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Speaker 1: Jam Mission with Jonesy and Amanda Well.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Eric Banner, can you hear us? And hello? Here

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Speaker 2: we are on zoom looking at your beautiful face.

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Speaker 1: Hello, good to see you guys. How are you very well?

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Speaker 2: I was so excited to hear they were making a

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Speaker 2: film of one of my very favorite books, The Dry

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Speaker 2: and we were just chatting amongst ourselves. This film lives

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Speaker 2: up to it and more of all my expectations. What

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Speaker 2: a brilliant film.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, just like you, I was a huge fan of

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Speaker 4: the book, so you know, I wanted it to be

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Speaker 4: that big screen adaptation that I deserved to be. And

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Speaker 4: we're really thrilled now to be able to share it

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Speaker 4: with everybody.

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Speaker 2: Interesting story in the tinderbox of all those storylines of

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Speaker 2: your character coming back to the town he grew up in,

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Speaker 2: an unresolved anxiety. Is there a new case that you're

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Speaker 2: trying to solve? But a big part of all this

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Speaker 2: is also the anxiety and the fear and the heat

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Speaker 2: and the drought that played. The drought played such a

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Speaker 2: big role, isn't it It did.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of the things I loved about Jane's

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Speaker 4: book was as someone that loves these little towns in

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Speaker 4: regional Victoria, New South Wales whatever. I felt like she

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Speaker 4: had depicted that so well, and it really kind of

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Speaker 4: gets under his skin. As an Australia it's a different

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Speaker 4: kind of It's not like that outback.

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Speaker 1: Depiction that we're used to.

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Speaker 4: It's a more kind of realistic, tiny country town that

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Speaker 4: he's completely dry, baron and drought stricken, and that adds

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Speaker 4: to the tension. It adds to the suffering of the locals.

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Speaker 4: And we were lucky enough to film early twenty nineteen

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Speaker 4: before the drought had broken out there pre COVID, so

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Speaker 4: that we've got no compromises.

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Speaker 1: We got to make the exact film that we wanted to.

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Speaker 3: I love how this movie flicks from the present to

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Speaker 3: the past and your character Aaron goes back to town

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Speaker 3: to investigate a murder suicide and it's one of his

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Speaker 3: friends that's killed his wife and the whole I don't

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Speaker 3: want to.

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Speaker 5: Give too much away. It's a juicy story. It's got

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Speaker 5: such menace throughout it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so Yeah.

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Speaker 4: At the beginning of the film, it's the parents of

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Speaker 4: my best friend who has passed away.

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Speaker 1: I'm returning to for his funeral.

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Speaker 4: I have been back to that country town for over

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Speaker 4: twenty years, and you quickly get the sense that I'm

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Speaker 4: not at all welcome and you're not quite sure why.

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Speaker 4: And so that's where that's where the story begins, and

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Speaker 4: it's my job to try and uncover whether this murder

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Speaker 4: suicide was in fact a murder suicide or whether there

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Speaker 4: was something else involved.

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Speaker 5: And that's where the flashback.

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Speaker 3: It's your character that something happened when he was seventeen

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Speaker 3: with the same bunch of friends, and that's where the

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Speaker 3: and this is where Jane is so good at writing

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Speaker 3: a story, because you just constantly going, what's this about?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we have a pass and present story, and

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Speaker 4: we have a tremendous young cast representing our modern day

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Speaker 4: lead characters who do a really fantastic job. And that

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Speaker 4: was a really important element to the story to try

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Speaker 4: and get right because all the secrets are buried in

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Speaker 4: the past, and so much of what's happening in real

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Speaker 4: time in the film is informed by.

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Speaker 1: What's happened in our childhood.

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Speaker 2: When you were filming this, I mean you're filming in

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Speaker 2: the heart of the drought, as you say, even your

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Speaker 2: filming conditions were tough, weren't they where you were the

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Speaker 2: crew set up, it was really tough.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was really really beautiful as well.

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Speaker 4: We were lucky enough to be staying out there for

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Speaker 4: a couple of months and one of the towns that

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Speaker 4: we use as our location, they had no drinking water,

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Speaker 4: Like the drinking water would be trucked in and distributed

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Speaker 4: once a week. So that was a real kind of

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Speaker 4: really drove it home for us just how tough things

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Speaker 4: were out there, and it was pre the bushfire season

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Speaker 4: and all that sort of stuff. So filming on location

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Speaker 4: definitely helps.

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Speaker 1: The last thing we wanted.

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Speaker 4: To do was be on the outskirts of Melbourne with

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Speaker 4: a few gum trees in the background and so forth.

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Speaker 4: You know, the director and I really really wanting to

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Speaker 4: get as far away from the city as we could

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Speaker 4: to do the story justice, and the film really benefits

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Speaker 4: from that from from a cinematic point of view as well.

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Speaker 3: Did you get out to did you ride your bike

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Speaker 3: to get a bit of a sense of some locations,

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Speaker 3: because it's always just great cruising around Victoria on a motorcycle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So all these places are places that I know

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Speaker 4: well from many many trips so that was very helpful

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Speaker 4: in terms of reference points for locations and things like that.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it's a beautiful part of the world.

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Speaker 4: It's very flat, it's very dry, and we drive through it.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't seem as appealing, but when you're in enscons

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Speaker 4: in these places and you're there for sunrise and sunset

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Speaker 1: Get under your skin. It's just a beautiful part of

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Speaker 1: the world.

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Speaker 4: And if anyone hasn't done the Silo tours out that way,

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Speaker 4: I thoroughly recommend it.

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Speaker 1: It's a really great thing.

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Speaker 4: It's where they have engaged local artists to do these

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Speaker 4: installations on the side of old silos, wheat silos, and

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Speaker 4: it's just they're absolutely spectacular.

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Speaker 5: It's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Aaron, your character Aaron appears also in Jane's second book.

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Speaker 2: It's not a follow up to the same storyline, but

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Speaker 2: the character appears in Force of Nature. Are you thinking

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Speaker 2: of maybe reprising Aaron in a new film.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: We'll see how this goes. It's just one film at

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Speaker 4: a time. But I have read that book as well

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Speaker 4: and I really enjoyed it. It's a great story. Force

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Speaker 4: of Nature.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's an incredible author.

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Speaker 4: Jane Harper, and we were thrilled to get the chance

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Speaker 4: to adapt this first book of hers.

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Speaker 5: That's brilliant and I'm just asking for Amanda. How's the

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Speaker 5: Falcon going.

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Speaker 1: Falcon is brilliant.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's It was got a bit antsy during

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Speaker 4: the lockdown. Yeah, but it got out, got out a

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Speaker 4: couple of days ago for the first time, and it

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Speaker 4: didn't skip.

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Speaker 1: A beat the trip.

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Speaker 3: And I know yours is very very very rare and great,

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Speaker 3: but they've actually tripled their value again because Americans are

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Speaker 3: buying them and Japanese are buying them and taking them

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Speaker 3: back over overseas.

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Speaker 4: It's all irrelevant information to someone who'd never sell their car,

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Speaker 4: of course, James.

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Speaker 5: Of course, I'm not putting it off for it at all.

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Speaker 1: I think you are.

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Speaker 4: I think I've just done yourself and you've said it's

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Speaker 4: tripled in value again recently.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you my first born. He is twenty eight

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Speaker 3: years of age just this week.

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Speaker 1: So I'm good, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Okay, it's always a treat to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Eric.

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Speaker 3: You can catch the Dry in Cinema's January one, twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty one. It's like the future, but a perfect way

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Speaker 3: to start the new year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant. Thanks so much guys, nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: With Joins and Amanda