Following Pamela Anderson a few days ago, Joel Edgerton was celebrated at the Deauville American Film Festival where he received the festival’s Talent Award on Thursday evening.

Edgerton, who was also in Deauville with director Chris Bentley to present the French premiere of “Train Dreams,” his Netflix drama in which he stars alongside Felicity Jones, received the award from the hands of Golshifteh Farahani, the French-Iranian actor who is presiding over the 51st edition of the festival. The pair starred together in Ridley Scott’s Old Testament epic “Exodus: Gods and Kings.”

In his speech, Edgerton alluded to his upbringing in the rural suburbs of Sydney and how his early passion for cinema helped him become an artist and break through in an industry he wasn’t born in.

He said he “gre

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