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Speaker 1: Last King of the Cross is streaming now on Paramount Plus.

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Speaker 1: The star of the show, Lincoln Yunus, is joining a

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Speaker 1: SnO Good Morning, Lincoln Good. Last King of the Cross

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Speaker 1: is Paramount Plus is most watched Aussie series to date.

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Speaker 2: Lincoln plays John Ibrahim.

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Speaker 1: The show is inspired by John Ibrahim's autobiography And can

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Speaker 1: I say congratulations?

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Speaker 2: It is a really good show. I'm loving every minute

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's so kind. Thank you?

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Speaker 4: Are you?

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Speaker 2: Are you all happy with the reviews of the show.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't tend to read reviews, something

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Speaker 3: that's always a dangerous thing, but I kind of, because

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Speaker 3: I've been doing this for so long, I kind of

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Speaker 3: just if I watch it and I'm kind of proud

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Speaker 3: of it, then that kind of the thing. And also

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Speaker 3: if my mom and my brother approved, they're fairly blunt and.

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Speaker 2: On it, especially your brother.

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Speaker 3: Especially my brother, because he does not care.

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Speaker 2: Thank you you grounded.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if he's show, then I'm like, okay, that's better

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Speaker 3: than an Oscar.

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Speaker 4: So has he given the thumbs up for this one?

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Speaker 3: He did? He did. My mom gave the thumbs up

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Speaker 3: until she watched the sex scene in the second episode.

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Speaker 3: And now can you warm me next time.

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Speaker 5: Spoiler, Yeah, now it is.

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Speaker 1: It is based on John Ibrahim's autobiography. How much research

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Speaker 1: did you do with John himself?

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Speaker 4: Look, I did.

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Speaker 3: I did a lot of research by myself and then

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Speaker 3: obviously met up with John because he's a consultant and

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Speaker 3: a producer on it. And essentially what I look through

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Speaker 3: a lot of old kind of newspaper clippings and articles

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Speaker 3: the time, which he had because I really like, away

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Speaker 3: from anything, I just needed to understand the business of

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Speaker 3: how it worked back then, because you know, like we've

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Speaker 3: all been to nightclubs, we've all been rejected from nightclubs,

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Speaker 3: but none of us have really owned one. So there's

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Speaker 3: a big there's a big mental difference between you know,

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Speaker 3: he and I in that way. So I just needed

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Speaker 3: to understand kind of how things worked. Yeah, we spent

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Speaker 3: a lot of time kind of teaching me that. So

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Speaker 3: you know, if I ever't want to open a nightclub,

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Speaker 3: I think I know a bit man.

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Speaker 4: You think you'll be all right.

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Speaker 3: Definitely good game.

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Speaker 5: So much of what you do for your craft, mate

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Speaker 5: is about telling stories, and you know you're getting that

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Speaker 5: character across.

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Speaker 4: But these are great stories. There's a lot of meat

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Speaker 4: to these bones.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really wonderful, and it's wonderful to have an

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Speaker 3: Elebaneze Australian story on screen.

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Speaker 1: So the you really feel like you're in King's Cross

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Speaker 1: in late seventies, early eighties. The vibe is amazing. But

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Speaker 1: can we talk about the cast? Incredible? I mean Damien Walsh,

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Speaker 1: Howling and Matt Nabel who I love, Callen mulvey, but Tim.

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Speaker 3: Roth what a get Yeah yeah, yeah, No, we were

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Speaker 3: very fortunate to kind of have the Colbo we had

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Speaker 3: and he brings a bit of a kind of unpredictable

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Speaker 3: spice to the show. So yeah, it all kind of

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Speaker 3: blended together and we just have this ensemble, which you know,

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Speaker 3: no matter who we had in the scene, there was

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Speaker 3: an amazing dynamic.

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Speaker 5: So you're putting together a great body of work yourself

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Speaker 5: now may but Tim Roth in one and Ben Mendelssohn entangle,

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Speaker 5: these are pretty good people to be hanging with and

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Speaker 5: working with.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been very fortunate. Mendo has been an idol

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Speaker 3: of mine since I started working, So I just kind

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Speaker 3: of it's always in terms of experience. If you can

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Speaker 3: just not be the most experienced in the room, then

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Speaker 3: that means you can observe and you can kind of silently,

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Speaker 3: you know, taking things by osmosis. So I've been very

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Speaker 3: fortunate with the people I've worked with.

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Speaker 1: Now, I don't want to sound creepy, but you're very

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Speaker 1: let's just say you're very fitch in this, and so

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Speaker 1: so is Claude Taburi Place Sam.

