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Speaker 1: Sweet Ass is in cinemas across the country today and

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Speaker 1: we are joined by one of the stars this morning,

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Speaker 1: Tasma Walton. Good morning. How are you enjoying living back

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Speaker 1: in Double Way? I have to ask, first of all.

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Speaker 2: Truth be told. I absolutely love it. Y you know

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Speaker 2: where the last state? Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 2: So look I grew up in Geryalton's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to be honest, I never actually lived in person

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Speaker 3: from Geralton to Sydney and then State East Coast for

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Speaker 3: quite some time. Okay, So I'm just loving being back, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: somewhere new.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is exactly Yeah. Yeah, it's so much quicker

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Speaker 1: to get up to Jarlton. Now we've got all these

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Speaker 1: options with the Indian Ocean Road and everything. Yes, yes, Now,

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Speaker 1: the story of Sweet Ass was inspired by its writer,

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Speaker 1: So tell us about her and what the movie is

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Speaker 1: essentially about.

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Speaker 2: Lovely job.

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Speaker 3: So, I've known Jubb now for a very long time.

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Speaker 3: We both started in theater. Actually we did a play

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Speaker 3: for the for Black Swan back in the early two thousands,

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Speaker 3: and so this is a story that is based on

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Speaker 3: her real life experience as a young Aboriginal woman growing

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Speaker 3: up in the Pilbra.

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Speaker 2: So she's a port edline girl.

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Speaker 3: She's actually junior is her traditional country which is Brimway,

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Speaker 3: but grew up in port Headland and was sort of

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Speaker 3: during her adolescent years just having a bit of a

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Speaker 3: tough time.

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Speaker 2: And back in that day, there were these photosafaris that

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Speaker 2: were going around to remote places.

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Speaker 3: And she got a spot on one of them and

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Speaker 3: went out on country for you know, I think it

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Speaker 3: was a week and learned how to take beautiful photographs

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Speaker 3: of country and never.

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Speaker 1: Any places to do it is there out that.

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Speaker 3: Way incredible and for her it sort of revolutionized her

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Speaker 3: perspective on her life and pathways and choices that she

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Speaker 3: could make.

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Speaker 2: So you know, she always credits that particular.

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Speaker 3: Experience to you know, the arts say leaving her you know,

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Speaker 3: from possibly.

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Speaker 4: Almost giving her a purpose, purpose, sense of purpose.

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Speaker 2: It opened the world up to her.

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Speaker 3: She saw that power of the arts to save lives

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Speaker 3: and to open opportunities.

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Speaker 1: Not to mention I guess what she was immersed in.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty soul feeding absolutely to be working in that

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Speaker 1: kind of area. And what is amazing is you filmed

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Speaker 1: in Karajani National Park. You would have had to get

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Speaker 1: expect permission for that, and what a treat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's for us, for you, Yeah, that's yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: the most incredible landscape. You know, I absolutely recommend it

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Speaker 3: to anybody who wants to go and immerse themselves in

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Speaker 3: our ancient country that we had. It was so spectacular

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Speaker 3: and was so blessed to be able to shoot up there.

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Speaker 1: So the young cast are an outstanding bunch of actors.

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Speaker 1: Just seeing young talent coming through the way they are

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Speaker 1: and the diverse talent that we've got, does that fill

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Speaker 1: you with joy?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, And it's exciting because you know, we're in

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Speaker 3: a very different era to what it was when I

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Speaker 3: first started. You know, there are so many more pathways

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Speaker 3: and opportunities, and so it's it's I think, you know,

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Speaker 3: a young person starting out in the industry, now anything

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Speaker 3: could happen. So it is you know, I feel really

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Speaker 3: excited for those kids coming through that they just you know,

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Speaker 3: the world could be.

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Speaker 4: Their oyster, not necessarily just having to take the traditional

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Speaker 4: route of stage or television or film, but there's so

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Speaker 4: many other avenues that they can definitely so many other

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Speaker 4: paths that they can tell me.

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Speaker 3: So just in practical terms, the way that people audition

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Speaker 3: these days, you know, you used to go into a

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Speaker 3: room with the director and the producer and screen test

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Speaker 3: and all that sort of stuff. Now it's all self taping,

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Speaker 3: so you can be at home, you know, you can

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Speaker 3: be in Geralton do a self test, and that could

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Speaker 3: go to a studio in America, you know, and you look.

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Speaker 3: You know. Obviously it's a little bit akin to winning

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Speaker 3: the lotto, but still in it to win.

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Speaker 4: It, that's true. But you didn't have to You don't

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Speaker 4: have to go there for them to actually discover you.

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Speaker 4: And if you have that spark, if you have that

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Speaker 4: thing that they're looking for, it doesn't matter where you are.

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Speaker 2: That's right, I can see it. That's right. It's completely

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Speaker 2: opened up.

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Speaker 1: You're working with Mark Cole Smith who watched in the

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Speaker 1: Mystery wrote Origin and you were in the other two.

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Speaker 2: You weren't in the one with him, were you, because

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Speaker 2: you were, That's right.

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Speaker 3: Your role is in the other exactly exactly, so, so

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Speaker 3: obviously the Origins. Yes, it's going back to Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we see a fabulous a younger Mary love

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Speaker 1: love him.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we saw a younger Mary exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The cast was all brilliant, wonderful, wonderful. You get

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Speaker 3: to work with him, Yes, it was. It was fantastic.

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Speaker 3: I actually did work on the set in a sort

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Speaker 3: of behind the scenes capacity, a drama tag and a

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Speaker 3: social producer. Yeah, it's you're stepping into a legacy project really,

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Speaker 3: so just to help those guys just kind of.

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Speaker 2: Find their feet in this in this world. Yes, so, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was a really.

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Speaker 3: Wonderful experience, just to sort of see it from a

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Speaker 3: different perspective.

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Speaker 1: You've appeared on so many TV series, including Mystery Road,

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Speaker 1: Blue Heelers. Is there anything on a small screen we

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Speaker 1: can look forward to seeing you in soon? Yes, but

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Speaker 1: you can't stay. I can't tell you. Are you replacing Koshi?

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Speaker 1: I do not know getting could you imagine?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: No, no, none of us. You don't want to get

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Speaker 1: up that early to take it from us?

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Speaker 2: Definitely not, Definitely, it hurts.

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Speaker 1: Is there a role you'd love to play or wish

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Speaker 1: you'd been given the part for?

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Look, I think every actor has to

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Speaker 3: be able to.

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Speaker 2: Say, yes, there's something, yeah, kind of roles like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are so many great and I'm just watching

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Speaker 3: Succession at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, you know, I look at a lot of characters.

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Speaker 3: On that, but I'd love to get my teeth into

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Speaker 3: and they have such a.

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Speaker 2: Great way of working.

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Speaker 3: You know, the script are so funny, but they're playing saying,

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Speaker 3: you know, the authenticity and the truth.

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Speaker 2: Of it, Like some of that dialogue is priceless. I

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Speaker 2: love to be able to play one of those characters.

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Speaker 1: We swear they were a flying the wall at a

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Speaker 1: Murdoch meeting, wouldn't that's the rumor. I love it when

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Speaker 1: it irritates life and back and forward and all of that.

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Speaker 2: Runs ruse that fine line. Well.

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Speaker 1: As I said, Sweet as is in cinemas across the

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Speaker 1: country today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us, Thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: having me.

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Speaker 4: Good luck with the film.

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Speaker 2: Cheers, Thank you,