1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 2: The Dry was a fabulous book by Jane Harper, and 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 2: it was made into an extraordinary film. I'm sure you've 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 2: all seen it well. Now the follow up Force of Nature, 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 2: The Dry Too, is out in cinemas as of today. 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 2: The lead detective in the film is Aaron Fork and 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 2: he's played once again by the fabulous Eric Banner. 8 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: Eric. Hello, here he is Jones and Amanda. Good morning, mate. 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 3: How I have been forbidden by Amanda for asking any 10 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 3: questions about your foul. That's not true, she said, do 11 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 3: not ask any questions of Eric about the g. 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 2: I said, you can't ask all the questions about the car. 13 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: You think you know someone Honestly, after all these years, 14 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: I have to change my assumptions about you, Amanda. 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 3: He's allowed one question, asked one question. I was arguing 16 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 3: with the mate, and yours has got a winsor engine, 17 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 3: not the Cleveland, hasn't it. 18 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: Oh? See, now you're going down a mind sharp it's 19 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: a mishere. It's a wind's a block with a Cleveland 20 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: style head. So you've got fifty to fifty? 21 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 3: So is it three fifty one? 22 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: Then it's a four our weight it's a stroker. 23 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. 24 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: And this is Amanda. This is why Amanda puts these 25 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: rules in place, exactly. 26 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 2: It's a little leash rabbit hole. 27 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 3: I could see forums just blowing up. What's going on? 28 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,839 Speaker 2: Well, Eric, let's talk about the dry two force of nature, 29 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 2: because the first film was set in such a dry 30 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 2: conditions in the outback. This one, and I've read the book. 31 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 2: I know it's going to be an amazing story. It's 32 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 2: set in the Victorian Mountain Ranges. 33 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, it's a kind of fictitious area that 34 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: Jane came up with called the Giralan Rangers. So we 35 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: fished together a few wet coal parts of Victorian winter 36 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: to you know, set the story in. But stunningly beautiful 37 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: but yes, nice and coal, yeah yeah yeah. 38 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 2: And you're alongside and a Torve and Debrae for and 39 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 2: there's a great cast the seah. 40 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, incredible. The book has these five incredible female characters 41 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: at the center. You know. They go on a corporate 42 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: retreat for a team building exercise and they get lost 43 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: whilst they're hiking. And the five characters were just really 44 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: brilliantly written as very very individual and I think it's 45 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 1: enough there for the audience to kind of like try 46 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 1: and work out which which one they'd be, which which 47 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,119 Speaker 1: one they like the most, or you know, who's most 48 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 1: likely to get him out of the out of the 49 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: out of the predicament. 50 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, and Anatolf she plays Alice, and she's the one 51 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 3: that goes missing. I hope I'm not wrecking this, but 52 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 3: you have to. But there's also has she actually gone 53 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 3: missing or has she been dispatched with because she's got information. 54 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: Ye, she's my informant. Yes, Aaron's are fair. White collar 55 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: crime is this thing. And Manna's character Alice is my 56 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: informant at a company. And even though the women have 57 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: gone missing, she's gone missing within the missing, if that 58 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: makes sense. So yeah, sort of ramps up the danger. 59 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: And you're just I mean to work with and Debra 60 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,839 Speaker 1: Lee and Jacquelin McKenzie and I mean, it's just the incredible, 61 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: incredible mister of Castle. It was amazing. 62 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 2: Aaron Fork is a very interesting character because he's not 63 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 2: without his own history that gets explored too. 64 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, And that sort of professional investigation and 65 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: having an informant kind of leads into question why he 66 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: does what he does and how they do what they do, 67 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: and you know, sort of the sort of impact that 68 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: it's having on his life. And it's sort of the 69 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: reverse sort of what we had in the dry where 70 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: he's sort of on his own time. Really in the 71 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: drawing it sort of gets dragged into an investigation. In 72 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: this case, that's the other way around. He starts off 73 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: as an investigator and we're sort of them sort of 74 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: going down the path of exploring how that job's affecting 75 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: him personally. 76 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 2: Do you leap at a chance to do shows here 77 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 2: in Australia? Is this a great excuse for you to 78 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 2: sort of you know, see your family and hang out here. 79 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, I mean really worked that way because I 80 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: always end up not in Melbourne for these for these shoots, 81 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: so which I don't mind. I actually like being on 82 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: location during a shoot. I don't have a quota or 83 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: anything like that. Like I don't feel like it's you know, 84 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: like part of the deal. I just chase the good 85 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,600 Speaker 1: material and when it happens to be here, it's obviously 86 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: a bit of a bonus because it means if I'm 87 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: lucky enough, I can slip home on the weekend and 88 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: watch the footing there. 89 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 2: And tinker with that car. 90 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 3: The car get on the forums and so what's he 91 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 3: done with his car? 92 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 2: Are you ying the windsor what are you doing? 93 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 3: That's crazy, But. 94 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: For the number one question I get asked by the public, 95 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: You fix your car? Mant yeah. 96 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 2: Years ago, Thank you car. 97 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:45,840 Speaker 3: Eric's always great to talk to you. It must have 98 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 3: been hard finding that cold and wet place in Victoria. 99 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: Well not that hard. In the middle of winter. We 100 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: knock you out of Melbourne thankfully. 101 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 3: So that's just a bit of in the state rivalry there. 102 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 3: Everyone loves that. Eric's always to talk to your fortune, 103 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 3: force of nature, the drive to is and in cinemas 104 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 3: from today, Eric Batta, thank. 105 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: You pleasure, Thanks girl, thanks having me on. 106 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 3: Thank for yourself.