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Speaker 1: Madam premierees tonight at nine on Channel nine and nine

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Speaker 1: Now and then Madam herself, Rachel Griffiths is with us

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, per no morning guy.

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Speaker 1: I love the premise of this show. It's about a

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Speaker 1: woman who catches her husband cheating with a sex worker

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Speaker 1: and instead of doing a Lorenda Bob, but she's weirdly

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Speaker 1: inspired to tell.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I love that lead. I love that lead in Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So it is about a really well educated American woman

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Speaker 2: who finds herself on the other side of the world

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Speaker 2: struggling to you know, keep the family afloat kid with

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Speaker 2: some real physical challenges and she's looking for a side

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Speaker 2: hustle and this one kind of falls in a lapse.

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Speaker 2: And what's really so fun about Madam. Usually, you know,

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Speaker 2: the shows about this subject to dark. They're exploitative, they're

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Speaker 2: gritty then yeah, and you kind of just often something

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Speaker 2: a bit slimy about them because they kind of have

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Speaker 2: a crime element, but they're also a bit chutillating. And

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Speaker 2: I've just never come across a show that's kind of

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Speaker 2: made from the female perspective. And the truth is when

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Speaker 2: women talk about s e X, the usually laugh and

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Speaker 2: so it's you know, this is a party.

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Speaker 1: Spelled it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm aware that the kids might be in the car. Yes, slightly,

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Speaker 2: a slightly more.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny because as you went to spell it,

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Speaker 3: I thought you were s and M. That's just.

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Speaker 2: No, no, none of that, no girlfriend experience and all that.

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Speaker 3: So expect a bit of fun and a few laughs

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Speaker 3: with Sweethearts as well.

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Speaker 2: The venue, the cast, the young casts that play the Sweethearts,

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Speaker 2: as is the name of the establishment that I set up,

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Speaker 2: just the most talented bunch of you know, the stand

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Speaker 2: up comics. They're writing their own material, like every girl

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Speaker 2: in the show is a genius. So I kind of

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Speaker 2: get to be the straight woman, which is a relief.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of pressure.

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Speaker 1: But as sex workers go, they're mostly rookies. The girls

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Speaker 1: at Sweethearts.

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Speaker 2: We've got a couple of experience women. But yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think it's kind of perhaps reflective of you know, going

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Speaker 2: on a going on a bit of a journey together.

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Speaker 2: You mean, it's used to some of them. But Daddy

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Speaker 2: McCormick incredible an audience scene in so many stunning roles.

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Speaker 2: She plays the kind of apex predator and she knows

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Speaker 2: the rope. She's she's got her eyes on my sweetheart.

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Speaker 3: Oh by by a true story at all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's based on a book by an American woman

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Speaker 2: who highly educated left in California and kind of you know,

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Speaker 2: woke girl who falls in love with a Kiwi guy.

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Speaker 2: They're going to sail around the world and have a

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Speaker 2: life of adventuring and they realize that true life story

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Speaker 2: that their kid has quite profound physical challenges and disability,

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Speaker 2: and they kind of go, if we stay in America,

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Speaker 2: life it's going to be really hard. So that's how

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Speaker 2: she ends up in rural and New Zealand. And then yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's you know, like so many Australian women who start

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Speaker 2: small businesses. I think most Austrai small businesses are up

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Speaker 2: started by women. We're just looking for a hustle that

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Speaker 2: is allowed us to care about our family and put

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Speaker 2: food on the table and you know, not go under.

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Speaker 2: So this is this is this is probably her third hufle,

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Speaker 2: just had a few others.

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Speaker 3: Rachel's funny. I was interested when you said about women

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Speaker 3: laugh about sex and the women are fascinated in particular.

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Speaker 3: I know this from the point of you the sex

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Speaker 3: industry because the tours. I knew someone who used to

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Speaker 3: run tours of the brothels in Kowgooley and she said

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Speaker 3: that most of the people going on the tours were women.

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Speaker 3: I found it absolutely fascinating. I thought that was that

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Speaker 3: was interesting. This was right up the early.

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Speaker 2: That that's literally that's some lovely men's planning right there.

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Speaker 2: And that is a fun fact. I'm going to take that.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's gone in the bank. That one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no worries. I was sorry.

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Speaker 4: It was as planning, just a little sweetheart, that was

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm actually shocked.

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Speaker 2: I guess women kind of feel like they need We're

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Speaker 2: all curious about what would that would look like, but

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Speaker 2: would all be too scared to actually you know what

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Speaker 2: I've always wanted. So I'm going to go in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, have you worked with Daniel me if I went

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Speaker 1: into a brothel to do some research and.

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Speaker 2: I was a bit scared that, you know, the media

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Speaker 2: would get a hold of ch leaving Brussel, so I

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Speaker 2: took my meetings outside. But I kin'd of regret it.

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Speaker 2: The too available.

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Speaker 4: On the other hand, absolutely the gold Field.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned your co star Daniel Kormack, if you worked

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Speaker 1: with her before we have.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we've been on screen so we've been

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Speaker 2: in the same show, yes, but no. And she's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Like when you lead on a show, you want your sport,

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Speaker 2: you know, you want those supporting actors to really put

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Speaker 2: the heat, put the put the blow torch to you,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. She gets brought this like

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Speaker 2: mega predator energy. It was awesome. I love her.

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Speaker 3: When you look at a project or a script writer,

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Speaker 3: what's the thing for you that keeps you going? You're

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Speaker 3: compelled to keep reading? Is it is it to have

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Speaker 3: to be an early laugh? Where's the point for you?

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Speaker 2: It's it's the audience. Like I don't make cool content

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Speaker 2: that no one's going to see from every show I make.

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Speaker 2: It's like who's it for and what I want them

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Speaker 2: to feel? And if I don't get a show and

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Speaker 2: I haven't meeting or that to my agent, I just

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Speaker 2: do know who wants to watch this? Like what are they?

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Speaker 2: You know, what are they? Who do they think they're audiences?

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Speaker 2: What do they want to feel? I think if you're

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Speaker 2: not making the audience laugh or cry, you don't know

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Speaker 2: what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: You were just talking about Daniel Kormick bringing an energy

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Speaker 1: to it. That sort of makes everyone.

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Speaker 2: Be at their best.

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Speaker 1: You've you've worked with some amazing casts where you all

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Speaker 1: interact like that. Do you ever see any of the

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Speaker 1: gang from Six Feet Under?

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Speaker 2: Well, I haven't spent time in America since the pandemic,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, I've been getting my kids through school, so

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Speaker 2: and none of them come down here. But I'd love

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Speaker 2: to see any one of them.

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Speaker 1: It was a wonderful show.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: That show had my favorite opening theme tune.

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Speaker 2: I just loved it.

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Speaker 3: There was something about it.

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Speaker 2: It was and there's five minutes of television ever made.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, it's just people were bawling, like you

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Speaker 2: would call me in I am literally inconsolable up in

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Speaker 2: an elevator for a live interview show. I have to

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Speaker 2: jump off.

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Speaker 1: All right, well we are going to lose you. We

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Speaker 1: look forward to seeing Madam tonight nine o'clock and Channel nine.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Rachel Griffithschel, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 4: By