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Speaker 1: Welcome back guys to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris
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Speaker 2: lot of great television out there in Australia.
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Speaker 1: storytellers them. Not to forget some incredible executive producers who
Speaker 1: are making some of the best TV content in Australia.
Speaker 2: I have been on the program since the beginning and
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Speaker 1: So thanks for joining me each week and I hope
Speaker 1: the podcast continues to give you real insight into the
Speaker 1: magic of television. This week on the podcast, to have
Speaker 1: actress Emma Hamilton. Emma is currently starring in the reboot
Speaker 1: of Royal Flying Doctor Service, which this week wraps series
Speaker 1: one on Channel seven. If you've missed the new series
Speaker 1: on Free to Wear, you are free to watch it
Speaker 1: now on seven Plus, which I highly recommend. We are
Speaker 1: yet to find out the fate of this scripted drama,
Speaker 1: and I for one hope that we can all ban
Speaker 1: together and get the next series in production. It's well written,
Speaker 1: well acted, and the stories are mless for the Broken
Speaker 1: Hill setting of RFDS. The season finale does end on
Speaker 1: a cliffhanger and that makes me feel like we do
Speaker 1: have some hope for Emma's character. Emma has been seen
Speaker 1: in countless roles on stage and screen in both England
Speaker 1: and Australia. There is a warmth to her acting which
Speaker 1: is always present, and her passion for creating characters is
Speaker 1: definitely inspiring, which we will find out today. We will
Speaker 1: talk about the actors who have inspired Emma's work, including
Speaker 1: a story about meeting Kate Winslet, how she won the
Speaker 1: role of Doctor Eliza, and if she's made lifelong friends
Speaker 1: with my favorite Justine Clark. However, let's get started with
Speaker 1: today's guests. I'd like to welcome to the podcast. It's
Speaker 1: Emma Hamilton.
Speaker 2: When I read a script, I try to see if
Speaker 2: there's an inn out here.
Speaker 1: You can see just about every.
Speaker 2: Star, if there's something about the character that resonates.
Speaker 1: If you screamed, you'd be pretty sure.
Speaker 2: No one id hear. I'm sort of part of the
Speaker 2: fabric of Australian television pilot.
Speaker 1: Mira flight NSP.
Speaker 2: This is doctor Eliza harrodown USMR. When I got the
Speaker 2: news that I got the role, I had literally given
Speaker 2: birth a week before seven. If you do a show
Speaker 2: like this it will have far reaching the faith.
Speaker 1: Hey, Emma, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm very well, Thank you, thank you very much for
Speaker 2: having me well.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on the first season of RFDS. I am obsessed
Speaker 1: and I loved it.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I can't tell you how much that means to
Speaker 2: hear you say that, that means a lot.
Speaker 1: What was your reaction and to being offered this role?
Speaker 2: It was definitely in the highlight reel of the best
Speaker 2: moments of my life. I was very overwhelmed, very teary,
Speaker 2: and yeah in shock.
Speaker 1: Really yeah you like mom dad? I have a lead
Speaker 1: in the reboot of the role flying Doctor Service and
Speaker 1: they just run around screaming I'm imagining.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was that was That was a very cool
Speaker 2: moment when I when I got to say there's something
Speaker 2: off with this role, which was very shortly followed on
Speaker 2: with how are you going to do this? Because I
Speaker 2: literally when I got the news that I got the role,
Speaker 2: I had literally given birth a week before, so so
Speaker 2: that was so the first question was this is amazing.
Speaker 2: How are you going to do this?
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to be talking from the
Speaker 1: perspective of how am I going to be a doctor?
Speaker 2: Well, that was the other thing was just you know,
Speaker 2: apart from the actual creative side of it and the
Speaker 2: role side of it, and thinking, Okay, how am I
Speaker 2: going to go about this role, and you know, and
Speaker 2: the responsibility of kind of taking on such a large role,
Speaker 2: you know, and thinking you want to do it justice
Speaker 2: and particularly because it's a medical role, thinking you know
Speaker 2: about all of the research that you've got to do
Speaker 2: and the work that you you know, that's the stuff
Speaker 2: I loved. So I was very excited about that. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it sort of came at a time in my life
Speaker 2: where it was there was also a lot of logistics
Speaker 2: to work out.
