Speaker 1: Well, Joe's The Dry was the second highest grossing film
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one in Australia, took over twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars at the local box office to become one of
Speaker 1: the highest grossing Aussie films of all time.
Speaker 2: And now as a follow.
Speaker 3: Up, Yeah, and the star of it is just a
Speaker 3: young up and comer called Eric Banner and he joins
Speaker 3: us now. Of that twenty million dollars, Eric, how much
Speaker 3: of that did you pocket?
Speaker 4: Nineteen point eight eight? I think.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 3: When they came out, when they came out here to
Speaker 3: do the second version, second installment, all about it? Did
Speaker 3: you jump at it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Well, it was interesting because we didn't really discuss it
Speaker 5: while we're making the first one. We were just so
Speaker 5: thrilled to be making The Dry and kind of scared
Speaker 5: of Jane Harper's fans because you know, they love that
Speaker 5: book so much, and we were just trying to do
Speaker 5: the best possible version, So we didn't really think about
Speaker 5: the second one whilst we're making the first one.
Speaker 4: And then Yeah, it turned.
Speaker 5: Into this this huge hit, which just gave us the
Speaker 5: opportunity to consider it. And then I was really excited
Speaker 5: because sequels and five in Australia just don't happen like rarely,
Speaker 5: and I've never done one in my career. So getting
Speaker 5: to do it with my dear mate Rob who's our
Speaker 5: writer director, was Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 3: And starring in this one alongside you is deb relief.
Speaker 3: And now she seems like a right cow. How did
Speaker 3: I ow on earth? Did you put up with her?
Speaker 3: She seems awful?
Speaker 5: Well, DEVI and I have known each other for nearly
Speaker 5: thirty years and was suggested by our Cassie agent who's
Speaker 5: Robbed Connolly's wife, Jane, and when she suggests it dead
Speaker 5: we were.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, of course she'd be bloody perfect, is Jill.
Speaker 4: But I was also spearing that it wasn't my idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And so you guys have had a friendship
Speaker 3: for a very long time ages Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, My wife and her are very close friends from
Speaker 5: way back, so you have known her forever.
Speaker 1: Force of nature to the drive to it's out this week,
Speaker 1: coming out on the eighth Mate. In terms of I mean,
Speaker 1: you've done so many things and gone in so many
Speaker 1: different directions, is.
Speaker 2: This the place that you're really proud of?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Look, you always you treat them all kind of similar,
Speaker 5: I guess, but there's no doubt that, you know, when
Speaker 5: an Australian film kind of punches above its weight and
Speaker 5: then and then travels like The Dry did really well internationally,
Speaker 5: and that's pretty exciting because you know, we don't we
Speaker 5: don't see Australians on cinema overseas, like, yeah, you see
Speaker 5: us as actors, but you don't hear Australian actors and
Speaker 5: world cinema, you don't hear our accent anywhere. So when
Speaker 5: Australian films travel, it's really important and it puts us
Speaker 5: on the map a little bit more, and especially when
Speaker 5: they're seeing Australia how it really is not not some
Speaker 5: kind of like generalization of an Australian country town or something, you.
Speaker 3: Know, Australian series at the moment, it just feels like
Speaker 3: a real purple patch. Like we've all watched Boy Swallow's
Speaker 3: Universe prosper just there is so much acting talent and
Speaker 3: it feels like you've front and center. Now, does it
Speaker 3: feel like that as an actor that this is your time?
Speaker 2: No? Not really.
Speaker 3: Good question, Joon's.
Speaker 5: No, No, yeah, it's you know, I never really have
Speaker 5: a sense of that that sort of stuff. You sort
Speaker 5: of go from one project to another. But it's awesome
Speaker 5: that that the three things are happening at the same time.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen Boy Swallow Universe verse yet. I read
Speaker 5: the book and really loved it, so it's it's fantastic
Speaker 5: And I understand that's doing really well overseas as well,
Speaker 5: is it.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so awesome.
Speaker 3: Everyone everyone on the planet has a favorite Eric Baner quote.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure you get shouted out down the street,
Speaker 3: but we just thought we'd chuck a couple at you.
Speaker 3: This is mine from Chopper.
Speaker 4: A nev Oh, you want to give me a bit
Speaker 4: of money? Would you do that?
Speaker 2: Mate? It's just the mail. I can collect it now
Speaker 2: if you like.
Speaker 4: I think someone's pulling your leg, mate, someone's pulling your leg, Neville.
Speaker 4: Someone will pull your other leg in a minute. Now,
Speaker 4: how much you want to give me?
Speaker 2: Eric? Can we ask you this? Has anyone ever in
Speaker 2: your life quoted a tropic quote back to you? I
Speaker 2: just can't imagine that.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I love the fact that that Joe did
Speaker 5: the up and then actually played a clip of me talking,
Speaker 5: because usually when people want to use Chopper quotes, they
Speaker 5: go straight to the cash.
Speaker 4: You know, no cash live in my line.
Speaker 2: Y Vince's I'll never forget.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget that night.
