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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation from the Matrix to a Lord

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Speaker 1: of the Rings. You Go Weaving continues to captivate us

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Speaker 1: with his performances worldwide. But he's got a new Australian

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Speaker 1: film called The Rooster. I've seen some snippets of this.

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Speaker 1: It looks kind of atmospheric, quirky dark, It looks quite incredible.

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Speaker 2: It involves table tennis.

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Speaker 1: I did see that as well, You Go Weaving, Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 1: tell us about the movie The Rooster.

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Speaker 3: The Rooster is set in country Victoria and it centers

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Speaker 3: around a young cop who's just gone through a tragedy

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Speaker 3: with a friend who's passed away, and he meets and

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Speaker 3: he's sort of having issues with his life. He's told

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Speaker 3: to take a leave of absence from his job for

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Speaker 3: a short period of time. He meets man who he

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Speaker 3: thinks might have seen his friend just before he died,

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Speaker 3: and they strike up a very unlikely friendship. And the

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Speaker 3: man is a hermit who lives in the woods, and

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Speaker 3: most of the film takes place with the two of

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Speaker 3: them in the woods. Yeah, getting to know each other

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Speaker 3: and trying to sort out their respective problems.

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Speaker 1: And that's you. You play the hermit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I play mitt who's a hermit. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: they get up to a bit of as you said,

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Speaker 3: naked table tennis, table tennis.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that's part of it. That's one of the

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Speaker 2: things that you see is he says, if you play

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Speaker 2: with me in ping pong or table tennis, I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you everything you need to know. And that's where it

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Speaker 2: just starts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. They I mean, it's like it's like someone's trying

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Speaker 3: to go and see the wise man and get all

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Speaker 3: the answers for his problems. But of course this is

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Speaker 3: a madman, not a wise man his own wisdom. They're

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Speaker 3: both damaged individuals, but there's a there's a great deal

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Speaker 3: of sort of I have a lot of a lot

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Speaker 3: of things in common. Actually, even though they're very different,

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Speaker 3: and they have they have, they both they both have

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Speaker 3: suffered trauma in their in their lives, and through alcohol

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Speaker 3: and humor and table tennis and long conversations and jazz,

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Speaker 3: they they develop an understanding about who they are and

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Speaker 3: what they need to do.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to a role like this. In terms

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Speaker 1: of getting ready in the mornings, is it a relief

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Speaker 1: just to play an alcoholic recluse hermit. In terms of

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Speaker 1: your grooming and all of that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's quite nice. You don't need to tidy

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Speaker 4: up on the on the country I grew, I grew

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Speaker 4: the bushes bed, I couldn't grow my hair long, and

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Speaker 4: it was just a complete fright.

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Speaker 1: So it was very joy So for the months leading

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Speaker 1: up we were saying, it's for a role, okay.

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Speaker 3: I was lucky to be working with a wonderful friend,

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Speaker 3: Mark Winter, who wrote the script and directed it as well.

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Speaker 1: A great experience practice your table tennis.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well the table, Well, the thing the thing about

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Speaker 3: Met's table tea he doesn't it's not about winning. It's

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Speaker 3: just about staying in the game. Just stay in the game.

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Speaker 3: So just hit the ball back over the net. That's

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Speaker 3: all you need to do. You don't need to win

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Speaker 3: the point. That's the point of Mets table tennis. And

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Speaker 3: the table was incredibly warped. It was out in the

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Speaker 3: sitting out in the room, so it was a very

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Speaker 3: warped table.

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Speaker 2: Well that's what happens if you leave a table tennis

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Speaker 2: out in the Victorian wilderness. Surely it's going to be warped.

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Speaker 1: But also this must be a freakish movie because most

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Speaker 1: men play to win.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well, I think MIT's a big loser. His

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Speaker 3: whole life has been, as I said, very traumatic. So

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Speaker 3: he's decided to retire from the world and live in forest.

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Speaker 3: So he's quite. He's quite. He's quite disturbed in some ways.

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Speaker 3: But he's very funny as well. Yeah, so he's not

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Speaker 3: into he's not into he's not into winning. I think

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Speaker 3: he gave up on that quite a long time.

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Speaker 2: Well, that could be me. I could do that. I

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Speaker 2: could just grow a big beard and just live in

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Speaker 2: the forest and challenge strangers to the table.

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Speaker 1: But you'd insist on winning. That's the difference.

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Speaker 2: You'd get cranky and I can't grow a good beard.

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Speaker 2: I just I've never been out of there.

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Speaker 1: It could be an alcoholic recluse.

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Speaker 2: I could easily do that, but everything else I can't do. Hugo,

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Speaker 2: it's great to talk to you. The Rooster is out

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Speaker 2: in cinemas today, Hugo Weaving, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, guys, thank you