Julian McMahon’s Banner Year
Distinctive Living, April 2007 Issue; by Jenny Peters

Julian McMahon’s biorhthms are definitely up. For while he may be recovering from a nasty flu at the moment, his career is feeling just grand, thank you.
The strikingly handsome Australian actor just laughs when it is suggested that he’s really hitting his stride in 2007, starring in three high-profile films this year as well as the hugely popular F/X series “Nip/Tuck.”
“I’ve been working for a long time, you know? So for me, success is always surpirins,” he chuckles. “No matter what place you get to, success has so many unpredictables put into it.”
However it is pretty easy to predict the success of those upcoming films, starting with “Premonition,” the new supernatural thriller that co-stars Sandra Bullock along wiht McMahon. Opening in mid-March, the fim follows the lives of a family during a fateful week, a week that plays out in a very strange and inexplicable manner.
“There’s a married couple, the husband gets hit by a truck. He dies, and the next day he’s not dead anymore,” McMahon explains.
Sounds odd, right? Right.
“I kind of feel like it’s one of those movies that should just never be explained,” he adds. “It’s kind of a fine line when you’re jumping days and timelines, and somebody’s alive and somebody’s not alive. It’s really kind of surreal, and to really understand it, I don’T think there’s a real possibility of that.”
What McMahon found easy to understand about “Premonition” was that it was a real opportunity for him to do something completely opposite from Dr. Christian Troy, the amoral plastic surgeon that he has played so convincingly on “Nip/Tuck” for the past four seasons.
“I felt like it was an opportunity to play something I really hadn’t had the opportunity to play before, and a character that people never see me as. Nobody ever casts me as a family man, god knows why not, because I am one.”
“And ultimately it was Sandy (Bullock) who made me want to be in the film. Definitely, there’s no doubt about that I really felt like I could see the two of us together in those roles, as husband and wife, I felt like we fit quite well together.”
While that choice was infused with the desire to change things up, doing “Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silversurfer,” McMahon’s other big film coming this summer, was the result of opportunity knocking a second time.
“Going back to Dr.Doom in ‘Fantastic Four’ was important to me,” he remembers.”I was contracted to do it, but there was talk of me not being able to do it because of my commitments with ‘Nip/Tuck.’ But they are both Fox, so there was a bit of political pull involved, and I got to do them both. I’ve gotta be honest, when there was talk of