Samuel Johnson is not a hipster and never will be . Not because the actor thinks the 'metrosexual subculture ' is ridiculous or just a passing trend . But because he can not grow a beard . ' I am definitely not a hipster , ' he told Daily Mail Australia . ' I nearly drowned in beard envy ... there was a lot of envy . ' I did try and grow a beard for the show and it was so bad the producers said `` nope get rid of it '' . ' Samuel Johnson returns to our screens after a three-year hiatus when he unicycled around Australia . Now he 's starring the SBS 2 documentary Hipsters , exploring the subculture and its characteristics . The show the former Secret Life of Us actor is referring to is Hipsters , an SBS2 documentary about the fashionable inner city trend that has swept cities across the world . From Sydney and Melbourne to Shanghai , LA , New York and London to Berlin and Tokyo , men have adopted a unique style - complete with skinny jeans and well-groomed facial hair - and advocated the use of ethically-sourced coffee , creating what Johnson refers to as a subculture , similar to the punks and mods of decades past . 'We were looking at beards , skinny jeans and ethically sourced coffee ... as well as triangle tattoos and all the other things that go with it , ' Johnson said . 'We ’ re not proud of it ( being a hipster ) now , people don ’ t want to be labelled . 'Punks were proud to be punks and mods were proud to be mods . He spent time travelling around Australia on a unicycle raising money for cancer in honour of his sister Connie . Johnson 's sister Connie ( right ) has been battling cancer since she was just 11 years old . ' I learned that it ’ s very difficult for a subculture to thrive in a digital age where information is at everyone fingertips . 'We ’ re in a digital age now so where are our subcultures meant to thrive ? ' ( They 're ) Instagrammed and thrust into the corners of the corporate world before they know who they are . ' Johnson has been absent from Australian TV screens for the past three years , spending most of that time raising money for his cancer-stricken sister Connie by riding a unicycle 15,000km around the country , entering the Guinness Book of World Records in the process . But he is back with a vengeance , making the SBS doco and starring in a biopic on music icon Molly Meldrum . Samuel Johnson found fame in hit Australian series The Secret LIfe Of Us . Johnson broke a Guinness World Record for the most kilometres ridden on a unicycle . He and Connie have some new plans in the works for another stunt for Love Your Sister . 'Yeah I was out for about three years with the unifying madness that was Love Your Sister , ' Johnson said , adding he has also written a Love Your Sister book . 'To get back and land Hipsters and Molly was almost too good to be true . ' I ’ m not sure which job is more difficult understanding hipsters or understanding Molly Meldrum . ' He described recent years as a 'wild ride ' and said 'by day I was doing Hipsters and by night I was writing the Love Your Sister book and studying Molly ' . He revealed his sister Connie , who has battled cancer since she was 11 , is doing well , and when asked what was next for the brother-sister duo , he said there were exciting things ahead . 'We ’ re cooking up some great ideas at the moment . 'Connie ’ s come up with a corker that I think is even better that the uni-cycling . ' Samuel Johnson goes behind the beard in Hipsters on SBS 2 which premieres Tuesday , March 24 at 8.30pm . Johnson is in the middle of filming a biopic on the life of music icon Molly Meldrum .
Samuel Johnson stars in the upcoming SBS 2 documentary series Hipsters . He looks at the origin and characteristics of the subculture . The hipster is a person who lives for fashion, music, art, movies, books, food, drink, travel, sports, etc... Has been out of the acting game after he rode around Australia on unicycle . He did it to raise money for brain cancer research in honour of his sister .