Speaker 1: Well, do you know what's really good research is having
Speaker 1: a baby in a hospital and then having that be
Speaker 1: a recent thing so that you can kind of remember
Speaker 1: the doctor faces that you know people are obviously pulling
Speaker 1: during that experience, and then you can just mimic that.
Speaker 2: I guess, oh, absolutely, I was paying attention to the
Speaker 2: doctor faces. No, I was. I was really lucky the
Speaker 2: Royal Flying Dupt Service in Melbourne invited me along to
Speaker 2: go and have a bit of a tour, which was
Speaker 2: lovely because you know, we were obviously we're going to
Speaker 2: be filming in Broken Hill, and I didn't know how
Speaker 2: much the lead time I was going to have once
Speaker 2: I arrived in Broken Hill to when we were actually
Speaker 2: starting shooting. So to be invited along to meet a
Speaker 2: flight nurse and to have a look at the aircraft
Speaker 2: and to ask all the questions was very exciting and
Speaker 2: I'm very grateful to them for that. Miss Hannah was
Speaker 2: visited by the Queen in nineteen fifty four, which is
Speaker 2: how we got the official Royal in the Royal Flying
Speaker 2: Doctor title.
Speaker 1: How much of the Old Flying Doctors did you watch?
Speaker 1: I mean, were you a fan of the original runs
Speaker 1: of the show.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, I mean I don't.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: I think every Australian is. It's sort of part of
Speaker 2: the when you're growing up, this sort of part of
Speaker 2: the fabric of Australian television. You know, you have an
Speaker 2: awareness of that show. It's so iconic. I've been very lucky,
Speaker 2: actually I've worked with a couple of the original cast
Speaker 2: and yeah, I've always been in awe of them because
Speaker 2: it had that show has such a legacy and it's
Speaker 2: still shown in some places in the world and people
Speaker 2: still join the rf the real RFDS. Even now, people
Speaker 2: from like doctors from overseas will see the show and think, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe I'll go to Australia and I'll you know,
Speaker 2: do a stint, you know, working with outback communities and
Speaker 2: it's been wonderful for them, and it still has that
Speaker 2: pull from that original show. So we knew going into
Speaker 2: this that there was there was a lot of responsibility
Speaker 2: because you're representing a real organization that do really important
Speaker 2: work and it meant everything to us to try and
Speaker 2: get it as accurate as we could and to as
Speaker 2: truthful as we could, and to really do them proud,
Speaker 2: because if you do a show like this, it will
Speaker 2: have sort of far reaching effects. This is people, we
Speaker 2: have cod blue patients coning, we need a neurosurgeon on
Speaker 2: the phone and gear prep for a procedure in hangar
Speaker 2: for whole What else do we need?
Speaker 1: I need the closest thing to a surgical trillion Again,
Speaker 1: what surprised you about the character of doctor Eliza Harrod?
Speaker 2: Was very, very attractive and just really from the second
Speaker 2: I read the script, it just resonated with me. She's
Speaker 2: someone who's well, she's a mum for a start, and
Speaker 2: at that time I was when I was auditioning, I
Speaker 2: was pregnant, so I was sort of relating to that
Speaker 2: side of it. But you know the fact that she's
Speaker 2: from the UK. I'm British as well. I'm a dual
Speaker 2: citizen and I've lived over there for a long time,
Speaker 2: so that world of living in London and everything like
Speaker 2: that is extremely fresh for me. So I felt I
Speaker 2: could really relate to that and hopefully bring that to
Speaker 2: the role. I've never been a doctor, but I've always
Speaker 2: been fascinated. But I am a bit squeamish, to be honest.
Speaker 1: I felt squeamish watching some of the some of the scenes.
Speaker 2: I know, and I'm very grateful that for some of
Speaker 2: the some of the particularly detailed shot, I'm not necessarily
Speaker 2: present for all of the blood.
Speaker 1: You need to make a cut from the top of
Speaker 1: the left here straight up, except do not cut over
Speaker 1: the midline.
Speaker 3: Whatever you do, you could hit the superior saginal scientus.
Speaker 1: What if I do that, you'll bleed to death. But
Speaker 1: if you do nothing, she has no chance.
Speaker 2: Of survival, definitely for some But but yeah, it's there's
Speaker 2: a lot of magic that comes to it from to
Speaker 2: do a convincing medical drama, and a lot of different
Speaker 2: departments are involved to bring that to life. It's not
Speaker 2: just us. There's a lot of people who are putting
Speaker 2: in a lot of time and a lot of effort
Speaker 2: to make it, to make it realistic.
