Australian actress Mia Wasikowska has made a rare red-carpet appearance, years after leaving Hollywood to return home.
Wasikowska, 36, joined her co-stars from horror flick Leviticus at its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival at the weekend.
Mia Wasikowska attends the Australian Premiere of Leviticus Getty
The star, who made her screen debut in medical drama All Saints when she was just 15, returned home to Sydney in the late 2010s, after many years living and working between Australia and wherever her filming schedule took her.
“I didn’t entirely like the lifestyle of going back to back to back. I felt really disconnected from any greater community,” she told IndieWire in 2023.
It came after a busy decade of high-profile jobs, including as Alice in Tim Burton‘s 2010 Alice in Wonderland adaptation and Guillermo del Toro’s 2015 film Crimson Peak.
Wasikowska, right, with co-stars Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp at the London premiere of 2010’s Alice In Wonderland. Getty
Since her return, she has mostly focused on smaller, independent roles – such as in Leviticus, a local queer horror film that has received rave reviews.
She also recently starred in the screen adaptation of David Walliams’ best-selling children’s book, Fing!, alongside Taika Waititi and Richard Roxburgh.
She has a rare television role in upcoming Stan original drama The Killings at Parrish Station, premiering June 24.
While she still works, Wasikowska said she was unlikely to return to Hollywood.
Mia Wasikowska in Stan series The Killings at Parrish Station Stan
“I’m pretty content. If I can have the best of both worlds, which is dip in and out of it occasionally, I’d be really happy, but I wouldn’t ever be in that place where I was just on a treadmill,” she said.
“I want to do more things in life other than be in a trailer. It’s great, and there are lots of great things, [but] the perception of it is quite different from the reality, and it didn’t suit me as a person.
“You can really lose perspective because you’re treated quite strangely. When that’s your only reality, it’s quite strange.”