In Troy She Brought Brad Pitt's Achilles to Heel, but Says Her 'Greatest Privilege' has Been to Work Opposite Peter O'toole As the Infamous Casanova. Here Hot Australian Actress Rose Byrne Explains Why, Despite Her Sexy Leading Men, There Is a 'Drought' in Her Love Life

Mail on Sunday › March 29, 2005

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Rose Byrne pushes a lock of wet hair back from her face and squints a little in the Sydney sunshine. The 25-year-old Australian actress is enjoying a welcome break in her homeland after a frenetic year in which she has emerged as one of the most promising talents of her generation. But while she is relishing seeing her family and catching up with her friends (we meet at the Newtown house of her closest schoolfriend) her mind, she confesses, is thousands of miles away. Not, as you might expect, in Hollywood, but in Hackney, East London.

The actress who last year provided Brad Pitt's love interest (perhaps the only interest) in Troy and played Josh Hartnett's stalker in Wicker Park is much happier talking about the home she has just bought in London than she is about discussing her leading men.

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In Troy She Brought Brad Pitt's Achilles to Heel, but Says Her 'Greatest Privilege' has Been to Work Opposite Peter O'toole As the Infamous Casanova. Here Hot Australian Actress Rose Byrne Explains Why, Despite Her Sexy Leading Men, There Is a 'Drought' in Her Love Life

'I have made the decision to base myself in Britain and I have bought a three-bedroomed Victorian house with a little garden, not far from Hackney's main street.

It's really pretty, I can't wait to move in,' she says as she sits barelegged and barefoot (she has just returned from a swim on nearby Bondi Beach) in her friend's garden.

In an ideal world, Rose would have based herself a little closer to the Sydney suburb in which she is currently staying (...

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