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- Hogan was born in Brisbane, Queensland. As a teenager, he lived on the North Coast of New South Wales and attended Mt St Patrick's College.
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Hogan was born in Brisbane, Queensland. As a teenager, he lived on the North Coast of New South Wales and attended Mt St Patrick's College. He was said to have had a difficult time in high school as he was a victim of bullying. His film Mental is based upon his difficult adolescent years.
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Apr 18, 2019 · In it she lays bare her soul, writing about her childhood, close family and growing up in Papua New Guinea and then near Kinglake in Victoria.
Let me tell you a true story about PJ Hogan. A man I have had the privilege and pleasure to know for some years, this story goes back to the 2001-2002 shooting of Peter Pan . With a great amount of aerial work and stunts in the film, Hogan and crew hired one of the industry’s best aerial stuntwomen, Svetla Krasteva, a woman I had known for a ...
Dec 25, 2023 · When he learns that she tells stories, he whisks Wendy and her two brothers away to a magical Island called Neverland — where you supposedly don’t “grow up” — so that she can mother his...
- An Inseparable Team
- Hollywood Calls
- 'You're Told There Is No Hope'
- 'Lily Will Speak'
- An Unexpected Gift
- Coming Home to Australia
- Superhero Parents
- Making Peace with Autism
They met on their first day at film school in 1981, and they could not have been more different. Moorhouse, a shy 20-year-old, came from a loving Melbourne family and was engaged to her longtime boyfriend. Hogan, 18, came from a family so dysfunctional he felt the need to exorcise its demons twice on screen and again recently onstage. His father wa...
While producing Muriel's Wedding, Moorhouse was staying at a Holiday Inn on the Gold Coast. One day the receptionist mentioned that she had been receiving prank calls from someone pretending to be Steven Spielberg, asking to be put through to her. Alarmed that it might actually be Spielberg, Moorhouse told the receptionist that if the prank caller ...
Lily was a gorgeous baby but around the time she turned two, Moorhouse and Hogan started to notice something was unusual about her development. Lily would scream instead of speaking. She would not make eye contact and did not want to be held. Concerned, they consulted a range of medical experts and were eventually given a diagnosis. Lily had autism...
Determined to defy those predictions, Moorhouse threw herself into Lily's therapy. And that meant stepping back from her flourishing career. "It was painful to walk away from my career, but my children are more important than anything to me," Moorhouse said. "I don't think it's hard for a mother to choose their child; it just comes naturally." Hoga...
In 2005, Moorhouse assumed she was going through what her mother used to refer to as "the change". She visited her doctor to figure out a plan, but there was another surprise in store. At 45, Moorhouse discovered she was pregnant again. It was a tense time for the family, who feared another autism diagnosis. "I was terrified," Hogan recalled. "I ju...
In 2010, after being based in the US for more than 15 years, it was time for the family to return to Australia. Although Hogan was making good money, the financial burden of raising two children with autism had become prohibitive. They needed to get NDIS funding for Lily and Jack's care so they would not be a financial burden on Spike and Maddy in ...
In many respects, Moorhouse and Hogan's life is highly unusual. They have to fit their home life around their work, which is sporadic but all-consuming and often requires travel. They also have the additional challenges of raising two children with severe disabilities who require around-the-clock care, and the worry of what will happen to the child...
In their own ways, Moorhouse and Hogan have made peace with the challenges life has thrown at them. "One of the most important things to let go of is the idea of a cure for autism," Hogan said. For Moorhouse, it has been a long process of letting go. "You have to grieve your imaginary child," she said. "You have to grieve your expectations and your...
PJ Hogan on the agony of casting Australia's daggiest bride, again. Finding Toni Collette was a fluke, he thought. Then he turned Muriel's Wedding into a stage show, and had to do it all over ...
Sep 24, 2012 · Mental, in Australian cinemas on 4 October 2012, follows the lives of five out of control children emotionally rescued by the outrageous Shaz (Collette) when their mother Shirley (Rebecca Gibney) has a mental breakdown.
