Why Anthony LaPaglia is unapologetically irritable

Let's start with life in Adelaide.

What did the house that you grew up in look like?

I left Adelaide when I was about 19.

And I went back about 10 years ago.

And I thought, I want to go see, I want to see the house, see if it looks like what I remember it.

I got a car and a driver and I said to the guy, take me to Beef Acres, which is what the neighborhood was called at the time.

And he said, no such neighbourhood, mate.

And I said, there is, there

is.

Listen, just get me down to Gillis Plains High School and I know where to go from there.

But what had happened to them in a way is that they'd built, I guess, an overpass that kind of went over where I used to live.

But I could see the community hall from the road.

So I said to him, we've got to get off this road and get down there somehow.

So this little patch of neighbourhood, this Beefacus section, is like the land that time forgot.

So we got off and he said, well, this is still, there's no such place as Beefacus, Mac.

So we're trundling down the side street and I look up and on the telephone, on the light pole, is a really battered little white sign that says Beefacus Community Centre.

And I said, yeah, look.

So I went back, I looked at the house and it was shocking to me how tiny, very tiny house.

It seemed smallish but, like, not that, not as tiny as standing out the front looking at it.

And it still had the, because my uncles were all, like, you know, Italian tradesmen, and one of them did terrazza floors and stuff.

It was very fashionable now, but back then it wasn't.

But they did the whole front step stoop thing to the house in Terrazzo and it had held up way better than the house.

The house looked like it was going to fall down.

And it took me back and it shocked me how tiny the place was.

Let's start with life in Adelaide.

What did the house that you grew up in look like?

I left Adelaide when I was about 19.

And I went back about 10 years ago.

And I thought, I want to go see, I want to see the house, see if it looks like what I remember it.

I got a car and a driver and I said to the guy, take me to Beef Acres, which is what the neighborhood was called at the time.

And he said, no such neighbourhood, mate.

And I said, there is, there

is.

Listen, just get me down to Gillis Plains High School and I know where to go from there.

But what had happened to them in a way is that they'd built, I guess, an overpass that kind of went over where I used to live.

But I could see the community hall from the road.

So I said to him, we've got to get off this road and get down there somehow.

So this little patch of neighbourhood, this Beefacus section, is like the land that time forgot.

So we got off and he said, well, this is still, there's no such place as Beefacus, Mac.

So we're trundling down the side street and I look up and on the telephone, on the light pole, is a really battered little white sign that says Beefacus Community Centre.

And I said, yeah, look.

So I went back, I looked at the house and it was shocking to me how tiny, very tiny house.

It seemed smallish but, like, not that, not as tiny as standing out the front looking at it.

And it still had the, because my uncles were all, like, you know, Italian tradesmen, and one of them did terrazza floors and stuff.

It was very fashionable now, but back then it wasn't.

But they did the whole front step stoop thing to the house in Terrazzo and it had held up way better than the house.

The house looked like it was going to fall down.

And it took me back and it shocked me how tiny the place was.