So many unforgettable movies came out of the 1980s, including Crocodile Dundee, starring Paul Hogan and Linda Koszlowski. The flick featured Hogan as “Mick Dundee,” a man who lives in the Australian bush and goes head-to-head with a crocodile, and “Sue Charlton,” a reporter from New York who’s sent Down Under to interview him.
The two ultimately fall in love after Charlton brings Dundee back to the Big Apple, and oddly enough, the actors wound up getting hitched in real life (and later divorced).
The movie is truly iconic and unforgettable, especially for some of the classic one-liners. “That’s not a knife… THAT’s a knife.”
Just yesterday, Hogan, now 85 years old, sat down with Today Show Australia for a rare interview, and he looks virtually unrecognizable from his Mick Dundee days.
Hogan gave the interview to chat about the 40th anniversary of Crocodile Dundee and discuss a new remastered version of it being released.
When the host asked if Hogan would ever move back to Australia from the United States, where he now resides, he said he’d do so, “tomorrow,” and then explained, “I have business reasons and my son… to stay in the States for now.”
He also opened up more about his troubled son, Chance, 27. He continued, “He gets a lot of tabloid stuff, but he’s a terrible person because he knows they’re watching him, so he puts on something for them.”
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In speaking of the 40 years that have passed since Crocodile Dundee was released, Hogan said, “It’s 40 years… the last time I heard “shrimp on the barbie” was in America two weeks ago… and the last time I heard “that’s not a knife” was three days after that.
Hogan also recalled a funny story with two Hollywood icons. He explained, “I was at a dinner with Liz Taylor, and Clint Eastwood was two tables over, and he walked over, leaned over and picked up my table knife, and he said, ‘How many times have you heard it?'”
That famous scene will go down in history as one of the most memorable movie moments, as will Hogan as one of Hollywood’s most iconic actors.
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