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Speaker 1: Local filmmaker Calenderlka, you may know for writing The Naked Wanderer,

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Speaker 1: which starred John Cleese, is back first time directing too

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Speaker 1: with It Only Takes a Night, which is in Cinema's

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Speaker 1: August fifteen, and he's with us now, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Now, thanks very much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Now this film, It Only Takes a Night, It's set

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Speaker 1: in London, it is but filmed entirely here. Was that

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Speaker 1: part of the plan or did COVID have something to

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Speaker 1: do with where it got filmed.

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Speaker 3: I think we kind of had a thought for about

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Speaker 3: three seconds that we were going to go to London

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Speaker 3: and film it, and then realized how much that was

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Speaker 3: all going to cost, and.

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Speaker 2: They thought, no, let's just do it. It's doable. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but no, look it worked out really really well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we've sold the film to England

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Speaker 3: now and everyone keeps asking when did you come over

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Speaker 3: here and film it? So, yeah, Perth looks exactly like

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Speaker 3: London if you shoot it in the right angles, do

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Speaker 3: it right?

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Speaker 2: Did you go?

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Speaker 4: Who've spent about fourteen weeks in London court pretty much?

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of like Prince Lane, King Street,

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Speaker 3: Freeman all places like that. So Yeah, the City of

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Speaker 3: Perth was very helpful. City Freeman a very helpful. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're pretty stoked.

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Speaker 2: All right, So what is the film about?

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Speaker 3: In a nutshell, so it's a look, it's a rom

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Speaker 3: com at heart, it's a breakup story. You know, a

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Speaker 3: girl sort of gets dumped at a very unfortunate time

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Speaker 3: in her life and she's down in the dumps and

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Speaker 3: then her four friends take her out one night. So

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Speaker 3: it sort of comes from that thing. It only takes

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Speaker 3: one night to change your life, so you know, it

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Speaker 3: all takes place over one night and things go down.

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Speaker 4: Let's just say, okay, all right, you mentioned the word

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Speaker 4: finance or budgets and the light in movie making and

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Speaker 4: TV making, that's what it's all about, is to try

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Speaker 4: and get there and you've got to get the right

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Speaker 4: light and the right time and all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: But how did you go with that?

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Speaker 4: Because you're if you walk onto a movie set and

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Speaker 4: you see the catering and it's really soggy sandwiches, you

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Speaker 4: know they're struggling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well this is the thing, right, Like, you know,

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Speaker 3: we had really great support from all of Perth, all

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Speaker 3: our crew, all our casts. They sort of knew what

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Speaker 3: they were getting into. You know, we shot it in

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Speaker 3: May twenty twenty one, which was obviously the height of

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Speaker 3: the pandemic. In fact, our shoot was literally between two lockdowns,

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Speaker 3: I think. Yeah, we took our masks off the first

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Speaker 3: day of filming and then four days after we wrapped

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Speaker 3: there was another lockdown. So it was all pretty hardcore.

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Speaker 3: But everyone sort of wanted to do this and wanted

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Speaker 3: to work. So yeah, look, everybody showed up for it.

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Speaker 3: But you know, we made sure we fed people well,

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Speaker 3: because you feed them well at least hopefully they're happy,

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Speaker 3: hopefully that.

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Speaker 1: I don't mind admitting. I'm such a parochial perth person

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Speaker 1: and I also love movies, so I love it when

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Speaker 1: I see a movie where I recognize you stuff nice.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the locations that people are going

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Speaker 1: to recognize in this because I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: it is filmed in a nightclub.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so if you're a big nightclubber and you go

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Speaker 3: to Magnet House quite a lot, you will recognize that

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Speaker 3: because we spend quite a lot of time in there.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, filming in a nightclub during

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Speaker 3: the day that is an experience.

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Speaker 2: Sal you can see too much. So there's a.

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Speaker 3: Certain smell that's there. You don't sort of recognize there

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Speaker 3: at nighttime. You're sort of having too much fun at night, even.

