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Speaker 1: Season two of Baarfires starts eight pm Sunday on the

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Speaker 1: ABC and on abc I View. Of course, in the

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Speaker 1: star of the show, Marta Dusseldorf is joining us.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, welcome.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, thank you, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. I loved season one and

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Speaker 1: I love the synopsis for season two. It says Stella

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Speaker 1: sees a glimmer of hope on the horizon. No one

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Speaker 1: has tried to kill her for some months with you,

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Speaker 1: so what can we expect in season two? Are you

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Speaker 1: at the center of a myriad of problems again?

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Speaker 3: Not to start with, she's simply the boss of the town,

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Speaker 3: managing these fabulous bunch of Motley criminals. Yes, and doing

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Speaker 3: quite well in fact, and everyone's got more than they need,

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Speaker 3: but of course no one's ever satiated. So now she

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Speaker 3: gets a tap on the shoulder by someone that needs more,

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Speaker 3: and it all starts unraveling very quickly. We've got new villains,

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Speaker 3: We've got but deeper, darker secrets. We go deep into

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Speaker 3: the relationships between the characters you met in season one. So,

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Speaker 3: for example, Magda and Heather, Pam Rave and Roz Hammond

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Speaker 3: have a their very own storyline where Stelli takes a

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Speaker 3: break and we find out why they're together and what

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Speaker 3: they mean to each other and how they make it

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Speaker 3: all work. The kids have grown up, so Otis and

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Speaker 3: Iris are more trouble than they're worth, of course, not deeper.

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Speaker 3: We love our kids and Stella and Jeremiah are still

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Speaker 3: trying to work it out. And in the background, yes,

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Speaker 3: there's people wanting things from her that she couldn't possibly provide.

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Speaker 2: And.

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Speaker 3: We don't not as many people die this season, and

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Speaker 3: of course it's all accidental, but we really tried to

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Speaker 3: keep the vibe, you know, Ozark meets Fargo meets.

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Speaker 2: What a comprehensive summer was going on without giving any

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Speaker 2: spoils away, mat I thank you for that. Now film

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Speaker 2: filming and Tassy, which is home since you have been

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Speaker 2: in the family lived back to the film, that's possible.

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Speaker 3: I was so wonderful to return to zen and Queenstown

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Speaker 3: on the west coast of Tasmania. It is one of

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Speaker 3: the most unique landscapes I think in the world, and

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Speaker 3: the people are now like family. Ben and I have

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Speaker 3: a place there and have for longer than the shows existed.

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Speaker 3: But we knew when we first arrived there, and especially

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Speaker 3: when we walked into z and that that was where

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Speaker 3: we needed to place this western which is really what

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Speaker 3: Bad Prize is. And and so this time you'll see

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Speaker 3: us actually spend more time in that main street and

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Speaker 3: Stella and the kids have moved into that, into that

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Speaker 3: amazing art deco Gaiety Theater which exists, and yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, it's cold, it's the dead of winter,

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Speaker 3: but that's when we need to be there. You really

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Speaker 3: see the West Coast have come alive in the winter,

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Speaker 3: the moss and the mycilium and all of the treasures

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Speaker 3: of snow one day and just wet the next and

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Speaker 3: then brilliant sunshine. So we found some locations in season

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Speaker 3: one that we couldn't get to because we didn't have time.

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Speaker 3: But season two I made sure we went up the

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Speaker 3: highest mountains into the coldest rivers, done and we really

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Speaker 3: made the most of this glorious landscape.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 1: It's like a character in and of itself, the landscape

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Speaker 1: of Tasmania. I mean that great show Deadlock that was

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Speaker 1: on last year, and then on the weekend I watched

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Speaker 1: The Survivors, two shows recently set in Tasmania. It's incredible

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Speaker 1: and great cast, as you said, Ros and Pamela back

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Speaker 1: and Matt Nabel he's back for season two as well.

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Speaker 3: Really yep. And we've got Andre Dvani who plays Jason,

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Speaker 3: and Emily who plays Bonnie his wife lived in the caravan.

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Speaker 3: I've got Bob Franklin and we've got him co and

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Speaker 3: El Mandalas, they're all back. And then we've got some

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Speaker 3: really fabulous new faces. So Benedict Hardy joins us as

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Speaker 3: as I think one of the most unusual villains I've

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Speaker 3: ever created, co created with my writing buddies. But his

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Speaker 3: performance is so electric and every time I did a

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Speaker 3: scene with him, but I didn't know when the scene

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Speaker 3: had finished should we stop now, you know, because he's

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Speaker 3: so so in it and fabulous. And then some other

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Speaker 3: really great guest artists. We love to bring people in

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Speaker 3: quite quickly and then get them out one way or another,

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Speaker 3: so there are lots of people tripping literally out of

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Speaker 3: the scene, out of the show. But it was such

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Speaker 3: a ball to write again, and the privilege of being

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Speaker 3: able to go back in is you know, the audience

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Speaker 3: loved it, being the most watched show on ABC and

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, so we just want to please. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it really was about giving them back all the Loveday

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Speaker 3: gave us. So hopefully they love it.

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Speaker 2: This a young woman who plays Rebecca, looks like she

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Speaker 2: shows promised too. Grace. Well, I want to talk about

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Speaker 2: We mentioned quite a bit about Tazzy, but here in

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Speaker 2: Perth we're going to be very spoiled because we've almost

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Speaker 2: finished these new film studios in Malaga. What's the setup

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Speaker 2: like down here? I mean, I know you, you and

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Speaker 2: Ben would love to have an everyone else in the

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Speaker 2: industry I love to have that facility. And what is

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Speaker 2: the promise for that to come?

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Speaker 3: I think while there's focus on another very big structure

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Speaker 3: not a possibility necessarily. But the beauty of Chassy and

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Speaker 3: it's you'll feel it when you come and visit, it's

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Speaker 3: you have to get out in it. That's where the

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Speaker 3: magic lies. So to box us in a room I

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Speaker 3: don't seeink is conducive to what Tassi has to offer.

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Speaker 3: So and all those shows you mentioned, they're all in

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Speaker 3: completely different regions and spaces of that incredible state. So

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Speaker 3: us taking the West Coast, I just it's so unique,

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Speaker 3: it's so organic, and often you know, it says, come

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Speaker 3: down for air, you know, that tourism thing. It's so true,

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Speaker 3: like we ordered see out there breathing in this air

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Speaker 3: and going. We can't believe we're allowed to be here

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Speaker 3: with cameras and capturing this in national parks. I mean,

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Speaker 3: obviously everything's permitted. We're very careful with it. I mean, look,

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Speaker 3: of course i'd love a studio because it's actually cost effective.

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Speaker 3: As now my producer goes on. You know, regional shooting

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Speaker 3: is not cheap. Our budgets aren't huge, so compared to

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Speaker 3: the Americans, what we're able to achieve is pretty startling.

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Speaker 3: And I hope yeah, and our stories travel around the world,

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Speaker 3: so I think we do okay.

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Speaker 1: I think we do well. Season one of Bay of

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Speaker 1: Fires was such a trip. If you haven't seen season one,

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Speaker 1: get around in. Season two starts eight o'clock Sunday on

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Speaker 1: the ABC. I can't wait. Marta, Thank you for joining.

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Speaker 3: Us, Thank you, thanks for speaking to me.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely by time