Speaker 1: Were there elements of your personality that you kind of
Speaker 1: injected into the.
Speaker 2: There's definitely some moments that, yeah, I can kind of
Speaker 2: see myself in. I am a from a bit of
Speaker 2: a bit of a dag and there are some definitely
Speaker 2: some daging moments. The bit where Eliza gets pulled up
Speaker 2: on stage in episode one to dance on stage at
Speaker 2: the pub, and she's very embarrassed to do that. I
Speaker 2: can I can tell you that was very real.
Speaker 1: It came naturally, It came very naturally.
Speaker 2: I did not want to, Emma, Emma Hamilton, did not
Speaker 2: want to get up there and dance around. But because
Speaker 2: I mean we were still early and shooting, I didn't
Speaker 2: know everybody very well. You're in a room full of
Speaker 2: crew and cast and extras, and yeah, having to get
Speaker 2: up and dance around was I am a little shy,
Speaker 2: and having to do that was was terrifying. And it
Speaker 2: was one of those moments that sort of for a
Speaker 2: lies it was really important because she she's taken the
Speaker 2: moment where she kind of lets go and actually really
Speaker 2: has a moment of freedom and a little moment of
Speaker 2: self revelation for herself and sort of comes alive a
Speaker 2: little bit in that moment. And yeah, for me it
Speaker 2: was it was interesting because I was also sort of
Speaker 2: letting go and thinking, Yep, let's just do this. It's
Speaker 2: not gonna be pretty, but let's just let's just get involved,
Speaker 2: ladies and get a huge Silver City Welcome to our us,
Speaker 2: serosexual doctor Alt. She got some half dacent waves about you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just thought that was incredible, though, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the fact that you had this ability
Speaker 1: to be a bit daggy but then definitely knew what
Speaker 1: you were doing when you were pretending to be a doctor.
Speaker 1: So like I wanted wanted to know, like, how hard
Speaker 1: is it to actually look like you know what you
Speaker 1: are doing as a doctor? Did you watch a lot
Speaker 1: of grays Anatomy and look at Alan Pompeio, like, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you look so convincing being a doctor?
Speaker 2: You're right, well, I mean all all of the things,
Speaker 2: you know. I did a lot of reading and listened
Speaker 2: to some great audio books written by surgeons and things
Speaker 2: like that to kind of get a feel for it.
Speaker 2: I did watch some tally. I actually watched I Binge
Speaker 2: watched all of the episodes of The Surgeon, which actually
Speaker 2: starts justin Clark, and that was That's an incredible series.
Speaker 2: If you haven't seen it, definitely watch it. Do you
Speaker 2: think she can handle a debridement now and another one tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Could be joking.
Speaker 1: This girl's already septic, and she's on nor adrenaline to
Speaker 1: maintain any blood pressure at all.
Speaker 2: She's incredibly fit. Surely you can keep a stable for
Speaker 2: a few hours. Death then why don't you do it? Eve?
Speaker 3: If it's that easy.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to save Lee, trying to.
Speaker 1: Save her life.
Speaker 2: That was fabulous watching the surgeon, But like I was
Speaker 2: just saying before, there were so many people who were
Speaker 2: there to help us get it right. We had a
Speaker 2: medical advisor on set at all times so we could ask.
Speaker 2: We were able to rehearse a little bit, so we
Speaker 2: actually had a cent of the equipment. What we're doing.
Speaker 2: Can I touch this? Is this sanitor? And would I
Speaker 2: be wearing you know, would I be wearing gloves? You know,
Speaker 2: those sort of questions. But you know, you've also got
Speaker 2: you know, the makeup department, who are who bring the
Speaker 2: prosthetics and make sure that everything looks right. You've got department,
Speaker 2: You've got props, You've got all these people who are
Speaker 2: bringing the best of and that they are the best
Speaker 2: of the best. These the people who were working on RDS,
Speaker 2: They're fabulous. They everything goes into the into the pie,
Speaker 2: as it were, all the ingredients to help create a
Speaker 2: medical scene. It's a huge collaborative effort. Looks so you're
Speaker 2: having this.
Speaker 3: Baby up here?
Speaker 1: My god, I'm not ready hard stopping New Australian drama.
Speaker 1: Who are some of your actor inspirations like over time,
Speaker 1: you know, not necessarily for this show, but you know
Speaker 1: you as an actor.
