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Arthur 'Slim' Halliday (played by veteran actor Bryan Brown in the Netflix series) was a very real character in Australian history, and Eli's relationship with him was based on the very true friendship Dalton and his family had with the convicted murderer. Oh, and yes - he really did let Eli drive his car!


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Many years later, he realized this was his family's escape room. This incident is recounted as fiction in Dalton's debut novel, "Boy Swallows Universe.". His three brothers are embodied in.


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Gus Bell is the Amalgamation of Trent Dalton's Brothers. Eli Bell in 'Boy Swallows Universe' is a fictionalized version of Trent Dalton, who created the character of Gus to represent his three brothers— Joel, Ben, and Jesse. The four brothers went through all the ups and downs that Eli and Gus witnessed, and no matter what the situation.


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Dalton says he recently caught up with a mate who grew up in the same Bracken Ridge housing commission area as he did — a place where so many families live on the edge: "He said 'Trent, not all.


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Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe is an extremely Darra story but that's not where much of the Netflix adaptation was filmed. In fact, a lot of it was shot outside of Brisbane.


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Today, he's an award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist. But growing up in Ipswich in the early 80s, with his mum and step-father both jailed for drug dealing at various times, Trent.


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Eli's mum, Frankie Bell, is based on Dalton's own mother; journalist and love interest Caitlyn Spies is moulded after his wife; and Eli's older brother August is an amalgamation of his three older.


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An Adaptation of Trent Dalton's Semi-Autobiographical Novel. "A lot of the book is me just processing things in my head about what the hell happened to that guy [Dalton's stepfather]," the author told Townsville Bulletin.. the character of Eli's brother August is a culmination of Dalton's three real-life older brothers, Joel.


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Author Trent Dalton (left) with the cast of the Netflix series of Boy Swallows Universe, from left, Simon Baker, who plays the Dalton character's biological father, Phoebe Tonkin, Felix Cameron.


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Boy Swallows Universe, the theatrical adaptation of Trent Dalton's best-selling novel, which opened the Brisbane Festival last Friday makes a strong case for reworking and sentimentalising your.


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Boy Swallows Universe Is A "Semi-Autobiography" Based On Trent Dalton's Childhood. Speaking to the press on Boy Swallow Universe's promotional tour, Dalton revealed that the book, and by correlation the show, is "50/50" based on fact and fiction. The contents embellish formative moments in Dalton's childhood, with the revered.


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The product is a dark crime story about a 9th grader and his heroin addicted mother. "It's really a story about how I was, as a ninth grader, and I was raised by some pretty strange folks.


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Trent Dalton's bestselling debut novel Boy Swallows Universe cemented his place in Australia's literary landscape. Now, a seven-part Netflix series is about to bring his epic coming-of-age saga to.


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What Trent Dalton and the Netflix adaption of Boy Swallows Universe have given us is a love letter to hope — and one of the best Australian TV shows that's ever been made. "I did it because I.


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9 min. When Trent Dalton pulled up with his wife Fiona outside a small blue weatherboard house in Beenleigh, south of Brisbane, he wasn't prepared for what was to come. Here they were, on the.


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Netflix. When globally renowned actor and Emmy nominee, Simon Baker, first heard about a series adaptation of Trent Dalton's semi-autobiographical book, "Boy Swallows Universe", he was immediately interested in playing a part. "My Mum actually said something to me, she'd read the book in book club, and she said, 'I think you would.