Soon, MacPherson was invited to Crowe's farm."I was convinced he'd heard how wonderful my performance was in Infini," he says. Crowe must rate MacPherson right enough in that department, as the pair have since worked together on Poker Face (2022) and Land of Bad (2024), as well as Beast."He was there to support me, while mentoring a new breed of filmmakers and performers."That next generation includes ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter and Australian Idol judge Amy Shark, whose fourth studio album, Soft Pop, releases on July 31.With Beast her debut feature, she plays Rose, Sammy's daughter, who steps up to retrain Patton when her dad washes his hands of him."What a lot of people don't know is that acting was my first love," Shark reveals. "I did a lot of theatre when I was a kid and was always making videos, doing the odd commercial here and there "I never felt overwhelmed or that he didn't have the time for me to approach him to talk about anything."MacPherson says she's a natural."Amy came in with one of the most ferocious auditions I've ever seen," he recalls