Speaker 2: I've always really admired. Well, I'm Cate Blanchet, and Kate
Speaker 2: Winslet's a big icon for me. I think she's fabulous.
Speaker 2: I actually met her once and I tell me she came.
Speaker 2: She came to see a play I was in, and yeah,
Speaker 2: it was it was quite quite amazing. She just sort
Speaker 2: of came over to say hello, and I didn't know
Speaker 2: what to say. And another person I was in the
Speaker 2: show with the fabulous, fabulous actress Kate particularly wanted to
Speaker 2: tell her how moved she was by her performance, which
Speaker 2: was incredibly moving. And as it happened, this particular actress
Speaker 2: didn't recognize Kate Winsland at the time, and Kate sort
Speaker 2: of sitting there saying, you're amazing, You're music, and I'm
Speaker 2: standing there thinking, oh my god, it's Kate Winslet, It's
Speaker 2: Kate Winslocks.
Speaker 3: And then eventually the penny dropped and this actress went, oh,
Speaker 3: you're the Winslet and sort of waved her hands because
Speaker 3: it had just in a daggy wait like she just
Speaker 3: sort of figured it out.
Speaker 2: I think Kate was very very cool about it and
Speaker 2: sort of went, oh, yes I am, and then kind
Speaker 2: of walked off. But that was my that was my
Speaker 2: brush with Kate. What is it?
Speaker 1: What do you look for in a role? Is there
Speaker 1: like a criteria that you have that you that you
Speaker 1: try to seek ount I.
Speaker 2: Suppose I try to when I read a script, I
Speaker 2: try to see if I if there's an inn if
Speaker 2: there's something about the character that that resonates that I
Speaker 2: think could be a way into understanding them and to yeah,
Speaker 2: to find to finding how to play them, because you know,
Speaker 2: often I've played a lot of characters that that are
Speaker 2: very different to me, and if you can find your
Speaker 2: way in, then that's that's the joy of kind of
Speaker 2: finding out how someone else ticks and why they make
Speaker 2: the choices that they do.
Speaker 1: You kind of own this character, which I made me think,
Speaker 1: did you know when you picked up the script and
Speaker 1: you were auditioning that this one kind of felt like.
Speaker 2: You, Yeah, there was a residence there, And I thought,
Speaker 2: I think I recognized a lot of things in Eliza
Speaker 2: and thought she's someone that I think I could I
Speaker 2: could play. She's someone I really want to get to
Speaker 2: know and bring to life. That was pretty instant. It
Speaker 2: was pretty instant. It was one of those times when
Speaker 2: a script comes through and you think, oh, wow, this
Speaker 2: is amazing, this is amazing, and then you think and
Speaker 2: then you think, because you want it so much, you think, oh,
Speaker 2: I want it too much. Now I'm done. I'm done.
Speaker 2: It's not going to go my way because I want
Speaker 2: it to. Yeah, it was just everything about the script
Speaker 2: just divine, all the characters, the world just I loved
Speaker 2: it from the very beginning.
Speaker 1: Well, the love scenes were really convincing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does get a little bit spiney. My aunt
Speaker 2: rang me up on the phone when after she watched
Speaker 2: the first episode and she.
Speaker 3: Was like, well, I don't think that they had to
Speaker 3: get into bed straight away.
Speaker 2: I think, I don't know. I don't I don't know
Speaker 2: that I'm happy about that. And I was like, well,
Speaker 2: how the story is going.
Speaker 1: Like that's just kind of how it works, mate.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually, I actually really like the way they
Speaker 2: put the twist on it that way, because usually if
Speaker 2: there's if there's sort of a connection, a romantic connection,
Speaker 2: frequently they'll draw you know, a TV series will draw
Speaker 2: that out, whereas this one you know, it's it's fireworks,
Speaker 2: and then all of these other things transpire to kind
Speaker 2: of flip that and it was really refreshing to do,
Speaker 2: to play that romantic connection but in that order and
Speaker 2: with all those things happening, because to me, that happens
Speaker 2: in real life.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I was going to say.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you jump in with both feet before you've sought
Speaker 2: it through. And I think, you know, hopefully a few
Speaker 2: people will will relate to that. I have just the
Speaker 2: one first man, not me and Dad would in years
Speaker 2: and there was drag queens and brain surgery and oh wow, anyway,
Speaker 2: who am I?
