1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jones. 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:07,039 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I went to see Mulin Rouge 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 2: and I was just blown away. If you've seen the. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 3: Wearing matching outfits, you and I we went along there 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 3: in matching outfits. 6 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 2: Most extraordinary show. If you've seen the film and you 7 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 2: think you know it, you don't know it. This stage 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 2: show is something else again and I wasn't aware that 9 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 2: it was. Our mate was Timomatic real named tim Omag. 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 2: You will get to that in the moment. Who plays 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 2: to lose la Trek a role of a lifetime Tim 12 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 2: How are you? 13 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: I'm so good, guys, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Man, 14 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: you were great. 15 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 3: What do you know about your Louise Lefrec because I 16 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:41,520 Speaker 3: went to art school and I remember there was stuff 17 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 3: about him. 18 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, impressionists from the the late eighteen hundreds, and 19 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 4: in terms of the world of Mulan Rugs, he was 20 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 4: one of the only people that are based on a 21 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 4: real life He was a real life person and strangely enough, 22 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 4: incredible artists of the time. Died very young, died at 23 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 4: thirty three, and to give you a perspective of his lifestyle, 24 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 4: he died from us a syphilis and absent poisoning. He 25 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 4: died on my birthday though, which is really nine in September. 26 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: Whoa weird? How old are you? I am thirty four? 27 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: I yes, because thirty. 28 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 3: Three it was like that you got the twenty seven club. Yes, 29 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 3: but thirty three club. There was a bond Scotch, Jesus 30 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 3: Law and the. 31 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: Lord and the Lord. But you made it. We've made it, 32 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: and I'm here with you now. I'm happy to be well. 33 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 2: We know you first of all is timo Matic. You 34 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 2: of course were a contestant on So you think you 35 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: can dance. Australia's got talent yep, so you're part of 36 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,279 Speaker 2: the Australian psyche. But this seems to be a different 37 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: thing for you. And well, let's clear this up. Tim 38 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 2: Omadick was a performing name, but tim Omaji is your 39 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 2: actual name. 40 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: Yes, correct. 41 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 4: So for the most part, whenever I do something acting related, 42 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 4: it's it's under my name tim Omajie. But music is 43 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 4: still Tommatic right, Okay, Yeah, that's how we separate for 44 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 4: people out there. 45 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: But you can call me what you want to call. 46 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 2: Me, call you Timmy. But with this show, I know 47 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 2: that you had a few false starts because of COVID. 48 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 2: And on the night I met a woman who'd been 49 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: one of the wardrobe dresses, the dresses, and she said 50 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 2: that everyone got fitted for their costumes and clothes and 51 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 2: then you had to you went to lockdown, and she 52 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 2: said everyone came back and then she said everyone was 53 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 2: hairyer and fatter, and so I had to redo a 54 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: lot of the costumes. And you can't be you have 55 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 2: to be fit to. 56 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: Do that shark, you really do. 57 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 4: And my my role in it, I walk around quite 58 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 4: slowly on a cane, so I don't really have the 59 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 4: most physical track. But the the ensemble and that's like 60 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 4: it's like a billion can can kicks that that the 61 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 4: ensemble have to do every night, and it's it's just 62 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 4: bang on from the beginning. It's it's it's an spectacular 63 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 4: spectacular as they call it, and it's it just doesn't stop. 64 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 2: It doesn't stop, and it's a really sexy show. When 65 00:02:58,080 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 2: you're all backstage, you're high showering. 66 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: How just makes oh yeah, one hundred percent. 67 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 4: Like the amount of time so I don't come on 68 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 4: stay till about fifteen twenty minutes into it, and the 69 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 4: amount of times that I'm just in the bathroom, you know, 70 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 4: doing what I do while I'm hearing the music on. 71 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got about five minutes to go. Better put 72 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: my gear back on with the form guide. 73 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a horse running at Moody Ponds sitting on 74 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 3: the loop. Hey, Tim, imagine you're on where is he? 75 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 4: Pretty much I've got it down to a science. I'm 76 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,839 Speaker 4: just like, I get to stage just what I need 77 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 4: to and. 78 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: Then we party. 79 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 4: But honestly, it's a party every time, and I think 80 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 4: people generally are shocked at how big it is. And 81 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 4: I find that from the first ten minutes people really 82 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 4: have got to see it again because there's it's quite 83 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 4: it's quite a big experience, and there's things this like 84 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 4: dialogue happening on different sides of the stage at the 85 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 4: same time. 86 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: And yeah, it's it's it's so much fun. 87 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 3: To be Have you tried absence before? 88 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: I have? I have not a fan. 89 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 2: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 90 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 3: But it's not like the poison that used to be. 91 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 3: It used to be, yeah, back in back in to 92 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 3: Loose's day. Yeah, it was poisonous, and now there's this 93 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 3: snowflake version. 94 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, correct, I don't think it was the heart stuff. 95 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 4: But in that time, it was you know, it was 96 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 4: like an everyday thing. 97 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 3: Because what would it do, because it's it would like. 98 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: It just like it's a blind it give you this. 99 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 4: I mean in the movie they talk about it. It 100 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 4: would it would make you loosen it back in the day. 101 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 4: So in the movie, Kylie Minogue played the green Fairy, 102 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 4: so they all drank absinthe and they saw this fairy flawer. 103 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 4: So it makes you go a little loopy, and we 104 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 4: definitely tap into that loopiness in the in the show 105 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 4: as well. 106 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 2: I'd seen the film, but I thought on the way 107 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 2: to see the musical, I was thinking, well, I know 108 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: the songs, this is a different experience again, how many 109 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 2: popular songs have been jammed in there? 110 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, I mean the movie had a lot, but 111 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 4: there's over seventy songs jammed into this thing. 112 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 2: Amazing and you know every single one. 113 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: Of them right, shout out to Justin Levine who composed it. 114 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 4: The way, Like, you know, the story is really told 115 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 4: through these songs that you know straight away, so it's 116 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 4: easily identifiable, so people don't really have to see the 117 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 4: film to really get along and kind of vibe it. 118 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: And you're just gonna go along and see you. 119 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 3: And actually you can show up fifteen minutes late. 120 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 4: If you show fifteen minutes late, you still might catch myr. 121 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 3: Where has anyone see tim Omaji is even the form 122 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 3: guy in the loop? 123 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: You know? 124 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 3: Well, I tell what I can't rave enough about how 125 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 3: you performed in that shit. 126 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. 127 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,119 Speaker 3: And you can see the musical right now, Mulin Rouge 128 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 3: playing at Sydney's Capitol Theater. Great venue, tim Emajie, tim Omadic, 129 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 3: you are a legend. 130 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate it. Guys, thank you so much.