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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at me.

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Speaker 2: Step. This is Nadia Reid. That song is called Hotel

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Speaker 2: Santa Cruz. She's our feature interview after ten this morning.

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Speaker 2: It's what five years I think since she released her

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Speaker 2: last album. So since then you had COVID blah blah blah,

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Speaker 2: you've had well, she's had two children, and she's moved

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Speaker 2: from Port Chalmers to Manchester, of all places, so she's

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Speaker 2: moved right across the world. She's gonna be with us

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Speaker 2: after ten this morning. Tell us about the move, why

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Speaker 2: did she decide to upsticks, And we'll have a bit

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Speaker 2: of a listen to her new music as well, So

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Speaker 2: looking forward to that right now, though, time to catch

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Speaker 2: up with our film review of Francesca Rudkin is year

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Speaker 2: with us morning.

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Speaker 3: No, good morning, Oh I laughed, not yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's great, She's really amazing. She's yeah, yeah, that'll

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Speaker 2: be there'll be really something. So yeah, looking forward to that. Hey,

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Speaker 2: I have been excited about your films this morning. I've

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Speaker 2: been a bit cheeky about Nicole Kidman, but I feel like, well, no,

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Speaker 2: just I feel like this is Cole Kidman sort of

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Speaker 2: having a bit of a moment at the moment, Hey, I.

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Speaker 3: Do do you feel like it so good in this film?

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Speaker 3: Is she?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 3: It's really good in this film, and I feel like

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Speaker 3: she's been snubbed at it by the Oscars. Should we

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Speaker 3: haven't listen to trailer?

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Speaker 2: Let's have a listen. Okay. So this is Nicole Kidman,

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Speaker 2: Antonio Bandettison, Harrison Dickinson in Baby Girl.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Hey, we need to have a conversation. You're very young.

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Speaker 3: I don't want are you? I think I have power

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Speaker 3: over you because I could make one.

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Speaker 2: Call and you everything. Does that turn you on?

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Speaker 3: When it's game?

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Speaker 1: Dan?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Tell us about Baby Girl?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So this is a very sort of sexy, erotic thriller.

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Speaker 3: It's a very complex, challenging and most likely polarizing film.

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Speaker 3: I really loved it. It's directed by Helena Raim and

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Speaker 3: it starts Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson and Antonio Banderaz and

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Speaker 3: Nicole Cadman. She plays a ceo Rommy and for all appearances,

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Speaker 3: she has it all. She has an amazing job, she's

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Speaker 3: a female leader in business. She has a beautiful home

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Speaker 3: to gorgeous children. It's successful theater director, her husband, but

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Speaker 3: she's really at the sort of point in her life

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Speaker 3: where she's prepared to blow it all up, just destroy everything,

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Speaker 3: And the catalyst of the young intern Samuel played by

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Speaker 3: Harry Dickinson. He is quite a unique character. Actually, he

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Speaker 3: challenges her. It's sort of an inappropriate manner in the workplace.

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Speaker 3: He's quite bold, but he's also young and kind of

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Speaker 3: lacks a sophistication to him as well. And he's a

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Speaker 3: hard character down one minute, he's kind of charming. He

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Speaker 3: can be cruel, they can be sexy, angry, and then

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Speaker 3: really sweet and quite immature. And that's because he kind

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Speaker 3: of represents a fantasy for Rommy. She's able to delve

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Speaker 3: into kind of and explore some of her darkest or

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Speaker 3: sexual needs. There's been a lot of reaction to this

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Speaker 3: film for the reason I just mentioned, from a woman

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Speaker 3: wanting to explore her darkest sexual needs, to a female

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Speaker 3: leader abusing her power over an employer e to the

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Speaker 3: way that Rommy deals with her marriage. But it's fabulous

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Speaker 3: in the way it's so confrontational. You can't leave this

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Speaker 3: film without going Okay, that was really full on. There

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Speaker 3: was a lot going on here. Let's start unraveling there

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Speaker 3: and potentially having some really interesting conversations with your girlfriends.

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Speaker 3: Nicole CapMan is absolutely fantastic in this film. Look, I

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Speaker 3: think it's fair to say, and people will know where

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Speaker 3: I'm coming from when I say this, but often when

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Speaker 3: we see her in TV shows and things now, she's

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Speaker 3: what I call lit out, like she's lit in such

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Speaker 3: a way that she just you don't see her age.