Speaker 1: Well, there was a long flight. I'm going to use
Speaker 1: that as the turn of phrase. There was a bit
Speaker 1: of a long flight from the show being green let
Speaker 1: to you know, getting to screen. What were some of
Speaker 1: those hurdles that you guys came across getting this show.
Speaker 2: Made, getting it off the ground.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's keep going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, well, look, I mean the obvious one's COVID.
Speaker 2: You know, originally we went to start shooting I think
Speaker 2: I think it was April last year, but you know
Speaker 2: the world was up, it was turned upside down in
Speaker 2: March and we got the word that things were going
Speaker 2: to be. You know, at first we heard okay, the
Speaker 2: production officers up and running and broken hill, and we
Speaker 2: all thought, okay, well, how's this going to work? And
Speaker 2: then and then it got delayed and we didn't we
Speaker 2: didn't know what that meant. And I, you know, we
Speaker 2: didn't know if we were going to get the word
Speaker 2: that it was all over, it wasn't going to happen.
Speaker 2: We didn't know. Like the rest of the world, none
Speaker 2: of us knew what was going on. And then eventually
Speaker 2: we got the good news that we were actually going
Speaker 2: to go. And then for me, we got the word
Speaker 2: that was going ahead in July. And then suddenly the
Speaker 2: outbreak happened in Victoria, and you know, Victoria started to
Speaker 2: close its borders to New South Wales for the major lockdown,
Speaker 2: which we didn't know it was going to be a
Speaker 2: major lockdown at that point. And I got the call
Speaker 2: that morning, you need to get into New South Wales now,
Speaker 2: you need to leave now. So I had to pack
Speaker 2: up my four month old and jump on a plane.
Speaker 2: But fortunately, yeah, and then we got to Sydney and
Speaker 2: we quarantined for two weeks and we did our isolation
Speaker 2: and all of the official stuff, which is very very important,
Speaker 2: and the production were really great about it, and I
Speaker 2: think that's partly why we were able to go ahead,
Speaker 2: is because our juices and you know, animals shine and
Speaker 2: everyone was so meticulous about protecting not only our production
Speaker 2: and everybody involved in the production, but also protecting the
Speaker 2: community out there. We definitely did not want to bring
Speaker 2: anything into the Broken Hill community, and so you know,
Speaker 2: everybody had to isolate. Everybody had to cross their t's
Speaker 2: and dot their eyes and follow the protocol and we
Speaker 2: had it. We had a COVID, We had a COVID
Speaker 2: officer on set every day and he referred to himself
Speaker 2: as our COVID coach, which was awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, I remember I was at the Channel seven upfronts
Speaker 1: when it was announced and it was just some footage
Speaker 1: of a plane and Justin Clark narrating it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you remember that. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw that which the Channel seven upfront where they preview
Speaker 1: things that are coming out, and I'm I feel like
Speaker 1: there was like two or three years ago when we
Speaker 1: first saw that, you know, so it was a really
Speaker 1: long road to having the show being greenlit and then
Speaker 1: getting us to be able to watch it all, so
Speaker 1: there was worth the weight. Though I'm going to say
Speaker 1: I know it was a long road.
Speaker 2: I wasn't privy to a lot of that because I
Speaker 2: sort of came in later on in the piece. But yes,
Speaker 2: it sounds like it was a long road to put
Speaker 2: it together. And I think, look, getting anything, getting anything
Speaker 2: off the ground in Australia has its challenges, and you know,
Speaker 2: we're very lucky that things aligned global pandemics aside, we
Speaker 2: managed to keep going. There was no incident, We got
Speaker 2: through it without any trouble. And yeah, we've got to
Speaker 2: show that we're all really proud of and just really
Speaker 2: hope that Australian audiences connect with and get behind and
Speaker 2: hopefully we'll get a chance to make some more.
Speaker 1: Well are we going to see more? Because I've watched
Speaker 1: the Cliffhanger now three times, like I mentioned at the start,
Speaker 1: of watching the whole series through, and it was amazing,
Speaker 1: and I'm just I just want to know, do you
Speaker 1: know do you even know we're getting Are we getting more?
Speaker 2: Ah? Nothing nothing confirmed at this stage. Every one of
Speaker 2: us is crossing our fingers and toes and and legs
Speaker 2: and hoping that it does. We had such a great
Speaker 2: time making it, and I hope, I hope that comes through.
