1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 2: Forty years since its release, and Crocodile Dundee remains Australia's 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 2: most successful film of all time. Absolutely extraordinary. The film 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 2: has had a bit of a resurgence of late with 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: the recently released Encore Cut edition. But what exactly went 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 2: on behind the scenes. Well, a new documentary by Delvin 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 2: Delaney takes us inside the film like never before. It's 8 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 2: called Love of an Icon, The Legend of Crocodile Dundee 9 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: and she joins us now, Delvin. 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Amanda, how are you. 11 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 2: I'm so well, just been watching you on the TV 12 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 2: spectacular area. 13 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much. You've made my day. 14 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 3: You should give TV a crack. I reckon you do. 15 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: All right out? 16 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 2: You look extraordinary. Not a day has passed since we 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 2: last saw you on our screens. 18 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: Well, it's thirty years. It's a long time, isn't it. 19 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: It's a long time. And I look back and I 20 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: think I've been I've been best mates with Paul Hogan 21 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: for fifty years this year. Wow, Wow, it was fifty 22 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: years ago that I met John this month. 23 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 3: You know, can I just make a confession. When I 24 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 3: was a kid and I'd watched you on the Paor 25 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 3: Hogan Show, and it was it was sense. 26 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 2: Like to blow the whistle down the line. 27 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 3: Nothing weird happened, but I had such a crush on 28 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 3: you on the telly. Okay, that's okay, you don't have 29 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 3: to blow a whistle or. 30 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 2: Anything just to see. 31 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 3: But you know, it's funny. There's an era of guys 32 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 3: my age who at that period watching the Paul Hogan Show. 33 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 3: It was such a it was such a time. It 34 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 3: was such a great time. 35 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: The seventies were fantastic. They were so more free for 36 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 1: us to be who we wanted to be and to 37 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 1: say what we wanted to say. And and the Paul 38 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: Hogan Show really nailed commentary on politics in a non 39 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: political way because you know, Paul was so much the 40 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: man in the street. John had a fantastic journalism background, 41 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: and so between the two of them they were able 42 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: to comment without a fan and their humor was never malicious. 43 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: It was always just plain old good fun. Let's have 44 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: a laugh at ourselves and let's love being Aussies. 45 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 2: With the film Crocodile Dundee, I know the filmmaking was 46 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 2: taken very seriously, but did you did anyone have an 47 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 2: idea at the beginning that that film would become what 48 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,920 Speaker 2: it has been. Did you have a sniff of it 49 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: at the time? 50 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: Not really. I mean, in the documentary, even Paul alludes 51 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,399 Speaker 1: to the fact that John was the only one who 52 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: believed that it would be a big hit, But even 53 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: a big hit was not anywhere near the hit that 54 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: it became in John's minds. We were all completely taken 55 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: by surprise, particularly the international response, because when John was 56 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: trying to sell that film, nobody really knew much about Australia, 57 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 1: and you weren't even aware that we spoke English, and 58 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: certainly much less aware that we had a culture and 59 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: that we were likable, approachable people. And so I think 60 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: that to get response from everybody equally around the world 61 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: was really satisfying for those two guys to know that 62 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: they hit the mark. 63 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 3: But it must be hard for you as well, because 64 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 3: John passed away a few years ago now, and for 65 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 3: you this is like a love story to your husband. 66 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: It absolutely is. And when Victoria and I were co 67 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: writing and co producing and co directing the documentary, it 68 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: was challenging to keep a dry eye because I was 69 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: watching footage of John in his absolute prime, looking spectacular 70 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: in all his power, and it was my life as well. 71 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: There was footage of me as a very young woman 72 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: really going through this incredible adventure, and so we had 73 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: to be careful not to make it a pity project 74 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: or indeed a vanity project. But we aimed in our 75 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: writing and directing and editing particularly to make it an 76 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: authentic project. So it's about telling the truth about what 77 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: I saw and experienced on the whole journey of Crocodile Dundee. 78 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 2: What are some of the stories that might surprise us 79 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: from the doco? 80 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: Well, that we nearly didn't even get the budget, and 81 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: that was because John went to people like Kerry Packer, 82 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: who was his old mate from Will Throughs Cricket and 83 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: the Paul Hogan shows, and Kerry adored John and put 84 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: his money in, put over a million dollars in, and 85 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: then he was advised by one of his advisers to 86 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: pull the money out because that advisor didn't believe that 87 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: the film would work. So Kerry pulled his money out, 88 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: and then then there were a couple of other instances 89 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: like that where people changed their mind, and so we 90 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: had to scrabble around with you. John reached out to 91 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: everybody whom we knew, all of our family and friends, 92 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: the cricketers from well Through's Cricket in Excess, who had 93 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: composed music for the film, like everybody that we knew 94 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: to invest a minimum of five thousand dollars. My mum 95 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: and dad put in five thousand dollars to get the 96 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: film up. 97 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 3: Wow. Do you think maybe that it was your star 98 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 3: turn as a cruise director when the Love Boat came 99 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 3: to Australia that helped it get up? 100 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: And I was so bad in that. 101 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 3: You were great? This is this is some of this 102 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 3: is you no worries. 103 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 2: You can go to stay with me. 104 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: You have a great time. Did you ever to see 105 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: my china plate? You can go play with my billy lids. 106 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 3: There you go and interesting, interesting premise doc and go far. 107 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 3: They were both vying for your intent attention, and then 108 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 3: you invite them both back to their place and back 109 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 3: to your place rather and they're not they're not up 110 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 3: for it. 111 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: Well I'd forgotten all of that. 112 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 2: You'd be a terrible cruise director. Good this documentary, how wonderful, 113 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 2: is going to be in cinemas. So make sure you're 114 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 2: going take. 115 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 3: Your Billy lids take your Billy and China plate. 116 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: So you love it. Thank you, thank you so much. 117 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you.