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CONTENTS 108 CHRIS H E MSWO RTH The winning ways of Australia’s biggest star. 1 1 6 DEADLY AG E NTS The latest attack in Putin’s war with the West. 1 2 2 W R IT TE N I NTO H I STO RY Celebrating Kris Van Assche’s final collection for Dior Men. 1 3 0 I NVICTUS Prince Harry’s Invictus Games is coming Down Under. 1 3 6 TH R E E’S A PART Y Armani gives us a fresh reason to go black-tie. 1 4 4 GQ R ETROSPECTIVE Looking back on some iconic GQ debuts.

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Jacket, $5915, by Tom Ford at Mr Porter; and sweater, POA, by Tom Ford; necklace, Chris’ own. THIS PAGE

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Waistcoat, $1950, and pants, $1700, both by Giorgio Armani; polishedsteel ‘Carrera Calibre 16’ watch, $6300, by Tag Heuer. Photography David Bailey. Styling Olivia Harding.

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CONTENTS Jaden Smith wants to save the planet; it’s time we started reading graphic novels; Lakeith Stanfield is here to mess with your head; the many talents of Jonah Hill. 5 4 GQ&A Joel Edgerton discusses his latest big-screen project with new film Boy Erased. 59 TASTE & TRAVEL Searching for Australia’s best waves with Chris Hemsworth; why you need to get on board with eco-friendly beer. 6 7 GQ ST YLE The best new looks for race day (and every day); Riccardo Tisci’s Burberry is here; embrace the new corporate look with these simple grooming procedures.

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9 1 GQ WATC H Vacheron Constantin enters the new-gen; the changing face of watches in film; marking a milestone for Tag Heuer’s ‘Carrera’ collection. 9 8 CARS The Range Rover ‘Velar’ is a touch of class; getting some airtime with the new Ford ‘Ranger Raptor’. 1 0 3 GQ I NC

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EDITOR’S LETTER

ome things are just meant to be. Chris Hemsworth was meant to be a magazine editor. Not a Hollywood actor, or a cover star – an editor. And this issue, we’re pleased to announce he’s become one. As we gear up to celebrate our 20th birthday at our Men of the Year awards on November 14, we relect on what it means to be a GQ man in 2018. Hemsworth is the epitome of the perfect gentleman – a successful, fun-loving family guy fully aware of, and accountable for, his responsibilities in today’s world. “In the past, there were very rigid ideas about how a man should behave. Now, everything else has evolved except those views. We have to keep rewriting that rulebook,” he says, feigning to rip said rulebook to shreds. “Men need to reassess things and admit their faults. We’re part of a larger organism – this idea that you’re an individual entity doesn’t work anymore. There are so many voices now, rightly so, needing to be heard and being spoken for.” This is today’s GQ man and this is how he should go about his business. In terms of his editing skills, naturally Hemsworth was an authority on all things suring and itness, picking out the best waves to catch around Australia (p59), while best bud and trainer Luke Zocchi gives you an insight into the gruelling itness regime needed to look like a superhero (p163). Sadly we had to veto one of Hemsworth’s requests – his cover star of choice. Kelly Slater was unavailable so we asked if he’d do us the honour and be shot by the legendary David Bailey (p108). Prince Harry had three criteria for hosting the Invictus Games: an iconic city – tick; a country with a proud military heritage – tick; and inally, HRH Harry said “a place where people are absolutely sports mad and would really get behind competitors”. In Sydney, they’ve found the right spot. We proile some of the real-life superheroes representing Australia this month. Read their stories (p130), which are particularly poignant as November 11 marks the centenary of the First World War Armistice. GQ is a proud supporter of the #ThanksForServing campaign, which acknowledges Australian veterans past and present, and the sacriices made by their families. Make sure you do too. As you can see, it’s a great issue. And for that, you have the keen eye of Mr Chris Hemsworth

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CONTRIBUTORS David Bailey SHOT C H R I S H E MSWO RTH FO R OU R COVE R STORY, P 1 08

Richard Brown W ROTE OU R STO RY ON WATC H ES I N FI LM, P94 Remember the first watch you ever bought? It was a polished-steel ‘Signalman’, the first watch from Sussexbased watchmaker Schofield. I loved its bold aesthetics and insane attention to detail. The man behind the brand, Giles Ellis, is a design genius. I was lucky enough to secure one of the last of the 300 models made. And your dream watch? The ‘Grand Lange 1 Moonphase Lumen’ from A Lange & Söhne. A super-stealthy 2016 launch with semitransparent glass and a moonphase lasered with 1164 glow-in-the-dark stars. Unbelievably cool

and not what you’d expect from the typically conservative Lange. Outside of watches what’s your favourite indulgence? Anything from Private White VC, an English outfitter that manufactures most of its clothes by hand in Manchester, England. You’re based in London – any hidden pockets we should know about? The cobbled streets, historic wharves and riverside pubs of Wapping. You feel like you’ve stepped into a Dickens novel. And the best advice you’ve been given? You create your own luck.

What was Chris like in person? Did you get on well? He’s a regular guy. And what was he like as a photography subject? Professional. Your portrait of Jack Nicholson is so iconic can you describe what it was like on set that day? Jack and I were good mates by then. When someone knows you, it’s easy to get them to react with you, as they trust you. Any favourite shoots throughout the years? I don’t have favourites. How long did it take you to find your signature photography style? I always had it. What is it about black and white portraits that you enjoy? It leaves more to the imagination. Any other photographers whose work you admire? Bill Brandt, Irving Penn and many others.

ARIA AT LAST YEAR’S GQ MEN OF THE YEAR AWARDS.

Mojean Aria WROTE OUR AG E N DA P I E C E , P32 Tell us about your next film Danger Close? It’s an epic telling of one of the most iconic battles in likely the messiest war of all time. What was it like working with fellow Aussies Richard Roxburgh and Travis Fimmel?

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Working with all the Australians was special, truly every single one of them felt the importance of this story. Every day our set had veterans visit, so the camaraderie was truly something unique. What’s your favourite Chris Hemsworth film and why? Thor: Ragnarok ’cause it’s a Marvel film that just takes the piss. With superhero films, it’s either gotta be The Dark Knight or the complete opposite which was Ragnarok. Plus, I laughed in every scene Taika Waititi’s character Korg was in.

If you could work alongside any actor, dead or alive, who would it be? Marilyn Monroe as it clearly wasn’t only her beauty that has made her so iconic. Got any hidden talents? Beatboxing. It made me more popular at school and now I really like rhythms. Do you remember the first time you came across GQ? I was about 14 and one of my best mates was obsessed with buying GQ. He bought every one from 14 to 20 and every time we went out we wore suits. Jheez!

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“Nothing in the world is worth here aren’t that many having or worth doing unless it means moments when you can be effort, pain, dificulty… I have never in certain your life is set to my life envied a human being who led change course, but one of an easy life. I have envied a great many them arrived for me in midpeople who led dificult lives and led 2017. That June, I was announced as the them well.” recipient of the annual Heath Ledger Theodore Roosevelt said that Scholarship, a platform that I was able and it’s a statement I sincerely believe. to jump off and land among a team of I don’t think there is anything you can people with whom I enjoy working do to make these highly sought-after to this day. They provide incredible professions any easier. However, one opportunities and introduce me to avenue that does help is the many decision makers. I also now get platforms, like the Heath Ledger invitations to events that let me rub Scholarship, that can elevate people. shoulders with many people that One day I want my own initiative. I admired from afar for so long. One of the things I’ve done to survive More than that, the scholarship and stay focused in this industry is to provides a valuable leg-up into an T H E AC TO R A N D 2 0 1 7 W I N N E R seek out inspiration. Nobody is perfect, industry in the US that is notoriously O F T H E H E AT H L E D G E R S C H O L A R S H I P but some have some damn near perfect tough to crack. Without it – and the D I S C U S S E S T H E I M P O R TA N C E qualities. Whether that be Nicole legacy of the late Heath Ledger – it’s O F T H E AWA R D A N D H O W I T’ S Kidman’s consistency, Montgomery fair to say we would be seeing far fewer I N S P I R I N G AU S T R A L I A N S TO Clift’s vulnerability, Al Pacino’s passion, Aussie names in the credits of the latest S U C C E E D I N H O L LY W O O D. Sean Penn’s intensity, Cate Blanchett’s big-screen releases. theatre work, Marlon Brando’s thematic Acting is one of those professions that choices, Robert De Niro’s physicality, a lot of people tend to dream about, but Heath Ledger’s versatility, Joel Edgerton’s ability to write, direct and few ever imagine will be a reality. As with many childhood act in stories he believes in, the collective he has built with his brother aspirations, they are more often than not given up on and forgotten. Nash and co at Blue Tongue and many, many more. If they are the For understandable reasons, if I may add. I’m laughing here. Do top, I believe luck was not the deciding factor. I write ‘haha’? I’m not sure – this is the irst time I’ve written I’ve learnt seeking inspiration is a skill. Let’s take Chris Hemsworth, for GQ Australia. Yet another opportunity that’s been provided for example. He is, after all, the star of this issue. From what I know he from the scholarship, by the way. has remained with the same Aussie agent and the same American Now, where was I? Giving up on childhood dreams is often manager from the beginning. He’s been loyal to those who have been understandable. There is no step-by-step guide you can follow, loyal to him. I remember a huge story about ive years ago when he had no handbook you can pick up and reference. You will get rejected, parted ways with his US agent. What I found amazing about this story, is you will get your heart broken, you will have a tonne of voices in that he also announced he wouldn’t be having any agency meetings for six your head telling you to give up. And they’ll be smart voices who months out of respect for his previous agent. I’ve never heard anything will change tactics and challenge you in different ways: this is not like that before and since. In an industry that often feels like the wild west for you, you were born in the wrong time, people don’t like you, – full of bandits, cowboys and sheriffs, one that doesn’t enforce rules on you don’t have enough time, and on and on. But that’s just you – it really opened my eyes to how important it is to create your own you trying to quit on yourself. personal positive philosophy that you work from and can build on. Your love and joy for the work in its purest state have to In an industry that is full of crazy actor stories, you often only hear be so overwhelming that they override all the other confusion the bad ones. But Hemsworth’s career and the careers of so many other and noise that threatens to set you back. I’ve learnt to have an successful Aussies who have made it against all odds are proof that if you irrational faith that it will all pan out, that if you keep pushing can create a strong sense of self and always stay loyal to that, I think forward and digging deeper someone will recognise and give you’ll be all right. Better yet, you’ll be more than all right – you’ll be you the opportunities. There’s really no other option if you an inspiration to others. want to succeed.

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In his final literary gift to the universe, the late, great Anthony Bourdain partnered with novelist Joel Rose on Hungry Ghosts, a gritty, gory novel that’s threaded together by Bourdain’s horrorinspired recipes. Taking its stylistic cues from the spookier corners of Japanese folklore, the novel portrays a dinner party gone rogue, where guests play a game of 100 candles, each trying to one-up the others by telling tales of ghosts, demons and other ghoulish things. It’s a little gnarly and, unlike most of Bourdain’s work, you’ll probably lose your appetite halfway through. But it goes without saying Hungry Ghosts is a must-have for any fan of Bourdain’s. $24 .99; PE NGU I N .COM . AU

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ou’ve probably already seen them – or at least heard about them. They’re a new strain of Instagram inluencer, with millions of followers around the world and a slew of big brands lining up to collaborate. But while the followers might be real, the inluencers behind them are not. Or, not really, anyway. Let us explain. It was mid-2016 when the irst virtual inluencer revealed its CGI face online. But it was only recently that an LA-based irm called Brud came clean about their involvement, triggering a wave of other tech entrepreneurs to do the same. So, why is it a thing? Well, as far as brands are concerned, partnering with robots is less risky than working with ‘real’ inluencers, who’re known to be a little, shall we say, high-maintenance. It also offers more reward. Turns out, avatars are ininitely more connected to the Gen Z zeitgeist than their human counterparts. Feeling overwhelmed? Allow us to guide you through the most bankable CGI inluencers currently loating around the interweb.

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MG. LOL. TMI. The age of social media has made the TLA a modern form of abbreviated communication – TLA, of course, being a three-letter acronym for ‘three-letter acronym’. Just FYI*. Twitter, with its initial 140-character limit, ushered this in for the digital generation. TLAs proliferate text-speak, an e-shorthand for today’s warp-speed society. Although as the late writer Douglas Adams once quipped, “The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it’s short for.” TBH though, TLAs have been around for decades: telegrams, classiied ads, personals – in short, any place where brevity matters. The military runs on coded initials, presumably to save time in the heat of battle. For example, IED means improvised explosive device. AKA a bomb. ACV means armoured combat vehicle. Which means tank. ADW? That’s air defence warning. More commonly known as a siren. Corporate culture also loves a gratuitous TLA. Trouble is, these people talk at such length to themselves entirely in abbreviations of their own invention, it’s virtually impossible for an outsider to understand WTF everyone is on about. Maybe that’s the point. Generation after generation of kids have developed their own argot precisely for this reason. Despite the best efforts of traditionalists like me who try to ight the seemingly inexorable diminution of language, there’re many TLAs that have now slipped into common use. OMG and LOL were even added to the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) in 2011. Though my dear old dad still thinks LOL stands for ‘lots of love’ – which was a bit unfortunate when he recently WhatsApped our extended family to say, “Just wanted to let you know that Auntie Joan passed away last night. LOL.” 52

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BREAKING DOWN INTERNET SPEAK Earlier this year, it emerged that one of the world’s largest FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) companies, Proctor & Gamble, has quietly applied for trademarks on the household and personal-care use of four of the most commonly used (and therefore slightly passé) TLAs. The idea behind their audacious attempt to buy the rights to use LOL (laugh out loud), NBD (no big deal), FML (fuck my life) and WTF (what the fuck) on their packaging is to better market detergent, toilet paper and tampons to millennials. It must have raised a few bushy eyebrows in the dusty, fusty world of IP law. Though quite what P&G would do with them if they won the rights is anyone’s guess. Febreze My Life? Maybe they could be used as branding on a new range of condoms of different sizes – from small (LOL) to medium (NBD) up to extra large (WTF). P&G’s move is far from the irst attempt by a company to seek exclusive ownership of things that you would think are in the public domain. Walmart was left red-faced after failing to trademark the yellow smiley face. Harley-Davidson made some noise about

registering the sound of revving engine. And in 2005 a French company kicked up a stink when it tried to trademark the smell of strawberries. SMH. But sometimes these outlandish TM applications succeed. Airhead heiress Paris Hilton apparently owns the words ‘That’s hot!’ and successfully sued Hallmark for using them on a greeting card. You’d think the subject of the world’s second-most-downloaded sex tape (after Kim Kardashian) might have bigger infringement ish to fry. The celebrity stylist and designer Rachel Zoe will apparently have her lawyer ire off a cease-and-desist if you try to use the word BANANAS without her permission. (Shall we put that to the test? BANANAS! BANANAS! BANANAS!) Donald Trump tried to trademark his The Apprentice catchphrase ‘You’re ired!’. He didn’t win that vote. Boxing and wrestling ring announcer Michael Buffer has had better luck, raking in a reported $556m from licensing the use of his signature opening salvo ‘Let’s get ready to rumble!’ to movies and videogames. Oh there’s more! Misogynistic music mogul Dr Dre failed to prevent gynaecologist Draion M Burch – author of 20 Things You May Not Know About The Vagina – from trademarking the name Dr Drai. But my favourite? Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA sued a Brooklyn dog-walking company for calling itself Woof-Tang Clan and claiming to walk “the illest group of dogs in New York City”. If we are indeed now living in a world in which folk can just go around claiming others can’t use certain phrases or abbreviations without permission because they legally baggsied it, then the irst TLA that springs to my mind to trademark is FFS. *If I’m going to be a stickler for accuracy – which I am – most TLAs are actually three-letter initials. Strictly speaking, an acronym is an abbreviation of the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word, eg NASA, ASAP, AWOL, etc.

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oel Edgerton wants to come home. It’s little wonder, for the Sydney-born actor-director has had a decade that’s exhausting to think about, much less achieve. Disappearing into each new role, whether as blue-blood Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, an MMA ighter in the underrated drama Warrior, or playing a private middle American in Jeff Nichols’ Loving, Edgerton never does something twice. He also moved into a new role in 2015 as the director of acclaimed sleeper-hit thriller The Gift, which sees him play a former high-school outcast who terrorises a married couple (Rebecca Hall and Jason Bateman). Now, even before its release, Boy Erased – the ilm Edgerton wrote, directed and stars in – is being mentioned in whispers about gold hardware this awards season. Based on a 2016 memoir of the same name by American author Garrard Conley, it features Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Lucas Hedges and Aussie actor-singer Troye Sivan in a large ensemble

cast, and tells the story of Jared (Hedges), a young man whose parents force him to attend gay ‘conversion therapy’ in the US. Taking a time-out from a recordbreaking European heatwave while ilming the long-gestating Netlix adaptation of Shakespearean ilm The King with David Michôd, Edgerton relects on his unpredictable career, pulling double duty on set, and whether the DC Comics juggernaut will ever get in touch.

GQ: Was directing always on the cards? Joel Edgerton: It sort of was and it wasn’t. Once I left drama school, one of the irst things I did was I directed a tiny short ilm. I was one of those people who only took to directing because of [Australian actor, director and producer] John Polson setting up Tropfest. But, as much as I made a little ilm I wasn’t really thinking that I would ever make a proper, fully ledged, grown-up movie. Wait, that sounds like I’m talking about a naughty movie! GQ: We’d still watch it. Was there a moment you knew you had to give it a go? JE: Once I had the idea for The Gift, one part of me was tiptoeing towards directing, the other part was screaming in my ear: ‘Don’t do it. It’s too hard, stay in your lane.’ It was really fear-based, because I’ve had the pleasure and the terror of watching so many directors do that job – some very successfully and others go through torture. So two things are going on with me the whole time, and even when people said yes, sometimes people agreeing to be a part of the project made me scared because it made it more of a reality. GQ: You had to face that reality at some point, though? JE: I never completely relaxed, but I started to really enjoy myself while I was making the ilm. Within two days I was like: ‘Right, I think I’m doing the right thing and I think I know what I’m doing’. But you never know what it’s going to turn out like. GQ: We do now, though – it was embraced immediately. JE: I won’t lie and say I wasn’t a bit surprised. I was proud of it, I thought I’d done something good, and I thought there’d be an audience out there for it. So I was more than happy with how it was received. That, plus the fact I had a good time, made me wonder what I could do next. GQ: Do you feel that surprise of how something’s received as an actor as well? You make it in a vacuum, and then it emerges about 12 or 18 months later for people to see.