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Speaker 2: What was involved in Did you get some tips from Mattabel?

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Speaker 1: He knows his way around to workout and you do

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Speaker 1: all your own stunts as well, because there's a you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot a lot going on.

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Speaker 4: I did.

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Speaker 3: Look, I come from like a sporting background, so anything

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Speaker 3: where there's a physical element, I'm really excited to kind

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Speaker 3: of get into. And for my mental health, I've always

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Speaker 3: actually it's the same with Mabel when we've chatted. I

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Speaker 3: find if you know your mental health isn't in a

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Speaker 3: great place, you kind of attend to your physical health

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Speaker 3: and it helps, you know, each helps the other. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: But for this, I mean, stunts are so much fun,

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Speaker 3: so kind of you know, for a dude to be

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Speaker 3: able to, you know, learn a fight choreography and then

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Speaker 3: look cool on screen, that's the ultimate.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Although we're starting to hear some Hollywood starts going, oh,

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Speaker 5: we're starting to regret some of those things when I

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Speaker 5: was younger with a few of the injuries.

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Speaker 4: Now you haven't caught any bad injuries.

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Speaker 3: I haven't caught any bad injuries. But it was very

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Speaker 3: funny some of those five sequences, because you know, you

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Speaker 3: get into it and then about two we did an

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Speaker 3: eight hour fight sequence. Oh my god, and we have

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Speaker 3: these amazing stunt men kind of all in the fight

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Speaker 3: and stuff, and they'd be very funny because you know,

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Speaker 3: about four hours in you'd start improvising or they would,

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Speaker 3: and then you'd realize very quickly that they're completely letting

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Speaker 3: you win the fight. So yeah, it's a different circumstance.

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Speaker 3: You'd be quite screwed. So you get a false sense

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Speaker 3: of your own copy.

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Speaker 1: There was always going to be I guess some Underbelly comparisons,

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Speaker 1: and I mean, obviously it is an Underbelly sort of story.

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Speaker 2: This is like the original, brilliant Underbelly.

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Speaker 1: I also feel like there's a little element of my

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Speaker 1: other favorite Australian drama Blue Murder. But we have stories

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Speaker 1: in this country that come under the heading if you

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Speaker 1: just can't write this stuff is a good fun retelling

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Speaker 1: some of this stuff totally.

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Speaker 3: And I'm glad you mentioned Blue Murder because Richard Rosbrow

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Speaker 3: was the reason I got into acting years and years

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Speaker 3: ago at the launch of Romulus. My father, my mum

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Speaker 3: so kind and he gave me the confidence to start acting.

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Speaker 3: So he's actually a big inspiration in mine. But in

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Speaker 3: terms of you know, telling stories that are kind of

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Speaker 3: stranger than the truth, stranger than fiction, all that stuff,

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Speaker 3: it's wonderful because I mean, we have so many stories

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Speaker 3: an amazing thing with creating a format and what we're

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Speaker 3: here is we've kind of leant into the minutia of

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Speaker 3: consultant has been really interesting because it leans heavily into

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Speaker 3: the brotherhood of the two of them and the eleven

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Speaker 3: Australian kind of element which we don't get to tell

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Speaker 3: very often here. And yeah, I just than anything, I

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Speaker 3: just opens the door for the bigger budget, more ambitious

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Speaker 3: Australian stories being told here rather than having to outsource.

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Speaker 2: You know, you've got to you've got to google Claude avert.

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Speaker 1: See what a gentle looking guy here is because in

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Speaker 1: the show he's always got such a mean look on

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Speaker 1: his face.

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Speaker 4: Ready to go.

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Speaker 2: He's always ready to go. It's always on that edge.

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Speaker 3: He he is the complete opportunity, isn't it. He's extremely

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Speaker 3: funny and very very He's got this amazing ability to

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Speaker 3: kind of furrow his brow and change.

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Speaker 4: So he gets the whateline fever, well he does.

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Speaker 3: He sees red and he completely changes.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple of episodes to go. It's on paramount plus.

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Speaker 1: It is, it is gritty, it is superbly acted, and

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Speaker 1: it is a really riveting story. Lincoln, thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much. Hoping enjoyed that.

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Speaker 5: And I'm sure that you to crowded pretty happy with

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Speaker 5: you el crew that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they'd be stoked.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Lincoln.

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Speaker 4: Thanks.

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Speaker 5: See it is funny when you see these Yeah, and

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Speaker 5: Matt Mabel, how angry can he look on screen?

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Speaker 2: He's directed a couple of the aps too.

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Speaker 4: When the camera camera loves him to brillant