Geoffrey Rush complains about scripts in bags

Geoffrey Rush has complained about aspiring filmmakers leaving scripts in paper bags on his doorstep.

The actor famously told the world that he found The King's Speech script in a brown paper bag on his Melbourne doorstep.

However, despite it being a thoroughly entertaining anecdote, Rush recently revealed that he wishes he had kept the story to himself rather than revealing it to interviewers.

Other up-and-coming filmmakers are following suit, leaving a wide range of projects by his front door since the 2010 movie was a released.

He said: "The brown paper package phenomenon continues."

Rush, who plays the speech therapist role alongside co-stars Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter, also admitted that he prefers to deal with scripts and work offers through his agent, rather than rifling through his post.

In a recent interview promoting his new flick, Eye of the Storm, the actor said budding filmmakers should direct work to his agent.

However, without wanting to appear too negative, he later assured them that if the script has a "keen and interesting and enthusiastic" cover letter then he will endeavour to read it.

He warned against leaving more scripts in bags, as he may accidentally bury any doorstep deliveries "under a pile of correspondence or something and forget about it".

The Kings Speech script was originally delivered by Elspeth McCracken Hewson, a friend of theatre producer, Joan Lane, who was looking to encourage interest in the then theatre tale.

Melbourne resident Ms McCracken Hewson was asked to find Rush's agent, but instead decided to send him a package with information and script excerpts straight to his door.

She told ABC News that before delivering the paper bag she "said a little prayer and just hoped he wouldn't ignore it and think it was from some crackpot".

In an interview with Cassie McCullage on 702 Rush, he later joked about the event, saying "there was a brown paper package on my front door step in Camberwell, it was sitting there like an orphan, so I took it in".