I THOUGHT YOU LIKED DANGER? It’s true: that viral Apex dance scene was filmed in our very own Sutherland Shire
BY: Kartya Vucetic
It is with some pride that we can confirm the Sutherland Shire has recently made a meaningful and unexpected contribution to global cinema.
Not through a sweeping coastal drama, or a tasteful tourism campaign. No, the Shire’s latest screen credit comes via Apex. It’s Netflix’s new survival thriller starring Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton and Eric Bana, where one of the film’s most viral scenes was filmed on local soil.
Specifically, that dancing scene.
For anyone whose algorithm has spared them thus far, the scene in question features Taron Egerton’s character dancing and squawking. It is theatrical. It is unsettling. It is strangely committed. And, as it turns out, it may also be one of the Shire’s most significant recent contributions to the arts.
A proud day, truly.
Behind-the-scenes video from the shoot also gives a glimpse at how the local landscape was transformed for the film, proving that the Shire might have more duality than we’d usually credit it for.
“For a film like Apex — where the elements and the terrain are characters that loom just as large as the movie stars battling in it — no other country in the world could have taken the place of Australia as our primary location,” Kormákur tells Netflix.
Thankfully, So Sydney! was on the ground back in March 2025, when filming was underway. Naturally, we got the BTS pics. Scroll below.
