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Speaker 1: Spite the flick with bed o'shade. Good morning, morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Now we've got to talk about Rebel Wilson's directorial debut.

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Speaker 1: It's called The Dead Bit's a film with epic drama,

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Speaker 1: huge fights. It's just unfortunate that all of that happened

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Speaker 1: off camera between her and one of the producers and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't captured on film. So yeah, So this film

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Speaker 1: is fascinating, it's the story about it has to start

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Speaker 1: with the controversy around the production before the production even started.

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Speaker 1: In fact, we're talking a Blake Lively Justin Baldoni esque

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Speaker 1: legal fight that's been really going behind the scenes for

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. That was huge, ye, But

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Speaker 1: obviously the people involved aren't merely as famous, so not

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Speaker 1: many people have heard about this one. So before the

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Speaker 1: shooting even started there was an incident and post production,

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Speaker 1: Rebel Wilson was denied a writing credit, and then in

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Speaker 1: response to that, allegedly she has filed a lawsuit against

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Speaker 1: UK producer Amanda Ghost, alleging that Amanda Ghost, among other things,

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Speaker 1: there was some sexual misconduct with the film's lead actress,

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Speaker 1: Charlotte Mcinness. Apparently they had a bath together and now, yep,

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Speaker 1: it sounds weird. It sounds weird. Interestingly, Amanda and Charlotte

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Speaker 1: don't deny they had a bath together, but they were

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Speaker 1: both wearing swimsuits and it was for a medical emergency. Apparently, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just research it, google it yourself. And in response, Amanda

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Speaker 1: Ghost has sued Rebel Wilson for defamation and called her

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Speaker 1: a liar, a bad actor, all this kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: And so this has been going backward, backwards and forwards.

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Speaker 1: It's delayed the release of the film. It looked like

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Speaker 1: at one point there is there is the billionaire Lens

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Speaker 1: blown that Vic and they were on his yacht, all

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Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. It's bigger than Ben heard this

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Speaker 1: drama behind the scenes, and it did look like the

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Speaker 1: film was never going to get released, will never see

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Speaker 1: the light of day. They were accusing Rebel Wilson of

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Speaker 1: deliberately making sure the film would never come out. She

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Speaker 1: denied that. She's like, I'm really proud of this film.

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Speaker 1: I want people to see it. Finally people get to

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Speaker 1: see it, and you'd think, what the what the heck

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Speaker 1: is this movie about? Right, It's not about potato. It's

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Speaker 1: a lighthearted no, it's a lighthearted ossie musical about the

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Speaker 1: phenomenon of the Debutante ball that happens in country towns

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Speaker 1: all over Australia. There may be some mashed potato happening

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes and so exactly. And it's based on

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Speaker 1: the stage musical of the same name. And it's full

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Speaker 1: of songs by Meghan Washington the Aussie scenes. Yeah, she's

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Speaker 1: great and the songs are really catchy. It tells a

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Speaker 1: story of Charlotte mckinnes's character Mayve, who is a city slicker,

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Speaker 1: goes to a private school, is super woke, forces her

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Speaker 1: woke agenda on all of her schoolmates. Eventually, her mum,

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Speaker 1: who's the principal, gets fed up with her carrying on

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Speaker 1: and gives her the boot, banishes her to go live

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Speaker 1: with her country cousin Taylor, played by Natalie Abbott. And

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Speaker 1: she's she's a you know, a girl who's like a

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Speaker 1: bit selfnos is bullied by the local girls in the

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Speaker 1: town and dreams of going to the deb being the

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Speaker 1: bell of the ball and that will fix all of

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Speaker 1: her problems. Right. So you've got this fish out of

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Speaker 1: water in may You've got this ugly duckling story in Taylor,

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Speaker 1: and the two have to come together with the deb

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Speaker 1: hanging over everything. Will they sort of learn to appreciate

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Speaker 1: each other's differences that sort of a thing, and so

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Speaker 1: you go, you know what, there's some good stuff in here,

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Speaker 1: for sure. Shane Jacobson plays Taylor's dad. You know, he's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those rare movies where you really notice

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Speaker 1: the influence of the director, and not in a good way,

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Speaker 1: Like the performances are good, the songs are good, the

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Speaker 1: premise is good, and you go, do you know what,

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Speaker 1: this could actually be a great Aussie movie, Muriel's Wedding,

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Speaker 1: you know, strictly ballroom, all of those types of films

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Speaker 1: that you think it could be like. But it's not

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Speaker 1: because the musical numbers are just so clunky. You look

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Speaker 1: at some of the camera angles and the way the

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Speaker 1: scenes are set up, and you go, oh, man, you

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Speaker 1: can really tell this is the first time director who

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Speaker 1: doesn't have any experience with this sort of genre. So

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Speaker 1: the Great, the late great Julian McMahon has a cameo

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Speaker 1: in it as the Aussie PM. He shows up at

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Speaker 1: the deb Poor old Julian McMahon. I feel bad that

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Speaker 1: this was probably this is probably this is probably the

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Speaker 1: last thing that he ever did know. Oh dear, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: how many dead by name, dead by natures are you

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Speaker 1: giving it on? Behalf of all the people involved in

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Speaker 1: this film that tried their best. I'm going to give

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Speaker 1: it two and a half. But I think the real

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Speaker 1: the real action here is going to be the ongoing

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Speaker 1: legal fight, which is still you know, before the courts.

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Speaker 1: So let's see what happens there. Stay chue publicity, the

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Speaker 1: movie about that is going to make. That's what they're after.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Ben, Thanks guys,