The Way Back
As a young girl, Linda Jean Bruno had an experience that would foretell her destiny. Her family owned a restaurant in Australia and she took the opportunity to entertain those who came there for sustenance. When the restaurant was chosen as a location shoot for the feature film Proof , she got a front row seat to watch Russell Crowe (Oscar-Award winner for Best Actor in 2001’s A Beautiful Mind ) and Hugo Weaving (Award-Winning Actor and star of The Lord of the Rings and Matrix franchises) perform for the camera. Bearing witness to greatness so close, it was inevitable that Linda Jean would pursue the path (literally so in the case of Russell Crowe as both he and Bruno appeared in the Australian megahit TV show Neighbours ). She relates, “I used to use the restaurant as my own platform to entertain others with small skits. Now it was being used as a real set to create scenes for an iconic Australian movie. This opened my eyes at a very young age to the mechanics of the film industry;...