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Speaker 1: With super and Over. An incredible lineup for super and

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Speaker 1: Over in town and the people who love going to

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Speaker 1: Supernova getting autographs and photos and all the rest of

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Speaker 1: it are very excited having been there last year. It

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Speaker 1: is a great fest.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Comic connor Gaming. It's on at the Perth Convention

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Speaker 2: and Exhibition Center this weekend. Tickets are available through Supernova

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Speaker 2: dot com DoD au. One of this year's very very

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Speaker 2: special guests is William George Zane. You know him as

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Speaker 2: Billy Zane.

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Speaker 3: He's with us.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Billy, look.

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Speaker 3: The perfect morning. Yes, good, good morning to talk.

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Speaker 2: This is your first time to Perth.

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Speaker 3: It is actually considering all the times overcome to Australia.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure that it's under this particular context. Absolutely, it's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: We stop walking the we're biased.

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Speaker 1: But when you get the chance to take some of

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Speaker 1: those wonderful photos we've seen over the year's night down

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Speaker 1: by the Swan River.

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Speaker 3: I have already. If you can check out at Billy Zane,

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Speaker 3: I guess on Instagram you'll see quite a few at

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Speaker 3: all times of day, lovely sunsets you have here.

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Speaker 2: We do. Indeed, you say you know you've been to

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Speaker 2: Australia many times, of course, was the first time when

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Speaker 2: you came to make one of the most one of

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Speaker 2: my favorite Australian films, Dead Come. You were terrifying, by

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Speaker 2: the way, Was that was that one of the first

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Speaker 2: times I don't apologize it's I made it so good?

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Speaker 2: Is that one of the first times you came to Australia.

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Speaker 3: It was the first time. Yeah, and I have Philip

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Speaker 3: Noys to thank for that. Yeah, George Miller and the

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Speaker 3: gang at Kennedy Miller was it was an absolute treat,

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Speaker 3: such an interesting time in the trajectory for Australian cinema,

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Speaker 3: and I was just really thrilled and tough to be

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Speaker 3: part of that particular project.

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Speaker 1: A bunch of filmmakers that you had there. You're in

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Speaker 1: good hands. The character you played in Titanic, Billy, do

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Speaker 1: you get if people can't take these roles very seriously?

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Speaker 1: Have you had people yell at you in the street,

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Speaker 1: especially in the day because Tartanic so many people across

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Speaker 1: the planet sort and you played that guy you're in

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Speaker 3: Too true, too true? No, it was yeah, universally loathed

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Speaker 3: for about a few minutes there, but it was interesting

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Speaker 3: how that transitioned from you know, team Jack to team

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Speaker 3: cal as the young Yakumail audience, so I think grew

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Speaker 3: a little older and perhaps reassessed their priorities over time.

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Speaker 3: Very interesting, love it well.

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Speaker 2: Super and overcomic con Such passionate fans are going to

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Speaker 2: be at the event this weekend. Which what do you

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Speaker 2: think is the number one question people do ask you?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's it's fascinating And I've been asked this

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Speaker 3: question a few times and i can only answer with

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Speaker 3: it's not so much the questions as the stories. I

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Speaker 3: just love. I love what they share about them and

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Speaker 3: the milestones of their lives that these legacy films have

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Speaker 3: meant to them. Now. The Phantom obviously is a very

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Speaker 3: popular title here. It's where I was introduced to the character.

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Speaker 3: We held a couple of specialty screenings with our friends

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Speaker 3: at Taylor Made Memorabilia in the middle of in between

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Speaker 3: these two wonderful Supernova weekends in Sydney and Perth, we

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Speaker 3: held screenings in Sydney and in Melbourne of The Phantom

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Speaker 3: and a Q and A and at the tables. People

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Speaker 3: love The Phantom in particular. It's just a part of

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Speaker 3: the national character in Fabric, and I love the connection

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Speaker 3: that you have to that title. And again, it's the stories.

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Speaker 3: This is the movie my father and I bonded on.

