1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: Cleary and Lisas, how's it make it in wap in 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: this son, I'll make you a start. 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 2: This has been fabulous And today Prince Wright is joining 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 2: us Good Morning, director w read film director of the 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 2: movie Before Dawn, amongst other things. Before Dawn is coming 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 2: out on Netflix tonight, Slash Tomorrow. You were just telling 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 2: us and this is not the usual thing that happens 8 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 2: in the States. 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 3: It was meant to have what a three week cinema 10 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 3: It was meant to run. 11 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 4: Only three week cinema run, ended up doing eleven weeks 12 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 4: in the cinemas and the States. 13 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 3: That's high praise. 14 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:38,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's gone pretty much equivalent in Europe. It's 15 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 4: just gone mental over there, which is Frantaic. 16 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 3: Well, I'm not surprised because it looks amazing. 17 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 5: What a great reason. 18 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 3: It is a Anzac story. 19 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's an Anzac story that needed to be told. 20 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 4: And I read the diaries back when I was in 21 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 4: high school. Yeah, and going through those diaries, and you know, 22 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,639 Speaker 4: everybody knows the story of Gallipoli, but they don't necessarily 23 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 4: know the story of the Western Front, And so reading 24 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,639 Speaker 4: those diaries and just seeing the sacrifice of what those 25 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 4: men and women went through back then. I was like, nah, this, 26 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 4: this has to be told, This has to be put 27 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 4: on the big screen. And so all the films are 28 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 4: previously done have been leading up to this, and the 29 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 4: purpose of this was an awareness piece and little did 30 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,839 Speaker 4: we know would go this gangbusters around the world. 31 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: It is incredible now. Ian Hale from the Backlock movie 32 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: Cinemas of course in Halo Films, he spoke to us 33 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: what a couple of years ago, last year and a 34 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: half ago, about you, and he said, there was this 35 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: kid who wrote to me, how old were you when 36 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: you wrote? 37 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 5: Thirteen years old? 38 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 4: When I wrote to him and said, oh, yeah, I 39 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 4: want to be a movie maker, and you know, and 40 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 4: little did I know what was actually involved. 41 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 5: In my Yes film. 42 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, but no, I wrote to him and he wrote, 43 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 4: he wrote back to me. He was sort of encourageble 44 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 4: he's still oh yeah, he still got the letter today 45 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 4: and I still got the letter he wrote. 46 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 3: Back to me, dines out on you a lot. 47 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 4: It was quite funny though, because I remember going to 48 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 4: him with the Western that I did and he's like, yeah, 49 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 4: you know great, make it so encouraging. And we won 50 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 4: awards in LA and I got to meet a lot 51 00:01:57,840 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 4: of people like Jack Thompson I got to meet when 52 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 4: I was in high game advice and long story short 53 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 4: within you know, when we started with the war film. 54 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 4: Because we've made all these films to date, but now 55 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 4: you're going to go to this whole next level, you know, 56 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 4: a Hollywood level. You're going to need a significant amount 57 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,959 Speaker 4: of funding. Six months later, went back, told him I 58 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 4: did it, and he's like, well, I don't have a choice. 59 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 5: Now, I guess we'll have to be. 60 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 3: Able to do it. 61 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, now you went to Whopper. 62 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 4: Yes, I went to ECU and got to the units 63 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,399 Speaker 4: of Whopper and whatnot, and what you learn there is incredible, 64 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 4: you know. And now ECY is moving into the city, 65 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 4: which is fantastic. So it's really yeah, it's really exciting 66 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 4: that we've got, especially at the studio that's been built 67 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 4: here as well, Like there's plenty of opportunities for upcoming 68 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 4: talent and artists to actually you know, explore because you know, 69 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 4: Australia's all really loves the sports, but there's also incredible 70 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 4: artists here, you know, and you see that that around 71 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 4: the world. In fact, the recent awards that have just 72 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 4: come back from in the Netherlands, which was the Settimius Awards. 73 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 4: We one night, we're just sitting in a restaurant started 74 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 4: chatting to these Aussies and they were all from Whopper. 