1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 2: Well, our next guest has started in shows like Madmen 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 2: and Superstore, and now he's getting a feel for the 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 2: Outback in a brand new stand series. Imagine a rural 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 2: town in the outback with a population of eleven people, 6 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 2: crazy neighbors, dodgy meat pies, and one person goes missing. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 2: If this sounds familiar to Last Stop Larimer, that's because 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 2: population eleven is based on This story sounds fabulous, and 9 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 2: Ben Feldman joins us. 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 3: Now, Hello, Ben, Hello, thanks for having me. 11 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 2: Have you seen Last Stop Larima? Did you know the 12 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 2: story before you came into this project? 13 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 4: So this was I imagine Last Stop Larima. The people 14 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 4: who made that similar to us read there was a 15 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 4: bunch of articles about this a few years back, and 16 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 4: those were the sort of jumping off point for Phil 17 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 4: who created this series. But we didn't know about the 18 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 4: document We shot the series and then wrapped and everybody 19 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 4: went home and I was back in the streets, and 20 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 4: then they dropped the trailer for for that documentary with 21 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 4: doco as you guys would call it. 22 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 5: Doc Eye because it's an extraordinary it's an extraordinary story, 23 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 5: and I've the smallest town I've ever lived in had 24 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 5: a population of eight thousand people, and even that felt 25 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 5: too small, So eleven people would be very small. 26 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, and Derby was not far off from that. Derby 27 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 3: is where we shot it in North w A. 28 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 4: And it was I mean, there was certainly more than 29 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 4: eleven people there, but there wasn't a stop sign. It 30 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 4: was a lot of the I think the homicidal animals 31 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 4: still probably outnumbered the people. 32 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 2: And the people are so quirky because often the people 33 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: that go to live in isolated places have been driven 34 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 2: out of other communities. 35 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: Because they are so unusual. 36 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 2: I guess that gave you a past of great characters 37 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 2: to play with. 38 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean, and that was sort of the 39 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 4: difference between where we were shooting and where we were shooting. 40 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 4: Everybody sort of had the same idea. The people who 41 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 4: lived in the town there were like, you know, we 42 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 4: came here for a two year gear and that was 43 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 4: ten years ago, and they're all super happy and they 44 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 4: love being there and they just fish all day, and 45 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 4: whereas the people in ours have all these sort of 46 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 4: shady backgrounds and running away from something or possibly hiding. 47 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 3: Which I think is mix for much more interesting television. 48 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 5: I suppose I found with last job Larima. It was 49 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 5: just pretty much an excuse to drink all day. So 50 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 5: all these people got together and that was pretty much 51 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 5: an excuse to be an alcoholic. 52 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and not dissimilar to a film set. Yeah, 53 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 4: how did you feel drink all day? 54 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 2: To find yourself plopped into this setting? To have come 55 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 2: from the States and find yourself in one of the 56 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 2: most remote parts of Australia, how'd you go? 57 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, it made it easier for me. I 58 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 3: wasn't playing you know. 59 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 4: I went back to the States and everybody was like, 60 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 4: were you playing in Australian in the show? Was like, No, 61 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 4: nobody would ever hire me to fly me across the 62 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 4: globe to play in Australian. They've got lots of Australians 63 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 4: in Australia, so it was kind of. 64 00:02:59,160 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 3: A cheat for me. 65 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 4: Was playing a character who was confused, lost, weirded out 66 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 4: by this this alien people, and that sort of was 67 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 4: my experience just as an American coming to Australia. 68 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 3: So it made life easy for me. I didn't have 69 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 3: to do a lot of acting. 70 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 5: What would you rather be in a small town, like 71 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 5: a really small town in Australia or a really small 72 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 5: town in America. 73 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: Who who would be more? 74 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 2: Who's act? 75 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 4: I will say this, the people are just based on 76 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 4: the only small town that I can reference in Australia, 77 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 4: which is the one that we shot in. 78 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 3: The people are better in Australia. 79 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 4: But I no matter what small town you are in America, 80 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 4: at least within half an hour forty minutes you could 81 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 4: get to a movie theater. 82 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 3: Or a mall. And so I don't know, it's a wash. 83 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was like. 84 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 4: We were three hours away from civilization where we were 85 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 4: in Australia. 86 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 3: But people were better. 87 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 5: When I first started in radio, I worked in Kartha 88 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 5: in Western Australia. That was the town I mentioned before, 89 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 5: And you're exactly right. Everything's half a day's drive away. 90 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 5: The vastness is amazing, but also what people do for 91 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 5: jobs over there, Like we had a cleaner at the 92 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 5: radio station, but she was also a skimpy girl. I 93 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 5: don't know if you heard of skimpy girls while you're 94 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 5: over there, So skimpy doesn't mean they're sure they would 95 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 5: be at the pub as a lingerie waitress. So she 96 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 5: was a cleaner. I'd see her cleaning the radio station. 97 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,479 Speaker 5: Then I'd go next door for a beer and she'd 98 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 5: be top this in a G string. 99 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: He was saying that she was just wearing her own underhare, just. 100 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 5: Her own her own G string, just serving a beer 101 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 5: and she say, hey, Jonesy, how are you. I go, yeah, good, good, 102 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 5: thanks Christy. You know, how's the family? Oh good, good, good. Anyway, 103 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 5: I'll see you tomorrow at work at the radio station. 104 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 4: And then everything's totally normal at work the next day, 105 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 4: massively uncomfortble no, no. 106 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,119 Speaker 1: Just totally just totally normal. It was just like, oh, yeah, okay, 107 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: this is this is what it is. 108 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 3: That is that is super bizarre. I mean that's that's 109 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 3: it's not unlike. 110 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's like being on a movie set 111 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 4: and having to do a sex scene with somebody that 112 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 4: you you're back at work doing a table read the 113 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 4: next day. 114 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 5: With that would be odd, very odd. I just don't 115 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 5: know how you guys do sex scenes. 116 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 1: I don't know how you see the worst. It would 117 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: be the worst thing. 118 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 3: They're the worst. 119 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 4: And that's why I'm shooting something right now in the 120 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 4: States that involves some of that. 121 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 3: And my wife has never My wife does not care. 122 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 4: She's so unbothered by the fact that that would be 123 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 4: happening because she knows that I absolutely hate it. 124 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, but as a partner of an actor, you'd be thinking, well, 125 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 5: hang on there, they're kissing this person. 126 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: Surely there must be something. 127 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 4: She's been on a set. She knows how how it's 128 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 4: you're kissing. You're surrounded by a bunch of sweaty, middle 129 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 4: aged guys wearing new balances, and their hairy legs are 130 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 4: like bumping up against you, holding cameras and mics. 131 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 3: There's nothing sexy about it. 132 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: Well, that's how I like to do it. 133 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 2: You just hit my fantasy and. 134 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: My wife was watching me. She's be saying, well, what guy, 135 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 1: are you doing that wrong? She'd be giving a critique. 136 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: And it's great to talk to you. 137 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 5: The stand original series, Population eleven is out now only 138 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 5: on stand ben Felden. 139 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks for. 140 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 3: Having me guys. 141 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: This is great.