘status anxiety’ because they didn’t get enough online likes, because they don’t look a certain way, because their parents aren’t rich…they don’t realise that even if they got all of those things, they would still feel the same. This is why I see Hollywood as the perfect mission field; it’s the most influential city on the planet. What is said in Hollywood echoes across the globe.’

Motorvation will be released worldwide in 2018 through Ignite Pictures.

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