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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting in with with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Wednesday night, we went to the premiere of Gladiator two.

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Speaker 3: You don't actually talk quite about because you're not the

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Speaker 3: star of the show. I mean, please let Paul and

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Speaker 3: Fred do.

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Speaker 4: Its sounding desperate, is can I just can you set

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Speaker 4: this up?

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Speaker 3: Is Paul a young Maximus or I.

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Speaker 2: Can't give too much worry about the film ran right?

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Speaker 3: The answer is no, but it's not.

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Speaker 2: It's certainly not a different story as such. So there's

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Speaker 2: a connection and a continuation on from Gladiator one to

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Speaker 2: Gladiator two.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't mean you have to have seen the original.

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Speaker 2: No you don't.

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Speaker 3: But I mean it's worse. It's revisiting, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nice, you know what I do. It's not

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Speaker 2: out till November four I was going to say, sit

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Speaker 2: down and watch the two of them together, one after

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Speaker 2: the other, like movie marathon.

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Speaker 3: Well you could if you wait till November fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to wait till then. But you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it is amazing without it out amazing. Paul Moscal,

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Speaker 2: Fred Heckingjap they are the stars of the film The

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Speaker 2: Flu Into Town, and yesterday we had the chance to

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Speaker 2: sit down with him to talk about gladiotor two.

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Speaker 1: Rome has taken everything from me, but I will have

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Speaker 1: my vengeance.

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Speaker 4: The odds are against you.

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Speaker 1: The odds are always against me.

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Speaker 2: Paul Meskell and Fred Akinja, the stars of Gladiator Too,

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Speaker 2: welcome to the show. Guys, you welcome.

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Speaker 3: You must have been rapped with the turnout last night.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't looked amazing, like more people than I probably

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Speaker 1: was expecting, as it was really like spectacular.

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Speaker 5: You've been in Rome and this is the you know,

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Speaker 5: bringing it to Australia is kind of the next big

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Speaker 5: showing of the film, is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: This last day was our first premiere of the film.

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Speaker 6: First first yeah.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, you know it was amazing and I could

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Speaker 2: tell how much you guys loved it when you're on

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Speaker 2: stage having a chat too and Bishop beforehand, Paul, you said,

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Speaker 2: I can't believe this.

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Speaker 1: Like it's a weird thing because you kind of get

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Speaker 1: you get on a plane in London and you're like, okay,

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Speaker 1: we're going to start in Sydney and we're going all

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Speaker 1: around the world. But you it kind of can take

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Speaker 1: you out of the present tents and then you walk

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Speaker 1: out onto the stage and there's twenty four hundred people

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Speaker 1: like it. It's just important to remind yourself that it

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Speaker 1: is absolutely mt this whole experience and we're only kind

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Speaker 1: of at the presspoe of it. So last night was

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Speaker 1: a great, a great, great start to.

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Speaker 6: The tour, truly beautiful. It's just staggering. You just look

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Speaker 6: around and you can feel the love you guys.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well we also think that and not wanting to

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Speaker 5: go back to you know, The Gladiator, the film that.

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Speaker 3: We know and have loved with Russell.

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Speaker 5: I think that everyone has been so keen here in

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Speaker 5: Australia to see the film come here because we secretly

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Speaker 5: have a little war spot in our hearts for these

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Speaker 5: kind of stories as well.

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Speaker 3: I hope you guys can feel that.

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Speaker 1: I like, I've made two films here and like it

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Speaker 1: ties to the fact that it feels so far away

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Speaker 1: from home, but people have always been so welcoming to

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Speaker 1: me here to the film, and like, I think it

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Speaker 1: was what I've found really beautiful about last night. It's

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Speaker 1: like the celebration of like big style filmmaking and the

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Speaker 1: appetite that like an Australian audience have for that kind

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Speaker 1: of film as well.

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Speaker 2: How long after accepting the role. Did you hear from Russell?

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Speaker 1: Didn't You're gonna have a shot on like the scene

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Speaker 1: at the end of like Silence of the Lambs, Like

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Speaker 1: Ay Hopkins over.

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Speaker 3: There, but it's scary where you didn't hear from you? No,

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Speaker 3: Like he's being professional.

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Speaker 1: No, he's like he's been like I've seen interviews that

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Speaker 1: he's done. He's been like to be fair, absolutely nothing,

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Speaker 1: nothing but kind. But also like I'm sure Russell as well.

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Speaker 1: It's like once you start making a film, like the

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Speaker 1: wheels just come off and you just you go to

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Speaker 1: work and that's your primary focus, and then you go

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Speaker 1: and promote the film. I do have this vague fantasy

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Speaker 1: of like in a year or two down the line,

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Speaker 1: like having a beer with him in some kind of

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Speaker 1: city somewhere in Europe and just like trading story stories.

