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.
‘There we go. Real life,’ he jokes, completely unfazed.
His mother, Ellen Dunne, founded the Justice for Homicide Victims group and his father, Dominick Dunne, wrote a piece for Vanity Fair about the murder that led to a permanent gig at the publication covering high-profile cases like the OJ Simpson trial.