“one part of me was tiptoeing towards directing, the other part was screaming: ‘Don’t do it.” N OVE M B E R 20 1 8 G Q .COM . AU

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“I felt that after two years of trying to ﬁnd the right project I’d found the one.” JE: Other people’s responses never fail to surprise me. Just when I think that I’m tuned into what people want and what critics like, the very next moment I’m turned upside down or shocked by it. There are times when I’ve come back to watch a ilm just before its release, or once the director’s said it’s all inished, and that process is very nervewracking as well, because you wonder how the director and the editor have manipulated whatever you gave them a year ago, and how the ilm itself is going to read, and if it’s going to land and be successful as a story. GQ: What’s it like to not have that distance as a director? JE: You don’t ever take your eyes off it. Until you lock the ilm and watch the inal print of it, it’s pretty much like having a roommate and neither of you go to work so you’re always together. You start to see its laws, you hopefully know how to cut them out or even them out or work around them, and you also hopefully don’t lose sight of the strengths of it. When I irst read Boy Erased, I remember the irst feeling of reading Garrard talk about having to empty his pockets like he was going to prison. So through the fatigue of making the ilm, I kept thinking: ‘Let’s shorten this scene, or get rid of this scene’. But then I remembered when I irst read it my jaw was on the loor, and if I had that experience reading the book, then hopefully somebody else watching the movie will have that experience. GQ: How did you arrive on Boy Erased? JE: I really don’t read very many books. I’m just not good at sitting and being still, and

reading is one of those great things that people do that calms them – and I’m not very calm. But I was given this book to read. I have this fascination with extremism, I have a real obsession with prisons, I have a fascination with cults. But what started as feeling like I’m going to get a ly-on-the-wall prison tour in this book turned into really empathising with this guy. It really got under my skin. I felt that after two years of trying to ind the right project, I’d found the one, and I was kind of annoyed at the time because I wasn’t sure if it was a movie I should make. But after I’d written it I got possessive of it and I already had the vision of how to make it in my head. GQ: What are the challenges with being both in front of and behind the camera? JE: It sounds silly, but the biggest challenge is not being able to be in two places at one time. Generally, you’re watching a take through the monitor and you get a sense of whether you can move on to the next thing or if you need to do another take. So that was the catch-22, and the way I got around that was I have Nash [Edgerton, Joel’s brother], who is a great director and somebody I really trust. I could literally look at him, and we have this non-verbal communication on whether it was good, bad, or should we move on. The other challenge is that something doesn’t feel right about being inside of a scene, calling cut, and then giving notes to other actors. GQ: It would be strange. JE: [Laughs] It almost felt like a joke, being like, ‘Obviously I was very good, but you need to do XYZ to ix your performance’. If you’re acting within a scene, how much awareness can you have of what another actor needs to do for the next take? GQ: It must be hard to get that perspective. JE: The other way around that challenge is that I have played roles in my ilms because I wrote them with a very speciic goal for me as an actor. But I didn’t, thankfully – and I don’t think I ever will – write a role for myself where I’m in front of the camera every day. I was only on set as an actor for a quarter of the shoot, so the rest of the time I could just enjoy directing. GQ: You also run production company Blue-Tongue Films with Nash. How do you work together? JE: When it comes to work, we ask each other advice about anything. If we have scripts we are interested in or have written, we’ll read them for each other. He sends me early cuts of what he’s working on. Basically, we just get involved in as much as we can of each other’s world. We’re going to a festival for Boy Erased, and there’s no way he’s not going to be there.

GQ: All of your acting roles appear completely unique. Does directing also let you keep things feeling fresh? JE: You’re right. I tend to feel more comfortable as an actor if I’m playing what you’d call a character instead of charismatic leading roles. The idea of hiding behind character – I know that sounds trite – but using a character as something of a veil, I ind real enjoyment in that challenge. As a director I feel the same. I would love to put Boy Erased out into the world, and I don’t necessarily want to cover that same territory again. I would love to make a comedy, I’d deinitely like to go back and make something in that suspense world again. I’m surprised at how much I enjoyed messing with an audience. GQ: Is that part of the challenge – to keep people guessing? JE: I just think I get bored very easily. The thing about acting is, I had an incredible day yesterday as an actor working with David (MichÔd), Timothée Chalamet and a couple of other actors in one of the scenes of The King that we’re shooting in Budapest. I had a fantastic day where I was reminded of why I was an actor, why I love it. I felt like I had something really dificult, complicated and interesting to concentrate on. Being an actor is almost like being a child, almost zero responsibility except for the words you say and the things that you wear. And being a director is being like the grown-up in the household. Everything ilters through you, and you have to dole out the praise and the punishments, and you gotta pay the bills and make sure the place is clean. GQ: You keep the whole thing running. JE: And you just wish you could be a child again! The luxury I now have is I can direct another movie, and then go and act in a couple of projects and I can just swing between being a petulant child actor and then doing the other thing as well. I’m not stuck in one for too long, hopefully. GQ: Do you see yourself continuing to make these smaller dramas, or would you ever step up to do a big, mainstream blockbuster? JE: I do wonder that, actually. Looking at David MichÔd’s ability to make this ilm we’re doing now, I don’t know if at this moment I’m capable of doing that. I like the idea, I think it’s smart, to incrementally move higher and higher to bigger and more complicated projects. If I found the right project that really spoke to me and that I felt obsessed by enough to make and it was a big-scale thing, then I maybe would do it. Cut to you and I talking in 10 years’ time on the set of Superman 15, directing, and chewing a fat cigar.

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GQ: When DC comes calling. JE: Yeah, yeah. I’ll be on my mega yacht. GQ: Like Timothée Chalamet, who you’re working with right now, Lucas Hedges has had a phenomenal year. Do you enjoy being part of these younger actors’ journeys? JE: I’m lucky to be around this generation of kids. I am so impressed when I meet a young person who is in their early twenties, like they both are, who already have stuff worked out in their head, and can stand in front of the camera. They’re learning on a world stage, they’re cutting their teeth on projects a lot of people are going to see, and they’re just handling it so well. I feel that I am probably luckier having worked with them than they are to ever have worked with me. GQ: As well as Lucas, you have Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman on board for Boy Erased. How involved were you with casting the film? JE: Very much. I read the book, and then I met Garrard in New York. Cut to a month and a half later, I’m back in Budapest shooting Red Sparrow, and I’ve inished writing the screenplay. And then I go back,

and I have this idea in my head after Garrard sends me about 40 family photos, of the time he went through conversion therapy up until present day. And immediately I thought it had to be Nicole and Russell. I almost thought ‘If Russell says no to this, what will I do?’ There’s a softness and strength to him, and I thought it had to be Russell. I’d met Lucas before – his father directed a ilm I did with Jennifer Garner called The Odd Life of Timothy Green – at the time, Lucas was 12, and his father and I would play basketball together. And he’d just gotten his irst acting role in that Wes Anderson movie. GQ: Moonrise Kingdom? JE: Yeah, Moonrise Kingdom. And I wrote Lucas a note, I’d forgotten about it, but I wrote him a letter saying congratulations, and I wrote a PS at the end saying ‘Don’t grow up and start stealing my jobs!’ And Lucas read it to me not so long ago. I knew if I could get Lucas, then him and Nicole together would be perfect as mother and son, and then Russell. Once we had those three, we were off to the races.

GQ: You started in the industry nearly 25 years ago. Is this the type of career you imagined for yourself? JE: I went to drama school, and it was all oriented towards being a stage actor, that’s what I thought I was going to do. I haven’t really looked into the future to be honest, I wasn’t someone who set goals or tried to imagine a future to inspire me to do better things. I still don’t really, and I still remind myself every now and then to have gratitude for it. I was on set the other day shooting the Battle of Agincourt [for The King] and there’s over 200 Hungarian and British extras and stunt people, and we’re ighting in the mud with fake swords. I’m having a tough time because it’s 35 degrees and we’re in full armour. But I turned to someone and went: ‘If I could go back and grab myself as a 10-year-old boy and bring him to this set right now, he would kick me in the shins if I complained about anything’. GQ: You’re still living the dream. JE: Yeah. Living out some childhood fantasy. Sometimes I forget how lucky I am – and then I remind myself and I shut my mouth. Boy Erased is in cinemas November 8 N OVE M B E R 20 1 8 G Q .COM . AU

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ther than Vegemite and a penchant for treating the prime minister’s seat as an ongoing game of musical chairs, there’s few things as typically Australian as suring. And with more than 37,000km of coastline, it’s easy to see why. It’s not just our access to great beaches that makes suring one of the nation’s favourite pastimes. For starters, it’s free. Aside from the one-off purchase of a board, all you need to get going is a body of water and a willingness to get wiped out. Because suring is all about getting back to basics. There’s no need to rush out and buy the latest tech, pay exorbitant membership fees or ly to far-lung corners of the world; when it comes to suring, the world comes to us. It offers the opportunity to escape the stresses of work, money or whatever else, and immerse yourself in nature. It’s more a life-long journey than a sprint, as much about the search for the right wave as it is inding that wave. As opposed to other suring hot spots like Indo and Fiji, Australia’s best waves aren’t limited to a speciic region, with both coasts offering everything from beginnerfriendly beach breaks to the sort of wave only the truly unhinged would consider (we’re looking at you, Shipstern Bluff). Though with choice, comes decisions. There’s not only the type of wave to consider but factors like overcrowding, and even angry locals, that will put a quick dampener on things. To save you the trouble, we spoke to someone who’s surfed the lot. From growing up on Phillip Island to his home breaks in and around Byron Bay, Chris Hemsworth knows his way round a tube. Here, he shares his favourites. The wax, however, is on you. tourism.australia.com

Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island.

Mallacoota, Victoria.

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DIFFICULTY 2/5 Stretching from Magic Lands to Forrest Caves, Cape Woolamai has 4.2km of beach-break action for all abilities, with both right- and left-hand waves on offer. Though, it’s not just the quality of the surf that keeps us coming back. A relic to Phillip Island’s volcanic past, Woolamai is surrounded by the striking pink of ancient granite rock, rendering any Instagram filter superfluous – it’s nature doing all the talking here. With such impressive scenery, Woolamai is somewhere you want to spend more than just a few hours. A long list of walking tours

will enable you to witness the unique rock formations up close and personal, meaning it’s a place that can reveal itself in new and exciting ways each time you visit. INSIDER KNOWLEDGE Dusk is when Cape Woolamai really shows its worth. The headland’s lush vegetation makes it a breeding ground for short-tailed shearwater birds and each evening you’ll see them fly home en masse after a long day of catching fish. Find a quiet stretch of beach, marvel at nature and then tell us you’d rather be at home watching Netflix. Go on, we dare you.

SAYS HEMSWORTH “One of my favourite spots to surf. I spent a lot of my childhood there and have great memories growing up with my brothers.”

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Wategos beach, Byron Bay.

PHOTOGRAPHY: ALAMY.

M A L L AC O O TA , VICTORIA

DIFFICULTY 2/5 It’s not often towns boasting a population smaller than most millennials’ facebook friends lists gets a write up on any ‘top five’ list. Mallacoota, and its 1036 residents, is the exception. In fact, it’s likely the lack of people that makes Mallacoota so appealing, because the wildlife is the real hero here. On top of the surf – nearby Bastion Point offers a consistent point break that suits all levels – Gabo Island is a must-see. Home to the world’s largest colony of ‘little penguins’, just ensure your phone is fully charged before going. You can thank us later.

INSIDER KNOWLEDGE The area’s best food belongs to Lucy’s, a local institution since owner Lucy Wood arrived from China 15 years ago. With noodles made from scratch, it’s a worthy post-surf meal. 64 MAURICE AVENUE; 03 5158 0666

SAYS HEMSWORTH “This place is responsible for my love of the ocean, I camped here every Christmas with my family and it has everything – white sandy beaches, crystal-clear water, great surf, and an abundance of wildlife.”

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DIFFICULTY 3/5 Having grown tired of the Hollywood bubble, Hemsworth and his family moved back to Australia in late-2014, settling in Byron Bay. So, it’s little surprise his local breaks make it in to the top-five list. The Pass, a worldclass right-hander, is where you’ll see the likes of Hemsworth and fellow local and pro-surfer Matty Wilkinson paddling out. Wategos, though, is the all-round standout, offering a fun slow wave ideal for longboarders as well as boasting stunning views across the bay. Further down the beach, Mains and Clarkes are two beach breaks prime for beginners. Expect to

battle crowds here, especially during peak time. But the bigger concern with Byron is the S word. No, not sunburn: sharks. With reports of an attack surfacing every year or so, don’t be an idiot – pay close attention to lifeguard warnings. INSIDER KNOWLEDGE Other than the dozens of surf beaches, the almond lattes and breezy pace of life, Byron has some incredible marine parks offering Australia’s best snorkeling and diving outside of the Great Barrier Reef. In particular, Julian Rocks, with boats leaving from mouth of The Pass. Get in quick while the reef is still intact.

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C U R RU M B I N A L L E Y, G O L D C OA ST

DIFFICULTY 1/5 A slow peeling right, the wave at Currumbin is a calling card for all beginners as well as longboarders and stand-up-paddle boarders. The calmer waters also make it a perfect place to bring the kids, with countless surf schools on hand if the little ones – or you for that matter – need some help getting upright. The real secret, though, to nailing the dad-on-holiday vibe is to buy yourself a rod and fish for your dinner – the area is a haven for Flathead and Bream. INSIDER KNOWLEDGE The iconic Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, open since 1947, is definitely worth a visit. So, too the

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Swell Sculpture festival, which takes place each spring and showcases quirky installations from local and international artists. Popping up in seemingly random places, the best way to experience it is simply start walking and see what you find.

SAYS HEMSWORTH “Perfect for families, it’s where a waist deep crystalclear coastal estuary meets the ocean. This beach is kid-heaven.”

CAPE SH ANK, VICTORIA

DIFFICULTY 5/5 An exposed reef break, Cape Shank is a menacing wave best avoided by all save the seasoned surfer. Then again, you’d expect as much of a place sharing the name with a rudimentary prison weapon. While summer is largely flat, swell during the colder months can bring about some deep barrels, particularly at lowtide. Though, half the challenge is actually getting there. You’ll have to survive 400m of rocky hills just to arrive at the beach. According to wannasurf.com, “If you get hurt you may have to get air lifted”. Like we said, not for everyone.

INSIDER KNOWLEDGE You survived the rocky descent to the water, avoided the rip currents and somehow escaped slicing your feet, or worse, on the reef – now you deserve a drink. Ten Minutes by Tractor, a 15-minute drive (ironic, right?) from Cape Shank offers some of Mornington Peninsular’s best wines, the pinot noir a standout. Get a bottle and toast to the fact you’re still in one piece. 1333 MORNINGTON FLINDERS ROAD; TENMINUTESBYTRACTOR.COM.AU

PHOTOGRAPHY: ALAMY; GETTY IMAGES.

Currumbin Alley, Gold Coast

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PICKS FIVE MORE WAVES WORTH CHECKING OUT.

TAM O’SHANTER BEACH, TAS

A point break on the north coast of Tassie, conveniently located near some great wineries.

TOMBSTONES, WA

Until Margerat River was a confirmed spot on the tour, this was mooted as an option. One word of advice: SHARKS.

‘OCCY’S PEAK’, QLD

Ex world champ Mark ‘Occy’ Occhilupo’s wave pool is set to open later this year promising a 60m barrel.

MEREWETHER BEACH, NSW

Home to four-time world champ Mark Richards and crowned ‘best city beach’ last year.

GREEN ISLAND, NSW

Cape Shank, Victoria.

Great waves in picturesque surroundings. In other words, a classic south coast beach.

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DRINKS

Making beer better I 4

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FOOD

FROM CROOK TO COOK He might not be the bastion of responsible cooking, but since appearing on Martha Stewart’s eponymous show in 2008, Snoop having already mastered one particular area of baking - has been hard at work broadening his recipe repertoire. And he’s got his first-ever cookbook to show for it. Brimming with gourmet delicacies like ‘Gangsta Shrimp Alfredo’, what From Crook to Cook lacks in nutritional value it makes up for by way of an entertaining read. While Snoop’s signature ingredient doesn’t feature, there’s some delectable ‘munchies’ just in case. $39.99, out October 23; hardiegrant.com.au

R E D F E R N H AS H A D A N I N F LU X O F YO U N G O P E R ATO R S A D D I N G A S PL AS H O F C R E ATIVIT Y – AND LOTS OF FLAVOUR.

Beef carpaccio. 92 Pitt St; bartjr.com.au

Veal, artichokes, pancetta, and prosecco cream. 99 Redfern St; isaac restaurant.com.au

DRINKS

BELOW

Snoop’s ‘Fried Bologna Sandwich’ calls for barbecue potato chips, “as many as you want”.

A curious blend of influences, on the surface Isaac is a smart little Italian, with a beautiful concrete bar, stone flooring and classic trattoria furnishings – but your pasta may come with a Middle Eastern twist.

Blurring the lines of wine bar and restaurant, Bart Jnr has a great offering of both to keep you well sated and swigging ’til the wee hours. The location is perfect for people watching from busy Redfern and Pitt streets outside. Go with friends for an arm-bending night fuelled by cocktails and great Aussie drops.

