For anyone curious- his dad (Frederick Mendelsohn) was involved with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017

Mendelsohn deserves so much praise for his Dior. Even just the expression on his face alone has broken my heart countless times in this series. Magnificent work but the man owes me a box of tissues.

Ben Mendelssohn was in just about every critically acclaimed Australian film in the 80s and 90s. He was one of the most familiar faces in Aus cinema. Good to see he's finally getting the global recognition he deserves after what has probably been a 40yr hard slog.

How can you not fall in love with Ben, honestly

To go from Big Steal to Animal Kingdom to Dior…what a range, what a talent. My favourite Aussie actor

I made a movie with Ben in Sydney and while we were filming in the street these kids were watching him. One of them comes up and says. "You look kind of familiar. What have you been in?" He says "Well umm, maybe you like Star Wars?" meaning his role in Rogue One. The kid replies "not really, did you do anything good?" Ben goes "Good? Well I built the fucking Death Star what about that?" kid says slightly impressed "yeah that's pretty good I guess".

Been following Ben from Australia since he played "Brains" in The Henderson Kids back in the day. He's always been my favourite Aussie actor, & loving his success & the rest of the world experiencing his talent. ❤

I've been a Ben Mendelsohn for all of his career! He is a great actor

Love him. I didn't see him until Bloodline, but he stole the whole show there.

First time I ever saw him was in Rogue One. You know an actor is great when you get a visceral feeling about the character he plays. He was so great in that role.

He and Juliet Binoche are amazing in this!

Charming. Talented. Simply adorable. Ben we love you!

Ben you were so good in Bloodline…absolutely memorable performance.

This interview was hilarious. Ben is always fantastic in whatever he is in.

Such a great AUSSIE actor.. One of my faves.. Since his FIRST movie, "The Year My Voice Broke" and "The Big Steal", a fun movie about a girl and a car..

Ben & I had mutual friends all through the 90s, happy to see him doing so well on the world stage

Absolutely superb performance!! I love everything this man does! The most authentic actor of our time.

Love a bit of Ben Meno, the Aunty Donna impersonations of him are top notch

Been keeping my eye on Ben since Animal Kingdom. Him in a dark role is stunning but looking forward to Christian Dior. As a New Zealander just wish we could claim him! -just have great admiration for Aussie film industry.

Honestly ben is one of the best actor's out there right now,chameleon qualities and has worked in some of the best stories told rate him massively

That suit is sublime.

Ben is very charismatic. Great guest .

If you wanna hear a hilarious infectious laugh, see Ben's character is The Year My Voice Broke.

Ben was such a surprise when he finally broke out into international films. He was always good to watch but maybe seemed too Australian. I always get a bit excited when I see him in a film that I didn't know he was in. This seems like a great role for him to level up and start getting bigger roles and maybe Best Actor Oscar worth roles (whether he wins or not, too much politics to worry about that. Oscar nominated is the goal, Oscar winner is just a lucky bonus)… great interview, I hope to see more like this.

Ben is absolutely brilliant and so vulnerable in this.

He’ll always be the guy from The Henderson Kids to me.

Hey Benny, teach Seth how to speak Australian 😂😂😂😂. Love you, Ben. Been following you since you were a kid. From one Aussie to another, here’s cheers, Big Ears

Dior actually made his first money in Australia. After WWII, there was a lot of rationing in Europe, and Dior found out that Australia had a booming immigration spike, with no rationing. The toured the Capitals and featured in every fashion magazine. He "made" the stylish house dress of the 1940's and 1950's. His evening gowns were everywhere. The young Australian women were daring enough to wear his "cocktail" dresses, which showed a bit more skin than in the past.

He was perfect for this role! I really liked the character, the values, kindness and elegance.

He was the foundational rock of The Outsider on HBO and so pervasive in Bloodline, carrying that show even as a dead character.

He's giving me Sir Ian McKellen vibes of what he would've been like 30 years ago 😍

He’s brilliant in everything. Still don’t know how he wasn’t awarded for The Outsider.

