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Speaker 1: Ryan Cool, good morning, Good morning Lisa, Good morning, Claviy

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Speaker 1: in Limbo.

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Speaker 2: Mates for Life and the Afterlife. This is a sixth

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Speaker 2: Partter tell us the premise of the show as if

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Speaker 2: you can, yeah, yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean describe that, and it's a six part It is snappy.

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Speaker 3: One of the things that appealed to me most about

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Speaker 3: it is we're dealing with themes of mental health and

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Speaker 3: we lose one of our lead characters early on to suicide.

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Speaker 3: But it has a really light tone to go with that.

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Speaker 3: So it's buoyant, and it celebrates life and it celebrates friendship,

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Speaker 3: and it's really it's not a show about death for me,

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Speaker 3: it's a show about life and the way that we

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Speaker 3: sort of water the relationships that we have and how

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Speaker 3: we move forward together after losing someone. And that's not

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Speaker 3: necessarily with death. It can be you know, you can

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Speaker 3: lose someone for a number of reasons.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it does touch on grief and men's mental health,

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Speaker 2: two important subjects that are finally getting the kind of

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Speaker 2: attention that they should.

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Speaker 3: I think, so yeah, and I hope that this show

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Speaker 3: is a part of that conversation that starts normalizing topics

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Speaker 3: like that. And you know, I think in Australia we

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Speaker 3: have this sort of stoicism or this idea of masculinity.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty rigid. Yeah, if you'll be right, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know that won't go to doctor. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm guilty, My father's guilty and us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think slowly that dialogue's changing, and

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Speaker 3: I hope that, you know. I think part of the

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Speaker 3: antidote to that is, as I say, communication and talking,

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Speaker 3: but I also think it's laughter and lightness and joy,

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Speaker 3: and so I like the fact that this show has

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Speaker 3: both and sort of celebrates both elements of life, you know,

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Speaker 3: both the hard of things that we have to get

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Speaker 3: together for and the parts that make us laugh, which

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Speaker 3: are often found in the mundane.

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Speaker 2: You know well, of course, and you know you mentioned

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Speaker 2: your dad was like that. My dad was like that.

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Speaker 2: I think it's taken a very strong generation of fellas

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Speaker 2: to break that cycle, especially in Australia, with the way

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Speaker 2: we are so good for.

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Speaker 4: You, thanks so much, I know, you know, yeah, go

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Speaker 4: go men men met imports. It's important exercise. It's not

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Speaker 4: it's not just a show.

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Speaker 3: About men and brother Peo were and those relationships.

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Speaker 1: It's very much you know, we have. We have m Harvey,

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Speaker 1: who's our incredible lead, who's.

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Speaker 3: Very much the emotional heart to the show, who gives

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Speaker 3: us yet another avenue of the way that someone goes

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Speaker 3: through the grieving process.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Brian as an actor, was this one that appealed

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Speaker 5: to you on the very first read? And were you

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Speaker 5: looking for the line I see dead people at any state?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I see, Yeah, I was looking, you know, and I

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Speaker 3: think working with Treno o'donald, who was our startup director,

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Speaker 3: and David Stubbs, you know, they were really open to

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Speaker 3: any sort of quips or funny ideas that we could find.

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Speaker 3: Given given the story that we were telling, they were

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Speaker 3: pretty open to So it was a really fun and

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Speaker 3: lively set to be a part of, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: Bob Marley, who plays Bob Marley, I should.

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Speaker 1: Say, yeah, Bob Marley, what.

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Speaker 6: Now Marley in the downtime when theff Bob Morley who

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Speaker 6: plays Nate to your Charlie. It looks like the two

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Speaker 6: of you have great on screen chemistry.

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Speaker 2: Did you work together before?

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Speaker 1: We hadn't worked together before.

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Speaker 3: I'd worked with Bob's wife many years ago when I

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Speaker 3: was a pre teen in a show in my early days.

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Speaker 3: So we were able to sort of bond pretty quickly

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Speaker 3: about sort of going like, hey, you know.

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Speaker 1: I work with Lisa, but we we spent a long time.