The beating heart of Redfern’s food scene, this stalwart dishes up arguably the best Israeli food Down Under. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, this is a stunning modern take on the vibrant, textural and colourful cuisine – and it’s bagged a bucket load of awards for its efforts. All you have to do is work out what time of day you’d prefer to try it. Start with breakfast, and work from there. Tel Aviv falafel with green tahini. 96 Kepos St; keposstreet kitchen.com.au

Up there with the most energetic bars in Sydney, Arcadia has earned its stripes as one of the finest cocktail saloons in sin city – the local brews aren’t half bad either. Bring your drinking boots, this is a next-level dive bar, where the tunes and atmosphere are as colourful as the locals – plus you can order in food from Redfern Continental and make a (long) night of it. Signature Negroni. 7 Cope St; arcadia liquors.com

Sexy drinking. If you’re one that likes the racier, wild side of Sydney’s nightlife then the Bearded Tit might warm your cockles. This is a sensual dining and drinking experience, but don’t let the cheap prices fool you. Offering a raucous time where all colours of the rainbow flourish, it’s cozy, rowdy and a seriously fun night out – you know, the way Sydney used to be. Hail Mary (spicy as hell). 183 Regent St; thebeardedtit.com

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For us, innovation must always serve function. For example, raising our bezel by 2mm has improved the grip. Just a little. When you care about watches, just a little matters a lot.

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A COLLAB FOR THE FANS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ‘PEOPLE’S DESIGNER’ TEAMS UP WITH THE WORLD’S MOST ACCESSIBLE FASHION BRAND? BLING. AND LOTS OF IT.

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GQ Picks high and low. GQ: Did you have a clear vision of what the collection would look like from day one? JS: Usually when I’m designing I have a lash and I know exactly where a collection is going to go. That’s how it was with ‘MOSCHINO [tv] H&M’. I knew it would have an attitude and toughness, and that it would be full-on pop culture but also have a bit of bling bling, too. GQ: So, what were some of the challenges that came with taking a luxury brand like MOSCHINO, and working with the scale and budget of a H&M collection? JS: Well, the great thing about H&M is that they want to be challenged. They wanted MOSCHINO to challenge them with pieces that were technically complex to make – like the all-over sequin down jacket.

FRANKLY, WE’LL TAKE THEM ALL. BUT, IF PRESSED, HERE’S OUR FAVOURITES.

wanted. The thing about Instagram is there is no ilter. It’s just the fans and me. I cannot wait to see the fans share pictures in their favourite pieces when they inally get their hands on them. GQ: Do you have a favourite piece from the collection? JS: I’m in love with them all. But if I have to pick one piece it would be the high-waisted baggy denim. They’re based on something from my irst-ever MOSCHINO men’s collection and they never went into production, but I’ve always had the sample in my closet. They’re not just great for the fans; they’re also exactly what I want to wear right now. ‘MOSCHINO [TV] H&M’ WILL HIT SELECTED AUSTRALIAN STORES ON NOVEMBER 8; HM.COM/AU

ABOVE

Jacket, $449, and bag, $89.99, both by MOSCHINO [tv] H&M.

WORDS: AMY CAMPBELL.

t’s hard to believe this partnership hasn’t already happened. H&M, the Swedish fast-fashion powerhouse, and MOSCHINO, the vivacious Italian luxury label helmed by Jeremy Scott, have more in common than their respective price points would suggest. Both strive to push the boundaries of what fashion can be and neither shy away from making a bold creative statement. Plus, “the fans” (as Scott describes his customers) are at the heart of everything both H&M and MOSCHINO do. It was only a matter of time before the collaboration gods connected the dots – and it’s every bit as wacky as we’d hoped. Recalling ’90s nostalgia via archival MOSCHINO prints and naughties-era MTV references, H&M’s creative advisor Ann-Soie Johansson describes the range as “bold, in your face and full of pieces that will be fun to wear” – ‘fun’ being the operative word here. We called on Scott to give us the lowdown before the collab, entitled ‘MOSCHINO [tv] H&M’, lands in store.

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GQ SPOTLIGHT

WHEN HERITAGE MEETS STREET AT B HALLM

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THE ICON HOODIE

DIOR MEN, 2008 In his first runway show for Dior Men, Kris Van Assche showed a more relaxed look than we’d seen under the previous directorship of Hedi Slimane.

GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY, 2015 One of the founding members of menswear’s next-gen, Gosha Rubchinskiy’s unique post-soviet aesthetic saw logo-laden workwear make a politically charged revival.

$89.95, by Silent Thoery. $79.95 , by Zara.

LOUIS VUITTON, 2018 In the most-anticipated show of the SS19 season, Virgil Abloh’s debut at LV saw the legacy house adopt its new creative director’s proclivity for streetwear-friendly pieces.

WORDS: AMY CAMPBELL. PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES.

RAF SIMONS, 2003 One of the first designers to place streetwear on the runway, Simons’ early adoption of the hoodie affirmed his reputation as the envelope pusher of modern menswear.

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$160, by G-Star. $110, by Stüssy.

$169, by Tommy Jeans.

$59.95, by Bonds.

F R O M H U M B L E B E G I N N I N G S AS A P I E C E FAVO U R E D BY S P O R T I N G T E A M S, T H E H O O D I E H AS O U TG R O W N I T S F U N C T I O N A L R O OT S TO B E C O M E A WA R D R O B E S TA P L E - A N D H I G H - FA S H I O N S TAT U S SYM B O L .

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With GPS navigation, fitness apps and more, these smartwatches match best-ever functionality with superior style.

OUT OF THIS WORLD The beautifully crafted Garmin Fenix 5X Plus Sapphire Edition smartwatch has wrist heart-rate technology, stores and plays up to 500 songs, and lets you make payments with your watch, so you can leave your cash and cards at home.

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MAKE A SPLASH: The Samsung Gear Sport has a 5ATM water-resistant rating so you can check your stats even when swimming.

FOCUS ON FITNESS Stylish and innovative, the Samsung Gear Sport’s fitness tracker lets you monitor your daily activities in style. With a range of straps and digital watch faces available, you can customise your watch to suit the occasion.

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ST E P U P

HIDDEN TALENTS With a comprehensive monitoring suite, GPS and high-strength sapphire lens, the Garmin Fenix 5X Plus is as durable as it is practical.

Accessorise to maxmise your watch’s clever capabilities. NOTE PERFECT Enjoy superior playback with Jabra Elite Active wireless earbuds.

KEEP TRACK Get advanced health insights with the Nokia Body Cardio Wi-Fi Smart Scale.

JOG ON

The Garmin Running Dynamics Pod provides meaningful running stats.

IN THE BAG Zip from the office to the gym with the Targus Fitness Backpack.

COLOUR-CODED From eye-catching to classic, there’s a Garmin Fenix 5X Plus Sapphire to suit all styles.

Titanium with Solar Flare Orange band

Slate Grey with Brown Leather band

Black with Black band

Carbon Grey with DLC Titanium face and band

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SMARTEN UP Pay on the go with new smart technology and the Garmin Fenix 5X Plus Sapphire Edition. Grabbing a coffee on the way to work or a bite after the gym just got a whole lot easier.

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TOTAL KEEPERS Smartwatches offer excellent options when it comes to form and functions. Here are some of the very best ways a smartwatch will revolutionise your style, and your life. rom tracking every facet of your itness, health and activities to changing the way you pay and keeping you meticulously organised, smartwatches can make your day-to-day life more effortless and streamlined than you ever thought possible. There’s a huge array of designs to select from, so whether you’re searching for something classic or the perfect athletic accessory, you won’t have to sacriice your personal style to keep up with the times.

ON POINTS Picking up groceries or making big-ticket purchases? When you sync your rewards, points and miles with your smartwatch and use it to pay, you’ll get the same perks you’d receive if you were using a physical card. CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT: Samsung Galaxy Watch (Black); Fitbit Ionic Adidas Edition; Samsung Galaxy Watch (Silver).

Purchases are covered by your bank’s fraud protection, so shop with ease, and without any worries. All payment and points information is not applicable to all cards. Please check with your bank or provider.

THE BEST BANDS SPORTS Adjustable and typically made from urethane for comfort in even extreme conditions.

LEATHER Rugged and hardwearing, leather bands are also stylish enough to wear anytime, anywhere.

METAL A complement to sophisticated style, metallink bands embellish polished attire. Samsung Gear Sport and Garmin Fenix 5X Plus.

Emporio Armani Hybrid and Emporio Armani Display.

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Diesel On Full Guard and Garmin Fenix 5X Plus.

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GROOMING

E D I T E D BY

DAVI D SM I E DT

The new corporate W E TA K E O U R C U E S F R O M A C E R TA I N M R HEMSWORTH, WHOSE L AT E S T LO O K I S T H E O F F I C E- F R I E N D LY U P DAT E YO U D I D N ’ T E V E N K N O W YO U N E E D E D.

THE HAIR

GQ: What face shape or hair type does this suit? Brad Ngata: Any face shape because the cut isn’t too short on the top. Of course, a square jaw doesn’t hurt either. GQ: No doubt. How should we brief our stylist? BN: Ask for a graduation to length on top and to ‘chip’ the layers instead of a blunt cut. I also like the ‘bro-lites’ in the front of Chris’ hair. The key to nailing this look is a slight regrowth faded into the highlight, this lifts the front and complements skin tone in a very natural, subtle way. GQ: How do you re-create the look at home? BN: I’d recommend the De Lorenzo ‘DMAN Shampoo’, $24.95 ( 200ml), which is perfect for a busy lifestyle and doesn’t require conditioning. Towel dry and spray on De Lorenzo ‘DMAN Thickening Gel Spray’, $23.95 (150ml); this gives the hair a matte texture and is super easy for a busy guy. Finish with a small amount of De Lorenzo ‘Elements Grit’, $24.50 (100g), for extra definition. DELORENZO.COM.AU

THE FACE

THE BODY

We’ve all nicked our partner’s skincare goods on a whim. Sometimes repeatedly – Hemsworth has spoken of being a fan of his wife, Elsa Pataky’s La Mer products. And while Thor is no Aquaman, the choice is spot on. Try La Mer ‘The Moisturizing Cool Gel Cream’, $242 (30ml), which punches above its weight in the hydration stakes and is especially good post-sun.

Another product Hemsworth is a fan of is coconut oil. Not surprising, given he can often be found surfing the breaks around his Byron Bay home. Follow his lead with Coconut Revolution ‘Coconut Body Lotion Original’, $19.95 (250ml). Applied post-shower, it softens and moisturises.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: ALASDAIR MCLELLAN; EDWARD URRUTIA.

We caught up with Brad Ngata, De Lorenzo Hair ambassador and creative director of his eponymous Sydney salon, for some tips on how to give your hairstyle the Hemsworth treatment.

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THE EYES Both Hemsworth and his co-star Mark Ruffalo were somewhat smitten by the Èminence grooming range used on the set of Avengers: Infinity War. The Èminence ‘Cucumber Eye Gel’, $122 (30ml) diminishes the puff and dark circles that come with saving galaxies and fending off any difficult siblings (we mean Loki, not Liam). Bonus points for the fact it’s also organic.

NEW ARRIVALS A PAIR OF GROOMING OPENINGS WORTH THE INDULGENCE.

THE FRAGRANCE It would be remiss to forget Hemsworth is the face of Hugo Boss fragrance and it’s a partnership that shows little sign of abating. The latest edition of ‘Boss Bottled Man Of Today’, $129 (100ml) drops on November 18. It’s a smartly considered blend of citrus and woody elements, which makes it perfect for the everyday, office use. DAVIDJONES.COM.AU

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FRAGRANCE

Tom Ford

TOM FORD ‘OMBRÉ LEATHER’ EDP, $185 (50ML); DAVIDJONES.COM.AU

TO C E L E B R AT E T H E L AU N C H O F H I S N E W F R AG R A N C E , G Q CAU G H T UP WITH THE STYLE SUPREMO FO R A C H AT O N W H AT TO E X P E C T. GQ: What was the inspiration behind ‘Ombré Leather’? Tom Ford: ‘Ombré Leather’ is a very, very personal fragrance, because it is inspired by the American Southwest. This is where I grew up and where I really developed my passion for scent. I think every person who wears it will connect to it in a different way, but for me it feels like home. GQ: Tell us about your connection to the Southwest. TF: I grew up in Texas and Santa Fe, which both left indelible impressions. Some of my favourite memories are of scents. I often speak about Santa Fe in the ’70s, where patchouli was everywhere and it was always mixed with this slight natural odour underneath.

GQ: What particular aspects of the Southwest did you want to conjure? TF: There is a black leather note in ‘Ombré Leather’ that reminds me of being on my ranch in Santa Fe – it is a heady combination of earth and sweat and horse. Amber, one of my all-time favourite ingredients, also plays a key role in this scent. GQ: Is this for men or women? TF: ‘Ombré Leather’ is unisex, like the ‘Private Blend Collection’. Our customer doesn’t care if it is labeled as masculine or feminine – they want something that is precious and unique. GQ: How involved were you in the creation of your fragrances? TF: I have the greatest admiration for the perfumer masters, and I like to be with them,

GQ: The Jay-Z song ‘Tom Ford’ is in the ad campaign video. TF: This song actually came out four years ago, and I was incredibly flattered when I heard it, and I think it is the perfect moment to give this song a second life.

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reduction. Our experienced therapists use market-leading technology to achieve effective hair reduction.” That’s the good news. The bad? Even with Laser Clinics Australia’s industryleading hardware, it’s not for everyone.

WHO? “Unfortunately, blonde, grey/white and some types of red hair do not respond to treatment,” Dr Hopkirk says. “Laser hair removal cannot treat these colours as they don’t produce any pigment. Therefore, the laser will not be able to attract hairs of this colour and will essentially miss them.” Think of it like this: the laser is colourblind and therefore it cannot see lightly coloured hair.

WHEN?

SMOOTH OPERATOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LASER HAIR REMOVAL FOR MEN. The irst thing to know is this – nothing reduces unwanted fur better, or for longer. Once you start, it’s never going to be the same. No thick black regrowth, no awful-smelling lotions, no partners pretending they actually like shoulders that are furry. To ind out more, we hit up the best in the biz, Laser Clinics Australia medical director Dr Jonathan Hopkirk, for the lowdown on what you need to know for your best-looking summer yet.

HOW? So how does it actually work? Good question. “Laser hair removal works by directing concentrated light into the hair

follicle, inhibiting the hair’s ability to grow without disrupting or damaging the skin’s surface,” Dr Hopkirk explains. “The laser is attracted to the hair’s pigment, making it a highly accurate and comfortable hair-removal method. Additionally, our lasers use a wide beam that treats multiple hair follicles at once. Eficient and effective? Tick!”

WHY? TBH, it’s a no-brainer. In every other aspect of a modern man’s life, we can’t wait to upgrade to the latest tech, be it phones or 4KUHD TVs. Why should hair removal be any different? “Throw out the razors. No more waxing or clippers needed,” Dr Hopkirk says. “Now you can be ready at a moment’s notice. Laser hair removal treatment means fast and reliable permanent hair

Like many other valuable things in life, it requires commitment. But, unlike many valuable things, it doesn’t require you to put in too much time or effort – each treatment lasts about half an hour, depending on what you’re getting done. “If you want hair reduction, we recommend six to 10 treatments. If you want the clean-skin look, we recommend up to 10 treatments,” Dr Hopkirk says. “It’s important to remember there is no one-size-its-all. Depending on your hair and skin type and the area being treated, you will usually require treatments at four-to-six-week intervals. Each part of the body has a different hair-growing cycle, so the hair loss will vary depending on what phase your follicles are in at the time of treatment.” While the most popular area for laser hair removal remain the back, shoulders, stomach and chest, Laser Clinics Australia points to a growing trend in the use of lasers to shape the perfect low-maintenance beard and neck/hairline. You can currently purchase a full back treatment at Laser Clinics Australia for $49 (was $169) and add on shoulders for $29 (was $69). Offer for a limited time only, T&Cs apply. Ask in store or visit laserclinics.com.au

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22kt gold Vacheron Constantin ‘FiftySix Tourbillon’, $183,000; the brand’s style and heritage director Christian Selmoni; VC’s headquarters in Geneva, designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects.

espite constituting one of what collectors like to call the ‘Big Three’ – the oldest and most revered maisons in the whole of Swiss watchmaking – Vacheron Constantin is a brand that lies mostly under the radar. Unlike the other two members of that holy trinity, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet, of whom even the greenest of horologic neophytes will be aware, Vacheron Constantin has always been a watchmaker valued by those who know their in-house movements from their ébauches. The brand doesn’t do celebrity ambassadors – unless you consider British artist and poet Benjamin Clementine to be a household name – nor will you see its name emblazoned on F1 paddocks or the sides of polo pitches. In a game of guess the logo, only the nerdiest of watch geeks will identify the brand’s Maltese Cross. A brief introduction, then. While Vacheron Constantin might constitute the smallest of the Big Three – it produces around 25,000 timepieces a year compared to Audemars Piguet’s 40,000 and Patek Philippe’s 58,000 – it is by far the oldest. Vacheron Constantin is, in fact, the oldest continually operating of any watchmaker, able to trace an unbroken line of production back to 1755. Prominent former patrons include Napoleon Bonaparte, Harry

Truman, several Egyptian kings, some Saudi sheikhs and the Wright Brothers. More recently, both Larry King and Charlie Sheen have proven themselves fans of Vacheron’s typically conservative, top-of-the-line wristwear. In the early 20th century, alongside Patek Philippe, the brand built a reputation for manufacturing super-complicated pocketwatches for prominent American moneymen. In 1919, Vacheron created the world’s most complicated watch for automobile magnate James Ward Packard (the pocket watch sold at Christie’s auction house in 2011 for over $2m).

“the collection is a great tool to show the value of our heritage.”

