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Speaker 1: The Travelers is a new Australian movie shot very close

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Speaker 1: to home, and I do mean very close to where

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Speaker 1: we are right now. It's in cinemas on the ninth

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Speaker 1: of October and it stars Brian Brown, Luke Bracy, Nicholas

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Speaker 1: Hammond and Susie Porter, who joins us now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Thank you, Russell, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Or should I say welcome back because you spend a

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Speaker 1: bit of time here.

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Speaker 2: I have spent. I was actually talking this morning. I

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Speaker 2: think this is the third film I've done in Perth

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Speaker 2: over the years. So yeah, it's lovely to be back.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of movie production happening over this part

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Speaker 1: of the world at the moment, which is very, very exciting.

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Speaker 2: I think it is very exciting when we're talking about

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Speaker 2: that this morning as well, about the studios and getting

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Speaker 2: those up and running and having a real great injection

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Speaker 2: for the film industry for in Perth, which is great

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Speaker 2: for all the crews that work here. It is cheaper,

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Speaker 2: the weather's so good, it's just a great place to

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Speaker 2: make movies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So The Travelers is filmed basically a little bit

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Speaker 1: in Perth, a little bit in Fremantle, and much of

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Speaker 1: it out in the Avon Valley and it just the

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Speaker 1: Avon Valley just comes up so beautifully on the big screen.

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Speaker 1: It is wonderful to see our home up on the

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Speaker 1: big screen because you don't always get to see that.

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Speaker 2: No, a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Stuff is international or it's filmed over East. So to

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Speaker 1: be able to go in there and say I live there,

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Speaker 1: I've been there, I know.

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Speaker 2: And I could imagine people who live in York as well,

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Speaker 2: you know, with so much stuff being shot there. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it's just yeah, it's always a thrill to see your

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Speaker 1: The Travelers just shot there. A Runt was another movie

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Speaker 1: that was shot there only about a year ago. So

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Speaker 1: it's very exciting times. So tell us a little bit

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Speaker 1: about The Travelers. Written and directed by Bruce Beresford, Yes,

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Speaker 1: who has a long run of credit. It's a very

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Speaker 1: very successful man. We're talking driving Miss Daisy black Robe

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Speaker 1: Break Him a Rant, which is one of the all

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Speaker 1: time classic Australian movies. Tell us a little bit about

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Speaker 1: the movie.

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Speaker 2: I would describe the movie as the character of Luke Bracey.

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Speaker 2: He works overseas in opera and basically our mother gets sick,

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Speaker 2: so we're brother and sister and our father is Brian

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Speaker 2: and so he summons back to Australia and it's what

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Speaker 2: unfolds once he gets.

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Speaker 1: Back two very different worlds for a start, a small

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Speaker 1: Australian country town to the opera houses of Europe. So

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Speaker 1: there's a culture clash right there that is being dealt with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And I think you know a lot of

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Speaker 2: people will have, you know, aging parents, parents dying. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's a real part of life that I don't see

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Speaker 2: often explored in film really, So I think it's it's

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Speaker 2: just such a beautiful nod to that to family and

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Speaker 2: connection with family.

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Speaker 1: It's, like you say, it's something that everybody will confront,

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Speaker 1: so everybody can relate to it when they see the

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Speaker 1: story in the cinema.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: So you play the sister and Brian Brown plays the father. Yea,

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Speaker 1: and he lives a very different life, shall we say

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Speaker 1: to his son who comes back to visit and is

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Speaker 1: a little bit aghast at what he finds. How would

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Speaker 1: you describe the relationship between father and son and sister

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I think all three of them are very different,

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Speaker 2: and Luke's character is different. In the family that he

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Speaker 2: chose to move away from the city and explore different

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Speaker 2: different parts. My character is happy to stay locally and

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Speaker 2: the connection with dad. But it's also, yeah, how would

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Speaker 2: I describe it? Three very different people having to maneuver

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Speaker 2: how the future looks for all three of them, because

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Speaker 2: also younger family members. You know that we're there to

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Speaker 2: own life as well. It's a fine balance, I think.