It shook me when he changes character. Acts naturally. He’ll always be Danny from bloodline to me. Typecast

So gloriously chaotic! 😄

For those fans of Ben outside Australia as suggested in other comments check out some of his earlier work. ‘The Big Steal’ is a classic!

Seth Meyers is one of my favorite late night talk show interviewers. He actually lets people talk.

I love how Seth's guest come to play.

Ben is such a good actor, you would think he might be those quiet introvert actors because of those characters he plays most of the time, and yet in real life, he's such a lively talkative person. Even on podcasts, you can really hear and imagine him being so animated when he talks.

Ben, "Oh, doesn't your dad have a Nobel?" 😂

On ya Ben! Your dad really is a frickin’ genius. Had the pleasure of working in his orbit at UniMelb.

He was brilliant in Rogue One…

I first remember Ben, in a small indie film, as a creepy dog walker. I forget the film, but I totally remembered him, and then when he showed up in Bloodlines I was a fan for life. He is amazing.

So much love for Ben! Love it

⭐️ Ben Kills in Everything He Does ⭐️

I've liked Mendo ever since I saw The Big Steal . Great little Aussie movie that came out in 1990 .

Loved him in “The Big Steal” back in 1990 … great to see him still going strong!

Ben is such a talented and versatile actor. Very seen him in so many different roles and have yet to be disappointed. I look forward to this new role on Apple.

He wasnt in it but my mom I loved the movie Mrs. Harris goes to paris. It was such a sweet story and about Dior as well.

I love this man.

Such an awesome performance from Ben as CD

For a great yet underrated Ben Mendelsohn movie, check out Mississipi Grind 🎲

I LOVE Ben!! He was fantastic in The Marsh King's Daughter!

Amazing actor. First saw him in Bloodline, and was flabbergasted to later find out he was Australian. He played the black sheep of the family and was SOOO American. Pretty much a perfect performance.

Adore the guy and his acting he is superb

I just finished the final episode. It is fantastic

We love ben Mendelssohn

Anyone remember Ben in the movie “the year my voice broke”? A great movie

I love Ben. Stunning talent. Extra points for unashamedly retaining his Australian accent. Can't stand it when Aussies move to the US or UK and suddenly they have this awful American-English-Australian hybrid accent.

I love this guy he just has that natural australian charisma. Loved him in Rogue One.

He’s such a good actor 👌🏼

Maaaate. So damn proud of Ben.

I love hearing Ben talk in his natural voice, it's so fun to contrast to the characters he plays and their range of voices and tones

Charisma galore

Fantastic show! Great story, engaging and beautifully made. Thank you for making such a wonderful series, great actors, brilliant performances and writing . Bravo 👏 Remarkable

I am thoroughly impressed, he knows about EPMD!❤❤❤ I was not expecting that.

Fantastic series! Lots of history. Congrats to the entire cast.

He is such a fabulous actor. He comes as so creepy in Bloodline which is perfect for the characters. As Dior, he is sweet and beautiful.

Ben is glorious

Americans loves us Aussies.. Wolverine, Thor, Barbie, you love us. Ben is so versatile, Marvel, Star wars and some great Australian movies, "The big steal".

I always liked Ben, in the film Cosi he's really good, the whole film never gets spoken of but its hilarious.

Ben has done very well and so deserves it. Serious talent.

He was wonderful in Cosi, such a great actor

He completely creeps me out in Bloodline. Such a disturbing role. I guess thats the point. Amazing acting. Happy to see hes totally different in real life, but hard to process.

I can recommend a great Ben film from 2013. It's called Starred Up, A UK flick about prisons/prisoners. It's incredibly bleak, but BM is very good in it, as are the rest of the cast. It's probably not going to cheer you up after a bad day though.

One of my favorite actors, He never disappoints. Also, they should go day drinking together.

Spotswood is one of his best aussie movies !!

I haven’t seen Ben for years. I’d recognise his voice anywhere but he looks so ‘grown up’ now. Xx🇦🇺

Great actor

The Land of Steady Habits is just a must see.

loved him in Cosi!