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Speaker 3: This is the movie I introduced my son to moral

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Speaker 3: compass and about the white hat heroics and disarming not killing,

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Speaker 3: a very significant film and title. But again fundamentally, but

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Speaker 3: regardless of the title, it's it's really the stories I

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Speaker 3: proposed to my wife during Titanicy. I saw my father

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Speaker 3: really it. It's not so much the question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're the points. But we lost sadly earlier this year,

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Speaker 1: great filmmaker and David Lynch, and you worked with David

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Speaker 1: but must have been any incredible experience.

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Speaker 3: It was rest his soul. He was. He was a phenomenal,

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Speaker 3: one of a kind man and filmmaker, and I really

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Speaker 3: am grateful to him to breaking the the shattering the

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Speaker 3: box that Hollywood likes to put you in. After dead Calm,

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Speaker 3: I was certainly the you know the guy you go

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Speaker 3: cast is insane. Well you you be the We'll cast

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Speaker 2: Absolutely coming up in September, We're going to see you

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Speaker 2: in Walston with Brando. I tell you what, talk about

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Speaker 2: nailing the transformation. If you put two pitches together, it's

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Speaker 2: hard to tell which is which. It's incredible because of

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Speaker 2: course you play Malon Brando.

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Speaker 3: Indeed, and thank you. It's a passion project of mine.

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Speaker 3: We've been working on it for about six years. I've

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Speaker 3: produced it along with Dean Bloxam and Bill Fishman, the

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Speaker 3: a really interesting take on Brando that it's not really

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Speaker 3: a cradle to grave biopic. It focuses on a five

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Speaker 3: and it really focuses on the man. We get to

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Speaker 3: of someone's life. Yeah, and his passion for humanity for

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Speaker 3: possibly the godfather of the environmental god love you got

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Speaker 2: People talk about Brando as being such a recluse in

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Speaker 2: so it's going to be really interesting.

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Speaker 3: It's about his unique friendship with an architect he hired

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Speaker 3: to spearhead sustainable design back in nineteen sixty nine. No

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Speaker 3: We recreate the uh sacred offerings.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you know that was tough for us

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Speaker 3: Get back Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Often wanted to ask you, I hear these beautiful voice

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Speaker 1: those voices that just sticks to me. You vocally trained

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Speaker 1: and the way your parents spoke, because it is something

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Speaker 3: Look who's talking. You've velvet's vel velvety tone, like yeah,

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Speaker 3: I feel like a late night radio first time calor

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Speaker 3: a long time listener plays for all right. Thank you,

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Speaker 3: great compliment coming from you, you know, thanks man. So

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Speaker 3: I grew up in Chicago, in the city my parents

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Speaker 3: Bill and thalllya Zan were on stage and and exposed

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Speaker 3: me to quite a bit of I guess classic cinema

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Speaker 3: and great theater. We go to London every year to

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Speaker 3: The Chicago accent, as we know, probably oh notoriously from

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Speaker 3: you know dan Aykroyd really leaning into it in the

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Speaker 3: Blues Brothers where he talks about it Dadge Dodge this

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Speaker 3: Dadge debt, Oh my dad real flat. You know. The

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Speaker 3: but I consciously worked against any residual effects, so there's

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Speaker 3: probably conscious But yeah, thanks to the folks for exposing

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Speaker 3: me to old movies. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely well, Billy zid it's been an absolute trait for

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Speaker 2: us to have you join us this morning. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for fitting us into your very busy schedule. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 3: To be fun that wait to meet too and hear

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Speaker 3: your stories, you know. Just yeah, thank you so much

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Speaker 3: for having me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Billy Zaye, all the best, have

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Speaker 2: a great weekend. Bye. Unreal, well unreal. Yes, tickets are

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Speaker 2: now you really want to go. Tickets are available through

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Speaker 2: Supernova dot com John.

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Speaker 1: Au and do yourself a favor. Google Billy Zane Art

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Speaker 1: because he is freakish talent. Yeah, I think we both

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Speaker 1: want to buy one for each other for Christmas. You

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Speaker 1: want to talent