On A Role
JOHN MAGARO AS GEOFFREY MASON
THE ACTOR PLAYS A TV PRODUCER FACING A CRISIS IN MUNICH OLYMPICS DRAMA SEPTEMBER 5
WORDS IAN FREER
THE EARLY ROLE
Aged 22, John Magaro was a background artist in Steven Spielberg ’s Munich, a film depicting the aftermath of the 1972 Olympic hostage crisis. “My big break was a scene where Eric Bana crosses the street and I walk past him,” he laughs. “I was very thin, young and hopeful.” This first experience on a movie set would stay with Magaro as he went on to play Geoffrey Mason, a TV producer in the ABC sports crew forced into covering the same unfolding tragedy. “It’s a very different movie,” he notes of the upcoming film September 5. “This is much more in the vein of All The President’s Men and Spotlight. The intrigue of the first two minutes of Munich is turned into this 90-minute story about how journalism was forever changed on that day.”