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Speaker 2: In the pandemic. Exactly. Yeah, I might ed it out.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to see why the carpets sticky, do you,

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. Yeah, you're sort of picking up your feet

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Speaker 2: a bit much. But yeah, that was great. So we

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Speaker 2: filmed Magnet House.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, some streets of Fremantle, Yeah, Prince Lane,

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Speaker 3: King Street all around, sort of that Belgian beer cafe area,

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Speaker 3: a little bit of stuff in East Perth. The League

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Speaker 3: girl Ruby who was played by Eliza Taylor, her apartments

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Speaker 2: You just sort of blur out.

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Speaker 3: The background and yeah, yeah, that's not the whack I

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Speaker 3: don't know, stadium, yeah exactly. So yeah, look, I think

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Speaker 3: people will recognize quite a few places. And you know,

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Speaker 3: if you've seen the trailer, you probably think that there's

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Speaker 3: you know, it's just your standard rom com, but there's

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Speaker 3: a few twists and turns and you might actually see

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Speaker 3: a little bit more of Perth than you're expecting to

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Speaker 3: see that way.

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Speaker 2: And a great cast.

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Speaker 1: You just mentioned Eliza Taylor, George Pula, who I just

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Speaker 1: saw in Barons and I loved him in that, and

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Speaker 1: he was also in Playing for Keeps.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm from there. He's terrific. Yeah, he's great.

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Speaker 3: So I met George ages ago while he was at

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Speaker 3: Wopper and he read some stuff for The Naked Wanderer

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Speaker 3: and yeah, we kept in touch and I sort of

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Speaker 3: always had him in mind for this one. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: we also had Anna Ka who was still at Whopper

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Speaker 3: at the time that we filmed it. She literally did

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Speaker 3: her audition while she was still a third year, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: she was perfect for the role.

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Speaker 2: So we got here. So that's yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think, you know, sort of her last

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Speaker 3: couple of months of Whopper were on set for us,

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Speaker 3: and yeah, she's amazing. And you know, given that she

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Speaker 3: was still at acting school, you kind of go, wow,

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Speaker 3: like that's.

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Speaker 4: Similar thing happened to hug Jack when he was all

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Speaker 4: of a sudden on a TV set.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, So yeah, that's what before you. Yeah, great, it

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Speaker 2: is the Great Theater School.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, the whole cast was amazing, you know, Aril Carver,

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Speaker 3: O'Neil SNAr Shaik. You know, they're all sort of coming

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Speaker 3: up and doing things at the moment. So I was

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Speaker 3: in class of O seven on Amazon and yet you

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Speaker 3: know they just the whole thing about this film was

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Speaker 3: the chemistry that you know that this was supposed to

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Speaker 3: be four best friends and so.

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Speaker 2: You know they were best friends by basically the first week.

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Speaker 4: Filming station, the naked wondering the just quickly did you

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Speaker 4: get to meet all spending your time with John Clee.

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Speaker 4: So when I interviewed him John Clees, we had to

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Speaker 4: spend it's like cheese but please Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I spent a couple of weeks in London filming

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Speaker 3: with him, and yeah, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was amazing. He's everything you want him to be.

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Speaker 3: You know. We sort of had this like one little

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Speaker 3: bit where we filmed in the back of a limo

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Speaker 3: with him and he did it in two seconds, so

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Speaker 3: we had to drive back to the studio and he

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Speaker 3: was quoting Monty Python the entire.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my father was a hamster and had another I

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Speaker 2: love the way you put that.

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Speaker 1: It was everything you wanted want to please, please, please please,

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Speaker 1: don't I'm an idiot.

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Speaker 2: You're talking about cricket les. He's happy, Yeah, yeah, loves

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Speaker 2: Lemas's named after him. Yeah yeah, Leama cheese.

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Speaker 1: It's your first time directing, so there's more of that

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Speaker 1: to come, I expect.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, where that came from, I hope. So that's the plan.

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Speaker 2: Well in cinemas, August fifteen. Lovely to have you come in.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much, appreciate it. Car Let's just see

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Speaker 4: it and start spotting spots around. Go check it out.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you,