In 1933, Patek Philippe claimed the mantle when it manufactured the incredibly complex ‘Henry Graves Supercomplication’ for the famous New York inancier. The uber-watch arms race between these two Geneva-based adversaries continues even today – Vacheron Constantin currently enjoying bragging rights owing to the 2015 launch of the ‘Reference 57260’ (see right). Outside of the watch cognoscenti, Vacheron Constantin is probably best known for its ‘Overseas’ watch. Launched in 1996 and inspired by the ‘Reference 222’ – a groundbreaking, water-resistant timepiece with a barrel-shaped case, notched round bezel and an integrated bracelet, released in 1977 to celebrate the brand’s 222th anniversary – the ‘Overseas’ has become to Vacheron what the ‘Nautilus’ is to Patek Philippe and the ‘Royal Oak’ is to Audemars Piguet. An interesting albeit slightly off-topic side note here. All three of those iconic, avant-garde ’70s sports watches housed the same ultra-thin movement: the 2.45mm-thick Calibre 920 from Jaeger-LeCoultre, which, absurdly, JLC never used in any of its own timepieces. The man tasked with incorporating pieces like the ‘Overseas’ into modern-day relevance is style and heritage director Christian Selmoni. Having joined the Swiss brand in 1990, Selmoni served as director of production and purchasing and then artistic director before assuming his current role last year. “My main

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A tale as old as time THE MANY NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST WATCHMAKER 17 SEPTEMBER 1755 Geneva-based watchmaker Jean-Marc Vacheron hires his first apprentice. The contract represents Vacheron Constantin’s birth certificate, which today makes it the world’s oldest watch manufacturer in uninterrupted operation.

1885 Vacheron Constantin creates the first nonmagnetic timepiece, using only palladium, bronze and gold in its construction.

1977 The ‘Reference 222’ marks the 222nd anniversary of VC. A screw-down bezel and caseback guarantees waterresistance to an impressive 120m. The ‘222’ is routinely compared to Audemars Piguet’s ‘Royal Oak’ and Patek Philippe’s ‘Nautilus’.

1979 Created from a 1kg gold ingot, the ‘Kallista’, comprising 118 emerald-cut diamonds, becomes the world’s most expensive watch with an asking price of $7m.

2018 VC embraces ecommerce by launching on Mr Porter and announces a new entry-level collection – the ‘FiftySix’.

1987 Vacheron Constantin is bought by Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former oil minister for Saudi Arabia.

2017 The ‘Les Cabinotiers Celestia Astronomical Grand Complication 3600’ is announced, the most complicated wristwatch VC has ever manufactured.

1969 Following Ketterer’s death, his son Jacques takes over management of the company until his own passing in 1987.

1996 Yamani sells the company to the Vendôme Luxury Group, which later becomes the Richemont Group.

1948 Vacheron Constantin CEO Georges Ketterer begins buying back a controlling interest of the company.

1938 JaegerLeCoutre acquires partial ownership of Vacheron Constantin.

1955 VC celebrates its bicentenary by presenting the world’s thinnest watch movement – just 1.64mm thick.

1996 The ‘Overseas’ is launched. Inspired by the ‘Reference 222’, it takes its place among legendary luxury sports watches.

2015 Having taken three watchmakers eight years to construct, the ‘57260’ pocket watch becomes history’s most complicated time-telling device.

2004 Inauguration of the company’s new Plan-Les-Ouates headquarters, designed by architect Bernard Tschumi

’70s. Each ‘Les Collectionneurs’ timepiece has been fully restored and is offered with a certiicate of authenticity.” Of course, membership to the most rareied institutions in Watch Land seldom comes cheap. Until recently, entry to Club Vacheron Constantin cost around $29,000, a princely sum that would secure a stainless steel ‘Overseas Small Model’ or a time-only ‘Patrimony’ dress watch. The most affordable pieces in ‘Les Collectionneurs’ will still set you back more than $18,000. It was, then, not insigniicant news when the brand announced at the beginning of this year that it would be lowering its barriers to entry via a completely new line of gateway pieces. Comprising three 40mm models, the ‘FiftySix’ family is informed by a 35mm forebear from 1956 (get it?) and consists of the time-and-date ‘Self-Winding’, the ‘Day-Date’, and the moonphase-equipped ‘Complete Calendar’. “There is an important client demand for a design like the ‘FiftySix’,” says Selmoni, “which is clearly identiied to belonging to our maison thanks to its linkage with our model ‘Reference 6073’, yet very contemporary because of its dimensions and, owing to the introduction of stainless steel, its wearability.” The ‘Self-Winding’ and ‘Day-Date’ models make use of a modiied base calibre from Richemont Group sister-brand Cartier, while the range-topping ‘Complete Calendar’ incorporates a new movement from the group’s Manufacture Horlogère ValFleurier – Richemont’s answer to Swatch Group’s calibre-creating facility ETA. All three models incorporate a 22kt pink gold rotor visible through an exhibition caseback. Power reserves top out at 48 hours, which, given that the entry-level stainless-steel ‘Self-Winding’ still costs $17,300, seems a little unimpressive. Ditto the 30-metre water resistance, lacklustre seeing as though the 222 was certiied watertight to 120 metres, and that was a watch created in the 1970s. Facts, perhaps, that Vacheron will address in the future. “The ‘FiftySix’ collection has been designed to be adaptable to different watchmaking movements and dimensions,” says Selmoni. “In the ensuing years, we therefore have the opportunity to incorporate additional models, while maintaining the collection’s retro-contemporary character.” This September, Vacheron Constantin launched on Mr Porter, introducing a new cohort of watch fans to one of the most venerable names in ine watchmaking. Consider the ‘FiftySix’ your invitation to join the club. N OVE M B E R 20 1 8 G Q .COM . AU

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men have also demonstrated a penchant for the brand’s brawny dive watches – see Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) – a cameo in this year’s trigger-happy Death Wish, in which bad-ass vigilante Bruce Willis is gifted a ‘Radiomir’ for his birthday, conirms Panerai as the brand of the Hollywood hard man. The savviest watch-movie marketing coup, commercially speaking, belongs to Omega. Since 1995, the company has supplied wristwatches to James Bond – despite the secret servant being a Rolex man in the original novels. For the irst few decades following the books’ leap to the silver screen, ilm producers toed the line and itted Bond with a Rolex according to Fleming’s prose. In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963), Fleming expressively writes about a Rolex ‘Oyster Perpetual Chronometer’ with an expanding metal bracelet. Since GoldenEye (1995), however, thanks to Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming – who matched Pierce Brosnan’s blue suit with a blue-dial Omega – the superspy has been saving the world with the help of a ‘Seamaster’. Omega may have secured the most famous protagonist in ilm, but the accolade for sheer cinematic appearances goes to Hamilton. Since 1932, when a watch from the American-Swiss brand irst appeared on-screen alongside Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express, to 2014’s Interstellar, starring Matthew McConaughey in a custom-made timepiece, Hamilton has played a role in more than 450 feature ilms. In 1966, director Stanley Kubrick asked Hamilton to create a set of futuristic watches for cult classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. It took the company 40 years to ind a way of making working models of the highly complex designs. Fittingly, once Hamilton had done so, only 2001 pieces were produced. Most recently, the brand appears on the wrist of ex-cop Liam Neeson in this year’s The Commuter. From the cinema to the small screen, watches are also making appearances in some of our most binge-watched boxsets. A gold Rolex ‘Daytona’ got plenty of airtime in 2016’s American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson, protruding from underneath the boxy suits of lawyer Robert Shapiro. While the costume department got the ’90s power suits spot on, the starring ‘Daytona’ was only launched in 2011 – 17 years after the OJ case. More authentic was Patek Philippe’s role in hedge-fund saga Billions (2018). CIO of ictional asset-management irm Axe Capital, Taylor Mason, walks into a jewellers on 5th Avenue to show a sales assistant a picture of a watch. “Do you have this model?” she asks. “The ‘5270 R’ in rose gold?” replies the assistant. “We do… a perpetual calendar

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Daniel Craig’s Bond wears an Omega; unlike co-star Asia Kate Dillon, Damien Lewis wears an Audemars Piguet in hedge-fund drama Billions; Dwayne Johnson in The Rundown and Liam Neeson in The Commuter chose a Panerai.

chronograph, silver opaline dial, day, month, and leap year in apertures, moonphase. Sapphire crystal case back with inch dust cover, fold-over clasp in 18kt rose gold – $164,400.” “I’ll take it,” says Taylor. “Nice piece!” says boss Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) in the following scene. In May, Netlix sci-i lick ANON offered a glimpse of how we might buy watches in the future. In one of the opening scenes, augmented reality-equipped Clive Owen looks into the window of a Jaeger-LeCoultre store, prompting product information to pop into his vision. The Swiss watchmaker uses the not-so-subtle product placement to educate viewers on the correct pronunciation of its brand name. ‘Jay-jay la cool-treh’ the AR voice enunciates. We’ve had the good, the bad and now for the ugly – because sometimes prop departments get things wrong. In Drive (2011), getaway driver

Ryan Gosling wears a Patek Philippe that audibly ticks with every passing second as if driven by battery-powered quartz technology – the seconds hand on mechanical watches sweeps rather than ‘ticks’. Then there’s Minority Report (2002), in which Tom Cruise’s character races to clear his name against an Omega ‘Speedmaster X-33’, which, for reasons only the ilm’s special effects teams will know, has been re-branded by CGI as a Bulgari. For Bremont’s Nick English, however, the award for the most manufactured cinematic appearance goes to a certain Seamaster in Casino Royale (2016). “Rolex?” asks Bond’s love interest Vesper Lynd. “Omega,” replies 007. “As a watch lover, that quote will go down for me as one of the hardest to stomach,” says English. “They are both are great brands – so why mention it? Seeing the watch on a wrist would have been enough!”

Spoiler alert Later this year, British watchmaker Bremont will open brick-and-mortar stores in Melbourne and Sydney. Before then, sharp-sighted watch spotters can catch a glimpse of the company’s unique brand of military-grade aviation timepieces on the big screen, when a Bremontwearing Tom Hardy wrestles an intergalactic parasite in latest Marvel blockbuster Venom, in cinemas now. bremont.com

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55 YEARS OF CARRERA THIS POPULAR COLLECTION I S AS R E L E VA N T N O W AS I T WAS W H E N I T D E B U T E D.

THE OGs T WO ITE RATIONS OF TH E ‘CAR R E R A 1 9 6 6’, A CLEAR TH ROWBACK TO JACK H EU E R’S ORIG I NAL DESIG N. TAG H EU E R.COM

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ew decades shaped the world we live in like the ’60s. Nineteen sixty three was particularly seismic with events such as the assassination of John F Kennedy, the explosion of the Beatles and the Profumo scandal littered across the calendar. Horologie followed suit in the grandest and most enduring of style. It was in that year Jack Heuer, great grandson of Tag Heuer founder Edouard, launched the ‘Carrera’ collection. It was a genealogical sweet spot, in that Jack was far enough removed from the company’s origins not to be constrained by them but still had an armoury of tradition at his ingertips. Named after the bruising Carrera Panamericana Mexico road race, it was aimed squarely at revheads for whom a split second could mean the difference between chequered lag and oily rag. With this lead-footed consumer in mind, it also featured a large dial that could be glanced at while hurtling out of a Tijuana corner and all the necessary information attained in an instant. Powered by a creativity as relentless as its ‘Calibre Landeron 189’ movement, Heuer threw out the rule book and experimented with design by placing the date window at 12 o’clock before it settled into its traditional 9 o’clock venue. And then? Well, not a lot. While the model became a collector’s piece for Tag-ophiles, the term ‘Carrera’ became more widely associated with Porsches and sunglasses. In 1996 though, Tag Heuer’s creation came roaring out of the wrist pits with the launch of a new ‘Carrera’ directly inspired by a 1960s aesthetic. By this stage, the marque had clearly graduated from Brands Hatch to Bond Street, a chunky, hunky sporty antidote to the super-slim timepieces festooning the C-suites. Fast forward eleven years when the new ‘Grand Carrera’ was to leave opponents still trying to ind irst gear on the starting line. Under the hood was the exclusive Tag Heuer ‘Calibre RS’ automatic movement, the irst mechanical line of movement engineered with rotating system indicators. Which essentially meant it was possible to replace conventional hands with a disk displaying all the data you’d ever need to win both Le Mans and the commute to the ofice.

The innovations then began to click over like a speedometer on an open highway when the cops’ radar guns were on the fritz. In 2010, the column wheel automatic movement was unveiled in the ‘Carrera Calibre 1887 Chronograph’, a model which emphasised Tag Heuer’s most noticeable trait: the ability to present a slew of information via subdials without compromising on clarity or aesthetics. It wasn’t just consumers dropping jaws and dollars. In 2012, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneva was abuzz with talk of the ‘Carrera Mikrogirder Concept Watch’. Accurate to 5/10,000th of a second, it took out the Aiguille d’Or – the best picture equivalent if we were talking Oscars – at a canter. Before the year was out, watch spotters were also raising an appreciative nod to the ‘Carrera Mikrotourbillons’, the irst highfrequency double tourbillon created in Tag Heuer’s own workshops. The Carrera’s 50th birthday was marked two years later with the ‘Calibre 1887 Jack Heuer Special Edition’ as well as the ‘Carrera Mikropendulum’, the world’s irst high-frequency magnetic chronograph. 2015, meanwhile, saw the genesis of the avantgarde Calibre Heuer 01 movement and a lirtation with smartwatches in the form of the ‘Connected’. This year, the ‘Carrera’ turns 55 and to celebrate Tag has unleashed the ‘Carrera Tête de Vipère Chronograph Tourbillon Chronometer’, a limitededition, 155-piece run of such exquisite accuracy that it’s the irst Tag to receive the ‘Tête de Vipère’ stamp of excellence. Since 2006 only 500 watches have qualiied for the title. The piece itself features both chronograph and tourbillon, all housed in a 45mm midnight blue ceramic case with bead-blasted inishes, a sapphire crystal case back and a black alligator strap. Also coming to the 55th birthday party are two new models of the ‘Carrera Calibre 16 Chrongograph’. Available in blue or black, the 41mm faces feature three white counters for hours, minutes and seconds. The inclusion of a tachometer nods to the marque’s motor racing DNA. The bands provide a choice between sporty and corporate looks and if you’re in a dim environment (say the inside of a Lambo at sunset) the beige ‘Super Luminova’ central hand explodes into visibility. So what we’re saying is, your Christmas bonus is well and truly sorted.

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Picking four of the best designs throughout the years. From left: ‘Heuer Carrera’, POA; ‘Carrera Calibre 1887’, POA; ‘Carrera Calibre 16’ (2016), $6300; ‘Carrera Calibre 16’ (2018), $5850.

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CARTIER COUP Back in March, Cartier scored a serious coup in the ‘face of’ stakes by announcing Jake Gyllenhaal as a brand ambassador. For people who use the word ‘synergies’ too much, Jake and the ‘Santos De Cartier’ are well matched, not least in terms of timeless style, precision performance and adaptability. The timing is apt as the French maison prepares for the release of the new limited-edition ‘Crash Radieuse’, this October. With just 50 created, it plays aesthetic havoc with Cartier’s signature shape distorting a handengraved yellow gold case into a fluid form along with a diamond-set crown and Roman numerals that have a distinctly trippy feel. A pair of midnight blue sword-shaped hands traverse a silver dial punctuated by a trio of black silhouettes that echo the organic shape of the case. Add a hand-stitched black leather strap and it’s as much sculptural as it is functional.

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ubtlety is a dying breed, well and truly edged out of public consciousness by shameless self-promotion. Just look around. Social media has us blindly jumping into a pit of unprecedented narcissism – selie after selie blurring the ever-thin line between artistry and banality. It’s for this reason that laying eyes on the Range Rover ‘Velar’ comes as such a surprise – and a very good one at that. Those sweeping lines and clamshell bonnet, the loating roof and quiet hints of muscle via the presence of lared wheel arches. A rear that juts just so. Door handles that sit lush when not being called on to ply their limited trade. We’re told it’s rude to stare. Is it? We’re sure the ‘Velar’ doesn’t mind. It doesn’t so much as covet your attention as demand it. Because, it’s stunning. And how rare is it to say that about an SUV (yep, we’re looking at you Rolls-Royce ‘Cullinan’).

Even rarer is to imagine that this is a design that will maintain its perfect looks for years to come, something Land Rover chief design oficer, Gerry McGovern, has been quick to state. “The evolution of our design philosophy is driven by a relentless focus on creating highly desirable vehicles our customers will love for life,” McGovern said earlier this year. Life may be a rather ambitious shout – especially given a marque’s need for customers to periodically update a motor. Still, after returning the ‘Velar’ following just a week of testing, we understand, now, the pain of not having it in life. The ‘Velar’ was the result of Range Rover’s desire to have a fourth model that sat in its line-up between the smaller, accessible ‘Evoque’ and the big boys of ‘Sport’. To give you an understanding of size, it shares some DNA with its Jaguar neighbour the ‘F-Pace’ (itself a ine piece of kit), measuring to the same wheelbase.

