He plays a doctor of radical, and often repulsive, plastic surgery on the FX series Nip/Tuck and a doctor of a slightly more sinister sort in the Fantastic Four franchise. But the real-life son of a former Australian prime minister says that while growing up, acting "wasn't on the list of acceptable professions." So maybe he didn't fulfill his parent's original aspirations, but the 38-year-old seems to be doing pretty well for himself in Hollywood. He recently starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the thriller Premonition, and in June, he'll be back as the maniacal Dr. Doom in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

PREMIERE: In Premonition, you play a man who may or may not have died.

Sandy's character wakes up one day and finds out that her husband has been killed in a car crash. And then wakes up the next day to find out that her husband's still alive. I play the husband.

Sounds like there's nothing like a little hallucination to shake things up a bit.

It certainly looks like she's going slightly insane because one day just doesn't jell with the next. All of her days are out of order. And it couldn't have come at a worse time for their marriage, because they're not really communicating, and it gives him an excuse to just go, "Look, you're nuts."

Speaking of characters who might have bit it, we thought that Dr. Doom had, well, met his doom in the last Fantastic Four movie.

It's true — they shoved him in a casket and shipped him off to Latveria. So he's been in a casket for the last two years and suddenly wakes up, and he's not a happy camper. Through this anger is where we start the new movie — his pissed-offness at being shoved away like some spare cuff link or something. I love the fact that he keeps coming back. There's no, "They've killed me 15 times and maybe I should protect myself."