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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: From Strictly Ballroom to The Great Gadsby and the Film Australia,

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Speaker 2: Barriotto has had a huge impact on the Australian theater

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Speaker 2: and film industry for over fifty years, but in a

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Speaker 2: brand new documentary called Revealed, his daughter Gracie takes us

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Speaker 2: behind the scenes of her famous father from his days

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Speaker 2: on set to life following a devastating diagnosis, and Gracie

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Speaker 2: is here to talk about it. Hello, Gracie, Hi, how

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Speaker 2: are you?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me?

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Speaker 2: Oh, pleasure talk to us about how you felt as

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Speaker 2: a family when you first heard of your dad's diagnosis

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Speaker 2: with dementia. That must have been tough.

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Speaker 1: Oh, start the hard questions. Yeah, I think you know

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Speaker 1: it's tough. I think you know, disease like Alzheimer's is

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Speaker 1: different for everyone, and it's a slow progression. So I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say, like, you know, you really understand the impact

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Speaker 1: of it, maybe till a few years later when you

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Speaker 1: can start to kind of physically see and mentally see

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Speaker 1: the decline of a person. Yeah, so I guess that's yeah, And.

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Speaker 2: So is this He's aco kind of a love letter

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Speaker 2: to your dad's career in life knowing that his memory

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Speaker 2: may go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it ended up being that it was

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Speaker 1: set out to be a film about Dad putting on

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Speaker 1: a one man show and me following him from the

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Speaker 1: beginning to the end of that journey, so I could

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Speaker 1: kind of, you know, do his life, but also have

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Speaker 1: this present day narrative. And then, you know, like they

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Speaker 1: always say with good docos, it's like the third act.

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Speaker 1: You know, we didn't really know what that was yet,

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Speaker 1: because obviously you wanted to play to be a success,

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Speaker 1: and you know, and then it really just kind of

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Speaker 1: went downhill and then kind of shaped into what I

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Speaker 1: guess the film needed to be.

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Speaker 3: And that's what happens with documentaries, some kind of monster.

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Speaker 3: The Inside documentary about Metallica went exactly the same way

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Speaker 3: in the sense that they didn't know what they were

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Speaker 3: going to get out of it. They started off, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: this is going to be behind the scenes of the band.

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Speaker 3: Then the band had a massive meltdown.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So it was definitely you know, I'm really

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Speaker 1: proud of the film, and I really love what my

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Speaker 1: team we've done with it, but it's yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: definitely like a kind of a bit of a creative

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Speaker 1: expression of like a therapeutic journey that I've been on

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Speaker 1: in the last seven years.

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Speaker 2: I bet. And you've interviewed so many extraordinary Australians, Jillian Armstrong,

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Speaker 2: Cate Blanchette, Basiluman, John Bell. What was it that you

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Speaker 2: discovered about your dad that you didn't know?

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, I was interviewing my sister, Miranda Otto,

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Speaker 1: and I felt like when she was talking about Dad

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Speaker 1: and saying, you know, my dad this and my Dad that,

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Speaker 1: and I hadn't really acknowledged. I think as a younger

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Speaker 1: sibling that sometimes an older sibling has a completely whole

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Speaker 1: upbringing in life with someone, and so I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: with her, she also kind of taught me that Dad

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Speaker 1: was really an amazing actor and commanding in certain roles,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I kind of knew him from the

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Speaker 1: more eccentric roles where maybe he got pigeonholed into being

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Speaker 1: more kind of the clown like character and cozy or

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Speaker 1: things like that. So I think I thought that was

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Speaker 1: a really interesting thing to learn about Dad.

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Speaker 3: And also, you're a half sister to Miranda, so is

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Speaker 3: that a different sort of sibling rivalry?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think it's you know, we're twenty years apart,

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Speaker 1: So I think, you know, my you know, for me,

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Speaker 1: it's like my life when my life began, that's when

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Speaker 1: she begins in my life, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So I think thinking about her having that childhood with

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Speaker 1: him was also, you know, something I found quite moving.

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Speaker 2: What a journey you've been on, Gracie. You exhausted.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, I had my colle Jonah and

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Speaker 1: Cody Green would have produced my last two movies, and

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Speaker 1: Karen Johnson, who's my editor, and it was such a

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Speaker 1: you know, a small team, but we really you know,

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Speaker 1: if it wasn't for them, I feel like they kind

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Speaker 1: of pulled me through and were so creative on this

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Speaker 1: experience and supportive, which is I think, you know it

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Speaker 1: kind of you know, it needs to be made by family.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, do you see yourself like you like directing stuff,

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Speaker 3: you are going to get on the other side of

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Speaker 3: the lens. We're going to see you acting in something.

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Speaker 1: No. No, I'm not a good actor, Like I'm so

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Speaker 1: good at playing myself. So if a role comes up

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Speaker 1: when you need me, then call me. But I think

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Speaker 1: I was definitely to being behind the camera.

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Speaker 3: You were great in Sea Patrol Sounds.

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Speaker 1: Like I was in Sea Patrol. I played someone on

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Speaker 1: an island where they I remember I went up to

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Speaker 1: the director and said, I'm meant to cry and leave

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Speaker 1: mccheus and my husband to die and I'll keep you

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Speaker 1: on an island. And I said, look, I think she's strong.

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Speaker 1: I don't think she no worries you. So now someone

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Speaker 1: does that to me on set.

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Speaker 2: Here's an onion, rub it in your face.

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Speaker 3: I did a bit of well work with Paul Fennick,

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Speaker 3: who you know from the Fat Pizza series. And if

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Speaker 3: you had any complaint to poorly about anything, yes, you

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Speaker 3: would suddenly get blown up, your.

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Speaker 2: Character get written out in a very way, and.

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Speaker 3: You get blown up or run over by a train.

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Speaker 3: So I never really complained. Well, Gracie, it's great to

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Speaker 3: George you revealed Otto by Otto premiers this Sunday only

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Speaker 3: on stand.

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Speaker 2: It sounds incredible, Gracie, I can't wait to see.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for having me. Guys, have a great day.

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Speaker 3: Thanks super