If you were to leaf through the ‘Velar’ brochure you could easily lose a few days, offering wealth of choice, as it does, that will make the dinner buffet of an American cruise liner appear limited. There are 40 model variants, across two body types – standard and the more appealing R-Dynamic, with four grades of trim – standard, S, SE and HSE. There’re also six engine options, from a basic 2.0-litre turbo diesel to supercharged 3.0-litre V6. The unfurling of all optional extras then runs the length of the Eyre Highway and prices that rise quicker than a misdirected and uninformed Twitter outrage. Our gifted ride was the middling 2.0-litre, four-cylinder R-Dynamic SE diesel, offering a more-than-decent 177Kw of power and 500nM of torque. Getting up to 100km/h from a standing start takes 7.3 seconds with a top speed of 217km/h. We rarely opted to drive in a setting that wasn’t ‘Dynamic’ – for it’s here things are most responsive with tangible steering that’s not loppy. The thing felt grippy enough through the corners with some expected body roll at higher speeds, though overall it presents great ride comfort. Apparently you can take the ‘Velar’ off road and it will perform damn well – though we stuck to its true urban habitat, where it was at ease even when facing tight inner-Sydney roads and more claustrophobic parking options. But, there’s more to this car than its impossible external beauty. Because this is an interior you would marry, ‘to have and to hold… until death do us part’. Supple leather and obvious luxury inishes combine with some magniicent tech to present what is, overall, a very clean cabin. While the ‘Touch Pro Duo’ dual 10-inch touchscreens can at irst elicit a sense of fear, they shouldn’t, as you quickly come to appreciate the ability to easily and quickly control everything from sat nav to media connectivity and seat massaging. The cabin feels spacious in the front and rear and if must know, yes, USB ports, cupholders and cabin storage abounds, including door bins supporting 750ml bottles. But who cares – just look at this thing. Go on, stare a little. Get to know it and engage on a deeper level. Just no photos – please. Available now, from $70,662; rangerover.com.au

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ong live the weekend tradie. It’s surely what many a motoring CEO must be quietly recounting in order to wrestle some sleep away from the sweaty nightmares that lace any thoughts on the future of a consumerdriven automotive industry. Because, last year, the best-selling car in Australia was a ute. Again. For the second year in a row Australians fancied a tray out back – the most popular piece again the Toyota ‘HiLux’, with sales up an incredible 20 per cent to 47,093 units. Parked up in second spot came another ute, the Ford ‘Ranger’, and then the Toyota ‘Corolla’. Of course, Australia has a irm afinity with the ute – especially if we run with the ‘dusty’ tale of a farmer’s wife from Gippsland writing to Ford’s Geelong factory in the early ’30s, about wanting to have a car that could, as the story goes, “drive to church on a Sunday and carry pigs on a Monday”. While there’s few pigs riding out back these days, utes are again on the move

in this country. While many sales can be attributed to actual tradies and an ongoing construction boom in the bigger cities, don’t overlook the inluence of both SUVs and those who – while they may shun actual hammering – like nothing more than hammering about in a testosterone-snorting, suped-up truck. It’s why Mercedes sent agents here to scope out the local market ahead of releasing the ‘X-Class’. And it’s why Ford’s spanking new ‘Ranger Raptor’ is one of this year’s most anticipated releases. Interest in this bulked-up ‘Ranger’ revved from the outset. You could hear the collective gasp of blokes on the Gold Coast sporting neck tats and energy drink caps on the mention of its arrival – a new dream appeared on the horizon, and this one went well beyond ishing weekends with the boys. Here is a car that screams brutal ‘desert racer’ – from the stocky stance and bold grille, past the lared wheel arches and die-cast magnesium sidesteps to the squared rear. If we’re really being honest, even a certain GQ motoring

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Test-driving the ‘Ranger Raptor’ meant some offroading in the middle of the Outback, putting the ute’s Fox racing suspension through its paces.

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Here is a car that screams brutal desert racer.

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The ‘Ranger Raptor’ cuts an imposing figure both on- and off-road, standing wide and fierce much like the All Black forward line.

lengthy straight offering some irrigation channels and a chance to launch all four wheels into the air at 100km/h. Oh. What. Stupid. Fun. It was upon landing that we came to appreciate the incredible off-road tuned suspension. Where others in this class would have your teeth chattering with each bump in the road, the ‘Raptor’s coil-springs and Fox Racing suspension kept things level and impossibly smooth, devouring every Outback bump, rut and ditch we came across. The car itself may be the cousin of Ford USA’s epic and dominant ‘F-150 Raptor’, though it sits on a unique Ford chassis with various engineering aspects developed here in Australia. Its high, square stance means a class-leading clearance of 283mm, the ‘Raptor’ also 56mm higher and 150mm wider than its base-model sibling. Not that you notice the extra numbers when inside, with steering that’s responsive and thankfully not too light. The cabin feels not unlike that of a ‘Ranger’, comfortable enough even when forced into the rear, with adequate storage, easy to

the open road, a little bit of a let down. All that anticipation and expectation and then a rather unresponsive shufle. We wanted more grunt – more straight-line power. As for the bloke belting a ‘Raptor’ about Burleigh Heads with a surfboard in the tray – yeah, he’ll deinitely want more punch off the lights. Elsewhere, the car’s lack of autonomous emergency braking (AEB), active cruise control and forward collision warning was also jotted down under the heading, ‘Why?’ Ford said AEB would likely be an addition 12 months from now and they were also irm on their stance with the engine, deciding to forgo petrol in favour of an all-diesel lineup. They also state, and loudly, that to be caught up on engine size and specs is to miss what this car is really about. And that may well be true – the Ford ‘Ranger Raptor’ is an impressively engineered car. Its speedy offroad capabilities are ridiculous and unmatched; it’s brutish looks very, very appealing. Still, perfection as this country’s most expensive ute will only be achieved with a bigger, louder, punchier engine up front. From $74,990 (plus ORC); ford.com.au N OVE M B E R 20 1 8 G Q .COM . AU

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mart suburbs are evolving across the globe – from New York and London to Sydney, Melbourne and beyond. While high-speed wi-i and charging stations for electric cars have become standard, some designers and developers are taking the smart suburb concept to a whole new level. This rise of technology-rich suburbs was identiied in the Liveable City Futures report developed by international trend forecasters The Future Laboratory. The report, which tracks the factors that shape how we live, work and play, highlighted Australia as a smart suburb hotspot.

SUBURB OF THE FUTURE The Future Laboratory pinpointed the new Melbourne suburb of YarraBend as setting a benchmark – partly due to its focus on using technology to enhance residents’ lives. “Communities that know each other tend to look out for each other more,” says YarraBend creative director Len Warson. “Here, technology plays a key role in both connecting and creating a safer environment and a friendlier place to live, which enhances that feeling of wellbeing.” The developer, Glenvill, is embedding a range of tech features across YarraBend’s 37,543 square metres of amenities.

“COMMUNITIES THAT KNOW EACH OTHER TEND TO LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER MORE.” Innovations at YarraBend include a bespoke app for residents that will provide up-to-the-minute information on everything from how many people are using the gym to public transport schedules, and allow users to book into a spin class in the Health and Wellness Centre, and monitor their home electricity usage. “When you check into a hotel or resort, you can use an app to explore the local amenities,” explains Warson. “We’ve taken that concept and expanded it. As we’ll provide car sharing at YarraBend, you can also go into a carpooling app, check whether there’s a free treadmill at the gym or order lunch from one of the local cafes. It’s all about making life easier.” The smart suburb moniker will also be supported by charging stations for electric cars, low-energy lighting, solar power, and Tesla Powerwalls in all freestanding homes, which will help residents save on bills. With all this technology on the doorstep, it’s perhaps not surprising that The Future Laboratory describes YarraBend as “one of the most connected, diagnostic, responsive suburbs in the world”.

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he internet is a ghost and like all such entities it can haunt you. It’s a cyber elephant that never forgets. Just ask James Gunn, the director of Guardians of The Galaxy 3, who was ired this year over Tweets he wrote a decade ago. Or Trevor Noah whose recent Australian tour faced boycott calls over a joke he made about Aboriginal women in 2013. But whether or not you think the respective backlashes were deserved, it’s not just those with a proile whose online histories are earning scrutiny. Investors, recruiters and potential employers are also looking. “To think otherwise would be naive,” says David Valks, business manager from Sydney’s Become Recruitment. This practice has spawned its own burgeoning industry – online reputation management (ORM) – and everyone from career-minded individuals to major corporations are getting on board. In fact, a global study conducted this year by TripAdvisor, in conjunction with Ipsos Mori, found that 97 per cent of business owners said ORM was crucial. “Today the court of public opinion holds everyone accountable. And these collective opinions are unlike anything that’s gone before in media communications,” says James Gray, co-founder at Sydney’s Red Sea Agency, which specialises in ORM. “There’s no editor regulating content or making the decision that the person or story no longer has interest. It’s an ongoing unmediated dialogue that’s turned into a full contact sport. Everyone has the power to be a pundit or critic. Reputation management will continue to grow at a double-digit rate. The only thing that could slow it down or kill our business is if a large percentage of users cease using social media so proliically. But I can’t see that happening in a hurry.” Brendon McAlpine, from Queensland’s Internet Removals, believes that within ive years the nascent industry will have increased tenfold. “It’ll be as important as having a tax accountant,” he says. At its most basic level, ORM is about removing content and, notes McAlpine, “people are beginning to realise that there are professional solutions for doing that”.

A FACEBOOK OR YOUTUBE POST If someone has posted about you, it’s a relatively simple matter of contacting the poster and explaining your concerns. This can also be done via a professional service.

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McAlpine says a signiicant proportion of his clients fall into the category of ‘I’m in my 20s, I wore a stupid outit for a party’ or ‘I was recorded on YouTube saying something I shouldn’t. Now I’m 30, I want to be a CFO of this company.’ Another sector clamouring for ORM is hospitality where one scathing review can signiicantly dent a restaurant or bar’s income. In both cases, McAlpine says his MO involves “getting a dialogue initiated with the internet service provider, knowing the processes involved to keep the dialogue open and eventually getting the content removed by moderators.” He adds, however, that it’s not a guaranteed process. “There’s heaps of content we can’t get down, such as news articles. But, images and videos that’ve got sexual content, there’s good laws out there that make our job a lot easier.” In terms of basic ORM management services, clients are charged per URL their content is removed from and these rates vary from $150 to $250. On the other end of the spectrum, David Malits, the co-founder of global PR agencies DM-Communications and Enlightened PR, notes things can get costly. A BAD TWEET One bad joke isn’t going to end your career, but if it has multiple retweets, you could be in trouble – especially if there are screen grabs. And there almost always are.

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So far, one man whose reputation appears unaffected by scandal is US President, Donald Trump; James Gunn and Trevor Noah haven’t been so lucky.

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Whether you’ve tweeted a bad joke or appeared on the nightly news – we chart the chances of recovering your online reputation.

A SINGLE NEWS STORY Legitimate news sources can be difficult to remove from the internet.

MULTIPLE NEWS STORIES If it was picked up by more than one media organisation, it might be time to get a Deed Poll.

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HALL OF SHAME A trip down memory lane, with some recent examples of high-profile social media missteps.

JUSTINE SACCO Who could forget the PR consultant who boarded a plane in 2013, tweeting: “Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!” The joke went down like a lead balloon and Sacco arrived at her destination only to discover she’d been fired.

“The price varies significantly because the tools we use change accordingly.”

GIGI HADID The supermodel was forced to pull out of the last year’s Victoria’s Secret show in Shanghai after a Snapchat emerged of her mocking Asian facial features.

ROSEANNE BARR Earlier this year she tweeted about the appearance of Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett saying “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj”. Her eponymous reboot was canned swiftly thereafter.

KENNETH COLE In the midst of the violent Egyptian protests of 2011 – in which The Guardian estimated some 900 civilians were killed by police – the tone-deaf American designer tweeted, “Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new collection is available online”.

STEPHANIE RICE The golden girl of the pool proved this isn’t just an international phenomenon, when she Tweeted the delightful “suck on that faggots” in 2010 after the Wallabies beat South Africa in a last-gasp rugby win. Sponsor Jaguar told her to find her own way home.

“This is a process that combines digital capabilities, public relations, law and sometimes other technological tools,” he says. “The price varies signiicantly from case to case because the tools we use, as well as the volumes in which we operate, change accordingly. Campaigns of this type start at around $7000 per month.” Both McAlpine and Malits note that should you be tempted to enlist ORM help, be wary of claims of unrealistic success rates. “We’ve done 14,000 applications to date,” says Alpine. “If someone is boasting of some amazing 10 million number it’s most likely not true.” Steve (not his real name) is a marketing communications consultant who spent $800 getting images of himself removed online. “Back in my uni days, I went to a ‘bad taste’ party dressed as a Nazi,” he says. “It was beyond stupid but it was also when Facebook introduced its tagging facility. I must have been in a dozen photos that night taken by and with people I didn’t know. Point is, I was petriied there were photos of me in SS uniform loating around and they would come back to bite me. I did a Google image search and guess what popped up? “A friend had a similar situation resolved and I went to the company he recommended. It took about a week but seems to have done the trick. I’ve searched extensively for these shots but so far none have surfaced. Thank fuck.” This preemptive approach is a crucial part of The Red Sea Agency’s strategy. Frankie Jay Lee, the company’s co-founder, says, “It used to be that people didn’t have any control or much inluence over media. Now that’s all different, because

not only do people have more control and inluence – they are media. The social platforms are the instruments that have made this a reality. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snap have each contributed to the democratic rise of ‘the court of public opinion’. But that also means the reputations of inluential people, whether minor or major, have all come under review and threat. Our content removal processes operate at the ‘threat’ end of things or the prevention of coming under threats that are doing harm to your business or personal brand.” As the industry evolves into one that is both reactive and proactive, Lee says his client base has grown to include “celebrities, CEOs, C-Suite executives, private and public sector companies, politicians and government igures”. These divide into two primary groups – those in a shitstorm and those in fear of one. “For all our clients, being in receipt of daily abuse from large audiences of people is hard to cope with and ignoring the problem just seems to augment it. That’s where we sometimes come in,” says Gray, who adds that their services have expanded with demand to encompass not only content removal but crisis management, defamation and copyright infringement. “The other group of clients are businesses who come to us because nothing or little has happened, but they suspect that in due course it will – usually due to their exposure on social media or via traditional channels, and, the size of their following. We’re effective for both groups. But we can move faster for the proactive class of clients, which allows us to build an impenetrable moat around their business or personal brand. What we’re able to achieve for them has a direct impact on the mindshare of their audience, and in turn this directly affects revenue streams.” So while it may be too late for the likes of James Gunn to recover their online reputations, for many, scrubbing their internet past means a more successful future. The alternative, of course, is deceptively simple: think twice before you Tweet. N OVE M B E R 20 1 8 G Q .COM . AU

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s a Russian double agent working for the British, he’d been codenamed ‘Forthwith’ but this afternoon the poison in Sergei Skripal’s system went unhurried, making its way around his body over a period of hours. Skripal was 66, comfortably into retirement, an ex-colonel cast out of the intelligence services in Russia and now lived in exile in the English city of Salisbury. Neighbours knew the place as ‘Smalls-bury’ and said that nothing too dramatic ever happened here, which would stay true for another couple of hours yet. This was March 4, 2018, a Sunday of sunbacked clouds, the air crisp and glad the way it gets in southwest England after the lifting of snow. A day earlier Yulia Skripal, Sergei’s 33-year-old daughter, who visited Salisbury regularly, had lown in from Moscow. The poison had gotten into Yulia that morning, too, but father and daughter were still unwitting and felt well enough early on Sunday afternoon to plan an outing. Sergei owned a cherry-red BMW and they drove into town for a drink in a riverside pub. Maybe they would have a meal together. An ancient cathedral, south of the city centre, chimed the half hour: 1:30PM. This poison wanted two hours more. Salisbury is a city of spires and rusted weather vanes, a place that is particular about time, the dates of things stamped on buildings and everywhere clocks, clocks, on belfries and over bookshops. Across the water from where the Skripals parked their car, a sundial had been engraved with the adage: ‘Time speeds up until it is nothing, therefore use it before it is gone’. At the pub, Sergei and Yulia had a quick drink. When father and daughter were together, they sometimes posed for pictures, raising toasts. The pub was a converted mill that had a display of photographs on the wall, one of these a closeup of a pocket watch, its crystal broken, hands frozen at what appeared to be 1:35PM.

Next they went to an Italian restaurant to eat. An hour passed. Finally, walking back to their car at around 3:30PM, the Skripals began to feel truly unwell and had to put themselves down on a bench, where they drifted in and out of consciousness, slumped over and gesturing strangely. Passersby assumed they were high. At a quarter to four, the cathedral clock sounded again. The Skripals’ pupils had shrunk, and they were sweating. They were foaming at the mouth. An off-duty nurse was the irst to attend them, and a small crowd gathered. At 4:15PM, an ambulance was called, come quickly, forthwith.

••• Doctors at Salisbury District Hospital guessed that this was opioids, that the Skripals had overdosed. They were taken to the intensivecare ward and put on breathing support.

Shortly before sunrise on March 5, doctors received new information from London: that Sergei Skripal was not just any patient; he was an old, blown spy. Police arrived at the hospital to watch over the critical pair. Even in those early hours of what would become a worldwide crisis, “the gravity of this,” in the words of a senior source in the British government I spoke with, had dawned quickly. By March 6, national counterterrorism police formally took over the investigation, an initial guardedness about what exactly might have overwhelmed the Skripals (“an unknown substance”) quickly giving way to a blunter charge: “attempted murder by the administration of a nerve agent.” Speaking in Parliament two days later, the home secretary Amber Rudd said that any such attack would be “a brazen and reckless

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Emergency services attend to the bench on which the Skripals collapsed; Sergei Skripal’s daughter, Yuli; Skripal during his time in the Russian military.

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act [and] people are right to want to know who to hold to account”. But she asked that her peers restrain themselves from speculating about the culprits – restraint that lasted a few minutes before a backbench minister stood up and said that this was surely an act by the Russian state: “Who else?” According to a report released by the Russian embassy, foreign secretary Boris Johnson summoned Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian ambassador to the UK, on March 12. Staff at the Russian Embassy later revealed what Johnson had told Yakovenko, “that according to the UK assessment, it was highly likely that Russia was responsible for the attack”. (The Kremlin has denied involvement in the “tragic situation”.) A senior source in the British government outlined for me the thinking in London that irst week: “When you look around the world, there are very few countries that could technically do this. Iran. China. North Korea, conceivably? But they don’t necessarily have the means or the motives, and we’ve never had the intel they’ve even tried.” In iguring out where to cast blame, many found the who-else rationale attractive. Sergei Skripal had once been a member of the GRU, the Russian military-intelligence unit now best known for hacking into the servers of the Democratic National Committee, before he was caught selling secrets to the British, in 2004, and imprisoned. But two obvious points argued against Russia’s involvement: First, Skripal had been pardoned by Moscow for his crimes, part of the swap deal that got him out of a wintry prison and over to Salisbury to begin with. And, second, there was an internationally adhered-to rule of espionage that forbade the murder of re-settled spies. Kill them, after all, and it risked future swaps. After assembling intelligence reports they believed put culpability for the Skripal hit beyond reasonable doubt, the British went busily around Europe and America, persuading allies to join them in sanctioning Russia. President Trump was so convinced by what he learned that he somehow overcame his curious reluctance to ind fault in the Kremlin’s actions − even the most senior members of the British government were surprised by this, I was told. The president signed off on the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats, after which Russia expelled 60 Americans in reply. London and Moscow swap-expelled 46 of their people. Diplomatic staffs thinned everywhere: at NATO headquarters, around Scandinavia, in Australia. Blood samples from the Skripals were sent to the UK’s main chemical-weapons research facility, a campus not far from Salisbury known as Porton Down. Chemists detected the presence of one of a family of Soviet-born

nerve agents, irst developed in the 1980s and known informally in Russian as novichoks – ‘the new kids on the block’. These novichoks, which could be deployed in liquid form and absorbed through the skin, work their ruin on a body by stopping the normal transmission of messages between the nerves and the muscles. Light-headedness turns to grogginess, to strained breathing and collapse. Up until March, there’d been few documented human exposures to novichoks, but back in the 1980s, Andrei Zheleznyakov, a lab engineer in Moscow whose job it was to test the toxicity of this nascent weapon for the Soviet military, inadvertently breathed some in. He later said that straight away he felt his brain had emptied.