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Speaker 1: So does that kind of a culture difference as well.

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Speaker 1: And you say that you stay but if I remember

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Speaker 1: rightly in the movie, you're in Albany.

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Speaker 2: I am in a different spot. Yeah, so I sort.

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Speaker 1: Of stay low the place that we can all relate to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I stay locally. I didn't go to Europe, but yes,

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Speaker 2: I need you know, my character talks about getting on

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Speaker 2: but she lives in Newcastle, and there's one sister who

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Speaker 2: we kind of go, well we would move up to

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Speaker 2: Newcastle or also my husband his father's in Newcastle in England,

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Speaker 2: so that's another thing that we sort of talk about

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Speaker 2: as like the time do you move over there for it?

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Speaker 2: You know, time being to help with that transition. It is. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a really well everyone you know, if they have

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Speaker 1: It's something that everyone gets to has to wrestle with.

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Speaker 1: As we said before, the film written and directed by

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Speaker 1: Bruce Beresford, what was it. Have you worked with him before?

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Speaker 2: I have? Do you know what? I've been lucky enough.

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Speaker 2: This is my third film with Bruce.

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Speaker 1: He likes you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I feel just I'm really grateful that I've

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Speaker 2: I got to work with him. He's such a beautiful

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Speaker 2: man and such a gentleman. But as you said, like

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Speaker 2: he's a real legend and he's worked not.

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Speaker 1: Just in Australia, We're talking worldwide. This man is around

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Speaker 2: So I first met Bruce when I did Paradise Road.

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Speaker 2: It was my first year out of drama school, and

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Speaker 2: that was set in a prison of war camp and

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Speaker 2: it was about a women's choir through that and that

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Speaker 2: was a beautiful film. And many years later he spoke

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Speaker 2: about Ladies in Black when we were filming Paradise Road,

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Speaker 2: but it took a long time to actually fund the

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Speaker 2: Black with him in twenty seventeen, and then now there's

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Speaker 2: twenty four So look, I feel, yeah, just really privileged

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Speaker 2: to have been able to work with him so many times.

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Speaker 1: And we feel privileged that he decided to pick Perth,

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Speaker 1: Freemantle and the Avon Valley to film, Yeah, the movie

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Speaker 1: in because it's a great advertisement for this part of

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Speaker 1: the world it is, and also for Perth.

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Speaker 2: You know, you can get hilly kind of areas around York,

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Speaker 2: but then you've got the beautiful beaches, you've got Margaret River,

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Speaker 2: You've got you've just got everything here and no humidity either,

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Speaker 2: so you know, and the light is so beautiful. We're

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Speaker 2: talking about that this morning. The light here is so beautiful.

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Speaker 1: So all directors who are listening, this is a great

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Speaker 1: spot ll come and make movies. Yeah, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's so many reasons.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's what's a really good idea

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Speaker 2: to have, you know, get those studios up and running,

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Speaker 2: which is they're meant to be next year. That it

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Speaker 2: is just great for the film community here.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of anticipation for it. Do you have

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Speaker 1: any other projects on the go that you're working on

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Speaker 1: at the moment, anything in the pipeline.

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Speaker 2: Well, I just finished doing The Artful Dodger for Disney

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Speaker 2: Plus and Luke was in that, so we actually did

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Speaker 2: the last two jobs together beautiful Luke Bracy, so that

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Speaker 2: was pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, well we look forward to seeing that. But now,

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Speaker 1: as of the ninth of October, we need to see

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Speaker 1: you in The Trap tras Brian Brown and Luke Bracey

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Speaker 1: and Nicholas Hammond and the Beauty of Western Australia on

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Speaker 1: the big screen. Absolutely, it's a great movie. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for dropping by, thanks for talking, and we look forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing you on Disney Plus.

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Speaker 2: Yes, The Artful Dodger