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Speaker 3: She always looks amazing in a maclate and she does

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Speaker 3: in this film as well, but I think she's been

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Speaker 3: shot a little bit more naturally. You see the crow's

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Speaker 3: feet on her face, you see the lines on her face,

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Speaker 3: you see her as a middle aged woman, yeah, addressing

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Speaker 3: kind of her sexual needs. And I think that's really

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Speaker 3: important for you to relate to her. You love it

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Speaker 3: and you'll hate it. Like her behavior and her actions,

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Speaker 3: you kin'd of understand them, but you won't like them all.

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Speaker 3: But I just felt like she's really put herself out there.

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Speaker 3: This is a very brave role. Okay, she sort of

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Speaker 3: had a husband by her side when she shot that film.

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Speaker 3: In this particular film. Obviously she's older. You know. It's

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Speaker 3: a film about a middle aged woman exploring her sexuality,

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Speaker 3: and she really puts it all out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Oh it sounds great, sexy, ironical Saturday morning. So I

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Speaker 2: love it here and I'm here for it. I'm here

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Speaker 2: for it. Okay. So that is Baby Girl that's showing

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Speaker 2: in cinemas now, and like you say, lots of buzz

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Speaker 2: around that one. Let's have listen to our second film,

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Speaker 2: something completely different. This is You're Cordially Invited. I'm checking

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Speaker 2: into the bridal suite. My sister is getting married this week.

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Speaker 3: I think there might be a little mistake because my

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Speaker 1: Oh no, we've double booked your weddings.

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Speaker 3: What Oh, I'm calm, I'm super col.

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Speaker 2: Ah. That old classic situation a recent screen and wilfare

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Speaker 2: all of the familiar voices you probably recognized the tell

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Speaker 2: us about You're Cordially Invited.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is directed by Nicholas Stola, and really the

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Speaker 3: trailer sunds it up beautifully. This is a fun romantic comedy.

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Speaker 3: They kind of misses as much as it hits. It's

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Speaker 3: very much reliant on its two likable leads. Will Farell

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Speaker 3: he's raised his daughter. They're very close. She comes home

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Speaker 3: from college and says, Dad, I'm getting married, and he goes, ah, okay,

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Speaker 3: and he's shocked by the whole thing. But besides, he's

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Speaker 3: going to give his daughter the wedding of her dreams.

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Speaker 3: At the same time, Reethe with a Spoon plays Margo

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Speaker 3: and she wants to give her sister her wedding of

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Speaker 3: her dreams. And they book the same venue and they

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Speaker 3: turn up and it's on a little island and there's

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Speaker 3: share the venue, and chaos kind of ensues. Some of

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Speaker 3: it is really funny, some of it just misses being funny,

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Speaker 3: and it's a bit odd or a bit crass, But

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Speaker 3: all in all, this is meant to just be a

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Speaker 3: pleasant crowd pleaser, and it kind of ticks that box.

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Speaker 3: Although I spent most of my time admiring Reef's Witherspoon's

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Speaker 3: hair and wondering whether I should get bangs. So that

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Speaker 3: tells you how gripping tells you how mostly gripping this

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Speaker 3: film is jack not so much at all, But you're

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Speaker 3: actually just you know, take taking in the haircuts and

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Speaker 3: the clothes. But look, if you after some like height

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Speaker 3: a silly fun this is screaming on Prime.

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Speaker 2: Yeah is it? Like you know how like Will Ferrell

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Speaker 2: movies almost have their own kind of they're almost like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the thing. It kind of goes halfway there, Jack, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: fully there. And so when they do kind of go

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Speaker 3: along that irreverent, kind of slightly haughty, kooky Will Ferrell

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Speaker 3: kind of approach, it sort of jars a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a bit of a mix. It's it's and that's

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Speaker 3: why it didn't quite work for me. But I think

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Speaker 3: the two leads are great together, be great together. They

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Speaker 3: drive the whole thing. It's fun, it's light and you

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Speaker 3: know you might getting your haircut out of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well okay, I do love Will Ferrel. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: thank you. So that's your cordially invited. Francesca's first film

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Speaker 2: is Baby Girl, and all of the details for those

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Speaker 2: dot co dot nz Ford slash Jack. That is, of

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Speaker 2: course the best place to go for everything from our

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Speaker 2: show Baby Girl is showing in cinemas, and the one

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Speaker 2: with Will Ferrell and Reese Withersman, You're Cordially Invited is

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Speaker 2: showing on Prime Video.

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