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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: My next guest is an Ossie export to Hollywood. She

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Speaker 2: was born and raised in Sydney. At the age of eighteen,

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Speaker 2: she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting full time.

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Speaker 2: You will know her from the movie Dumplin with Jennifer

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Speaker 2: Aniston and Sandra Blocks, Netflix Runaway hit bird Box, which

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Speaker 2: is on the big screen again with Falling Figure. Oh

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Speaker 2: Danny l McDonald, Hello.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Helleen.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to think that we got in at the

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Speaker 4: ground level with you. I know this is the first

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Speaker 4: time I've spoken to you, but you know I've always

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Speaker 4: said she is carrying jumping on the band, I've got

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Speaker 4: to walk the streets.

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Speaker 1: Ah nice, nice, How amazing.

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Speaker 2: Did you have an inkling that the LA would open

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Speaker 2: up like this for you or did you just go

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Speaker 2: and try your luck?

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Speaker 1: No? I mean I came out here because I was

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Speaker 1: getting kind of more opportunity at the time. There was

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Speaker 1: just there's a lot more productions out here, or there

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Speaker 1: definitely was when I moved out. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: kind of why a lot of Aussies come out here

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Speaker 1: and they just try their luck and see where it goes.

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Speaker 1: And luckily for me. I, I kind of kept working

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Speaker 1: out here and I got really lucky about five years

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Speaker 1: ago and kind of have been able to work really

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Speaker 1: consistently since, and that's been really really amazing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, you make it sound so easy,

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Speaker 4: but it would be so hard that for one of you,

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Speaker 4: there would be a million other people that just never

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Speaker 4: got there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, it's a really really difficult industry. And I've been

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Speaker 1: out here for twelve years, and like I said, it

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Speaker 1: was five years ago that kind of doors really really

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Speaker 1: opened up for me. So that puts you know, a

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Speaker 1: good six and a half years before that of just

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Speaker 1: really really trying and getting jobs here and there, sometimes

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Speaker 1: not working for a year, that kind of thing. And

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Speaker 1: it is a very difficult industry. You know. I think

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Speaker 1: if you can see yourself doing something else, it's it

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Speaker 1: might be great to do it.

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Speaker 3: At the same time, if you can't, like like I

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Speaker 3: really couldn't, this is what it is for me, and

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm okay living a lifestyle where you don't really

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Speaker 3: know what your schedule is next week.

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Speaker 1: That's just the reality of it, even even to this day.

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Speaker 2: Well, your skill set is extraordinary and in falling for

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Speaker 2: figure out you play an opera singer. I know you're

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Speaker 2: not an opera singer, but had you may surprise you

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Speaker 2: to hear that, Danielle, but you had to learn how

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Speaker 2: to to mime. And it's not just like miming into

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Speaker 2: a hair brush. Opera singing is different to any other

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Speaker 2: type of singing, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's really different. I got I worked with

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Speaker 1: a lot of vocal coaches, repetitors, and I basically was

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Speaker 1: singing on set really badly, really not hidden the notes

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Speaker 1: the right way. But you do have to actually sing

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Speaker 1: because you have to have the vibrations and you have

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Speaker 1: to have your mouth policemen and the places. And that

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Speaker 1: was kind of the way to make it look not fagused,

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Speaker 1: by actually by doing it. And then in post they

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Speaker 1: replace your voice with someone who can sound good doing that.

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Speaker 4: You do you have operatic talents? Did you suddenly discover

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Speaker 4: that your your Oh my god, I'm an opera singer.

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Speaker 2: You know what?

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Speaker 1: I wish I could say yes, but no, definitely not.

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Speaker 1: But my co star Hugh actually was. I was singing

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Speaker 1: a deu out with him and he's brilliant, Like his

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Speaker 1: voice is so good. I was like, this is mortifying.

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Speaker 3: He sound incredible, and then.

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Speaker 1: I'm justcreaching out a few lines every now and then.

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Speaker 1: It was it was definitely interesting.

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Speaker 4: And you're so good with the accents because in Dumplin

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Speaker 4: you had a great American accent. I know, I detect

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Speaker 4: a bit of that Atlantic accent that you get when

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Speaker 4: I was he go over to America.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've done I've done a bunch of different accents

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Speaker 1: at this point, and I'm kind of just used to

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Speaker 1: doing different accents depending on what the role is. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've rarely played Australian. I've only done it twice in

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Speaker 1: my career, So I like putting on accents. Honestly, it

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Speaker 1: helps me get into character. So every time I do

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Speaker 1: an accent, I'm never mad at it.

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Speaker 2: You've worked with some incredible people Jennifer Aniston Joanna Lumley

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Speaker 2: in this film how wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's incredible. I mean she's an icon obviously, everyone

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Speaker 1: in Australia knows that. She's absolutely hilarious, warm, kind, funny, professional.

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Speaker 1: She's truly everything you want to work with and I

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Speaker 1: had the best time shooting with her.

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Speaker 4: Well, this is great and it's just so great to

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Speaker 4: catch up with you. I told everyone who'd care to

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Speaker 4: listen that you're going to kill it.

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Speaker 2: That's right, tell Chris Hemsworth.

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Speaker 4: I told Chris. I told Chris Hemsworth, you're going to

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Speaker 4: be bigger than Eric Banner. And look at it.

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Speaker 2: Not that you were going to be that he was

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Speaker 2: going to be, but I think you'll be bigger than

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Speaker 2: Eric comes Worth, than me.

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Speaker 4: Th same, I've cut loose. Chris Hemsworth, You're my you

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Speaker 4: new muse, Danny, so great to talk to you. Falling

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Speaker 4: for Figure Out is in cinemas today. Danny L McDonald,

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Speaker 4: thank you so much for joining us, Thank.

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Speaker 1: You for having me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you