Speaker 2: It's not every day that you do a show where
Speaker 2: the entire cast and crew get on and really enjoy
Speaker 2: coming to work and you know, enjoy the work and
Speaker 2: have a good time. And it really was an absolute
Speaker 2: joy from beginning to end. I think we'd all just
Speaker 2: love to make some more and tell some more stories
Speaker 2: because there are so many stories.
Speaker 1: There's so much more to do. I mean, I'm annoyed
Speaker 1: there was only as many episodes as there was because
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, I'm like, I need some more and
Speaker 1: I want to know who out of the cast have
Speaker 1: you formed lifelong friendships with. I mean, I'm mildly obsessed
Speaker 1: with Justin Clark, and that's probably why, you know. I
Speaker 1: hope no one's having a drink every time I mentioned
Speaker 1: her name through this interview, because they'll be drunk by now.
Speaker 1: But please tell me you've become real life BFFs.
Speaker 2: I am mildly obsessed with Justin Clark myself, and I'm
Speaker 2: genuinely serious. She's an absolutely divine human being, absolutely gorgeous,
Speaker 2: phenomenal actress, wonderful singer, and just amazing human. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: a huge fan of her and I took my little
Speaker 2: boy to go and see her in concert at the
Speaker 2: My Music Ball and that was really fun. But because
Speaker 2: of COVID, we haven't been able to get together. We
Speaker 2: weren't even able to get together really to have a
Speaker 2: sort of a premiere Hello. We had a cast zoom
Speaker 2: ahead of the airing of the first show, which was
Speaker 2: amazing and just so gorgeous to see everybody. But it
Speaker 2: was a bit like a family Christmas dinner in that
Speaker 2: no one could get a word in edgewords and everybody
Speaker 2: was just chatting and it was just it was just
Speaker 2: so lovely to see everybody.
Speaker 1: One of my questions that I ask all of my
Speaker 1: guests before they go is what is an amazing story
Speaker 1: from behind the scenes that we as an audience might appreciate,
Speaker 1: something we didn't see on the show, something we might
Speaker 1: not have ever known. Can you share with us something
Speaker 1: that might have happened behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: Definitely, definitely. Well, I wouldn't say it's funny, but this
Speaker 2: is the kind of thing that would happen quite regularly
Speaker 2: because we were shooting on an active base. This is
Speaker 2: the real actors are. They're doing their actual job, and
Speaker 2: they were kind enough and patient enough to have us
Speaker 2: filming there at the same time. We were in a
Speaker 2: separate area, but they but they were going about their
Speaker 2: actual job of actually saving lives, and so fre you know,
Speaker 2: our paths would cross and all the time. So I
Speaker 2: vividly remember one night. It was a night shoot, and
Speaker 2: there's sort of you'll see in the show, there's sort
Speaker 2: of clinic doors that open out onto the tarmac that
Speaker 2: go into sort of the hospital clinic area, and I
Speaker 2: was sort of standing near my character was sort of
Speaker 2: standing in the door, and over on my right at
Speaker 2: the other hangar, there was a plane and Deve's character
Speaker 2: Pete was taking up and putting the patient into an ambulance,
Speaker 2: and so, you know, so I'm standing there and I'm
Speaker 2: watching this, but directly in front of me is a
Speaker 2: plane with the real RFTS getting the patient off the
Speaker 2: plane and putting them into a real ambulance. And it
Speaker 2: looked like a mirror image. What we were doing over
Speaker 2: here looked exactly the same as what was happening in
Speaker 2: front of me, except one was real and one wasn't.
Speaker 2: And it made the hair on your arms stand on edge. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: the real after just a kind of walking past me
Speaker 2: in and out of the clinic doors, and I'm sort
Speaker 2: of saying, you know, it's everything, okay, it's the patient, right,
Speaker 2: and they're saying, yeah, yeah, you know, it's fine, you know,
Speaker 2: or whatever, And that was happening while we're shooting. So
Speaker 2: there was a real sense of, I don't know that
Speaker 2: the gravity of what we were doing and the importance
Speaker 2: of what we were doing, and how important it was
Speaker 2: for us to tell their story properly and to tell
Speaker 2: it accurately and to not you know, overegg the pudding,
Speaker 2: because we wanted to do them justice, because we were
Speaker 2: watching them and seeing what they were doing every day
Speaker 2: right next week,