Speaker 1: Jason Lauren on over one hundred.
Speaker 2: Clint and I yesterday had one of the longest working
Speaker 2: days I think I've ever had. You went, we did,
Speaker 2: so we did the radio show in the morning. As
Speaker 2: you know, we raced to the airport to get on
Speaker 2: an eleven thirty flights Sydney. That was quantity. It's renovation,
Speaker 2: because you know, I'm a Virgin girl. It is under renovation.
Speaker 1: Notice none of the food courts just open.
Speaker 3: The new food court there.
Speaker 2: Well, I was with Clint, so he is a frequent flyer,
Speaker 2: and the flight was ten minutes late, so we managed
Speaker 2: to get in to get a coffee quickly in the lounge,
Speaker 2: but I didn't We went the other way.
Speaker 1: We didn't walk past the food offer.
Speaker 4: How was the actual aircraft though? Did you have a
Speaker 4: nice flight? Because I was trying to I was trying
Speaker 4: to bring you back to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he was head wobbling around because they all
Speaker 2: know him because he travels all the time and he loves.
Speaker 1: And he said, you.
Speaker 4: Know, there was a pan on foot.
Speaker 1: I've got us on the emergency exit ro because he's
Speaker 1: he's brought some strings clear.
Speaker 2: This is going to be great for us to just
Speaker 2: sit for an hour and a half in bond. He
Speaker 2: was asleep before we took off. Also took the window
Speaker 2: seat and then fell asleep before takeoff.
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, as.
Speaker 5: A concerned traveler, Yeah, I do think he should be
Speaker 5: in charge of the emergency emergency.
Speaker 1: Exit I sleep anyway, good point. I'll give you that.
Speaker 1: He got you there this way.
Speaker 2: So we're a bit stressed because we knew we had
Speaker 2: we had to be at this amazing media opportunity to
Speaker 2: interview Poormer Scale, which every girl in her twenties is
Speaker 2: abused me over in my dms because they are with
Speaker 2: him and Blake's and their force and.
Speaker 1: Fred Heischer. Fore they they were great gladiated.
Speaker 2: We get to the interview, and then we also had
Speaker 2: to interview Connie Nelson, who is the leading lady I
Speaker 2: would say in gladiated too.
Speaker 1: So we were stressed. We didn't want to be late,
Speaker 1: but we got there.
Speaker 4: She was after the boys.
Speaker 2: She was after the boys, and so by the time
Speaker 2: we got to Connie, because they can run like those junkeets,
Speaker 2: because they're like back to back into views, We're only
Speaker 2: on the ground in Sydney for two hours, and we
Speaker 2: knew we had to be.
Speaker 4: We've done our research.
Speaker 1: We had we've done our research.
Speaker 4: We were pretty well.
Speaker 2: But it got to the point the door wasn't open,
Speaker 2: and I said to the lady, I think we're going
Speaker 2: to have to go because we're going to miss a flight.
Speaker 1: We need to leave.
Speaker 2: So unfortunately we've done our Poormerskyle interview and we're like,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to say no to Connie.
Speaker 1: So when you sat down with Connie, everything needed to
Speaker 1: go to plan. Yes, well, jump out a quick interview
Speaker 1: and then race to them.
Speaker 2: It probably had to be even better than going to plan.
Speaker 2: So we get there and as we go to set
Speaker 2: up to leave, they're like, Clint and Lauren, you're up.
Speaker 2: So in we went and they said you only got
Speaker 2: seven minutes. We said, don't worry, we won't go over time.
Speaker 2: Because we've only got six minutes.
Speaker 1: I might watch nothing can stop us. We need to
Speaker 1: get to the airport.
Speaker 2: No, and Clint, there were some moments that I thought
Speaker 2: you and I not entertainment.
Speaker 1: I wanted sixty minutes, mode didn't I you did?
Speaker 2: How'd that go?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 1: Great? In some parts? Have A listened to this great
Speaker 1: question you asked, and.
Speaker 4: Your your character this beautiful, motherly character. I mean, what's
Speaker 4: it like to play a character like yours? Because she
Speaker 4: wants to be loved.
Speaker 6: You know, well, so I don't see her that way.
Speaker 6: The way I see Lucilla is that she loves people,
Speaker 6: and she loves her community, and she loves these ideas.
Speaker 4: Oh, she basically refuted.
Speaker 1: She said, that's not the character at all.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 1: When Dickie Wilkins there for a bit, to you like.
Speaker 2: How many times he said character in the question? I
Speaker 2: said to her, what about when?
Speaker 1: I mean? I asked her, and all of this is
Speaker 1: up on the podcast. You can have listen.
