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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's Well.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is a two time Oscar nominated actress

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Speaker 2: who's spreading her wings to star and produce the true

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Speaker 2: Australian story of a magpie who saved a family from

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Speaker 2: breaking the famous story of Penguin Bloom. We're thrilled to

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Speaker 2: have Naomi WA's with us. Hello, Naomi, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? Thank you? How are you? Guys?

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Speaker 3: Very well.

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Speaker 2: We've interviewed Sam and her husband as well when they

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Speaker 2: produced the book about Penguin Bloom. Tell us for those

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Speaker 2: who don't know the story, tell us what's going on here?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's the story of a family they go to

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Speaker 1: Thailand for a vacation and an awful accident takes place

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Speaker 1: and several surgeries later, Sam is Yeah, she's becomes a

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Speaker 1: wheelchair victim and paraplegic, and she's very very unhappy and

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Speaker 1: not managing well at all. And along comes this bird

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Speaker 1: that her son asks her to take care of, and

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Speaker 1: they rescue the bird and she restores the bird back

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Speaker 1: to life, and in healing this bird, she has a

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Speaker 1: parallel experience where she's able to forget this awful world

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Speaker 1: that she's living in and heal herself.

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Speaker 3: And penguin bloom. So named magpies are usually giant a holes,

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Speaker 3: but not this one. This was a This was a

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Speaker 3: great This is a great magpie.

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Speaker 1: That's right. And I hear you on that comment because

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Speaker 1: that was my experience before filming this film. I had

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Speaker 1: not a great experience with them. In fact, been attacked

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Speaker 1: bombed by a bunch of them and I was horse

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Speaker 1: riding through a forest and it scared the poop out

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Speaker 1: of me. Anyway, So yeah, I was like, how how

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Speaker 1: does this work? Surely? I mean that was one of

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Speaker 1: my greatest concerns, Like this sounds great and looks great

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Speaker 1: on in the pictures, and and but how did how

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Speaker 1: do we translate these emotive feelings that we need to

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Speaker 1: capture from the bird?

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Speaker 2: How did you do that? Because they are a smart

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Speaker 2: bird magpiees trained or they see gi how'd you do it?

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing is when I had all these questions,

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Speaker 1: they said, well, there's going to be three different things

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Speaker 1: going on. The trained birds, which we had a fantastic

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Speaker 1: guy training them, you know, and with the worms every

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Speaker 1: time they did a trick and CGI as well as animatronics.

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Speaker 1: Mostly everything you'll see on screen is mostly real.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing. That's amazing because you could have got like,

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Speaker 3: there's there's other birds I can could fashion, say a crow,

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Speaker 3: you could put like a bit of white on it,

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Speaker 3: because crows are quite easily trained.

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Speaker 2: How would you know that?

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Speaker 3: Well, I know a bit about birds. Russell would have said,

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Speaker 3: I'll have a go with that. I'll do that. I

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Speaker 3: can do that.

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Speaker 2: And did you have any bad experiences filming with birds?

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Speaker 1: No? I mean I have. Yeah, we had a weird

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Speaker 1: first day where the bird pooped on my head. That

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Speaker 1: was definitely a good old icebreaker. But mostly I became

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Speaker 1: very like close to these birds, which who would have

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Speaker 1: thunk they're strange creatures to me? But they the worms.

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Speaker 1: I didn't like the worms. Yeah, that they're little you

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Speaker 1: know things to get them going, and I would have

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Speaker 1: to be in the bed lots of time, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I could feel the worms wriggling around under my back.

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Speaker 3: So they put the worms under your back so the

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Speaker 3: magpie could be close to you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah exactly, and you know, because they get smart quickly,

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Speaker 1: and you know, they've got to be able to really

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Speaker 1: hunt around you for the for the worms.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what an unusual challenge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely, yeah, not a not a regular day's

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Speaker 3: Your coaster poops on your head.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't happen every day.

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Speaker 3: It's working with in the first week.

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Speaker 2: The film is so emotive and so emotional. And I

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Speaker 2: know that Sam and Cam love the film too, don't

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Speaker 2: They ticks all the boxes for everybody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I from what I can gather, they're they're very

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Speaker 1: happy and they couldn't have been lovelier people to be,

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Speaker 1: you know, working with in the whole lead up to it,

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Speaker 1: and we were shooting in their house and which isn't

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Speaker 1: a regular practice at all, but they were so generous

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Speaker 1: and so available and actually Sam even shared her diaries

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Speaker 1: with me just to help me get into the depths

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Speaker 1: of her thinking. Wow.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely amazing, And well, I don't want to give the

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Speaker 3: the end. I'm not going to give the end away.

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Speaker 3: We knew, we know what happens in the in the story.

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Speaker 3: But you'll have to go and watch Penguin Bloom, which

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Speaker 3: is in cinemas January twenty one. Nai watch that for

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Speaker 3: co stars pooping on your head.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, thank you, thanks guys. Jonesy and Amanda's