Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie starts filming scenes for the movie 'Unbroken' in Werris Creek
Actress Angelina Jolie at the Changeling premiere at the 61st Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2008. (Pascal Le Segretain: Getty Images)
Film crews have descended on the farming town of Werris Creek, in northern New South Wales, where Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie will spend the next four days directing scenes for the film Unbroken.
The movie tells the story of American track star Louis Zamperini, a 1936 Olympian who spent more than two years as a Japanese POW after surviving a plane crash in the Pacific.
Crews are using locations in Werris Creek and Tamworth to depict the young man's life before he enlisted, when he lived in the Californian town of Torrance.
Publican Roslyn Marr, from Werris Creek's Railway Hotel, says locals are having a ball being in the movie, and watching how it is made.
'They were out the front last night at 6:00pm still doing a re-run and trying to get some stunts done ready for when he's trying to escape from the police, so it was still very exciting last night," she said.
"My son has got two parts in it, he will be at the Tamworth Airport as a delivery boy, as far as I know, and then just a businessman in town."
Roslyn Marr says Angelina Jolie is making an effort to engage with locals.
"Yesterday, she was actually, you know, going through the barriers and having photos taken and speaking to the local people, she's taken the time out to do that."
"I think everyone understands that when she's working, she's working, but she's taking the time out and, you know, enjoying the town and having a look around, which is great," she said.
Ms Marr says Werris Creek has certainly come alive.
"Oh, it's a buzz, I mean, everyone's talking and everyone's excited," she said.
"This is something I will tell my grandsons and my great-grand children that this is something we were part of and this is what the town was part of and it's just a once in a lifetime experience for any small town."