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Speaker 1: There are three certainties in life, Clercy, death, taxes, and

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Speaker 1: SBS makes a mighty fine show. And another one starts

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night, Thursday Night, Safe Home premieres at eight thirty

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Speaker 1: and it stars Virginia Gay, who joins us now, Good morning, Virginia, Oh.

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Speaker 2: I mourning my friends? How are you now? Safe Home?

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Speaker 2: Tell us about it.

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Speaker 3: It's a terrific four part limited series. It's a thriller,

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Speaker 3: it's incredibly well paced, It's got these glorious, complex characters.

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Speaker 3: It's set in a family violence legal center. I play

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Speaker 3: the head at the family violence legal center. And what

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Speaker 3: is so striking about the show is that it's written

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Speaker 3: by Anna Barnes, who actually worked in a family violence

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Speaker 3: legal center for three years. So she knows that world,

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Speaker 3: and she knows the absolute truth of this show, which

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Speaker 3: is that unfortunately, family violence can happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime,

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Speaker 3: of any class, of any background. So what that means is,

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Speaker 3: while that's an absolutely horrifying, a horrifying fact, what it

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Speaker 3: means is that when you're watching this show, you got

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Speaker 3: no idea who'd done the who done it?

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: It makes incredible television.

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Speaker 1: Well, you answered my question about research too, because if

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Speaker 1: you get to tell a story like this, it's got

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Speaker 1: to be real, and it's not going to get any

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Speaker 1: realer than coming from the woman who works there.

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Speaker 3: It's exactly right. And we worked so incredibly hard. I mean,

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Speaker 3: the team that made this show is so so impressive.

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Speaker 3: It's produced by Image and Banks, who brought you Offspring,

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Speaker 3: who brought you The Royal Flying Doctors reboot. It was

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Speaker 3: directed by the most incredible director Stevie Kruz Martin, and

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Speaker 3: she created this amazing atmosphere on set where myself and

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Speaker 3: the other cast, including Asha d from The Bold Type.

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Speaker 3: She's a huge star in America. Yes, naval Lee, who's

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Speaker 3: got a Logan nomination for New Gold Mountain like amazing actors.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: She created this incredibly safe and loving atmosphere on set

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Speaker 3: so that we could go to incredibly dark places and

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Speaker 3: deliver them as truthfully as we could, to tell these

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Speaker 3: stories properly. But then we were able to just like

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Speaker 3: the amount of love that surrounded us at every point

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Speaker 3: meant that we were able to come out of it,

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Speaker 3: which again, you know, is a is a privilege that

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Speaker 3: of course you don't get when you are actually living

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Speaker 3: with family dialands.

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Speaker 2: No, that's right, that's right to go home at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day.

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Speaker 4: No, that's right. You talk about the story. The stories

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Speaker 4: had to be told, right because the numbers are so

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Speaker 4: incredibly shocking, and they never they never ceased to amaze

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Speaker 4: me how hideous they are, with people affected.

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Speaker 3: So awful and so striking. What I think was the

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Speaker 3: thing that made it this script, just like it gripped

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Speaker 3: me to read it, let alone perform it was this

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Speaker 3: sense that Anna knows this world, and so she really

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Speaker 3: wanted to tell it really honestly, which is about like saying,

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Speaker 3: you don't always identify monsters. They're not like, they're not

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Speaker 3: monsters immediately, you know, And that family violence can look

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Speaker 3: like several things. So it can look like financial control,

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Speaker 3: it can look like yes, it can look like elder abuse.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't necessarily look like what you think it's going

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Speaker 3: to look like.

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Speaker 1: I think that, you know, with those figures for domestic file,

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Speaker 1: as bad as they are, I always think they're a

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Speaker 1: bit of a tip of an Arceberg situation, and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't discriminate.

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Speaker 2: It is where you might least expect it.

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Speaker 1: You know what I love, I'm loving before you know

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Speaker 1: on another note, loving these four part shows because something else. A.

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Speaker 2: I love a good binge and you can do for.

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Speaker 1: And B it's just sometimes that's just it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a really healthy amount. And it's quality, not quantity

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Speaker 1: sometimes exactly.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely this was you know, this was this length because

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Speaker 3: that was the right length.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, there's no fill out here. It is perfect.

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Speaker 3: Each episode is perfect and so exhilarating to watch. And

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Speaker 3: it all drops, of course on SBS on demand on Thursday,

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Speaker 3: so you can watch them.

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Speaker 2: That's my week and done.

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Speaker 4: I know, right to too many tezy shows other with

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Speaker 4: one at a time a week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know the.

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Speaker 3: Number of times. You know, my viewing habits have changed

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Speaker 3: so significantly five years. Yeah, waiting for something for a week.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I think about it. That's not how it

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Speaker 3: works anymore.

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Speaker 2: But it's true.

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Speaker 1: Because and you must love it because there was I

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Speaker 1: think there was a time where you had to fill

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Speaker 1: the number of you know, shows for the year. You

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Speaker 1: also had to fill that exact forty four minutes or

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Speaker 1: whatever it was.

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Speaker 2: Now, I love I can turn on a show.

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Speaker 1: Some episodes go for thirty eight minutes, some go for

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Speaker 1: forty seven. It depends what was warranted to tell the story.

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Speaker 1: It's governed by the story.

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Speaker 2: Yay, exactly, Jenia, I know you have.

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Speaker 4: You have a special link with per performance of and

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Speaker 4: then that whole production with that Carston crew, with black

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Speaker 4: Swan and the festival with Serano was amazing. And also

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Speaker 4: with your connection with Perth having spent time here, and

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Speaker 4: of course with telephone, you were a natural for telephone.

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Speaker 4: I always thought that bring that personality to town.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did love telephone. My god, what a who's

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Speaker 2: of a time they were breaking records. Let me come back, welcome,

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Speaker 2: there's a standing invitation. You've got to be here.

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Speaker 3: Oh, bless your heart. But yes, indeed I am a

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Speaker 3: Whopper girl. I and everything that I'm about. Acting at Whopper,

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Speaker 3: I'm eternally grateful to it and at school in the

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Speaker 3: com and Perth recently and doing Serrho at black Swan

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Speaker 3: and as part of the profestival was incredible. What johdinary

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Speaker 3: opportunity that was. God, we loved it.

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Speaker 2: And a great twist on the Sirrheno story. More of

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Speaker 2: that please, yes?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So it's.

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Speaker 3: Like Cory shouldn't just belong the same old people who

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Speaker 3: have always told the story life.

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Speaker 2: I know, who'd have thought, Well, we are living in

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Speaker 2: the Golden Age.

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Speaker 1: Safe Home premiers eight thirty tomorrow on SBS and SBS

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Speaker 1: on demand.

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Speaker 2: Virginia Gay, lovely to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Bleasure, beautiful heart

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Speaker 2: Thank you see your FACETI