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Speaker 1: We're very excited to catch up. Our star joining us

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Speaker 1: on the show this morning. Has had an incredible career

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Speaker 1: at just thirty three years of age, slum Dog, Millionaire, Lion,

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Speaker 1: and so many other great films. And Johnny to talk

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Speaker 1: about his new one which is not only directed but

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Speaker 1: stars and it's called Monkey Man.

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Speaker 2: Dev Patel Welcome, good morning, Hey guys, how are you

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Speaker 2: Dev Patel?

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Speaker 3: This movie is intense, like like really intense, and I

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Speaker 3: kept thinking, gee, it's a good thing you were the

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Speaker 3: director of this film because the director asked a lot

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Speaker 3: of his leading man also you, so on the tough days,

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Speaker 3: you only had yourself to blame.

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Speaker 4: I know. It's quite the for meal, isn't it. Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah it was. I mean I poured all of

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Speaker 5: myself into it. It was very humbling, lots happened. I

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Speaker 5: broke all sorts of bits of myself. Yeah, and we survived.

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Speaker 2: You did survive well, zickly and figuratively.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, working on choreography for fight scenes can be grueling, intense.

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Speaker 1: But did you do three years of preparation for this smoke?

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Speaker 1: Because it was full on you know.

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Speaker 5: It was pretty crazy because we started off, you know, location.

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Speaker 4: Scouting in India and then the pandemic hit.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the film was going to tank, and

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Speaker 5: then we blagged our way to a small island in Indonesia.

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Speaker 5: You know, it was really bootstrap like the movie. We

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Speaker 5: didn't have any training equipment, so I was doing a

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Speaker 5: full Jaine Fonder with the rubber band and like you know,

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Speaker 5: buckets and whatever I could. But you know it was

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Speaker 5: it was nine months of sweet potato, salmon and lettuce

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Speaker 5: three times a day.

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Speaker 4: It was pretty intense.

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Speaker 2: The fight scenes are full on, like really full on.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty I think there's one that goes for about

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Speaker 3: twenty five minutes non stop. Now on the screen, it's

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Speaker 3: seamless in its continuity, it's completely flawless. But how long

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Speaker 3: does it actually take to film a scene like that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I mean I was lucky because I, you know, not

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Speaker 5: like normal directors wouldn't get to be in the in

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Speaker 5: the ring opposite the stun men, you know, performing, So

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Speaker 5: I would get hours upon hours in the morning with

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Speaker 5: the stunt team. And I saw this one guy, you know, Stephen,

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Speaker 5: who was one of the stunt guys. You had a

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Speaker 5: little canon camera and I was like, you know, you

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Speaker 5: should you should operate some of these scenes because you're

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Speaker 5: like a ninja.

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Speaker 4: So he started.

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Speaker 5: We incorporated him into the choreography so we could keep

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Speaker 5: the camera rolling for longer and really get under the

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Speaker 5: armpit of the moves and inside the action like no

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Speaker 5: one else has. And yeah, and it became more balletic

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Speaker 1: And yeah, Dave, I got the blood banks like a dance.

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Speaker 2: It isn't really violent.

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Speaker 4: It is choreographic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it might have got the blood ballet the local

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Speaker 1: bloodbank asking for more blood, but I said, just called

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Speaker 1: divail because he's got so much.

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Speaker 2: There's a bit of there's a bit of cleric going around,

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Speaker 2: wasn't there. You made extra supplies blood man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really weird.

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Speaker 3: So the movie is based The story is inspired by

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Speaker 3: a centuries old Hindu legend about Hindu mynkey deity Hannahman. Is,

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Speaker 3: are these the kind of stories that you would be

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Speaker 3: told as a kid.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean my grandfather who lived in Kenya. Every so

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Speaker 5: often he would come to London and I would, you know,

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Speaker 5: the little box room, and he would tell me these

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Speaker 5: stories of these Indian mythologies and this character of Hannahman,

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Speaker 5: this like half man, half monkey, this kind of simeon Superhero.

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Speaker 5: He totally captured my imagination and the older I got

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Speaker 5: I was like, Wow, these iconographies, you know, you know,

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Speaker 5: comic books like Superman and things have pulled from you know,

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Speaker 5: you can fly, you can split his chest open, you know,

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Speaker 5: reveal his powers, and you know, I wanted to ground it.

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Speaker 5: And the inception of this was like, you know, this

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Speaker 5: his way up to challenge the kind of gods of society?

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Speaker 5: That was the kind of early inception of the film.

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Speaker 2: Is that a thing?

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Speaker 3: The undergrounds, the underground fighting ring? Is that a Oh no,

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Speaker 3: this is all kind of that's all.

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Speaker 2: Just part of the story.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, mate, I've always wanted to tell you that

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Speaker 1: when my mom passed in twenty eighteen, her two favorite

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Speaker 1: actors were both British, Roger Moore and yourself. Did you

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Speaker 1: realize it's seventeen you'd have an influence on an old

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Speaker 1: lady in the Perth in Perth, Western Australia.

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Speaker 5: Oh man, God, bless her Soul's so sweet?

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Speaker 1: Man, very cool, yeah, I mean the Yearly movies. Mate,

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Speaker 1: You're so young. It was just incredible success with the

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Speaker 1: exotic mental congratulations.

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Speaker 3: Off topic of monkey Man for a moment in line,

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Speaker 3: will you do the best Australian accent? Because it's not

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Speaker 3: an easy accent to do and it can be a

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Speaker 3: bit of a caricature and yours is up there with

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Speaker 3: Kate Winslet and the dressmaker.

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Speaker 2: How did you? How did you? I mean, it probably

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Speaker 2: doesn't hurt having an Australian girlfriend, but how did you

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Speaker 2: nail it? Although mine would have been before that, it.

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Speaker 5: Was a lot of you know, I'm the biggest fan

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Speaker 5: of Australian Master Chef, so that watching that NonStop, and

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Speaker 5: then you know, I had this incredible dialect coach, Jenny Kent,

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Speaker 5: and she was super patient and I told my agents

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Speaker 5: I was like, I don't want to work on anything

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Speaker 5: else but this. So I spent I think eight months

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Speaker 5: just prepping the accent and like, you know, being in

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Speaker 5: the skin of this guy. And it was the most profound,

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Speaker 5: nourishing experience of my life. I adore Australia, every part

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Speaker 5: of it, from Adelaide to Melbourne to the outback of

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Speaker 5: you know, I'm slowly trying to adventure through all of it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you have to come to Perth best of all.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I had the.

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Speaker 3: Great fortune of interviewing Sorrow when the when the story

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Speaker 3: first came out. I've read the book about six times.

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Speaker 3: It is the most incredible story.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, he's he's a pretty amazing guy. Yeah, just

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Speaker 4: getting them wind up.

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Speaker 2: We are getting them wind up.

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Speaker 1: I meant we would love to see him Perth eventually.

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Speaker 1: But congratulations. This is incredible feat this movie with you

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Speaker 1: taking on so much troubling times to make films.

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Speaker 2: So congratulations.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you and so much.

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Speaker 3: I would imagine you'd be putting your feet up for

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Speaker 3: about the next I'm a.

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Speaker 4: Walking course right now, right holiday.

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Speaker 2: Thanks thanks for your time, man, Thank you very much