Speaker 2: I said to her, were you surprised how many people
Speaker 2: asked if Russell Crowe was going to come back?
Speaker 1: Because like spoiler avert, he dies in the first one.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 2: So it's so many people who said, oh, it's Russell crowing,
Speaker 2: it's Russell crowing it and I'm like, no, he's dead.
Speaker 1: Could have been a prequel.
Speaker 4: And I said to so many people were asking the question?
Speaker 2: I said, are you surprised for how many people ask
Speaker 2: that question? She goes, no one's asking me that question?
Speaker 2: Me deadpan in the aynswered no one asked that question?
Speaker 1: To which she's dead.
Speaker 4: To which I witnessed fear and panic in Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Up and then I lost my train of thought and
Speaker 1: I was raddled.
Speaker 2: Anyway, by this stage, I'm like, if we don't know,
Speaker 2: we're going to miss the flight.
Speaker 1: And then this happened.
Speaker 6: There was like a moment when it had a couple
Speaker 6: of scenes with I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: There's like, we've got a whipper snipper here, the whipper snipper.
Speaker 6: You know, it's a it's like a work crew on
Speaker 6: the harbor. I think it's doing this. Apologies again, yeah, apologies.
Speaker 2: Because they were like in the background, all the publicists
Speaker 2: like stop the interview.
Speaker 1: We've got to stop. We've got to stop. More like
Speaker 1: to stop, but we're not going to get.
Speaker 2: Home more good questions anyway.
Speaker 1: Connie Nelson was lovely. She's quite extraordinary.
Speaker 2: She's one of the only cast members who's in Gladiator
Speaker 2: one and yeah, she plays a beauty.
Speaker 1: Beautiful motherly Jesus, here we go. They needed to wrap
Speaker 1: up music for you.
Speaker 2: I promise our poor mescal interview is much more professional.
Speaker 2: Will be the judge of that.
Speaker 1: Let's catch up with the cast of one of the
Speaker 1: biggest movies this year.
Speaker 7: Our next two guests are stars of the hotly anticipated
Speaker 7: blockbuster action sequel Gladiator Too.
Speaker 4: I don't fight for power.
Speaker 7: I was liked The Free Road from.
Speaker 2: Men like Them.
Speaker 4: Please welcome to the show, Paul Mascual and Fred Hashinger.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: Firstly, congratulations on both your performances. What an epic film.
Speaker 2: Twenty four years since the original Gladiator.
Speaker 1: Fred, you were one, Paul, it was one. You're one
Speaker 1: when the OG came out. Paul, you were four.
Speaker 7: That's four, at the rape old age of four.
Speaker 2: What age did you see the original Gladiator?
Speaker 7: But somewhere between thirteen and fifteen. I can't remember exactly,
Speaker 7: but I watched it with my dad's which feels like
Speaker 7: some sort of rite of passage that if I ever
Speaker 7: have children, I'll like look forward to showing them both
Speaker 7: Gladiator one and Gladiator Too.
Speaker 1: Now, how were you when you saw it?
Speaker 3: Friend? I just remember watching it on TV over and
Speaker 3: over again, because one of those films I feel was
Speaker 3: always on television, and so it's one of the first
Speaker 3: movies where I think I like accidentally memorized it so
Speaker 3: many times.
Speaker 2: So then when you get the call up to star
Speaker 2: in a film like this, I mean it's one of
Speaker 2: the most iconic films I know in my lifetime and
Speaker 2: in our lifetimes.
Speaker 1: How does it go?
Speaker 2: Do you get the call from Ridley Scott saying, hey,
Speaker 2: I want you to be Gladiated, You get.
Speaker 7: The call that your agency like really wants to talk
Speaker 7: to you about Gladiator too, and you're like, well, that's
Speaker 7: a win in and of itself, and then yeah, huge,
Speaker 7: and then Ridley just everything with Ridley moves so quickly,
Speaker 7: So you spent I spent like all of thirty minutes
Speaker 7: with him, and then he decided to to cast me
Speaker 7: and it was over zoom. It was just insane.
Speaker 1: So it's not a huge audition process with him.
Speaker 7: No, No, I thought we were going to have to
Speaker 7: do camera tests and auditions, and he just I think
Speaker 7: he's kind of got the respect of so many studios
Speaker 7: that if he wants a certain person in the film,
Speaker 7: they just.
Speaker 4: I dare say. It's not something you mullet over though
Speaker 4: you must have said yes.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, you just if Ridley asks you to be insane,
Speaker 7: just say yes.
