Jai Courtney: Characters don't consume me

Jai Courtney didn't have difficulty filming two movies simultaneously.

The Australian star has two massive projects under his belt; Terminator Genisys and Insurgent. Both are due out this year, with Insurgent hitting cinemas later this week.

Filming for the two overlapped, with Jai having to constantly switch between the different characters.

"It sounds harder than it is to be honest. If one of those was a role that demanded I be completely buried in the character, it would’ve been different. It’s not like I was playing Abraham Lincoln where you have to live in that world and really transform," he told blog.seattlepi.com.

"It’s not to say that I don’t try to do some version of that with every character, but it’s not something that demands a complete alienation from the real world. The hardest part was having to get on a plane and go to a different city. It’s weird because you forget what you were doing the last time, but I guess playing a p***k comes pretty easy to me. It wasn’t such a wild transformation."

Jai, 29, concedes that life has changed in the last 12 months, but he brushes off his celebrity status. However he does count fellow Aussie Russell Crowe as a friend after working together on The Water Diviner, which is due out in April. As well as starring in the dramatic flick, Russell also directed it.

"He’s awesome and he’s very supportive. It’s hard to boil down a piece of advice [he gave me]. We almost differ in a lot of ways, the way we think about certain things.

"I did this underwear campaign for a company back home and he gave me a ton of [expletive] for it. He’s said, 'Mate, you’re an artist,' and ragged on me selling out. That’s easy for him to say that, he’s got millions of dollars. So what if someone’s going to pay me to do a photoshoot in my underpants, I’m going to take it. I’m not above that yet," he laughed.