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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest has been on our screens wooing us

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Speaker 2: from shows like The Man from Snowy River to Wentworth

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Speaker 2: to see Change.

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Speaker 3: Her new show.

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Speaker 4: You didn't mention the FJ Holden.

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Speaker 3: We'll get onto that.

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Speaker 2: Her new show is called Amazing Grace. It looks fantastic

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Speaker 2: and a premiere is tonight on Channel nine.

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Speaker 3: Secret Thornton, Hello.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Amanda and Jonesy. Is such a pleasure always to

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Speaker 1: talk to you both?

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Speaker 3: Is it really a pleasure?

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Speaker 1: Secret, because it's an absolute pleasure. Really. I just said

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Speaker 1: to your producer, you must get that all the time.

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Speaker 1: What a delight it is to talk to Jonesy and

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Speaker 1: to manage They get that a lot.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know if you heard what Jonesy said

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Speaker 3: just before.

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Speaker 4: This is part of your rich tapestry of work and

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Speaker 4: when you first started out in the movie The FJ Holden,

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Speaker 4: which I went down the YouTube wormhold and watched just recently.

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Speaker 4: But there's a scene and you're in the local food

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Speaker 4: court and part of the movie is pretty much ten

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Speaker 4: minutes of you guys in Chinese food and then this

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Speaker 4: is the discussion of you talking about the hot guy

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Speaker 4: in the chocolate panel Van.

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Speaker 5: Who was the guy It's got the biggest sticking Banks.

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Speaker 3: Town, and that was one of the iconic lines.

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Speaker 6: It is really is actually very interesting, Josie, that you

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Speaker 6: take special note of that because a set up director

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Speaker 6: on Amazing Grace coincidentally it's one of his favorite films

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Speaker 6: and he had he remind I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, I hadn't seen it for Donkey's years, and he

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Speaker 1: pulled it up on his phone just quite recently to

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Speaker 1: show me that exact line because he just loves it.

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Speaker 4: Wonder once the guy gets out of Bangs Down, disease

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Speaker 4: powers not exist anymore.

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Speaker 1: That's the clearly, Clearly it's got to be something in that.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's get on to Amazing Grace. This is an

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Speaker 2: intriguing story. You play Diane Grace's mum, and Grace comes

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Speaker 2: into back into.

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Speaker 3: Your life in an unusual way.

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Speaker 1: Well, in fact, there's a kind of the first episode

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Speaker 1: is a sort of a can of worms exploding. Basically,

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Speaker 1: there's a sort of massive series of history repeating style coincidences.

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Speaker 1: And we all know that families. History does repeat in families,

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Speaker 1: that there's patterns that in our DNA that we're kind

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Speaker 1: of born with and a lot of this stuff comes

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Speaker 1: home to roost in our first episode, So it is

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Speaker 1: about complicated family relationships. I play the mother of Grace,

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Speaker 1: who's who runs a natural birthing center, and I play

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Speaker 1: Diane and obstetrician. So there's that kind of medical kind

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Speaker 1: of fractiousness, if you like, because of there are similar

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Speaker 1: difference in those kind of ideologies, but they are. It's

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Speaker 1: a very very complex relationship. And into this scenario comes

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Speaker 1: a third generation, surprisingly and completely out of the blue,

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Speaker 1: which basically kind of explodes a lot of skeletons out

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Speaker 1: of cupboards and things. And the show is partly about that,

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Speaker 1: but it's also about about women and about motherhood and

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Speaker 1: about new life, and it's also lots of fun and laughter.

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Speaker 1: So it's got a lot going for it.

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Speaker 4: It's got you in it. You're in it.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's start. You know it's.

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Speaker 2: Your character is also grappling with an older mom. Your

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Speaker 2: actual mom has just turned ninety, she's written a book,

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Speaker 2: and she's just received an honorary doctorate.

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Speaker 1: How did you know this?

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Speaker 6: You've done your research?

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Speaker 5: She has let her she's I was raised with a

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Speaker 5: radical feminist mother, and she's received a doctorate of literature

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Speaker 5: from Queensland, Unich.

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Speaker 1: But it's also it's a kind of acknowledgement of her service,

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Speaker 1: I suppose to the community in general really with her

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Speaker 1: work helping to abolish the marriage bar and the public service.

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Speaker 1: And she's famous in Brisbane for having changed herself to

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Speaker 1: the part of the bog at a hotel. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that story, yes, So, yeah, she's that.

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Speaker 4: Woman because because the public bar was just for men only,

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Speaker 4: and your mum chained herself to the bar so as

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Speaker 4: you could go and have a drink there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was kind of it was a symbolic

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Speaker 1: gesture really, you know, that kind of women being locked

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Speaker 1: out of bars was the kind of emblem of women

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Speaker 1: being locked out of in those days, what was kind

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Speaker 1: of one of the central meeting places. It was like

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Speaker 1: a it was like a you know, the pub was

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Speaker 1: where blokes could go and relax and women and didn't

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Speaker 1: really have the right to kind of be part of

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Speaker 1: a just a genuine social engagement with blokes. They had

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Speaker 1: to go to the ladies lounge, you know, And so

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Speaker 1: that was it was more of an emblematic gesture. I

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Speaker 1: think mom kind of realized that they could get a

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Speaker 1: quick quick fix from the press by doing something like this,

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Speaker 1: and it did in fact open up that whole discussion,

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Speaker 1: and you know it was the laws was changed very

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Speaker 1: soon afterwards because it was just so okay by that stage.

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Speaker 3: Very impressive.

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Speaker 4: Well, you always you always find Amanda chained to the bar,

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Speaker 4: although there's no need for that, ordering.

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Speaker 3: A cherry and lemonade invisible.

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Speaker 4: Metaphorical chain, but there's years holding it up and just

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Speaker 4: hanging there. Well, cigarette is always great to talk to you.

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Speaker 4: Amazing Grace premieres tonight nine o'clock on Channel nine. Thank

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Speaker 4: you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: A delight to talk to you. Whether I hope you

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Speaker 1: have a wonderful day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, SIGRed Thought then Jonesy and Amanda's