THEY COLLAPSED ON A BENCH AND BEGAN GESTURING STRANGELY. THEIR PUPILS HAD SHRUNK, AND THEY WERE SWEATING. THEY WERE FOAMING AT THE MOUTH. PASSERSBY ASSUMED THEY WERE HIGH. Colours swam. Before Zheleznyakov lost consciousness, he was taken for a walk out in Moscow, where he experienced a hallucination in which a nearby cathedral began to glow and crumble apart. The military-research program that Zheleznyakov was a part of was so secretive that when he was eventually taken to the hospital, doctors were told nothing of the novichok, only that he’d had a bad meal. The irm conclusion of Porton Down’s scientists, that it was a novichok deployed in Salisbury, was later ratiied by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a 193-state group run out of The Hague, after it sent out samples of its own to be checked in the labs of neutral countries. The evidence was there in its chemical structure: this was a novichok – the new kid in middle age. On March 14, the UN Security Council held a special meeting to discuss the attack, and it was there that the Russian ambassador asked the lingering question: But why? What motive should the Russian state have to eliminate a retired, redundant spy, “who after his prosecution, sentencing, prison term, pardon, and handover to the British authorities no

longer posed any kind of threat to my country?” Everybody in the West seemed to have a theory. That the Skripal hit was meant to sow confusion and panic abroad or, no, at home in Russia. That this was really about geopolitics, some sort of coded message about the use of chemical weapons in Syria. That it was about domestic politics, closely timed and meant to rouse support for the incumbent regime ahead of Russia’s elections that month. Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Russia, told me that “guessing, I would say they would have expected this to be a relatively swift assassination, quickly forgotten, but that the method used would stick in the mind of people back home... Persuading other Russians, in other systems, to be careful? That’s a valuable aim.” A well-informed source afiliated with the OPCW, not British or Russian, told me they felt the incident must be about the novichok itself – a lid-lifting on this still-mysterious weapon, something like a product unveiling after its 30-some years in development. What connected these theories was the idea that Sergei Skripal was secondary/collateral damage in his own attempted murder. After all, the reasoning went, he was a spy out to pasture, living obscurely in old England. What could he have done to bring assassins to Salisbury?

••• hey called it Pryzhki S Vyshki − the tower jump and when Sergei Skripal was a recruit into the airborne division of the Soviet army, it was the most dreaded part of basic training. He was in his early 20s, an engineering graduate who’d grown up on the western tip of the Soviet Union, near the Baltic Sea. He was squarely handsome, boxer-nosed, necessarily gutsy. When it was your turn to tower-jump, you strapped on an open parachute and went to the edge of a platform, 24 metres up. You were taught to ignore every last nerve-ending warning, that this was insane, like readying to step off the roof of a building. Then you stepped off. One airborne recruit told me that no subsequent leap from a plane, no later reckless life risk, ever felt as chancy as that irst fucking tower jump. It emboldened you. And they liked you to be bold if you were to ultimately graduate, as Skripal did, into the GRU. Vladimir Rezun, a defector from this secretive agency, later described in a book of memoirs what initiates were told on arrival at boot camp: that it was not compulsory to join; it was only compulsory to stay, the one way out “through the chimney of the crematorium”. After which, for good measure, Rezun was shown a ilm of a bound and writhing GRU traitor being fed feetirst into a furnace.

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In 1985, after ive years of GRU training, Skripal was posted to the island of Malta. He had with him his wife, Liudmila, and their two young children, Alexander and Yulia. Notionally, Skripal had a role to play at the embassy in Malta, “cultural and sports attaché,” which many years later made another former GRU trainee chuckle appreciatively. “That would be the cover,” said Boris Volodarsky, a Russian-intelligence historian who many years ago relocated to the West after completing his own GRU training. He had since become a leading expert on prominent exiled Russians and their habit of dying in unusual ways on foreign soil. Upon graduation, Volodarsky explained to me, trained-up GRU agents were often given an international posting under diplomatic cover, or they became ‘illegals’, not oficially recognised by the Russian government, who could do murkier work abroad. Skripal had diplomatic cover, and he rose in this capacity to become the director of the department of personnel. “Skripal was an HR guy within the GRU. And knowing the names of operatives? That’s seen as the crown jewels,” a senior source in the British government told me. Skripal was posted in Spain when, in 1995, he started working with British intelligence. He was offered cash in return for state secrets, later testifying to a Moscow court that “every time I met with members of British intelligence, they paid me a fee in hard currency,” about $100,000 in total. Skripal stayed in contact with his British handlers for nine years, through his return to Moscow and his elevation to colonel, before he was exposed and arrested. His name had allegedly been passed on by another spy in the system. Tried in 2006, at age 55, Skripal was stripped of his rank and sentenced to 13 years, a relatively short term that, the judge said, took into account Skripal’s cooperation with investigators. Most of his term would be served in Mordovia, in a miserable network of barbed-wire compounds in the latlands southeast of

“FRANKLY,” A FORMER BRITISH-INTELLIGENCE CHIEF SAID, “YOU’RE NOT GOING TO HIDE MUCH FROM RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE IF THEY’RE KEEN TO FIND SOMEONE.”

Moscow. Thirty-below temperatures. Guards with Alsatians. Even so, this wasn’t a furnace, and to Skripal’s old colleagues in the GRU, those 13 years might have looked light. He was out early, too, in 2010 − a luky beneiciary of the discovery of the so-called Illegals Program, an operation that had placed several Russians undercover on the East Coast of the United States. A spy swap was arranged between Russia and the West, mostly managed by the CIA. I was told by Robert Hannigan, who until last year was head of the UK intelligence hub GCHQ, that the British decided to pluck out Skripal not for intel (after several years in prison, he didn’t have much to offer) but instead out of a sense of obligation: “A duty of care to people who’ve risked an awful lot and paid a high price”. When, in the summer of 2010, Skripal was lown to Vienna for the exchange, Boris Volodarsky, the intelligence historian, was there at the airport to watch a stage-managed swap for the media. “Quite a crowd,” Volodarsky recalled, “to watch a group of poorly dressed people switch planes.” Skripal was put on the same Boeing that the East Coast illegals had just left, which then took off and lew west. Quickly he was out of the public eye, living in Salisbury with Liudmila. The British government managed their security and gave Skripal a pension. In 2011 he bought a semidetached home − No. 47 − on a drowsy cul-de-sac called Christie Miller Road. A real estate agent who oversaw the deal showed me the sales brochure: power shower, heated towel rail, all of it a long way from Mordovia and the weekly wash in a communal hut. The Skripals hung a lucky horseshoe on their front door, though if this was a time of good fortune for them, it did not last. Liudmila died of cancer in 2012. Their son, Alexander, who’d grown to be a bearish and amiable man like his father, died young in 2017. Both were interred at a cemetery in Salisbury. Now in his 60s, Skripal cared for his cat, which he told people took instruction in Russian, and joined a social club where by an unbendable house rule the rear-room TV always showed the horse races. Yulia spent most of her time in Moscow but travelled frequently to England to visit her father. No great care was taken to hide the location of the Skripal family home, and obviously MI5’s assessment of the threat to Sergei in his retirement was low, because for $6 the website of the Land Registry would reveal his name and address. “Frankly,” Robert Hannigan told me, “you’re not going to hide much from Russian intelligence if they’re keen to ind someone, particularly if that person’s still in touch with family back home.”

Security-camera footage of Yulia Skripal’s movements through the Moscow airport on March 3, a day before the poisoning, showed a slender woman with an erect bearing, shufling through check-in with other travellers. A fold of auburn hair fell over her pale face. That morning Yulia shared a video on social media, a gyrating dog alongside the caption: Dance like no one is watching. According to discoveries by British intelligence, later made public in a submission to NATO, “cyber specialists” working for the GRU had been snooping in Yulia’s emails as far back as 2013. Furthermore, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation, Sergei’s emails were also under surveillance during that period. “They would have known Yulia was coming,” a senior government source told me.

••• ike ink, liquid novichok can transfer by contact from surface to surface, fainter each time; it is colourless, odourless, and deteriorates slowly. Shortly after the Skripals arrived at the hospital, a local cop, Nick Bailey, came into contact with the poison and had to be admitted for treatment as well. Later I would learn that this particular novichok had most likely never been tested on humans. It all meant that in Salisbury, authorities were now trying to cope with an invisible, spreadable, untraceable poison that might be smeared anywhere the Skripals had been on March 4. When I irst arrived in the city, I visited the riverside pub where the Skripals had had a drink before their collapse, pressing my face to its plate-glass door as investigators slow-motioned around inside wearing hazmat suits. Three hours later, a public-health bulletin went out, advising anyone who’d been to the pub to disinfect their phones and wash their clothes. The bench where the Skripals had been overcome was enclosed by ribbons of don’tcross tape. Brightly coloured forensic tents popped up like spring lowers. Reporters skulked, and the spook-watchers among them noticed the movements of unmarked cars known to be favoured by British intelligence. Over on Christie Miller Road, Skripal’s property had been cordoned off, so that neighbours had to wave a special pass at police to come and go. I walked a perimeter around No. 47, as close as possible, in the company of Boris Volodarsky, the intelligence historian and former GRU man, who was spending the day with me in Salisbury. A suited and cardiganed 63-year-old, his face partially obscured by a brushy mustache and aviator sunglasses, Volodarsky was about the most conspicuous man in town that afternoon. But he had no

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reason to steal around in the shadows, not anymore, and instead he turned an operational eye on the scene, trying to identify the shadows that might’ve been useful to others. This operation would’ve called for a large team, Volodarsky said − Russian illegals, he thought, arriving in the country over the course of weeks to study the local minutiae: “When lights were switched on and off, did neighbours look out their windows?” Crucial to any such plan, Volodarsky said, would be settling on a where someplace they could be certain Sergei Skripal would be − and a when. The application of this poison would have been skilled work, technically complex. “[The nerve agent] will burn through normal hazmat suits,” a senior source from the UK government told me. “You need time and you need cover.” From Christie Miller Road, we drove to a nearby cemetery in Salisbury, a wooded place home to wild ring-necked pheasant, deer that liked to eat the graveside roses, and for the time being several police cars. Investigators believed that on the morning of their poisoning, Sergei and Yulia had come to this cemetery to visit the graves of Liudmila and Alexander. Police, still guarding the site, took our names and let us through, and when Volodarsky was close enough to Alexander Skripal’s headstone, he read the inscribed dates. He pointed out that March 1 would have been Alexander’s 44th birthday. It felt a fair assumption that this was why Yulia had arranged to visit that particular weekend. (A when.) And if Yulia was due, Sergei would surely be in Salisbury to bring her back to his home. (A where.) According to the UK’s national-security adviser, the highest concentration of novichok was detected on the handle of No. 47’s front door. A senior government source later conirmed for me that it was the outward-facing handle, and that Sergei and Yulia had each taken in the poison through the palms of their hands. Alistair Hay, a chemical-weapons expert, explained that because of the thickness of the epidermis layer here, “uptake through the palm is some 20 to 25 times less eficient than, say, application on the cheek.” Time – hours, potentially – for any assassins to lee or melt away. At the cemetery, Volodarsky was looming over Alexander’s headstone when a policeman approached and said uncertainly, “Obviously you know not to touch it?” Volodarsky thanked him – but yeah, he knew not to touch. Volodarsky had left the Soviet Union in the late ’80s, after which he re-settled in Austria and began writing spy exposés for Western publications. Alex Goldfarb, a well-known Russian dissident, once described Volodarsky as the only ex-agency man “with whom it is safe to drink tea” − a macabre reference to their mutual

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off after two locals were exposed to the novichok used on Sergei and Yuli Skripal; the perfume atomiser used to deliver the nerve agent; suspects Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov are caught on CCTV on March 3, 2018.

acquaintance, Alexander Litvinenko, a journalist and sometime consultant for British intelligence who was murdered in London after drinking from a teacup laced with radioactive poison. Many people I spoke with about Skripal mentioned Litvinenko’s ghost − a lingering guilt that his murder had not been properly faced up to. Few doubted that Litvinenko’s was a statesponsored killing, but the diplomatic response from the British government was insubstantial. Oligarch money was splashing through London at the time. Surface relations with the Kremlin were OK. Shrug. And no wonder, people said, that the strange deaths continued. Since 2006, at least a dozen UK residents with strong links to Russia had died abruptly (heart attack, fall, inexplicable collapse), after which their deaths were unimaginatively written off by coroners as unsuspicious (suicide, weak heart). Volodarsky knew many of the deceased, including Boris Berezovsky, found hanged in 2013; and Badri Patarkatsishvili, discovered collapsed in 2008. In the weeks following March

4, another acquaintance, Nikolai Glushkov, had been found dead at his home in London, the cause of death given as compression to the neck. On the road out of Salisbury, there were more wild pheasant, like in the cemetery, only these had roamed in front of powerful cars and been lattened. Volodarsky and I drove back to London, talking all the way of the men he had known and the means of their sudden ends. “Russia is orientated to eliminate enemies,” he said. “And not foreigners, primarily, by the way. It’s Russians who’ve left.” He said he believed he’d once been targeted himself − a contact he didn’t fully trust, some substance slipped into his coffee. His wife told me he was “white as paper” when he came home that day, and had curled up on her lap like an animal. Volodarsky said there was a part of him, the GRU-trained part, that felt disgust at his carelessness in drinking that coffee. Then a sort of fatalism came down. “You think to yourself, it’s either a well-done job or a badly done job. If it’s one, you’ll die. If it’s the other, you’ll survive.” Continued on p168 N OVE M B E R 20 1 8 G Q .COM . AU

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Invictus unconquered, unsubdued, invincible WITH HRH PRINCE HARRY IN SYDNEY THIS MONTH TO HOST THE FOURTH INVICTUS GAMES, WE TALK TO FIVE VETERANSCOME-ATHLETES WHOSE STORIES OF COURAGE, TRAUMA AND UNITY ARE EXACTLY WHAT THESE GAMES ARE ALL ABOUT. WO R DS R IC HAR D C LU N E

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Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall ind me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

These are the words of 19th century English poet William Ernest Henley. Words used to explore his personal battles with illness and as an amputee; words that have washed across multiple generations in seeking strength at times of struggle. It is from this poem that the Invictus Games takes its name – adopting the Latin for ‘unconquerable’, of being ‘undefeated’. It cuts to the core of what these Games are about – to help wounded, injured and ill veterans and active service personnel overcome and again conquer. As an army captain who twice deployed to Afghanistan, The Duke of Sussex – Prince Harry as he’s best known – felt something stir within and offered a sense of normality not often known. “It's completely normal. It’s as normal as it’s going to get. I’m one of the guys. I don’t get treated any differently… It’s very easy to forget about who I am when I am in the army,” the sixth-in-line to the British throne has previously said of his service. “Everyone’s wearing the same uniform and doing the same kind of thing… I get on well with the lads and I enjoy my job. It really is as simple as that.” His time in the British Army is something he holds close – the power of camaraderie and the sellessness of those who serve staying with him. It’s a time that also allowed great insight into the horrors of combat and the lingering pain that too often travels well beyond the battleield. It’s why in 2013 – after witnessing the US Department of Defense’s Warrior Games in Colorado – he vowed to “steal” the concept and organise something similar on home soil. The aim was to further the positivity sport can achieve in its ability to aid rehabilitation and help active service men and women and veterans move beyond life-altering injury, both visible and hidden. Like his mother, he wanted to help those he knew were in need of greater support – those who would beneit from his ability to shine a light on shadows rarely illuminated.

It was in 2014 that HRH debuted the Invictus Games in London. When Prince Harry touches down in Sydney later this month – to launch the fourth iteration of the Games – the media will largely ixate on matters trivial. It’ll be about the fashions of his bride, or worse. It shouldn’t be. The focus should irmly lock on the stories of the 500 participants from 18 countries competing across 11 sports. “These individuals, who have been at their lowest, have used sport to rehabilitate themselves and their families,” HRH has said of the Games. “And these individuals and their stories are so remarkable that the general public across the world needs to see this.” We too often overlook our armed service personnel and veterans in this country. We may speak proudly of an ANZAC spirit – but then our acknowledgment of those who’ve made the biggest of sacriices to maintain our freedoms is too often limited. “I reckon there’s a large part of the public who would love to let veterans know how grateful they are for what they’ve given the country,” offers TV comedian Hamish Blake, an ambassador for this year’s Games. “But apart from attending the ANZAC Day parade, people aren’t really sure how to do it. Invictus is a great opportunity to show that support.” Blake’s eager involvement was born of the work he does with Soldier On, a national support outit for veterans and families.

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“I’ve been involved with them for a few years and seen irsthand what returning or injured vets face after their service and the power of sport and the camaraderie it can bring to making that transition easier.” He adds, “Everybody’s story and journey is different and that’s part of what makes these Games special. But I’d say for those I’ve talked to, the common thread is a purpose and a chance to strive for that euphoric moment of competing on the big stage and putting themselves to the test. Doing it in front of a supportive crowd is a big part of it too. These are people who sacriiced a lot for the country, and I imagine getting a chance to feel the appreciation irsthand is something that’s also an amazing experience.” This November marks 100 years of the conclusion of the so-called Great War. It adds another layer to this year’s Sydney’s Invictus Games – a chance to celebrate and relect on not just what the Diggers gave then, but what those who continue to serve, or have recently left service, have sacriiced. We salute you.

