Joel Edgerton, our guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in front of an audience at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation in Los Angeles, is an outstanding Australian actor, writer, producer and director. Edgerton first appeared on most people’s radar some 25 years ago, when he was cast by George Lucas to play Uncle Owen Lars in 2002’s Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones and 2005’s Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, a role he later reprised in the 2022 Disney+ limited series Obi-Wan Kenobi. But he is now at least as well known for his raw and edgy performances in other projects — some made in tandem with a group of Australian family and friends under the banner of Blue-Tongue Films, such as 2010’s Animal Kingdom, and others made with the likes of Gavin O’Connor (2011’s Warrior), Kathryn Bigelow (2012’s Zero Dark Thirty), Baz Luhrmann (2013’s The Great Gatsby), Scott Cooper (2015’s Black Mass), Jeff Nichols (2016’s Midnight Special and Loving, the latter of which brought …