75 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 4: They were in some musical theater show over there. So 76 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 4: it shows you Aussies are really taking over the art 77 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 4: scene around the world. 78 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: How excited are you about Malagamo, because it's going to 79 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: be a big set up up there. As a filmmaker, 80 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: you must. 81 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 4: Be, Oh, definitely, And I think it's really good that 82 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 4: the government's got behind this and like before Dawn, it 83 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 4: was an independent production and it can actually be you know, 84 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 4: without being. 85 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 5: Too political about it. 86 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 4: It is hard to get funding sometimes from the government 87 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 4: to make films, even if it's an ANZAC film. But 88 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 4: to say, hey, look we've actually now got the studio 89 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 4: that's being built there, and hopefully that we have that support, 90 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 4: that the local artists here in Way get to actually 91 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 4: be involved in that and we actually get to and 92 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 4: it's not just overseas or over east so to speak, 93 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 4: and we actually get those jobs here to be Yeah, 94 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 4: it's going to be interesting to see what happens there. 95 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 4: But I know the local scene we're super excited and yeah, 96 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 4: there's gonna be a lot more opportunities to come. 97 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 2: And the whole movie can all be done in the 98 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 2: one stage rather than having you know, some bits there 99 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: and then post production somewhere else. Entirely as a director, 100 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 2: you know why w WA is really taking off because 101 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: of our incredible locations. 102 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean before Dawn, we filmed a World War 103 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 4: One film in Esperance, you know, so, and then we 104 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 4: had Q where was all the outback scenes. So we 105 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 4: have got magical locations here. And I guess also, yeah, 106 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 4: with the studio go back to it saying about doing stuff. 107 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 5: We had to have. 108 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 4: Studios over east, but we even had studios in India 109 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 4: assisting us out because there wasn't that capability here in Wa. 110 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 4: So we've got everything up to the stage of post production, 111 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 4: but nothing beyond that. So then you know, other than 112 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 4: places like inns, that the backlot and that sort of thing. 113 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 4: So for us, it was one of those things going Okay, 114 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 4: well we've got the magical locations, we have to source overseas. 115 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 5: But yeah, look before. 116 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 4: Dawn, you know, we brought in thirty tons of wood 117 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 4: to Esperance, and one thing that stands out with doing 118 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 4: stuff like that on such a massive scale as you're 119 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 4: making a Hollywood film with a limited budget. 120 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 5: How do you do that while it's. 121 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 4: The community and WA has that community that really want 122 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 4: to get behind you. And Before Dawn and all the 123 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 4: films that I've worked on in WA would not have 124 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 4: been possible without that community support. 125 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, Jordan Quentin Tarantino is an interesting cat, right, So 126 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 1: he was the guy who you know, the movie freak 127 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: almost born in the wrong era and he was working 128 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: in the video shop and became a monster success as 129 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: a filmmaker. Were you born in the wrong era? What 130 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: were you doing as a kid watching Steve John Wayne movies? 131 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: Definitely definitely was born in the wrong era. 132 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 4: My old man he used to go to video easy 133 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 4: and order in black and white. The Stage Coach was 134 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 4: one of my favorite films with John Wayne. And they 135 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 4: used to say to you know, dad, oh, this is 136 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 4: for his dad, you know granddad, AND's like, no, no, 137 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 4: this is for my son who's like four years old 138 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 4: watching this. And you know, so in Facts when you 139 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 4: guys were just playing Michael Jackson then on the radio 140 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 4: before everyone's texting me going, this is quite ironic, because 141 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 4: you know you're an eighties fan and you're about to 142 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 4: go on the radio and they're playing eighties before you 143 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 4: jump on it, like, yeah, I was born in the 144 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 4: wrong era. But that also is great in the sense 145 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 4: that when making films, I prefer to do it the 146 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 4: old school way, like, let's do least amount of CGI, 147 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,919 Speaker 4: let's focus on the story, the characters, and really bring 148 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 4: that old school filmmaking. So that way, well, that way, 149 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 4: you know, five ten years from now, you can watch 150 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 4: that film again and it hasn't outdated so quickly. 