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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: We might recognize our next guest as the actor who

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Speaker 2: played Michael Hutchins in the Inexcess mini series. Well, now

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Speaker 2: he's got a new role in a show that set

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Speaker 2: to be the crime drama of the year. I can't wait.

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Speaker 2: Scrublands was a fabulous book written by Chris Hammer, and

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Speaker 2: this story follows a journalist as he unravels concealed truths

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Speaker 2: in the aftermath of a small town catastrophe. A great

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Speaker 2: read and I can't wait to see it on the screen.

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Speaker 2: We should be very excited for this. I certainly am.

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Speaker 2: Luke Arnold.

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Speaker 1: Hi, good morning, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, it's great to have you on. A man

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Speaker 3: who's been telling anyone who care to listen that she

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Speaker 3: went to university with Chris Hammer.

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Speaker 2: I tell bum jokes for a living and look what

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Speaker 2: he's gone on to do. It's not fair.

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Speaker 1: He has written a few cracks of books there, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: very happy to be stepping into his world.

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Speaker 2: Well, in Scrublands, you play Sydney Sydney Herald journalist Martin

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Speaker 2: Scarsden who goes into the country to look at this

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Speaker 2: crime and a dry, hot, unusual kind of country he finds,

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Speaker 2: doesn't he Well, that's right.

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Speaker 1: So this is the year after a kind of terrible

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Speaker 1: massacre that's happened in this town, and of course, you know,

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Speaker 1: some things have not been going well since then. So

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Speaker 1: he kind of finds the town's folk woy, I think

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Speaker 1: of dealing with the aftermath of that, A very nervous

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Speaker 1: of journalists after how you know, the stories that kind

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Speaker 1: of came out a year ago, and so he begins

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Speaker 1: having a little bit of a hard time kind of

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Speaker 1: drawing the truth out of them.

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Speaker 2: Where did you actually film this? Because the hot, dry

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Speaker 2: country is a character all on its own in this story.

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Speaker 1: It is, so we actually shut a lot of this

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Speaker 1: in beautiful Castlemaine and a little town nearby called Malden,

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Speaker 1: And we did feel a bit guilty because they are

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Speaker 1: beautiful little towns and lovely country and that we were

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Speaker 1: then depicting as the you know, drought written town.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because you and you got to say, and also

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Speaker 3: it's the place of a grizzly massacre. How'd the lot

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Speaker 3: keep that on the down low?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Well, I mean the thing is that everyone had

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Speaker 1: heard about the book, So I think the moment you

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Speaker 1: started saying scrub Lands, lots of people knew the story

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Speaker 1: we were telling. Luckily they welcomed us with open darts

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Speaker 1: and yeah, let us come and enjoy their lovely town,

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Speaker 1: and you know turned it into this other place.

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Speaker 2: Well, the director was a director of Wolf Creek, so

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Speaker 2: you guys brought a lot of joy to the town.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of have a bit of an idea

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Speaker 1: of what you're getting into with Greg. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: incredible and if you see the show, there are definitely

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Speaker 1: some sequences that look like they could be lifted directly

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Speaker 1: out of Wolf Creek. Folded in there is a little

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Speaker 1: bit more grizzly action, So yeah, I think there was

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Speaker 1: no hiding the tone of the show when we had

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Speaker 1: scrub Lands and Greg McLean with us speaking of.

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Speaker 3: Action and never tear us apart. We saw you naked?

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Speaker 3: Are we going to see you naked in this?

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Speaker 1: You know, this has been really nice. I've had a

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Speaker 1: couple of jobs in a row now or I've got

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Speaker 1: to keep my kid on, so there was a real

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Speaker 1: screing of jobs there where I think, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: my butt probably had more screen time in my face,

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Speaker 1: but maybe I've gone up a few steps.

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Speaker 3: I understand your butt is touring right now. You can

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Speaker 3: see it at RSL clubs.

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Speaker 1: It's got a better career than me.

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Speaker 3: Although do you worry though, when they suddenly say, you

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Speaker 3: know what, Luke, you know we're not going to need

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Speaker 3: your nude in these scenes?

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Speaker 2: What's wrong with me?

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Speaker 3: You suddenly feel a bit self conscious about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I could get a bit worried, but maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm just happy to hand it off to the next generation. Good.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is a great character to play. Not only

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Speaker 2: is the story amazing, but also there are sequels to

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Speaker 2: be had, So luckily that you are Martin Scars and

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Speaker 2: maybe for years to come.

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Speaker 1: Look, I love the book and I love playing Martin,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I really like how the show's turned out.

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Speaker 1: So I guess if everyone tunes in and likes it

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Speaker 1: as much as we do, we might get a chance

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Speaker 1: to come back to this some more.

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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't we?

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Speaker 2: And I think all the best, all the best viewing

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Speaker 2: at the moment is these kinds of shows you don't

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Speaker 2: need to go to the cinema. It's not happening on

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Speaker 2: your television. I think this is Britiant, stay at home, stay.

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Speaker 1: At home, Yeah, with a world class Telly made in Australia.

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Speaker 1: And look, this is only four episodes, so you know

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Speaker 1: it's available right now. You can take a sicky watch

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Speaker 1: it and still gets to working the afternoon.

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Speaker 3: There you've got some spare time. You can see Luke's

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Speaker 3: bum and never tell us apart.

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Speaker 1: Still there, still there, tell it, tell it we, Laurie.

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Speaker 3: Tell Us said, Hi, scrub Lands is out now on

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Speaker 3: Stan Luke Arnold's always great to talk to you. Thank

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Speaker 3: you for joining us, Thank

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Speaker 1: You so much, appreciate it