WEBVTT - 🎬 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Hugo Weaving

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<v Speaker 1>Gold It's joins you Demander, driving you home, you go.

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<v Speaker 2>Weaving is one of Australia's most acclaimed actors unforgettable roles

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<v Speaker 2>in Priscilla the Matrix, Lord of the Rings is back

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<v Speaker 2>on Australian screens and the new SBS drama The Airport Chaplain.

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<v Speaker 2>This is set inside the chaos, the emotion and I

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<v Speaker 2>guess the humanity of a busy international airport. He joins us.

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<v Speaker 2>Now over you go, Weaving.

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<v Speaker 3>Al, Hello, Hello.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think they speak like that, the airport chaplains.

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<v Speaker 2>No, they don't. They don't speak over they're not sort

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<v Speaker 2>of in the.

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<v Speaker 1>High vision, they look very avuncular.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that what the chaplain does?

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<v Speaker 3>Well? Yeah, the chaplain deals with all the human dramas

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<v Speaker 3>and problems and issues and chaos at an airport, whether

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<v Speaker 3>it's passengers or people who work at the airport or crew,

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<v Speaker 3>whatever it might be. Whether it's a death on a plane,

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<v Speaker 3>whether it's homeless people living at the airport, whether it's

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<v Speaker 3>people who've lost their passports or the visa or you know,

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<v Speaker 3>refugee family coming from overseas, whatever it might be. The

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<v Speaker 3>airport chaplain is there as the human space of the airport. Spose,

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<v Speaker 3>that's kind of an incredible job, and a lot of

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<v Speaker 3>people don't know that it exists.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I never I've never heard of it. And often

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<v Speaker 2>the airport is either the best day of your life

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<v Speaker 2>or the worst day of your life. But to actually

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<v Speaker 2>make that every day of your life when you work

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<v Speaker 2>there is quite extraordinary.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, yeah, the real airport Chapman of Melbourne Airport that

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<v Speaker 3>I met that this is kind of based on. He's

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<v Speaker 3>an amazing human being.

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<v Speaker 4>In checking this out, Tobias your character, he's a little

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<v Speaker 4>bit of a well is old school and then he's

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<v Speaker 4>got one of the new millennials who are running the

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<v Speaker 4>world now, who is a.

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<v Speaker 1>Bit of a cookie cutter sort of person. So obviously

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<v Speaker 1>they're not going to gel together.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, it's that's true to some extent. She's a young woman,

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<v Speaker 3>he's an older man. There's no reason why that can't work.

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<v Speaker 3>It's more their job descriptions. But literally she has to that.

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<v Speaker 3>Her job is to make sure the airport is an

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<v Speaker 3>incredibly efficient place. Like if you think about planes, landing schedules,

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<v Speaker 3>getting people in and out of a building, getting people

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<v Speaker 3>in and out through security, there are lots of lots

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<v Speaker 3>of imperatives which regard an airport to do with time

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<v Speaker 3>and money, and so she is in charge of all

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<v Speaker 3>of that. To Bias, the character I play is actually

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<v Speaker 3>all the things that fall through the cracks, so their

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<v Speaker 3>job description and dealing with humanity and trying to give

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<v Speaker 3>space to have the compassion to look at the human stories.

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<v Speaker 3>She doesn't have time. Her job doesn't have time for

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<v Speaker 3>any of that. In fact, it's imperative that she can't

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<v Speaker 3>do all that. So their jobs coexist together within the

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<v Speaker 3>same environment. But it's not that they as human beings clash.

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<v Speaker 3>It's that they're jobs that the necessities of their jobs

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<v Speaker 3>for the clash, and yet they're working in the same

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<v Speaker 3>in the same business, in the same environment. So that's

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<v Speaker 3>what's interesting about it.

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<v Speaker 2>You're such a joy to watch in anything, but I've

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<v Speaker 2>absolutely been loving you in Slow Horses. That must be

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<v Speaker 2>a blast to be part of.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, yeah, it's a great show. Wonderful show, a

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<v Speaker 3>great mix of tension, drama, character, humor, slapstick sometimes action,

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<v Speaker 3>great writing and fabulous actors. So great to be a

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<v Speaker 3>part of that. And yeah, good good that that character

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<v Speaker 3>Frank is coming coming back again soon.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, that's great.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a good thing. Well, not for everyone, but for

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<v Speaker 2>you obviously.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe not everyone else, but for you who goes bank

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<v Speaker 1>managers thrilled.

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<v Speaker 2>But the other characters in the series going.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, let's focus on the airport chaplain. This looks great.

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<v Speaker 4>Any any tips that you picked up from the chaplain

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<v Speaker 4>that you could use in life at the airport?

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<v Speaker 3>Ah. Look, he's such a compassionate, amaze and amazing man. Honestly,

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<v Speaker 3>he's got the most beautiful stories and really they're they're

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<v Speaker 3>actually like he will bring a teeryo right quicker than

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<v Speaker 3>almost anyone I know. He's very practical, very very practical man.

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<v Speaker 3>So yeah, just just he was talking something about people

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<v Speaker 3>rushing around and you know, giving time for people and listening,

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<v Speaker 3>slowing down, being compassionate, trying to trying to help people

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<v Speaker 3>in practical ways. So that's his day, that's his day,

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<v Speaker 3>that's his life, that's what he does. So and we

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<v Speaker 3>could all do with a with a Tobias Wallace in

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<v Speaker 3>our lives. We could all do with the real life

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<v Speaker 3>Martin script.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm sure though Jones he was trying to find

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<v Speaker 2>out how we can get his knives through customs.

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<v Speaker 4>At what point can you get him one of the

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<v Speaker 4>the little electric cars with light.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I want.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh well, yeah, I got to ride round high veers.

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<v Speaker 1>You want I had.

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<v Speaker 3>I had the hibers every day and I jumped in.

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<v Speaker 1>But forget the bus, forget the bus in Brazilla. This

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<v Speaker 1>is griving the dream. Hugo, It's always great to talk

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<v Speaker 1>to you.

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<v Speaker 4>The Airport Chaplain premieres this Wednesday on SBS and SBS

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<v Speaker 4>on demand from eight thirty.

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<v Speaker 1>Hugo Weaving, thank you for joining us.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you so much, guys, thank you hugely