151 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,919 Speaker 2: I just recently watched Twelve Angry Men for the like 152 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 2: hundred a million time in my life, and that is. 153 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 3: A classic example. You know, no cg on that and 154 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 3: it's really really good. Did you what was it? Always 155 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 3: I want to be a director. 156 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: I want to be the guy that's sitting in the 157 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 2: chair directing the whole thing. 158 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 4: Oh, it's a good question. I don't think so. I 159 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 4: think this is just the way that it's kind of 160 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 4: played out. But in high school it was like I 161 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 4: was originally I was going into customs, originally border security, 162 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,119 Speaker 4: watching the TV shirt. 163 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 5: But I always was. 164 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 4: Running around as a kid making like films and just 165 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 4: filming stuff, right, Okay, And then I hit high school 166 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 4: and I went to Swan Christian, which was a great 167 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 4: school there, and they had this media department. 168 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 5: And I came home when. 169 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 4: I was thirteen and year eight said Tom and Dad, yet, 170 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 4: I'm going to be a filmmaker. And of course they 171 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 4: went arts, you know, verse the government paid job. You know, 172 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 4: this is going to be interesting, you know. And I 173 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 4: was like, no, I'm going in the arts industry and 174 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 4: I'm going to do it. And the more I started 175 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 4: working on I guess the craft in high school because 176 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 4: when you're in high school, you're just having fun. Same 177 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 4: when you're at UNI, you're just making mistakes, and you know, 178 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 4: learning from those mistakes because it's that mistake is not 179 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 4: going to cost you ten twenty thirty thousand dollars like 180 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 4: it would on a big set. And I just fell 181 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 4: in love with the craft. And now I look back 182 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 4: on it and I think I was always born to 183 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 4: do it because as a kid, I was watching the 184 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 4: old school, old school films. 185 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, they've only got themselves to blame because they started 186 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 2: you off. 187 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 5: With exactly and you're born to do it. 188 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: Was like Ben Affleck and Matt David, you know, and. 189 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 4: It's so funny because even with the trench, there was 190 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 4: all the post holes, the postthold digger that needed full 191 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 4: the uprights that I'm doing, and there was three hundred 192 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 4: odd plus and so that was my dad was going 193 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 4: around drilling all those and now and then hit the 194 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 4: post hole digger would whack him on the hip. You know, 195 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 4: you'd go, you know, well it's your fault, dad, you know. Yeah, 196 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 4: And then sometimes be like, oh, this is broken down. 197 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 4: All that's broken down, all this needs fixing. It's like, well, 198 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 4: that's going to help out with that. So it's a 199 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 4: very family orientated set. And you know, before Dawn and 200 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 4: all my films have only really been possible because of 201 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 4: the support from the family and the cast and crew, 202 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 4: which is very much a family as well. 203 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 2: Is yelling cut the best feeling in the world. Well, action, 204 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 2: I think, but you you don't do action, do you. 205 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 2: That's someone else that does that, isn't there? 206 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 4: So I like saying an action, yeah, and the reason 207 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 4: why you got and action is because you got and 208 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 4: and then the actors then we're going. 209 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 5: But the cut sometimes sometimes I call cuts. 210 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 4: Sometimes it's the first day and all the casts they 211 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 4: caught on pretty quickly. If I picked because everyone has caps. 212 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 4: That's something we do on productions. We will get custom caps. 213 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 4: And if I lift my cap up and scratch my head, 214 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 4: the actor said, we know we're going again because Jordan's 215 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 4: not happy We're going again. 216 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 5: Look at and what came from? Speaking of the set, 217 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 5: what came first? 218 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,319 Speaker 1: Was it a chair with director in on it, that 219 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: brilliant Before Dawn jacket you got on producer. 