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Speaker 1: James and Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about the new movie Ricky Siniki. Behind

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Speaker 2: the hit movies is something about Marion dumm and Dumber

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Speaker 2: is the incredible producer Peter Farreley, and alongside him is

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Speaker 2: William H. Macie. That joining us right now. You might

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Speaker 2: remember William as a chaotic dad. We fell in love

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Speaker 2: with him shameless.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the boys are with us right now. How you doing,

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Speaker 3: Fellas Gray?

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 2: We are great? This movie looks hilarious and what an

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Speaker 2: extraordinary premise. Which of you is braving us to tell

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Speaker 2: us the story of Ricky Siniki?

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Speaker 1: Well, in a nutshell, I mean, it's really about what

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Speaker 1: happens when your lies come alive. Like you know, it's

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Speaker 1: these people that these guys who have a series of lives,

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Speaker 1: their whole lives, you know, they're always lying telling them

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Speaker 1: and they have to come up with the character who

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Speaker 1: they've invented, bring him to life and see what happens.

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Speaker 4: That's the easiest way I can explain it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you are you appreciate you know it's funny that

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Speaker 1: this is It's about the lies they tell.

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Speaker 4: But the thing that makes Staniky good is he doesn't lie.

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Speaker 4: He's honest. He does right in your face this that,

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Speaker 4: and then you're like, I want this guy.

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Speaker 1: He gives it to me straight and it's actually interesting

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Speaker 1: that that's how it comes out.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this movie was filmed in Melbourne. How did you

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Speaker 2: come to Melbourne? How'd that come about?

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Speaker 1: There was a guy named Paul Curry who had read

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Speaker 1: the script. Again, we was taking us forever to get

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Speaker 1: this movie made and Paul Curry read it, read it

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Speaker 1: and he called me and he says, I don't understand

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Speaker 1: while they're on miking this.

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Speaker 2: That's not bad, not even close to Australia. Actually it

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Speaker 2: wasn't bad.

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Speaker 4: That was French.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, but he called out and said, hey, let's

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Speaker 1: make it. You can make it you know here, and

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Speaker 1: we'll you know, get all the tax and centers and

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Speaker 1: do all the stuff.

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Speaker 4: So we went off.

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Speaker 2: How did you find William working with John Cena Because

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Speaker 2: he's so poe faced, but he's timing. He's so brilliant,

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Speaker 2: isn't he.

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Speaker 5: Yes, he's he's a serious guy. I mean he's he's

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Speaker 5: got a physical presence which is a little bit daunting,

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Speaker 5: and it's a perfect it's it's the perfect thing for comedy.

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Speaker 5: Because he's a man in full and yet he can

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Speaker 5: be sillier than any of us, and he's brave.

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Speaker 4: He's the funniest big man I ever. He is hilarious,

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Speaker 4: very good actor.

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Speaker 3: William do a good job playing this that executive as

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Speaker 3: the boss of everything. How did you get involved in this?

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Speaker 5: Well, as Pete says, there you can count on one

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Speaker 5: hand the number of actors or directors who get to

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Speaker 5: decide what they're going to do next. Mostly we all

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Speaker 5: sit around depressed until the phone rings, and the phone rang,

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Speaker 5: and they sent me this script and I loved it immediately,

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Speaker 5: and I said, yes, it was a no brainer.

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Speaker 3: But when you say it took so long, how long

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Speaker 3: did it actually take to get this up?

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Speaker 4: Honestly fifteen years?

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Speaker 1: Wow, not kidding, but by the way, they all take

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Speaker 1: a long time. You know, it's fine to get a

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Speaker 1: movie made. Dumb and Dumber. My first movie took five years.

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Speaker 1: It was the exact same script that we made, and

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Speaker 1: everybody in town turned it down, including all the actors,

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Speaker 1: until finally Jim Carrey read it and said, yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: do it, and then we got a movie. And there's

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Speaker 1: always you got to keep getting that lucky break and

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Speaker 1: Paul Curry honestly made this movie happen.

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Speaker 4: When Paul Curry called us and said, this is the.

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Speaker 1: Funniest I don't understand why they're not make I said, Paul,

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Speaker 1: don't question it.

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Speaker 4: That's what they always did.

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Speaker 3: But does that make you like I find that soul destroying.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know how you guys make movies. I

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Speaker 3: have no idea how a movie is even made, how

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Speaker 3: you financed, how you get the people in it, because

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Speaker 3: it always seems like you're just gonna hear no all

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Speaker 3: the time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you try and make it timely, then

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Speaker 2: you're keeping all the plates in you No.

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Speaker 4: Well, we know what.

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Speaker 5: It's always a minor miracle when one gets made.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you got to just keep pushing, pushing, pushing,

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Speaker 1: like and it doesn't get easier. I tell people like

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Speaker 1: they say, yeah, I'm having a hard time, and said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's the thing.

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Speaker 4: I was in LA nine years before I got a

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Speaker 4: movie made. You know.

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Speaker 1: And but always, you know, I never I always felt

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Speaker 1: like I'm right, they're wrong. Everybody who's saying no, they're wrong,

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Speaker 1: And I felt right that about this project. I felt

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Speaker 1: like these guys they're crazy. This is such a good script.

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Speaker 1: But whatever, but you got pushing, never give up, Pope.

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Speaker 1: Well it's thrilled.

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Speaker 3: And then cats the movie got made? Well why what happened?

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Speaker 5: Yes is a great There's an old film called Stage Door.

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Speaker 5: One of the characters said, the important and decisions in

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Speaker 5: Hollywood are made instantly. It's the little decisions that they

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Speaker 5: take years to make.

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Speaker 4: So there's a.

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Speaker 5: Whole breed of people call producers who try to quantify

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Speaker 5: makes a good movie, and you can't. You can't, you can't.

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Speaker 5: They just come together and they work. If they don't work,

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Speaker 5: it's there's a little.

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Speaker 4: Bit of magic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well this one's magic.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's magic, and I'm just glad it's out there.

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Speaker 3: You can relax now, fellas.

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Speaker 4: You're just like, you know, yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's good to make people, it is. I agree.

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Speaker 3: You can stream Ricky Stinicky exclusively on Prime Video. Do it.

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Speaker 3: It's great to talk to you guys. Congratulations, this is great.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Nice to see you.

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Speaker 4: Bye bye. Yeah