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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's Who Doesn't Love?

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Speaker 2: Nonny Hazelhurst one of our country's premiere actors. Her latest

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Speaker 2: project is called The End, and it throws the heavy

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Speaker 2: topic of voluntary dying in our face, all while making

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Speaker 2: us laugh. It's a dark comedy, certainly sounds like it,

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Speaker 2: but a huge cavalcade of stars appearing in this. We're

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Speaker 2: lucky to have Nony with us this morning. Hi, Nony,

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Speaker 2: how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm well, how are you?

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Speaker 3: But we're great ahead of you are the top of

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Speaker 3: the cavalcade, and we've got you on the zoom meeting

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Speaker 3: our first for twenty twenty one. Although you could see us,

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Speaker 3: but we can't see you for some reason.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably a blessed relief.

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Speaker 3: Actually, now we want to see you smiling for you.

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Speaker 2: Did you get to have your pj's and everything for this?

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Speaker 4: I did?

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Speaker 1: And I don't know what's wrong, but I've got all

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Speaker 1: sorts of issues going on here. That's okay.

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Speaker 2: I can hear as long as we've got your voice.

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Speaker 2: So tell us about the End. This is a ten

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Speaker 2: part series and it sounds quite challenging.

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Speaker 1: It is, but it is very funny. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: look the scripts just leapt out at all of it's

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Speaker 1: all the actors in it, because they were so beautifully

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Speaker 1: written by Sam Strauss, who is the latest hot writer worldwide.

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Speaker 1: She's doing so well. And it's got a lot of

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Speaker 1: dark stuff in it, but a lot of really very

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Speaker 1: funny stuff as well. A bit like life, really a

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Speaker 1: bit of everything, and it's just so beautifully written. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't wait to say yes when I was off at

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Speaker 1: the role. And I think all the actors were the same.

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Speaker 1: It's an amazing piece of work.

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Speaker 3: And you play Pamela who's not dying.

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't know that.

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Speaker 1: No. I insisted on that.

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Speaker 3: It would be scary, wouldn't it if they suddenly said

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Speaker 3: to you, are, well, we want you for this role,

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Speaker 3: but you've got to be dying. I don't know how

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Speaker 3: i'd feel about that.

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Speaker 1: Well, I know how i'd feel, and it wouldn't be good.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: No, she's a great character. She's the polar opposite of

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Speaker 1: my character in A Place to Call Home, Elizabeth Blier.

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Speaker 1: Pamela's a sort of oh lesbian hippie X showgirl really

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Speaker 1: who grows her own opium and you know, just has

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Speaker 1: a wonderful time.

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Speaker 3: So much of a stretch then no acting require.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's three generations of a family living with separate obsessions,

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Speaker 2: it says in the notes I've got here, But the

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Speaker 2: core of it is looking at palliative care, your right

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Speaker 2: to die, and the different choices people or all of

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Speaker 2: you are facing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, it's sort of about I guess

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Speaker 4: you could say it's the struggle to live as well

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Speaker 4: as the struggle to die, because all the generations, which

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Speaker 4: are primarily focusing on the women in those generations, are

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Speaker 4: having struggles as we all are on some level.

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Speaker 1: And so it's about negotiating life's challenges. But also because

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Speaker 1: the main character, played by Dame Harriet Walter Edie, is

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Speaker 1: in a retirement village, put there by her daughter because

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Speaker 1: she had to bring her out to US Australia from

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Speaker 1: England because she tried to kill herself in England and

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Speaker 1: to her chagrin, is put into this retirement village. And

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Speaker 1: as the series progresses, you see all these different stories

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Speaker 1: of not only the family but also the people in

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Speaker 1: the village. You know, how they're dealing with the challenges

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Speaker 1: of getting older, I suppose, and what their choices might be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's interesting with those choices. My father he

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Speaker 3: died of cancer and it was sort of a drawn

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Speaker 3: out procedure, but he didn't want to go, like he

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Speaker 3: didn't and he was in so much pain and he

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Speaker 3: didn't want to go. And in the end, like he

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Speaker 3: went because it was going to happen. But it was

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Speaker 3: quite curious people's attitudes as they went along with that,

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Speaker 3: because like some people are saying, well, why doesn't he

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Speaker 3: just go? And I said, well, he doesn't want to go.

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Speaker 3: He's hanging in there. He was like the Blues Brother's car,

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Speaker 3: you know, the Bluesmobile and the movie at the end,

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Speaker 3: he was just hanging in there till I just all

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Speaker 3: felled to bits and that was it.

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Speaker 1: And that was his choice. That was his choice. That's

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Speaker 1: you know, that's what it comes down to. What choice

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Speaker 1: do we have? And you know, everyone should be able

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Speaker 1: to make a choice, I believe, and you know it

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be dictated by dogma, either political or religious in

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Speaker 2: And sometimes they found that by giving people the choice,

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Speaker 2: they choose not to because no one can tell you

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Speaker 2: how important living is until you're told you may not

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Speaker 2: be able to.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes people are just tired, you know that they've

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Speaker 1: had enough, they've done enough, they're happy with what they've

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Speaker 1: done and where they are, and they say, let me go.

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Speaker 1: And you have to do that. You have to let

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Speaker 1: people go when it's their time.

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Speaker 2: And yet so all of these issues are handled with humor.

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Speaker 2: What a challenge?

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, indeed.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you know, I hate that the division

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Speaker 1: between drama and comedy. To me, a drama isn't a

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Speaker 1: true drama unless it has some comedy in it, and

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Speaker 1: a comedy can't be funny to me if it doesn't

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Speaker 1: have something real in it. You know, That's why I

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Speaker 1: like Ricky Gervais because his humor is so absurd, but

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Speaker 1: he also has incredible heart, and so you can connect

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Speaker 1: with these characters that he plays and that are in

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Speaker 1: the end because they are deeply human. You know, they've

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Speaker 1: got light moments and dark moments, and so it's not

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Speaker 1: a two dimensional study of characters. It's real people to

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Speaker 1: the best of the actors ability, but you know, they

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Speaker 1: are real people with a whole gamut of emotions.

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Speaker 3: And the beauty of this with your character not dying,

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Speaker 3: there could be a second series out of this. Damn right,

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Speaker 3: there you go, So you've chosen.

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Speaker 2: Well, choose not to read the last page of the script, right.

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Speaker 1: Yes, as long as it's the last page.

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Speaker 3: Keep Away from Stairwells needs great to catch up with you.

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Speaker 3: The end premiere is tonight eight thirty on Fox Showcase.

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Speaker 3: Nandy Hazel has thank you, Thank

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Speaker 1: You, guys, I've to talk to you, Jonesy and Amanda's