220 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, this was actually one of the executive producers got 221 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 5: me this. 222 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 4: We got we had jackets and caps and all that, 223 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 4: and again it's making it kind of that everybody's part 224 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 4: of that onset community. But I did actually have a 225 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 4: director's chair on Before Dawn, and I sat on it 226 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 4: on the last day when the documentary, which is also 227 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 4: going to be coming out sorely, they interviewed me in 228 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 4: that But for the whole eight weeks on set, I 229 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 4: never sat in that chair. 230 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 5: I was in the trenches. 231 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 4: I wanted to be in there in the marden web. 232 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 4: But yeah, hey, look, you'll see me sitting in it 233 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 4: in the documentary The Making of Yeah, which is a 234 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 4: making of Before Dawn, and I just found out this 235 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 4: morning that it's been selected in the International Australian Film Festival. 236 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 2: I heard in the amount of time you were sitting 237 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 2: out there you got nominated for something. 238 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 4: Yes, so Ben Scotford, he's the director of that, so 239 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 4: he pretty much followed us around in the first stay 240 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 4: with every film set. 241 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 5: Anything. 242 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 4: Everything that could go wrong went wrong on the first 243 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 4: day and he came up to me, so I want 244 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 4: to make a documentary and go for it, And honestly 245 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:10,599 Speaker 4: didn't think much at the time, and then now I 246 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 4: sit down and watch it and it just shows you 247 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 4: again the dedication of everyone involved to go, Look, this 248 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:17,559 Speaker 4: isn't just a film we're putting forward here. This is 249 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 4: an ANZAC film and that's you know, that's the one 250 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 4: takeaway from this is that this was a story that 251 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 4: needed to be told and we're just so thankful that 252 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 4: w A got behind it and the sponsors from across 253 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,719 Speaker 4: Australia so that we were able to tell this remarkable 254 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 4: story on the silver screen. 255 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: So you and your team in the moment, yeah, exactly real. 256 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 3: John can ask who your favorite directors are. Do you have? 257 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 3: Is there anyone that really you know, stands up for me? 258 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 5: Ron Howard? 259 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, And it's not because he's got the 260 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 4: same hair color not at all, but it was because 261 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 4: it seems like everything that he just toasted is human writing. 262 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,439 Speaker 4: It just knows how to tell story. And I've got 263 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 4: to do the masterclass with him as well. 264 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 5: Yeah, and that was unreal. 265 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 4: But for him it's you know, he's just I don't 266 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 4: know how he does it, you know, and learning his 267 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 4: craft and okay, well how do everybody can say, oh, 268 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 4: I love Steven Spielberg, Tino and all that, but Ron 269 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 4: Howard can just be brought in Like with Solo, you know, 270 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,199 Speaker 4: he was brought in towards the end, well not towards 271 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 4: the end, but he was born. 272 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 5: In second et cetera. 273 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 4: And yeah, and he just said to the actor, go 274 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 4: get acting classes, you know, and he had that power 275 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 4: to go, well, no, I know what I'm doing here. 276 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 4: And he's very much an actor's director, which is what 277 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 4: I love doing. And like with Before Dawn, being in 278 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 4: those trenches, I don't want to be sitting in a 279 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 4: tent and you know, telling him from afar what to do. 280 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 5: I want to be in there, feeling it and being 281 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 5: one of those characters, the footy coach on the bench, 282 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:42,599 Speaker 5: you know. Yeah, that's the best way to put it. 283 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, he makes with Cuba Gooding Genu Mae because I 284 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: follow you're on social. 285 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, that was quite a surreal moment because again, like 286 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 4: going back to my childhood, I watched Lightning Jack. 287 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 5: Cane with. 288 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was in that and yes, I got 289 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 4: to meet him at the yeah, the wards in Europe 290 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 4: and got chatting with him and I'd mentioned Lightning Jack 291 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 4: Kine and he was blown away like he used to, 292 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 4: like I forgot I even did that film, but he 293 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 4: did actually have great things to say about Australia and 294 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 4: he's like, you know, he said, I'd love to make 295 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 4: a film in Australia again. And so yeah, through him, 296 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 4: I'm chatting with him about a few other things. And yeah, 297 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 4: because I'm off to work with a major studio shortly. 