O'CONNELL, JERRY: KANGAROO JACK

Jerry Bruckheimer’s US$60 million Kangaroo Jack (aka Down And Under) action comedy wrapped this week, and leading man Jerry O’Connell is leaving after a 5-month shoot in Alice Springs, Coober Peedy and Sydney. Before he got on the plane, Andrew L. Urban asked him about the gifts he bought and the girl he met – among other things.

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Jerry O’Connell
Born: February 17, 1974, New York
Graduate NYU, Film & TV

Notable roles:
Cush in Jerry Maguire
Derek in Scream 2
Michael in Tomcats
Vern in Stand By Me

On TV:
Sliders
Party of Five
My Secret Identity

In Australia: Down And Under, co-stars with Anthony Anderson as a couple of US fish out of water in outback Australia, trying to recover $100,000 mob money from a kangaroo. (Releases 2002)

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Published July 5, 2001

Jerry O'Connell and Andrew L. Urban

Kangaroo Jack

Tomcats - 2001

Jerry Maguire - 1996

Scream 2 - 1997


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