Age: 30
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Evan Evagora was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. His mother Marie is of New Zealand and Cook Island Maori descent and moved from Auckland at the age of 20. His father, Xristos immigrated to Australia from his homeland of Cyprus at the Age of 3. The youngest of seven siblings, Evan grew up excelling in sports, learning boxing at a very young age (instructed by his father, an ex professional) as well as playing Australian football. His family also pushed him to pursue his creative interests, having starred in school productions throughout primary school. As he entered high school Evan's focus shifted primarily to sports, winning a state boxing championship as well competing in football finals. At the end of his schooling Evan took a gap year across Europe with a group of friends before enrolling into film school. During his study he was scouted and then later moved to Sydney to pursue his acting career.
Beatrice and Benedick have been arguing for three years. Everyone can see it is love. They are the last to know. The comedy is in watching them figure it out. A sun-drenched contemporary romantic comedy that treats Much Ado About Nothing as what it is — Shakespeare's most sophisticated examination of two people who are in love and refuse to admit it because they are both too intelligent and too proud. Set between contemporary Tuscany (where the play's opening scenes unfold at the villa of Leonato) and London (where the characters' shared history is established through brief flashback). The film follows Shakespeare's text with fidelity while giving the specific comedic world of the Tuscan summer sequence its full contemporary warmth. The Hero-Claudio plot — the play's more serious romantic thread — is treated with the full weight the text gives it: a woman falsely accused of sexual dishonesty on her wedding night is not simply a plot convenience but the film's moral test. Act One — The Villa Messina in Tuscany. The soldiers arriving. Beatrice and Benedick's first exchange — the film's first great scene. Act Two — The Gulling The double deception — each told the other is secretly in love with them. Benedick's soliloquy in the garden. Beatrice overhearing in the orchard. Act Three — The Wedding Hero's public accusation. Beatrice's 'Kill Claudio.' The film's pivot from comedy to something much more serious. Act Four — The Resolution Hero's vindication. The second wedding. Beatrice and Benedick's final, grudging, joyful capitulation.