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SERVICE Royal Australian

SERVICE Australian Army 1997-2016 (medically

Navy (RAN) 1987-2007. DEPLOYMENT Iraq 2003, 2005. INVICTUS SPORTS Cycling and indoor rowing.

“My father and family had served in the Army and Navy, it was one of those things – and then I walked past the [recruitment] ofice in Adelaide, went in and had a look and then six months later was walking into HMAS Cerberus in Melbourne as a 17-year-old. I discharged myself after 20 years, the last couple had been dificult for me personally – some things had happened overseas and and then I went through a marriage breakdown and I wasn’t in a great place. I got lost for about seven or eight years. I was working, but isolated myself from everyone including my family and my children… mental illness was the big thing for me and I found it quite dificult to engage with people and the civilian world – I came out at 35 and had no idea how to exist outside the military. When I’m on my bike I ind that I can peddle out a lot of the negativity and it has helped me a lot – it clears my mind and I feel positive and it helps me through the day, the week and it deinitely helps me with any mental troubles. I applied for the Toronto [Invictus] Games but didn’t make the side – I was disappointed but wasn’t prepared mentally. And I didn’t want that to be it – I didn’t want to take that as ‘I’m done’.

discharged). DEPLOYMENT East Timor 2006/07; Afghanistan 2009, 2011/12. INVICTUS SPORTS Cycling.

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I didn’t know too much about indoor rowing but took it on and it’s become one of my favourites. We go for four minutes and then also one minute, as far as you can row. They call it the ‘ly and die’ and it’s pretty full on, we pull some faces, it’s maybe not the prettiest sport to watch. But I love it.”

Trent Forbes, 40

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“I came across a good quote recently: ‘Close one chapter before you open another’. It’s why I try not to dwell on my injuries – most of them you can’t see anyway. All I can do is accept them and move on and hopefully improve. Some previous athletes thought Invictus would be good for me – it had been really beneicial for them and they put the hard word on me to apply. I’ve been riding for quite a long time, even before joining the Army – when I roll off on the bike my mind switches off and I can process things more easily. I’m rather uniquely positioned in the Games in riding tandem, as a pair with Michael Liddiard. I like the teamwork and the fact you have to work in unison. If you ever wanted to realise your deiciencies as a cyclist then just jump on a tandem. It’s meant a lot of work to get here – but it’s about pushing my limits. I would not be doing this if it wasn’t for Invictus and also the support of my wife.”

Jarrod Kent, 34 “I was medically discharged, I was kicked – it wasn’t my choice. My only goal in life was to be SASR [Special Air Forces Regiment] and that was stripped away from me and I was in a real bad place. The truth is, just over 12 months ago I was literally dying on the loor from an addiction to medication and from drugs and alcohol. I was in a very very bad place mentally and made a decision to cut off from everything. I ended up in hospital and in isolation – I should have been dead, I shouldn’t have survived. I needed a goal. I’d always loved training and itness – what it does to your focus and your body with the neurons iring. That was the irst step. I ended up applying for Australian Ninja Warrior but didn’t really follow it up, and then realised that Invictus was more important – I could inspire people through the Games. The way I look at it, fear holds too many people back. But we can do anything and fear is only False Evidence Appearing Real, that’s the way I see it. I believe in putting 120 per cent into everything I do and it’s the same with Invictus. I’d never bench-pressed eight months ago – but then I didn’t get into swimming and the guys directed me to powerlifting. I had a crack and have gone from bench-pressing 110kg to 135kg – my goal is 140kg and will nail this at the Games. I now dedicate my life to learning to be the best version of myself and to help every other person who is dealing with problems like me … Everyone needs

WAYNE HOPKINS, 47

PAUL LANGLEY, 62

SERVICE Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) 1990-2011 (medically discharged).

1980-1987.

DEPLOYMENT Iraq. INVICTUS SPORTS Archery and cycling.

SERVICE Australian Army DEPLOYMENT Commando. INVICTUS SPORTS Indoor rowing and sailing.

JARROD KENT, 34 SERVICE Australian Army 2010 -2017 (medically discharged). DEPLOYMENT East Timor. INVICTUS SPORTS Powerlifting, swimming, track and field.

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I thought about doing the Games before but thought I was too old and crusty. I met a couple of guys who’d done it and then I applied. I wanted to do it to show a bunch of the older vets that there’s a good life and some good light for them to walk towards, because sitting behind a schooner in the pub and talking about old times, or on a couch ain’t enhancing their lives. There’s more to life than sitting about and talking shit. I also thought some of the younger vets could look at me and think, ‘Well there’s 30 odd years of good life in front of me if I get going’. If you can stop someone from necking themselves by showing them there’s life and vitality and vibrancy – well that’s a bloody good thing.”

Wayne Hopkins, 47

support at some stage and shouldn’t be scared or worried to reach out and ask for help. I was that guy – that tough man who didn’t want to reach out, but now I am fully in touch with myself and my emotions. I’m out there to win – but then that’s a bonus. I’ve already won by getting here and by inspiring others.”

Paul Langley, 62

“I sailed in the Invictus launch on Sydney Harbour and said g’day to Prince Harry boat to boat. He said g’day back and that was that. Yeah, I should work on that story and embellish a bit more. It’s great that he’s here and all he’s done to make the Games happen and what he does with vets. I discharged in 2011 – I had physical injuries that had built up over the 21 years I was in, and then I had some mental issues with PTSD that really crept up on me. When I was irst diagnosed my psychiatrist suggested that my family move on without me because I wouldn’t ever recover well enough to function within a family environment. That was devastating for everyone involved and very hard to recover from… The issue I had was the amount of medication they had me on at the time – I was lucky to understand what they were even saying to me, the idea being to drug you out of your head so that you don’t argue with what they said. Yeah, I got myself a new psych and once I removed the cloud of drugs I slowly started to move forward. The local RSL club actually invited me on a ski weekend, with some other veterans. I’d never skied before and to feel the rush of something new again was the start of me moving forward and the train of thought came in – that if I can keep physical, then that’d be a really good thing for me. It took a while – and I was in some pretty dark places at times. I drew my strength from my wife and kids, they’re the ones that have given me the most support to move forward.” The Invictus Games Sydney, October 20-27; invictusgames2018.org

Veteran Kris Lane representing Australia in the IT7 100m in Toronto.

“I’m pretty sure I’m the oldest in the team – I’m doing alright for an old fart, I guess. I was recently in Tahiti competing in the World Canoe Championships – but it’s these Games that are most important to me. I love hearing the stories and the people I’m meeting are amazing. I’ve always been around the water and love it – I sailed as a boy on Sydney Harbour, I’ve been a surf lifesaver, did water operations in the army and airborne and I race outrigger canoes on the open ocean. With this sailing, I’m in a four-man boat with a crew of different age groups and backgrounds and different units – there’s another commando, and then a doctor and a gentlemen who’s an oficer in the RAAF. I love the team element as it brings people out of their shell – and you can use your personality to bring someone else forward, put your hand behind them and say, ‘C’mon old mate, we can do this together’. N OVE M B E R 20 1 8 G Q .COM . AU

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TROY E S I VA N First appeared in 2015 PH OTOG RAPHY JO R DAN G RAHAM “I don’t really believe in God, but if there’s a single reason I was given this YouTube audience, it’s to maybe help LGBTQ kids watching my videos.”

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SIMON BAKER First appeared in 2010 PH OTOG RAPHY DOU G I N G LI S H

“By the way, we’re Australian. It’s not like we go ‘You’re awesome’. Aussies go, ‘You’ve done OK, but don’t get a big head’. Here in the US, you learn how to get a big head. You have to balance that.”

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LI A M H E M S WO R TH First appeared in 2012 PH OTOG RAPHY DUSAN R E LJ I N

“Chris is six-and-a-half years older than me so there’s this thing where if I’d got Thor, that would have been weird. The way I look at this is, better Chris than someone else. Believe me, Chris and I spent most of our lives beating each other up. At this point, we’re just happy not to be ﬁst-ﬁghting over who gets to sit in the front seat.”

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JA I CO U R TN E Y First appeared in 2013 PH OTOG RAPHY ZACHARY HAN DLEY

“Saying you’re an actor can be really tough because it begs the question, ‘Done anything I’d know?’ That gets really old, really quickly. Especially when you haven’t done anything anybody knows.”

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JOHN EALES First appeared in 1999 PH OTOG RAPHY TO NY N OTAR B E RAR DI N O “I remember my international debut very clearly. I could hardly sing I was so choked up. You’re achieving something you never really believed – the fulfillment of your greatest dream. You just pinch yourself. Is this really happening? The only thing that could compare is the birth of your child. Neither seem like a real moment.”

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M I CH A E L CL A R K E First appeared in 2009 PH OTOG RAPHY N ICK LE ARY

“I think, 100 per cent, I let myself down with my priorities. My lifestyle in general, I guess. I was having a great time but the No. 1 thing that had always been my focus, I’d let slip. That was my performance and my preparation to be able to perform.”

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K E ITH U R B A N First appeared in 2012 PH OTOG RAPHY B EAU G R EALY “When your best isn’t good enough, it’s soul destroying. I remember feeling just so so lonely. I was on the other side of the world, no family, no advisors, no one around to say ‘No’ to the path I was taking. I was on a mission but it was mine alone, and they say it’s hard to hold the hand of someone reaching for the stars.”

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FLU M E First appeared in 2013 PH OTOG RAPHY ZACHARY HAN DLEY

“I have a good idea for the second record but haven’t done much on it yet. I feel the pressure but at the same time, I’m not going to rush anything. I’ll wait until I’m happy with it. I do ﬁnd it a bit sad that Flume is never going to be the new, exciting thing again. But at the same time, it’s a career now, it’s stable and I know I’ve got that for a while. So long as I don’t fuck up the next album.”

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J O E L E D G E R TO N First appeared in 2011 PH OTOG RAPHY RO B B I E FI M MAN O “There’s a good support network for Australian actors. The door was kicked open by Mel Gibson going to America, it was prised open again by Russell Crowe who put oil on the hinges for the rest of us and every time one of us who moves through that door and does good work, it keeps the oil there for the next generation.”

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R I CH A R D R OX B U R G H First appeared in 1999 PH OTOG RAPHY TO NY N OTAR B E RAR DI N O “It’s a tragedy. Most people think of Richard as a leading man but what is great about him is the wealth he possesses in terms of character abilities. The extraordinary character he drew in Blue Murder was indicative of how vast his range is for creating precisely observed characters.” – Baz Luhrmann

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A LE X O’LO UG H LI N First appeared in 2011 PH OTOG RAPHY RO B B I E FI M MAN O “For younger actors going to Hollywood, one of the first things you need to do is realise where they’re going to pigeonhole you – how they’re going to market you. Because if you don’t know you’re marketable, it doesn’t matter how persistent, driven or talented you are. You’ve got to know where you fit so you can kick off from there. Then you can shine in whatever direction you want.”

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B E N CO U S I N S First appeared in 2009 PH OTOG RAPHY PI E R R E TOUSSAI NT

“Along the way, I’ve had to deal with some hardship. That’s one of the things I’m pretty proud of – the way I’ve been able to get through it. I’m not entirely happy with how I found myself in those predicaments, but that’s only half of it. Tough people last, tough times don’t.”

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ERIC BANA First appeared in 2002 PH OTOG RAPHY R ICHAR D BAI LEY “I just hope that someone, somewhere down the line is going to be called ‘the next Eric Bana’.”

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I A N TH O R P E First appeared in 2001 PH OTOG RAPHY SAG E

“I know that in using my public proﬁle in a positive manner to change things, I can make a difference.”

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M A LCO LM TU R N B U LL First appeared in 2013 PH OTOG RAPHY B EAU G R EALY “I resolved that I would do everything I could to give Tony a loyalty and a consistency that not all my colleagues gave me. I’ve done that. If Tony is unsuccessful, no one will be able to say Malcolm Turnbull was anything other than supportive.”

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Our kind of superhero B E I N G B U I LT W I L L G E T YO U H A L F T H E WAY T H E R E . B U T TO B E T R U LY G R E AT ? FO L LO W T H O R ’ S L E A D FO R A G U I D E TO B OAS T I N G T H E F U L L PAC K AG E . (N OT L I K E T H AT.)

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PICTURED HERE IN LAST YEAR’S THOR: RAGNAROK, HEMSWORTH SET A NEW STANDARD FOR THE MODERN DAY SUPERHERO.

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ooking at Chris Hemsworth’s muscular frame, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s the result of some sort of of CGI sorcery. One thing’s for sure, no one’s going to forget his ripped body in a hurry. But, in decades’ time, when the Marvel wave has inevitably run its course, another image of the Australian actor will likely take its place. It will portray someone who’s more than just muscles – a wellrounded individual, a role model in touch with his sense of humour, his emotions and, most importantly, the world. To learn how the former Summer Bay heartthrob has become just as impressive off the screen as on it, we sat down with his high-school-friendturned-trainer Luke Zocchi, who now travels the world with Hemsworth. zocobodypro.com

BODY OF WORK Zocchi shares behind-thescenes insight into the training and preparation of some of Hemsworth’s most drastic body transformations.

Inner strength The biggest killer among men under 40 is suicide. We all need to be talking about this more and Hemsworth is one man pushing the conversation. When filming Thor: Ragnorak in Brisbane the actor was pictured wearing a hoodie promoting the work of LIVIN, a charity working to end the stigma around mental health. A small but significant gesture, it was said to spike sales at the Aussie charity. And it’s in this country the issue has particular resonance, where men make up a shocking 75 per cent of all suicides. Australian men have for

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too long suffered under the weight of restrictive stereotypes of what it means to be a man. Thankfully, though, the well-worn image of the Aussie bloke as tough and overtly macho is finally starting to loosen its grip, with Hemsworth among the group offering a new vision of masculinity. After carving a successful lane for himself as a superhero hunk in his Thor roles, Hemsworth took a sharp U-turn in 2016 to play Kevin, the pretty-butdumb receptionist, in the all-female remake of Ghostbusters. Here was a man perfectly content

Playing young surfer Kim Hyde was simple: “It was all about growing his hair long, eating what he wanted and training sometimes,” jokes Zocchi. Sounds easy enough.

within himself to take risks and be seen outside of the usual ‘tough guy’ persona that appeared preordained for him. With guys like Hemsworth leading the charge, it will hopefully be a matter of time before this becomes the norm rather the exception.

Stay woke

It’s all too common these days to idolise someone in the public eye only to hear them spouting rubbish in an interview, forcing you to question your support. Thankfully you won’t find Hemsworth falling into the same trap. The actor was asked, back in 2016, if he’s

Hemsworth used intermittent fasting to survive on just 600-700 calories a day. Exercise was lots of cycling, having scrapped boxing when they realised he was retaining too much muscle mass. Not a problem us mere mortals share.

a feminist, and his answer was refreshingly assertive: “For sure”. When asked about his support for the Time’s Up movement at the Golden Globes earlier this year, Hemsworth went a step further. “We stand for equality. I believe in equality regardless of gender, regardless of race, regardless of sexual orientation, regardless of political opinion. I believe that we all need to come together in a very compassionate way, and say, ‘Okay. Let’s even things out and let’s give each other a chance and let’s listen to one another.’” A leader of men, many have since followed his lead.

Be humble

Someone of Hemsworth’s fame could easily let success go to his head. Instead, the Hollywood star employed his two best mates as his trainer and assistant, keeping him grounded in the only way best mates know – constantly taking the piss. “We all went to school together and you’d think we’d be sick of each other. It’s the opposite. We’re normally in a line at the airport trying to make each other laugh, calling out loudly, ‘It’s Chris Hemsworth!’ when he’s got his hat pulled down trying to not be noticed.”

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BULKING When stripped of one’s superhuman powers, we’re told steak, rice and greens will do the trick.

Eat clean

Do you even lift, bro?

While we said it wasn’t all about the body, it is a little. Zocchi takes us through the process of building superhuman strength. “The Thor body is all about big shoulders and arms. After we had a costume fitting we saw what body parts were exposed so we could target them: shoulders, biceps and triceps. The main moves we focus on are pull-ups, pushups, shoulder press, seated incline curls and skull crushers.” Be sure not to miss leg day though, because while Thor may have the benefit of being largely seen from the waist up, the same can’t be said for you.

Getting superhero-buff involved a high-protein diet of more than 3000 calories a day across six meals. Training included four to five heavy sessions a week and one ‘light movement session’ thrown in for good measure.

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Getting jacked is one thing, the real challenge is knowing how to squeeze that body into clothes that look good. To avoid looking like the Michelin man, follow these simple rules from GQ’s fashion editor Olivia Harding.

SAY NO TO SKINNY JEANS Straight- or slim-cut jeans give legs a more even silhouette rather than emphasising every last muscle in your calves and thighs. That’s what shorts are for, guys.

BELT UP A belt around the waist can balance out a broad upper body and add bulk to your most narrow part.

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You can’t build a body like a superhero by eating like a peasant. In the past, Hemsworth has even gone as far as to say his physique is more about diet than it is training. “It has to be very clean... Sometimes the amount of protein I have to eat can be overwhelming.” (We can think of worse things.) Zocchi shares three of his best bud’s favourite meals for different occasions.

Grilled chicken with a salad of rocket, tomatoes, a small amount of parmesan and balsamic dressing When stripping weight the opposite is true. Eating plenty of veggies will fill you up and limit calorie intake.

CHEATING Proof he is in fact human, Zocchi says on occasion Hemsworth enjoys pepperoni pizza and cheese burgers.

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Know how to wear those muscles

Steak, brown rice and greens Putting on muscle mass requires both carbs and protein so don’t be shy with the rice if you’re trying to pile on the pounds.

More of a natural look was required to play cult leader Billy Lee. Hemsworth fasted again, but this time only a couple times a week. Daily calorie intake was roughly 2300 and exercise involved circuit training.

FIND A TAILOR You’ve invested the time and money into building your body so do the same when it comes to dressing it. A tailor will be able sculpt a suit, coat or pants to fit you perfectly.

A muted colour palette helps big boys like Chris.

PLAY WITH ACCESSORIES Contrast your manly frame with something delicate. Adding jewellery like a simple chain or a solid ring helps enhance a look.

