When Griffin Dunne – the 70-year-old actor, director and writer responsible for Practical Magic – logs into our Zoom call, he’s not sitting still. He’s pacing around his Brisbane hotel room, laptop in hand, mid-conversation with housekeeping.
His new memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club, has brought him to Australia for a promotional tour of the writer’s festival circuit. We’re discussing the photograph on the front cover, which was taken by Camila McGrath, a friend of his mother’s –’my mother would always give a party for people who had nowhere to go on Christmas Day, and she was one of them,’ he says – when somebody knocks on his door.