Speaker 5: I mean, we were just absolutely pissing ourselves that it
Speaker 5: just took so much to get through that, through that scene.
Speaker 4: I can't I can't even tell you.
Speaker 3: It must have been taken so much to get through
Speaker 3: that film because it's so funny, but you have to
Speaker 3: deliver it like this guy's hardcore is serious.
Speaker 2: I don't even know how you.
Speaker 3: Got through the whole thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there were some days where we really really had
Speaker 5: a laugh, but a lot of it was deadly, deadly serious,
Speaker 5: as you can well imagine. But yeah, in particular, that
Speaker 5: night was probably the funniest night in the whole shoot.
Speaker 1: I want to take you right back to the Castle
Speaker 1: Dows because maybe my mate still sometimes quote the Great
Speaker 1: con Patropolis.
Speaker 5: There were so many stories, and the hotel Trace and
Speaker 5: I were staying in they had this one channel kickboxing
Speaker 5: twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: A d Every times of my lif I've used that,
Speaker 1: particularly in twenty four hours Hard Day.
Speaker 5: It's all in the emphasis. It's all in the emphasis.
Speaker 5: We put the emphasis. There's a little lesson.
Speaker 3: We came in the other day, we're talking about a
Speaker 3: kickboxer from Maths who's a new contestant. I don't know,
Speaker 3: if you follow Maths religiously.
Speaker 4: You're going to be shocked.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: We came in and Hazy was like kickboxing all day, Like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's just a channel bit of cony before we let
Speaker 3: you go, mate, your big Saints fan?
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 4: Yes? I am?
Speaker 2: Yes. Thoughts this year?
Speaker 5: Oh, very excited? Yeah, very excited. I love the fact
Speaker 5: we've gone on the draft the last few years and
Speaker 5: now our group of young players is emerging, getting stronger
Speaker 5: and pretty exciting, and we've got Ross back there and
Speaker 5: the off field stuff is incredible and we've been building
Speaker 5: for quite some time. So I'm really I'm really excited
Speaker 5: about about this year. I was excited last year as well,
Speaker 5: but the end of year is going to be amazing.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guess, but Hazy used to
Speaker 3: work on se N, which is a sports channel. Mate,
Speaker 3: this is not the platform.
Speaker 2: This is Eric.
Speaker 1: Internationals exactly right mate. Lastly, as well, the Grammy is
Speaker 1: happening as we speak. You would have been to the
Speaker 1: oscars and all sorts of things several times.
Speaker 2: What actually goes on what's it like. Is it a
Speaker 2: big oldest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not great at this because I've only ever
Speaker 5: been once the year that Munich was nominated, and I've
Speaker 5: never had anything to do with it aside from that
Speaker 5: from that one year, and it was I was just
Speaker 5: trying to observe it all and there was a lot
Speaker 5: of kind of it was just the era unfortunately, where
Speaker 5: the swag started to drop off, so you know, they
Speaker 5: used to give actors all this free stuff to be
Speaker 5: to be part of these award shows and then and
Speaker 5: then it was my mind.
Speaker 4: Like where's all the free stuff? But it was pretty
Speaker 4: it was pretty insane, but it was. It was. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was very bizarre as well.
Speaker 3: Walking a red carpet. I can imagine you just want
Speaker 3: to get it over with, wouldn't you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not my favorite day of the year, there's
Speaker 5: no doubt, but you just you just got to get
Speaker 5: yourself up for it, don't you.
Speaker 3: Just.
Speaker 2: I love that you've got that attitude as well.
Speaker 1: It's it's probably more it feels like it's more of
Speaker 1: an Australian way to not be right into the glitz
Speaker 1: and glamor of it all instead just prefer to behind
Speaker 1: the scenes make really good movies.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, and the reality is, thankfully it is for me.
Speaker 5: It's like at the most, like one one day at
Speaker 5: a three hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 4: You know, it always looks the other way around.
Speaker 5: When you're seeing you know, images of actors on red
Speaker 5: carpets everywhere, and you think it's a big part of
Speaker 5: the job, but it's actually such a thankfully, such a
Speaker 5: really really tiny part of the job.
Speaker 3: I just love that you'd be halfway down a red
Speaker 3: carpet thinking about sitting on the couch having a beer
Speaker 3: watching the Saints.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, No, there'd be no way I'd be
Speaker 5: going down a red carpet if it was a final on.
Speaker 4: Chance, no chance whatsoever, and there's a big actually, even
Speaker 4: a home and away game would be a bit of
Speaker 4: a stretch.
Speaker 2: Just why where? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Why is Eric watching ko on the record?
Speaker 2: Watching on your phone?
Speaker 1: It's possible. Force of nature the drive too. As we
Speaker 1: said in theaters this week on the eighth MA, congratulations
Speaker 1: on another outstanding installment and thanks so much for stopping
Speaker 1: mind having a chat.
Speaker 4: Thanks guys, thanks having Thank you so much. Have a
Speaker 4: great day, Alr, Jodie, see you