Big boys sweat more. Steer clear of polyester in favour of more natural options like cotton and linen.

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BODY TYPE “Kayaking is heavy resistance so you have to be strong.” That’s not all though, you need to have what Ellis calls “power endurance”. With race distances up to 1000m – in which Kellis aims for around three and a half minutes – you need muscles to be engaged the whole time, not just the first 10 seconds. “It’s a hard balance to find.” Like climbing, kayaking is a top-heavy sport, relying mainly on the pulling motion

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weights because they “tend not to put on mass and just build strength”. And remember, while Klein says there’s little lower-body emphasis, a “serious climber” will train legs, too. FOLLOW THEIR LEAD When pushed for a No.1 go-to in the gym, Klein is quick to highlight the core. “Front levers – or L-sits if I’m not feeling very strong.” For most, L-sits are more than enough for starters – get into a dip position and raise your legs to parallel with the floor. Aim to hold for 15 seconds.

Kevin Jackson is a ‘principal artist’ with The Australian Ballet, a title that’s confusing at first. So, are you an athlete or an artist? “I’m a mixture of both. I see myself as an artist but to get to that artistry there’s some extreme physicality.” Examples of said ‘extreme physicality’ involve holding their female counterparts above the head followed by dance solos that can reach up to three minutes long. Oh, and they do 180 shows a year – yes, that’s roughly one every other day. When we speak to Jackson, he’s preparing to for Spartacus and a role that involves him having to bulk up to portray the “real brute, rustic gladiator look”. BODY TYPE The typical balletdancer look is “slimming with long lines”. But, like a prized fighter who has to bulk up or slim down for

TRAINING Bad news for nonmorning people, kayaking involves a lot of early rises. Six days a week Ellis is out on the water first thing, with three gym sessions on top of that. “Aside from the upper body, kayaking is a lot to do with your core stability. The movement is very rotating… we do lots of exercises with a twisting motion.” FOLLOW THEIR LEAD “I’d say pull ups is No.1 – helping you

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t the hospital, Sergei and Yulia were fed drugs intended to help their systems recreate the enzymes disrupted by novichok. At irst the doctors treating them had little sincere hope for their survival. Then, after seeing signs of slow improvement, they began to scale the Skripals’ sedation back. After 20 days, Yulia awoke. It was a different world, “disorientating,” she would call it. During the weeks she was unconscious, the Kremlin had continued its efforts to sow doubts about the investigation. At the UN, a Russian envoy speculated that doctors in Salisbury were manipulating the health of the Skripals, and may even have injected this rare poison themselves. For one 24-hour cycle, attention was delected toward Sergei Skripal’s pets, a house cat and two guinea pigs, unaccounted for since March 4. A Russian statement was typical in its strange, sidelong emphases: “To learn the fate of the animals is important not only from the point of view of Mr Skripal’s property rights, but also as a matter of animal welfare...” In fact the pets had been left uncared for inside the quarantined No. 47. The guinea pigs were eventually found dead, and the cat had to be put down, distressed beyond rescue. It was an extraordinary oversight by authorities at the scene. Even so, the British pushed and condemned, demanding state-size confessions of guilt that were never likely to come. Anybody who recalled the shrinking reaction to Litvinenko’s murder might have identiied overcompensation. Certainly there was an irony in Theresa May, the prime minister, and Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, leading this Kremlin censure. In their previous jobs as home secretary and mayor of London, respectively, they’d done as much as anyone to create a sense that powerful Russians had a high threshold for misbehaviour; that scores might be settled and fortunes laundered in the UK without too close a scrutiny, as long as the rubles kept iltering through domestic banks and the property market.

But this time a policeman had been struck down. The target’s daughter, too. Cost to the local police was heading toward $13m, and great chunks of an ancient English city were behind quarantine lines. As nobody could be certain where the poison had spread, the people of Salisbury kept on playing a frightening game of touch-and-see. That lamppost? That trash can? Midsummer, a 45-year-old British man named Charlie Rowley found what appeared to be an unopened box of perfume and brought it home. A few days later, he gave the perfume to his partner, Dawn Sturgess, a 44-year-old mother of three. Sturgess sprayed her wrists with some of the bottle’s contents, which came out “oily,” Rowley recalled afterward, and did not smell like perfume. He quickly washed his hands. Sturgess had to lie down. Rowley was later found frothing at the mouth, and the couple were taken to the same hospital as the Skripals. Samples sent to secretive research facility Porton Down conirmed it was a novichok − the scavenged bottle, it seems, may have been a vessel for the poison carried by attackers back in March. Guards returned to the ward; more cordons went up. After a week, Sturgess died in the hospital. Rowley recovered and was discharged back out into Salisbury, where locals were being warned, irmly now, not to pick up anything they hadn’t themselves put down. In the hospital, Yulia’s health improved, delighting those who treated her and − they would admit − perplexing them. “To see the recovery happen and at such a pace,” one of Yulia’s clinicians later told the BBC, “that I can’t easily explain.” The details of the Skripals’ medical treatment remain conidential, though one source told me there was a member of staff at Salisbury District Hospital who also worked at Porton Down, which helped doctors identify the symptoms of nerve-agent exposure. Anxious about overwhelming her, Yulia’s doctors were not sure how much to tell her about what was happening outside the hospital walls. Her recovery, her headlong progress toward discharge, only made the diplomatic situation knottier. Here was a Russian citizen, in a British hospital, under the protection of British police. If there were plans afoot to secretly re-settle the Skripals upon their release from the hospital, the Russian embassy stated, this would be seen “as an abduction”. Meanwhile a relative of Yulia’s back home, a cousin, had given interviews to the Russian and British media, pointing out she’d been denied a UK visa to visit her relatives and making a disarming suggestion that echoed right back through the years. What if all that ailed Sergei and Yulia was a bad meal – food poisoning?

From London the Russian embassy pushed for consular access to the Skripals, a request that would later be repeated by Vladimir Putin himself. In a brief statement, Yulia politely, very carefully, declined.

••• ew outside Moscow knew the world of Kremlin intrigue − and what happened when you found yourself on the wrong side of it − as well as Valery Morozov, a Russian businessman in his 60s now living in the London commuter town of Guildford, where he keeps up a colourful blog about Russian politics. Morozov and his wife, Irina, were now in their sixth year of restless exile in the UK, Valery having once risen fast and high in construction back in Moscow before he made “too many enemies” and had to lee. It was from reading Morozov’s blog posts after the attack that I’d learned of a chance encounter he’d had a few months before − with Sergei Skripal. They had run into each other in December, Morozov recalled when I met him at his home. Both of them were waiting for trains out of London, and they’d stopped in at a grocery store, not far from Waterloo Station, that specialises in delicacies imported from Russia. Morozov was stocking up on his favourite chocolate when he found Skripal in the shop, a pink-faced deda, or grandfather, with a telltale gait. “He looked like military intelligence,” Morozov said. “You behave in a certain way, your posture.” Irina was there in the shop that day, too, and the three exiles fell into conversation, discussing family, cats, the best jarred herring on the surrounding shelves − and also work. Valery had his blog, rich and gossipy and stoked by old contacts back home who kept him v teme – in-the-know − about Kremlin intrigue. Irina took jobs as an interior designer. Skripal (the couple recalled) said something that day about his own line of employment that would only later seem signiicant. I spent hours in the company of Valery Morozov this April, when the reverberations from Skripal’s poisoning were wildest. I found his bracing, iercely un-Western way of looking at the world a useful counterweight to all the easy anti-Russian rhetoric in the daily press. Despite his exile, he remained a Kremlin nostalgist to his core; he’d drunk vodka, once, with Vladimir Putin. When I asked him the same questions I asked everybody about the Skripal hit – why? and why now? − Morozov was withering about certain British assumptions. Whenever the poisoning was described as being ordered by Putin, he said, it showed an awful naivety. “Everyone thinks that Putin

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controls everything. No! He’s controlling only what he controls.” To the Russian mind, the Western impulse to have everything be distinctly this or that − if not the truth, a lie − read as idiotically simplistic. If it was dificult to explain the targeting of a pardoned, pensioned-off spy, it was less dificult to imagine why a roving defector magnet might be worth snufing out. He lung up his hands in frustration when I asked, the Skripal hit in mind, how one might draw the Kremlin’s permission structure. A triangle, I asked, with Putin at the top? Morozov was appalled. “A triangle!” He searched for a less facile description, something that would properly conjure the mass of interconnecting interests: the politicians, maia, businesspeople, generals, spies, all cross-assisting or at cross-purposes. “It’s not a triangle. It’s the Internet.” He told me he believed that Skripal had been punished for interfering, maybe inadvertently, in the inancial interests of a self-contained criminal group. Morozov speculated that Skripal had passed the wrong intel to the wrong people, probably during the course of “his analytical work for some intelligence companies, if I understood what he was saying...” I asked Morozov to repeat this. Yes, during their December encounter in the shop, Morozov said, Skripal claimed to be doing consulting work in “cyber-security, intelligence, some analytical work.” This was a surprise. It made me recall a conversation I’d had with a Salisbury taxi driver, Mehmet Beykanoglu, who said that over a period of about seven years, he’d taken Skripal home from the train station to Christie Miller Road “maybe 40, 50 times”. Beykanoglu believed his fare, wearing a suit on most occasions, was returning from employment in London: “I asked, once, and he said he worked for the government. I wish I’d asked which government.” Perhaps Skripal was a why in his own assassination attempt after all. A well-informed source told me that Skripal had given at least one lecture at a British military institution, in which he discussed his GRU background. Had he been trading on his knowledge and his past in other quarters, too? The owner of the Waterloo shop, Mohsen Najim, said Skripal would sometimes drop by after traveling abroad. “He said, ‘Oh, I’m working for a company; they send me everywhere. They need my experience.’” In May, responding to reports that Skripal had travelled to the Czech Republic to help instruct intelligence agents there, the Czech foreign minister, choosing his words, said such a visit would certainly have been useful – “logical”. When I consulted

Robert Hannigan about all this, he said it didn’t sound so unusual. Once spies re-settle, “they’re free individuals. They can do what they want. And bear the risks, too.” Boris Volodarsky told me if Skripal had plugged himself into Western intelligence networks, that would have made him a conspicuous point of contact for anybody wavering within the Russian system. Volodarsky recounted that when Alexander Litvinenko irst hoped to contact MI6, he sought an introduction through Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB double agent living in the UK. And once Litvinenko was on MI6’s books, a later defector named Vyacheslav Zharko reportedly came to him for a similar intro. Volodarsky imagined an equivalent conversation between Skripal and some old colleague: “Sergei, could we meet?” If it was dificult for Volodarsky to explain the targeting of a pardoned, pensioned-off spy, he had less dificulty in imagining why a roving defector magnet might be worth snufing out.

••• n Salisbury, furtively and without fanfare, Sergei Skripal left the hospital and disappeared into protected hiding with Yulia. It was mid-May, 74 days after the initial exposure. Later that month, Yulia ilmed a short statement from an undisclosed location: in it she said her immediate focus was on caring for her father, whose recovery had been slower than her own. Yulia herself appeared outwardly healthy, despite the breathing-tube scar on her throat − smiling, contented even. But doctors acknowledged that the future health of both of them was more or less unknown. Without giving details in her statement, Yulia spoke of “devastating changes thrust upon me”. After Andrei Zheleznyakov had been saved from the initial ravages of a novichok, back in ’87, he was aflicted by a miscellany of side effects, among them cirrhosis, hepatitis, and epilepsy. He died in ’92, ive years after his exposure. The attack this March has killed one bystander, Dawn Sturgess. Her companion, Charlie Rowley, has reported that the novichok has affected his ability to concentrate. Nick Bailey, the cop exposed during the course of the investigation, was eventually released from the hospital but said that “normal life for me will probably never be the same”. For the Skripals, the future looks, at best, precarious. “I take one day at a time,” Yulia said in her statement. She hoped to go back to Russia eventually, she said, while repeating with delicacy her refusal of assistance from the embassy: “At the moment I do not wish to avail myself of their services.”

The week of Sergei’s discharge, I sat with a senior government source and asked what was next for father and daughter. “They don’t know,” the source said. “I think that’s the honest truth. Of course there will be offers of deep levels of cover for both of them. But there’s a balance. You’ve got to live.” As to whether this living would inally be done in the UK, elsewhere in Europe, or even somewhere in North America, they hadn’t decided. The source told me, “They’re scared”. By early July, the investigators still hadn’t announced any suspects. The head of counterterror policing, Neil Basu, sounded a note that was very like despair. “I would love to be able to say that we have identiied and caught those responsible and how we are certain there are no traces of nerve agent left anywhere,” he said. “The brutal reality, however, is that I cannot.” (Later that month, the Press Association reported that investigators, inally, after scouring hundreds of hours of CCTV, had identiied “several” of those who were suspected to have travelled to Salisbury to carry out the operation. The authorities, at the time of writing, refused to conirm this, but in September British authorities charged two Russians, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov with the attack. In September, the pair appeared on Russian state TV network RT to profess their innocence, claiming they were simply tourists who had been planning to visit the city’s cathedral. Around Salisbury − you couldn’t call it Smalls-bury now − what choice did they have? They continued to touch foreign objects, half in mind of lethal risk while carrying out everyday tasks. Investigators’ best guess was that it could take 50 years for the last of any stray novichok to deteriorate. Tourists didn’t want to visit and there were businesses behind the quarantine lines that had to close. In the window of a bookstore (the Skripals would have driven right by it on March 4), a history book, The End of the Cold War, was put on display. On closer inspection, you could see a new, handwritten note protruding from its pages: “Or is it?” On Christie Miller Road, Sergei’s home had its front door removed. The garden was covered by wooden planks and steel-fence borders lined the drive. Decontamination was due to last for months; there was a rumour that No. 47 could even be razed. For the time being, the house assumed its position in the history of international espionage, and in the lore of assassinations ventured if not quite achieved. It was a place that had once had its time, its target, its horrible method. The Skripals wouldn’t live here again. N OVE M B E R 20 1 8 G Q .COM . AU

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THE

LAST WORD

Full name, and where you’re originally from?

SOMEONE’S GOING TO DO

PAUL THANE BETTANY, BORN IN

IT BEFORE ME.

HAMMERSMITH, LONDON. You starred alongside Tom Hanks in For what role are you most recognised?

The Da Vinci Code. Is he really as nice

THE VISION, WITH CLOSE

as everyone says?

RUNNER-UP THE NAKED GUY FROM

YES. IT’S SO IRRITATING –

A KNIGHT’S TALE.

HE REALLY IS. ALTHOUGH HIS HUMOUR IS A LITTLE MORE WICKED

And Wimbledon. Can you actually play tennis?

THAN HE LETS ON.

NO, I CAN NO MORE PLAY TENNIS As a Brit living in the US what food do you miss?

THAN I KAN-GAROO.

PIES. Who would win in a fight – Silas or Dryden Vos? I THINK SILAS… NO I THINK

Best thing about making films with your wife

DRYDEN VOS. YES, PROBABLY

[Jennifer Connelly]?

DRYDEN VOS.

SHE’S THE MOST PREPARED HUMAN BEING THAT YOU ARE EVER

Marvel came a-calling? I HAPPENED TO BE SITTING ON A KERB IN WEST HOLLYWOOD AND HAD JUST BEEN TOLD I WOULD NEVER WORK IN SHOW BUSINESS AGAIN. MY PHONE RANG AND IT WAS JOSS WHEDON ASKING IF I’D PLAY THE VISION.

PAUL BETTANY AHEAD OF THE RELEASE OF JOU R N EY’S E N D, MAR KI NG TH E C E N T E N A R Y O F R E M E M B R A N C E D A Y, WE SPEAK TO THE BRITISH ACTOR O N H OW M ARVE L SAVE D H I M F ROM RETIREMENT AND WHETHER OR NOT T O M H A N K S I S R E A L LY T H A T N I C E .

LIKELY TO WORK WITH. SHE IS FASTIDIOUS TO A POINT THAT IS ALMOST PATHOLOGICAL. And the worst? WELL IT’S ALL THE SAME STUFF. HER FASTIDIOUSNESS IS BOTH THE BEST AND WORST THING ABOUT HER. Tempted to get back behind the camera

Who, in the original Marvel comics, gave

again soon?

Vision his name? (The Wasp)

IF THE RIGHT THING COMES UP. PEOPLE ASK ME TO SIGN THINGS

IT’S THE BEST AND WORST JOB

AND QUOTE STUFF TO ME ALL

I’VE HAD IN MY LIFE. ACTUALLY

If you could create your own modern-day

THE TIME, OF WHICH I HAVE

THAT’S NOT TRUE, THE WORST WAS

superhero, what or who would they be fighting?

ABSOLUTELY NO MEMORY.

BEING A BARMAN. NO, THE WORST

OH GOD… I DON’T KNOW.

WAS PEELING POTATOES.

OH FUCK… IMPOSSIBLE TO ANSWER. Most overrated Shakespeare play? Fair point. What was it like sharing scenes

A WINTER’S TALE.

with all 12 of Chris Hemsworth’s abs?

Favourite Star Wars villain? DARTH VADER.

IT’S A LITTLE BIT LIKE MEETING

You used to busk as a student – what was

A GOD. HE’S 6’3” OR WHATEVER

your go-to tune to play?

How old is Yoda when he dies? (900)

AND JUST HUGE – HE’S THE MOST

‘BOYS DON’T CRY’ [THE CURE].

FUCK! CAN I GET SOME OPTIONS?

What was the most recent book you read?

700, 800, 900?

Best moustache on set of Journey’s End?

THE KINDLY ONES BY

I THINK HE’S 700.

PROBABLY SAM CLAFLIN – HIS HAD

JONATHAN LITTELL.

SUPERHERO-LIKE OF ANY OF THEM.

Wrong again.

A CERTAIN LUSTRE TO IT. And the book you’d most like to turn into film?

176

You played Chaucer in A Knight’s Tale

I’M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU THAT

JOURNEY’S END IS IN CINEMAS

– any quotes still rolling off the tongue?

BECAUSE I’M SO WORRIED THAT

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