Baz Luhrmann talks 'The Get Down' - the most expensive Netflix series ever made

Baz Luhrmann tells Ed Power about his new show set around the birth of hip-hop in New York, the most expensive Netflix series ever made

BAZ Luhrmann looks like a character from a Baz Luhrmann movie. His silver hair is mussed just so, the aura heightened by a piercing gaze and creamy Australian accent. When he enters a room, he brings with him a sense of gilded mischievousness.

The same stardust infuses his movies. Romeo and Juliet turned Leonardo DiCaprio into a star and made Shakespeare cool; Moulin Rouge persuaded audiences that Ewan McGregor was an old-fashioned song and dance man, Nicole Kidman her generation’s femme fatale.