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Speaker 1: Emily is in cinemas January the twelfth and write a

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Speaker 1: director and pers very own. Francis O'Connor joins us.

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Speaker 2: Now, good morning, Francis, Hi guy.

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Speaker 3: There you going good good.

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Speaker 1: I feel as though Emily Brontie, who this is about.

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Speaker 2: I feel like she didn't write a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of books, but she wrote one of the biggest books ever.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I'm talking about Bothering Heights. What attracted you

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Speaker 1: to this project to tell the story of Emily.

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Speaker 4: I just always loved that book, and I've always really

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Speaker 4: loved who she was. You know, she was quite a

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Speaker 4: rebellious spirit kind of she was an introvert, she was intelligent,

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Speaker 4: she was funny, and I just thought could make a

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Speaker 4: great story about a young woman trying to find herself

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Speaker 4: who's a little bit different, you know. I think that's

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Speaker 4: something that young women feel today. And so, yeah, that's

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Speaker 4: kind of important to me. And I wanted to tell

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Speaker 4: a story about.

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Speaker 1: This was eighteen eighteen, so yeah, I eighteen twenty or

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Speaker 1: so and one of three sisters, all of them write

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Speaker 1: that would have been interesting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it would have.

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Speaker 4: Been an interesting family to grow up in York. And

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Speaker 4: I think the reason that they kind of got to

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Speaker 4: they wrote these amazing books. Is they were in the

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Speaker 4: middle of nowhere. They weren't really kind of indoctrinated with

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Speaker 4: any kind of like Victorian sense of I don't know,

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Speaker 4: conservatism or anything like that. So they were really very

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Speaker 4: much their own people, and that's what they so great skill.

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Speaker 4: If you read read them, they're all brilliant books.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and Francis, I'm not only writing the screenplay but

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Speaker 5: directing as well. Have been wonderful directors through history that

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Speaker 5: have not been wonderful actors necessarily, But could you imagine

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Speaker 5: doing it without having had that skill and having that

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Speaker 5: understanding what the actors.

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Speaker 6: Are going through?

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Speaker 4: No, No, I think it really helped me. I actually

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Speaker 4: really enjoyed the whole process of things on the other

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Speaker 4: side and helping, you know, the actors in the film

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Speaker 4: kind of get there and make them feel comfortable so

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Speaker 4: they can do their best work. Yeah, I think it

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Speaker 4: really helped. For sure. You wrote the screen I really

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Speaker 4: loved it.

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Speaker 2: Write the screenplay.

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Speaker 1: Is time directing or just talk me through the first

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Speaker 1: time you yelled cut.

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Speaker 6: Did you get a.

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Speaker 2: Little sort of chill, you know, take a little moment.

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Speaker 3: A big loud I mean, you really do I mean,

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Speaker 3: I tell you what, though, I did cheer up a lot,

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Speaker 3: you know, just because you're looking through the monitor and

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Speaker 3: what you'd imagined in your imagination looks exactly how it

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Speaker 3: is on the monitor, and it's kind of it's magical

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Speaker 3: and it's come from your imagination.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and please indulge.

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Speaker 6: Just did you get a chair with your name on?

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Speaker 6: Basic stuff?

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Speaker 4: I can't remember, I don't think so. I don't think

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Speaker 4: that probably would have cost too much. I think it

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Speaker 4: might have said director, but.

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Speaker 6: I would have stormed back to winning, back to the trailer.

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Speaker 1: Emma Mackie, most famous for playing Mave and sex education

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Speaker 1: plays Emily Such.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously the most important casting call of the year.

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Speaker 2: Well was it about Emmy? You thought it would make

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Speaker 2: it great? Emily?

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Speaker 3: I think you know what.

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Speaker 4: She was someone that was recommended to the casting director, Fiona,

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Speaker 4: and so we got her in and like up. By

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Speaker 4: the time she'd finished the first scene, I thought, oh

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Speaker 4: my god, she was just amazing, you know, just really

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Speaker 4: emotional and vulnerable. But also she's got this fierce intelligence

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Speaker 4: and she's funny. So and she loved Emily Bunty too,

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Speaker 4: so I think for her it was pretty special playing it.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, it just really felt like the role was hers.

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Speaker 4: Like we kept meeting other people, but eventually we're like it,

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Speaker 4: it has to be Emma, and she was just she's

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Speaker 4: so great in the role too. I think she's it's

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Speaker 4: a very kind of exciting performance.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, with some of the my films, your baby was

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Speaker 5: perfect it.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's what you're here to do, is to talk

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Speaker 6: about time.

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Speaker 5: As we know, wizards buy and sometimes it can be

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Speaker 5: cruel Francis, but there must be the odd time when

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Speaker 5: you pinch yourself and go, she'sid loving other catastrophes that

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Speaker 5: your kids made when you were thinking how big sister are.

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Speaker 6: But it's twenty seven years next month. It's bizarre, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's getting scary.

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Speaker 2: Puts it like that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I think I try to look

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Speaker 3: forward back. Yeah, I'm so proud. I'm so proud of

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Speaker 3: that film.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, it's been it's been a really great ride.

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Speaker 1: So absolutely well looking for looking forward to December seventeen,

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Speaker 1: You're going to be in town for a special Q

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Speaker 1: and a Luna Leedeville.

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Speaker 2: Because you are a Perth girl.

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Speaker 3: Do you get I'm a pirst girl.

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Speaker 2: Do you get home a lot?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, during the pandemic, I couldn't. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 4: the borders are shut, so I came back as soon

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Speaker 4: as they open, which was April this year. Oh sorry,

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Speaker 4: well yeah April year. So my mom and my dad

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Speaker 4: and my sisters and my brother.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it was pretty special.

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Speaker 4: And they're like, oh, you've got an English accent.

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Speaker 3: I've been away for so long.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a while, but yeah, it's really special

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Speaker 4: coming home. It's such a special time in year two

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Speaker 4: in person.

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Speaker 1: Well, I bet they're looking forward to it. And as

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Speaker 1: I said, special Q and a lunar litable on December seventeen.

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Speaker 1: It'll be lovely to have you back in town. And

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for chatting to us this morning, Francis.

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Speaker 4: Pleasure guys, Yeah, absolutely pleasure.

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Speaker 5: And Francis, you did say you're looking forward. We're looking

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Speaker 5: forward to seeing more roles, more of the directorial stuff

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Speaker 5: from you, so all the best.

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Speaker 2: Oh cool, yeah, thanks Francis. Cool, all right, Sa