Speaker 2: Because I've heard often with him, you know that you're
Speaker 2: getting cast in the film, but you don't know what character?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 2: Or do you know exactly what role you're playing when
Speaker 2: he called you.
Speaker 3: In this case, knew the character. But he moves. That's
Speaker 3: I think he really lives from the gut. When he
Speaker 3: has an idea and a decision, he wants, he wants,
Speaker 3: he wants it to happen, and he wants to make
Speaker 3: so many films so it doesn't want to waste any time.
Speaker 4: So we've seen it. But also the trailers out so
Speaker 4: I'm not giving too much away. But animals, can we
Speaker 4: talk animals, Lauren.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of wild, crazy animals in this film.
Speaker 2: I mean the dog monkeys, the dog monkeys with the
Speaker 2: dog monkeys.
Speaker 7: So there's like dog monkeys, there's amphibious creatures. People say
Speaker 7: the dog monkeys, they're actually they're just just a wild yeah, Christen,
Speaker 7: dog monkeys, I feel like I've missed something.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm pretty sure a bit, but yeah, but
Speaker 5: they we were filmed with amazing stump Man who like
Speaker 5: basically they put these crutches on the front of their
Speaker 5: on top of their arms so they would mimic the movement.
Speaker 1: Amazing, amazing.
Speaker 3: I mean you saw you careful, LUs just needed her first.
Speaker 1: Day kid, I don't want to run into a baboon
Speaker 1: in the wild.
Speaker 4: After that, can we let them in on the secret?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: Lauren turned to me and asked, she's like those animals
Speaker 4: real like.
Speaker 1: And then I reminded myself that they are endangered. We
Speaker 1: are not writing.
Speaker 3: My first day, I believe, was the rhinoceros in the
Speaker 3: Colosseum and they had built this incredible animatronic rhinoceros that
Speaker 3: slowly blinked.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it actually was able to so it looked looked fully.
Speaker 1: Your monkey is your monkey Monkey animals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the actress monkey actresses named Sherry. She plays Donde
Speaker 3: and this is her first film.
Speaker 2: And the actress Monkey's name is Sherry. So did you
Speaker 2: have to build a real relationship with Sherry because your
Speaker 2: character is so kooky?
Speaker 3: Would? But it's good. It was cheap code, you know,
Speaker 3: to have such a great animal on your shoulder when
Speaker 3: you're when you're going through all that insanity, to have
Speaker 3: a creature that's so impulsive, and you know, can.
Speaker 4: We ask you about the rig.
Speaker 1: The rig you're based in this?
Speaker 3: The rig?
Speaker 7: The rig, the rig islands? What do we call it?
Speaker 7: I now understand the.
Speaker 4: Physical physical role? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Physical you have to do you you have to go
Speaker 7: to the gym.
Speaker 3: You have to.
Speaker 7: I had the like Tim Blakey was my trainer. He
Speaker 7: was just unbelievable. But I was lucky that I had
Speaker 7: a good bit of time out in advance where I
Speaker 7: wasn't trying to cram everything into a couple of months.
Speaker 7: So it was like, slowly, what did.
Speaker 1: You eat to get muscles like that?
Speaker 7: It's a chicken, lots of broccoli.
Speaker 1: This morning, just to prepare myself.
Speaker 7: But it was, it was they made everything that could
Speaker 7: possibly have been made easier easier with with with it all.
Speaker 7: But there's no kind of reinventing in the wheels. Just
Speaker 7: go to the gym, lift weights, curls, bicep curls absolutely
Speaker 7: for days, for days, half fitness.
Speaker 1: Sky on the show.
Speaker 2: So I expect you to be eating chicken and bccoli.
Speaker 1: Guys, it is just extraordinary. You both play such amazing roles.
Speaker 1: You must be so.
Speaker 7: Proud of his film, unbelievably proud, Like I think seeing
Speaker 7: seeing like the people that showed up at the premiere
Speaker 7: last night, and just it reminded me last night of
Speaker 7: like what the first film meant to people, what the
Speaker 7: second film means to us and the audiences that are
Speaker 7: encountering it. It's really really proud and special moment.
Speaker 4: Paul, just quickly, I know I saw you rocking around
Speaker 4: in some Collingwood Football Club shorts. These are from Melbourne.
Speaker 4: These are the Melbourne so they are the Demons in
Speaker 4: the a f very famous irishman played for the D's
Speaker 4: Jim Stars. Who's what?
Speaker 7: Big is taken? Allie still playing?
Speaker 4: No No, he's retired now. He's also legend, but enjoyed them.
Speaker 4: I want to see you running around.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Thank you very much, Jason, Lauren
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