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Speaker 3: We spent a couple of weeks pre rehearsal with the psychologist,

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Speaker 3: doctor Zach Seidler, in a room together with the writer

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Speaker 3: and the director, just sort of talking about our own

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Speaker 3: personal experiences with mental health and with psychology, and so

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Speaker 3: that we could sort of formulate a trust in the

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Speaker 3: groundwork from which we could work and delve into the material.

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Speaker 3: So I had such an incredible, incredible sparring partner with Bob,

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Speaker 3: and you know, I think we're seeing him play something

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Speaker 3: that he doesn't. He's not normally cast as you know,

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Speaker 3: it's the real vivaciousness and gregariousness. He's one of the

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Speaker 3: most charming men I've ever met. But usually he's kind

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Speaker 3: of straight down the line, and I'll often play the

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Speaker 3: ben characters. So we sort of we sort of switched

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Speaker 3: fun doing it.

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Speaker 5: Sounds good, But what about House of Dragon fans? Are

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Speaker 5: they some of the most loyal fans and they stopped

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Speaker 5: you in the.

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Speaker 2: Shoe, they loved you oh yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, if the characters we're playing landing on audiences,

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Speaker 3: you know, for me, that means we're doing a decent job.

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Speaker 1: But it is it is a.

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Speaker 3: Different level of fan And when we were over there shooting,

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Speaker 3: I remember the producers coming up to myself a million

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Speaker 3: sort of saying, okay, so you know that when this

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Speaker 3: show releases, like you know you're going to have We're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know,

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Speaker 3: there'll be peach your ink reaching out and it's like, no, no,

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Speaker 3: they'll they'll really be people reaching out. And I think,

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Speaker 3: you know, the fans are so vast and there's such

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Speaker 3: a lesion of them for Game of Thrones that you know,

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Speaker 3: they delve a little deeper than than other.

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Speaker 1: Shows that have been a part of before.

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Speaker 3: But that's part of what makes the world so so

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Speaker 3: immersive there.

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Speaker 2: And can I can I just ask any chance of

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Speaker 2: another season of The Commons? I loved that.

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Speaker 1: How bizarre was the timing of that.

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Speaker 3: I think this sort of like slightly apocalyptic technological the

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Speaker 3: world's going into lockdown series about a virus that was

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Speaker 3: coming from overseas, and then like two weeks later, COVID

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Speaker 3: sort of started. So I don't know if people want

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Speaker 3: to be going back into revisiting that whole world. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean Shellyo had written that, Shelley Burse. You know,

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Speaker 3: that was an incredible obviously ahead of its time piece,

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Speaker 3: and I think it was really timely at that stage.

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Speaker 3: But unfortunately, having gone through the last couple of years,

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Speaker 3: I think we're all ready to sort of.

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Speaker 1: We want a comedy, we want a company. Were a

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Speaker 1: comedy about mental health is going to happened? Last time?

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Speaker 2: When you made that exactly, I.

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Speaker 5: Was really really keen to find out before you go, mate,

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Speaker 5: do you watch much? Do you get to watch much yourself,

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Speaker 5: be movies or TV? Because Lisa and I am obsessed

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Speaker 5: with obsession or succession rather and Lisa's I've been to

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Speaker 5: Pump Rules, any of those.

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Speaker 2: You've been turned out me?

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Speaker 1: You love it? You love it, waiting for the final out,

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Speaker 1: waiting for the session oup.

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Speaker 2: Next week Monday, everybody's talking about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, turn your Twitter off. Look, I mean absolutes

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Speaker 1: in the file. I mean that's the reason I mean

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Speaker 1: this industry in the first place.

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Speaker 3: It's it's it's that content that moved me and you know,

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Speaker 3: not just Australian. So yeah, I'm as much of a

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Speaker 3: fan as I am involved in it, so definitely I'll

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Speaker 3: be wanting speak and keep for the final episode.

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Speaker 2: Also have the most discerning viewer that you will ever

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Speaker 2: come across, and it's just outed me for not being

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Speaker 2: able to get a scandal.

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Speaker 6: All right, Ryan, We look forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to chat, lovely to chat. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: having me.

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Speaker 5: Ryan Cool, one of the stars of In Limbo