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Speaker 3: You know, I thought that.

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Speaker 2: Beer either. I thought it might have been a case

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Speaker 2: where you get back to your trailer, you know they've

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Speaker 2: called cut at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: Sitting there you got to do this just what I

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Speaker 1: was fascinated by it.

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Speaker 2: And because I'm not in the film industry, believe it

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Speaker 2: or not, I wanted to audition, but I didn't get

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Speaker 2: a chance, but just the size and the scale of it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, sure there's you know, technology that can reproduce things,

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Speaker 2: but at the same time, you need mass numbers of

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Speaker 2: people and everybody to organize something like this. That must

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Speaker 2: have been extraordinary to watch the whole production take place.

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Speaker 6: Really built room him and the production team actually built

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Speaker 6: what felt like a three sixty vision of Rome.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 6: I mean everywhere you walked, everywhere you looked, this, you know,

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Speaker 6: Empire felt alive. There hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of

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Speaker 6: people and animals and the dust and you know, every

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Speaker 6: kind of everything you could imagine was around you.

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Speaker 3: It pertumative.

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Speaker 5: There were moments when you during the filming where Redley

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Speaker 5: would have had to say to you, you kind of

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Speaker 5: need to trust me here, not only to do with

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Speaker 5: the characters and the storyline, but like the vision, because

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Speaker 5: I'm sure a lot of what correct me if I'm wrong,

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Speaker 5: what you see on the day is not then what

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Speaker 5: we necessarily see on screen once it's been through a

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Speaker 5: few processes and CGI or do you know what? Were

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Speaker 5: there things you had to go Okay, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 5: go with it here, and then you've been surprised watching

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Speaker 5: the film yourself.

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Speaker 1: I think for the most that's always true of any film.

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Speaker 1: But actually, weirdly I thought there would be more of that, right,

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Speaker 1: because we didn't do a lot of like blue screen

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Speaker 1: or green screen work, so what we were seeing on

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Speaker 1: the day was pretty much just to scale. Like there's

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Speaker 1: certain instances like we didn't actually flood the Colisseum with

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Speaker 1: water because I don't like that, but that was never

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Speaker 1: going to be possible.

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Speaker 3: Expensive.

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Speaker 6: But fight him fighting on the books you did every

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Speaker 6: time he did.

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Speaker 3: He did it even when when it wasn't being filmed.

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Speaker 6: Ridley comes off and he goes, I'm going to give

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Speaker 6: you the best off camera action you've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: It was amazing though, because you know, the movie Too

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Speaker 2: represents great stories out of rhyme, and I don't want

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Speaker 2: to give away everything from the film, but what I

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Speaker 2: was amazed to read was what happens in Gladiator Too

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Speaker 2: is quite accurate to what went on in Rome and

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Speaker 2: the Coliseum.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's an extension of the first one.

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Speaker 1: Was in the kind of action, Yeah, the action, and

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Speaker 1: I think Ridley is a great example of somebody he

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Speaker 1: will always base it in historical accuracy. But then will.

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Speaker 1: He knows that he's making He's not making a documentary,

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Speaker 1: he's making a film for entertainment purposes, so he kind

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Speaker 1: of dial it up to one hundred. And I think

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Speaker 1: he's done that. It's so like, great, great effect in

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Speaker 1: this film, because.

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Speaker 2: When I went home last night, I googled a couple

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Speaker 2: of things about the film, just for pure interesting being

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Speaker 2: in the moment of the film.

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Speaker 3: And it happened.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and people know what I'm talking about when they

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Speaker 2: say the film, but it actually went on. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: above what I think anybody really knows of common knowledge

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Speaker 2: of the Colosse and those battles.

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Speaker 6: He's been thinking. Ridley's been thinking about those battles for

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Speaker 6: over twenty years because the Baboon fight is a fight

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Speaker 6: that he wanted to put in the first film, and

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Speaker 6: they didn't have the time or the money to do

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Speaker 6: it then. So for over twenty four years now he's

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Speaker 6: been thinking, how do I film this? How do I

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Speaker 6: do it right? And it's just, you know, so he

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Speaker 6: needed it was like from his gut he needed to

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Speaker 6: put that on screen.

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Speaker 5: You didn't get the call up for the first all

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Speaker 5: the second film, he's.

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Speaker 3: Actually very good. Can you just can you just do Caesar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's from the first one and it's when the

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Speaker 2: old Caesar is dying and he's holding his son, who

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Speaker 2: I think is Joaquin Phoenix at the time, and he's

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Speaker 2: is because your faults as a son are my failures

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Speaker 2: as a Father's very good.

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Speaker 3: You're very good. Richard Harris.

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Speaker 4: So, Richard Harris, Richard Harris near, Richard Harris, Congratulations, well done,

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Speaker 4: Thank you being here in Sydney.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for delighted to be here.

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