I thought his props were for Colbert's questionnaire.

Eric O'Bannon would be proud lol

oh I love him.

💕 Benny boy! 👏👍🍎🍊🍑😆

He might be old enough to be my father but god, he's so charming and handsome

He's so fine 😍

Hey he's in Squadron 42 ! Neat :D

Seth, this guy is fun and his upbringing sounds interesting. Family Trips? 😀

Adored Ben in The Year My Voice Broke and Cosi!

"G'day Seth mate. You haven't been talkin' the the cops have ya, mate?"

Hey Ben... Loved your "Australia will brace you"! So bloody true. I reckon I'm roughly the same age as you, and growing up in Australia in 70s 80s was so, "just get on with it"... that we just f*kn did. It wasn't a concept to analyse everything which required such counseling! Kind regards, Janet

6:07 a subtle Corrections shoutout!

Big steal there’s a movie for the ages 👍

I love his voice and accent- its so deep & a little rough around the edges, quite sexy.

Dropping some Eric and Parrish Making Dollars knowledge!

Ben was so funny in The Big Steal

Such a skillful actor. His natural demeanor, carriage and speaking voice is so radically different from his M. Dior - a legitimate flesh and blood artist's creation..

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Proving the Riemann hypothesis: Moments after a Big Bang, dual numbers to be considered at the origin, repulsive and gravitational forces are balanced, but dark matter is breaking up. "Dual numbers?", you might ask. Isn't that the square root of zero? (Actually, it's a great way to start a proof that ends with division by zero - a vertical line, and it corresponds to what I call Doyle's constant that deals with a brief window in time starting with taking the eth root of e and ending with a vertical line. Delanges sectrices for the unflaking of dark matter, Archimedean spiral for spinning up dark matter, Ceva sectrices for that dark matter breaking into smaller, primordial dark matter and black holes, Dinostratus quadratrix for impacting surrounding black holes, and Maclaurin sectrices for dark matter being slowed down over time. Split-complex at one, noting the more gravitational nature of diagonal ring/cylinder singularities of baryonic matter from broken dark matter. Using repetitious bisection (from arbitrary angle trisection), one gets added (SSA) for when dark matter dominates a universe and one gets added for when black holes and rarified singularities make things more gravitational, leading to a Big Crunch. At 2 = a Big Crunch, the solution to the Basel problem, and the "bellows method" drives things. A Big Crunch event needs the net gravity from the localized area AND gravitational effects from surrounding universes. The 2 represents how locked up black holes are making a stacking, planar contact. Everything else are harmonics - effects on surrounding universes. I see this proof as like trying to climb a steep cliff with the process of dark matter breaking up, getting to the top of the hill (like stable atomic nuclei) and then skiing down the "hill of many black holes" past an inflection point where black hole formation and spaghettification happens, leading to the final vertical line tensor of the Maclaurin trisectrix. This is much like I have posted about considering the recursive form of Euler's Identity as being like an old incandescent light bulb that you can see having first, second, and third degree critical points. Ramanujan's Infinite Sum of negative one-twelfth: each positional jostling, mass, and gravitational/attractive exchange between universes (defined by Big Bounce events, considering Ramanujan during both Big Crunch and Big Bang sides) ADDS up to evenness (or a partner in marriage - like half of the whole, I guess). Net gravity increases over time from the breaking up of dark matter, much like a vertical asymptote. It continues to increase, but hits a critical point, much like a vertical tangent, when enough dark matter has weakened and been broken up into the more net gravitational baryonic matter (split-complex numbers). Then, the effects of gravity reach their upper limit - much like a vertical line - at e to the negative e power (where black holes have been flattened). Over a decade ago, I said that the potential energy of a Big Bang was 1/6 times (the speed of light, cubed). If I had said Big Bounce instead, I would have been correct, in a sense. Now, I see how the speed of light would have to be the fourth power.

In that thumbnail, he looks like an older, silver fox version of Seth's brother.