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Speaker 1: Following a much loved first season, Eric Thompson returns a

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Speaker 1: celebrity chef East and West in series two of After Taste,

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Speaker 1: which premiere is nine ten tomorrow on ABC TV. All

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Speaker 1: the episodes are streaming on ABC Have You and Eric

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Speaker 1: Thompson joins us. Now, good morning, I'm very well, very well,

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Speaker 1: thank you. So after throwing away his last chance at fame,

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Speaker 1: Eastern has settled into obscurity rather well really until he's

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Speaker 1: upstage by his niece Diana's return from London. Is that

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Speaker 1: where we're sort of set off from.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. I mean it's about eighteen months or

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Speaker 2: so since the show was on s We decided when

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Speaker 2: we were writing at the second series just to kind

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Speaker 2: of do it in real time and see what's happened

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Speaker 2: in that time. And so easternce decided, because because he

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Speaker 2: wasn't he was failing at keeping his career going, that

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Speaker 2: he would make a big exit from it, yes, and

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Speaker 2: sink into obscurity. And the arrival back of Diana, who's

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Speaker 2: been off doing a big sea in London kind of

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Speaker 2: starts the ball rolling again. And they they these two,

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Speaker 2: this unlikely duo kind of you know, they antagonize each other,

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Speaker 2: but they also inspire each other to to to do

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Speaker 2: great things. So that's the dynamic that we're playing with.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you like in the kitchen?

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Speaker 2: Eric, be honest, I'm not bad actually, yeah, I'm nothing spectacular.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't do you know, high cuisine, but

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Speaker 2: I can I can throw together a pretty decent meal.

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Speaker 2: You know, my, my, my, you know, menu isn't isn't long.

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Speaker 2: But you know I do a few things.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's what they always says. Well, you know, that's

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Speaker 1: a great menu at any restaurant, just a few things

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Speaker 1: done well.

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Speaker 3: You don't need to.

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Speaker 2: Exactly choices exactly. And I live in South Australia too,

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Speaker 2: and you know, the food, the food that we have

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Speaker 2: down here and certainly is you know, fresh, really good produce.

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Speaker 2: So basically that's that's what they say as well. Just

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Speaker 2: get the best, the best produce you can and and

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Speaker 2: don't muck around with it too much. I'm good at that.

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Speaker 3: It's good if you can swear like Gordon Ramsey in the.

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Speaker 1: Kitchen's got Eastern West is one of the greatest names

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Speaker 1: of a character on televisions I have ever heard.

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Speaker 3: And did you did you prepare?

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Speaker 1: Prepare? For the role. As Clarsy said, there's Gordon Ramsey.

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Speaker 1: Is he a bit of an amalgamation of all those

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Speaker 1: great chefs, Gordon, Marco, Pierre White, all of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's kind of those cliches that that we

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Speaker 2: that we all know from that that sort of narcissistic, arrogant,

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Speaker 2: arrogant chef. Of course, there's people like that in every

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Speaker 2: in every world that there was a combination of that.

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Speaker 2: And also, I don't know if you've seen a show

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Speaker 2: on Netliks called Chef's Table, which is a fantastic food

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Speaker 2: series that kind of looks behind the chef to see why,

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Speaker 2: you know, where they came from. And we wanted to

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Speaker 2: kind of tip that whole thing on its head and

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Speaker 2: go back into a world of a of an angry

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Speaker 2: chef and just see what's motivated has become the man

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Speaker 2: that he was in terms of food, but also in

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Speaker 2: the way he deals with people, and have a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun with that and you know, prompt a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a discussion around that kind of dynamic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love the way you've done that because Chef's

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Speaker 4: Table and my wife is obsessed with that show. But

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Speaker 4: some of the people are wonderful, beautiful, wonderful stories going

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Speaker 4: back in their families and all the rest of it.

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Speaker 4: I like the flipping that one over.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you know what it is about chefs that they

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Speaker 1: always have such a great story.

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Speaker 3: It's not, yes, influenced by family and.

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Speaker 1: So often culture with the food on the show, what

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Speaker 1: happens there? Do you get to is there a stunt

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Speaker 1: chef that comes in and cooks and do you get

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Speaker 1: to eat it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Well, I mean we were lucky in this

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Speaker 2: first series. Well lucky, I mean we're turning a silver lining.

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Speaker 2: Basically was that it was during the pandemic, so the

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Speaker 2: hospitality industry were all in pause and having a break

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Speaker 2: because you know, they weren't the restaurants shut. So we

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Speaker 2: had access to some of the best pastry chefs in

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Speaker 2: South Australia and they made desserts that my character predominantly

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Speaker 2: had to eat. So that was that was a nice bonus.

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Speaker 2: And certainly, you know, I'm as an actor, you know

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Speaker 2: you can you can only do so much. But to

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Speaker 2: get the skills of a Michelin starship is difficult. So

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Speaker 2: I may or may not have a hand double with

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Speaker 2: the knife work. Okay, that's fair.

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Speaker 4: Enough And that's a nice job, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It is? You know, and we you know you can't

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Speaker 2: just learn that stuff in a couple of weeks years,

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Speaker 2: and when you're dealing with very sharp objects, it's best

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Speaker 2: to walk away. I'm not a Tom Cruise. I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't need to do my own stunt.

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Speaker 4: Well, otherwise, you've had somebody scenes with the blue band

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Speaker 4: aids on. That's what we see them on the cooking

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Speaker 4: shoes exactly, and.

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Speaker 2: That's a continuity nightmare.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right on the last time.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, with all your culinary experience. Now, we

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Speaker 1: hope to see you soon on Master Chef Eric in

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Speaker 1: the Meantime Series two premiers nine to ten tomorrow on

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Speaker 1: ABC TV, and all the episodes you can have a

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Speaker 1: good old binge are on ABC I view.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Eric, on Eric, my pleasure, Thank you taking easy.

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Speaker 4: I could just imagine Jock at the end of the

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Speaker 4: episode when Eric gets taken off Mastership.

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Speaker 1: Give it up, very annoying.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: Please are the blue band aids? That's in case it

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Speaker 1: ends up in your dinner, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: I think so? Just taking spot it. Yeah, you don't

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Speaker 4: want the skin colored ones, not in your pasta, not good.

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Speaker 1: Man yours blue this morning because.

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Speaker 3: I actually it started bleeding again. Can you take me

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Speaker 3: any emergency