298 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 2: And can we say which major studio that is? It 299 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 2: is at all? Yeah, that's majorist of Mojor studios. That's amazing. 300 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 2: So the reason we've been doing this series is because 301 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 2: there has never been a greater time for everyone who's 302 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 2: ever harbored any thoughts of in you know, just in 303 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 2: any small or big way of being in the movies. 304 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 2: What's your one tip for people, especially you know, younger 305 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 2: ones that are thinking, oh, what do I do? How 306 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 2: do I put myself in the right place for me? 307 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 4: It's making sure you surround yourself with good people. That's 308 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 4: probably the biggest thing. So if you've got a good 309 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 4: behind you, like you know, obviously I'm the face of everything, 310 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 4: but I'm only sitting here because of the people that 311 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 4: have back to me to get here. So if you've 312 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 4: got people that are supporting you and they're going to 313 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 4: do that, that's that's. 314 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 5: What you need. You need to build that team. But 315 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 5: also just making stuff. 316 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 4: So you know, even though between before Dawn Walt Disney 317 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,559 Speaker 4: and then I've got something else happening with Apple TV 318 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 4: towards the end of next year, but we've got two 319 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 4: feature films we're bringing to wa so we'll kick off 320 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 4: pre production for that next year. But in between all that, 321 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 4: there could be three or four weeks gap of nothing, 322 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 4: or it's just like go film something, you know Instagram, 323 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 4: now film something, but be creative with it. You just 324 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 4: don't know what's going to happen or who's going to 325 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 4: see it. And it's from the short film not their Boots, 326 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 4: that I did when I was thirteen or fourteen that 327 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 4: I entered into some awards and then met this guy 328 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 4: named Jack Thompson. 329 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 5: Of course, you know, I've watched you in that Snowy 330 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 5: River movie. 331 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,599 Speaker 4: You know, but when you're that young, you don't realize 332 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 4: that that small step could lead to something bigger. 333 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 5: So it's just amount of constantly making stuff. 334 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 4: Always beyond yeah, always, You've always got to be working, 335 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 4: You've got to be networking and yeah, and like I said, 336 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 4: you know, I'm just incredibly grateful and very lucky with 337 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 4: the team that I've got that where we've got to 338 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 4: now and with the next films that I'm bringing back 339 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 4: to wa you know. They one of the conditions was, well, 340 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 4: Tho's two conditions. It has to have community involvement. And 341 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 4: the second condition is I want to have my team 342 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 4: on it, because you guys are investing and wanting to 343 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 4: fund this film, but you're not doing it based on me. 344 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 4: You're doing it based on the entire film crew and 345 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 4: cast that. 346 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: Built to the whole family. And maybe a bit of 347 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: a sit down to be humble, maybe handed industry too. Yeah, yeah, 348 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: yeah it can be. 349 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 4: And in fact, the people that I get to speak 350 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 4: to and I actually decide, yeah, I'm going to cast 351 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 4: you or you know you're going to be on set. 352 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 4: They're usually the ones that are really humble and to 353 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 4: have a bit of a laugh and are in it 354 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 4: because they love it, not in it because oh where's 355 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 4: this going to get me next? 356 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 3: Good? 357 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 2: Well, Jordan are your body of work already is incredibly impressive, 358 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 2: and yet I feel like it's just the tip of 359 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 2: the iceberg. Thank you so much for coming in for 360 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 2: a chat today, day before Dawn is out on Netflix, 361 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,359 Speaker 2: Tonight's slush tomorrow, tomorrow. It's your weekend taking care of anyway, 362 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 2: so I can't wait to see that. 363 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 3: Thank you so much, no worries, Thanks for you toming me. 364 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing that. Dot Oto, Yeah yeah, 365 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: keep an eye out.