Fed: Rhys Wakefield's career balloons with first feature film

AAP General News (Australia)
02-27-2008
Fed: Rhys Wakefield's career balloons with first feature film

By Alyssa Braithwaite, National Entertainment Writer

SYDNEY, Feb 27 AAP - Rhys Wakefield is still pinching himself.

At 19 the Home and Away star has just finished his first feature film, The Black Balloon,
in which he stars alongside Academy Award-nominated actress Toni Collette and kisses supermodel
Gemma Ward.

And the actor, who has spent the past two years on Australian television screens as
Summer Bay's Lucas Holden, is having a hard time getting used to seeing himself on the
big screen.

"It's confronting, …