1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,639 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: Well, your next dreaming obsession is here. It's set to 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 2: tell the story so wild it can only be true. 4 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 2: The Clearing is an eight part psychological thriller based on 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 2: the best selling crime thriller In The Clearing. This is 6 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 2: inspired by real life occults in Australia and around the world, 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 2: and has huge similarities to the famous Australian cult The Family. 8 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: The Fabulous Guy Peers is in the show and. 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 3: He joined us. 10 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: Say hey, Guy and Amanda, how are you both? 11 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: We're well, this is a departure for you, isn't it. 12 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 2: It's so spooky, so eerie. 13 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 3: Not your usual thing. 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: Well, I don't know what my usual thing is. I 15 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: mean I do tend to do sort of a dark 16 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: combination of things. But yes, it's very It's a really 17 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: quite a particular story, obviously, and I love the character 18 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: that I got to play. I know he's not in it, 19 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: not there a great deal, but there's a certain sort 20 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: of sort of passion and belief and sort of fixation 21 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: that he has on this sort of better society that 22 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: he thinks can be created. 23 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 3: But it's pretty much the family, isn't it. It's the family. 24 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 3: Will we say loosely based on the family. 25 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: I think technically I can't say that, but it's pretty 26 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: clear what you know, where things have been drawn from. Yeah, 27 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: we can certainly see some parallels. Do you. 28 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 2: Always have to like a character that you're playing? Do 29 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 2: you have to find redeeming features in everyone you play? 30 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: No, I don't even really think about that, to be honest. 31 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: I I just it's just whether I believe that character 32 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: or not. So I mean I've played some moirable people. Yeah, 33 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: so I sort of Yeah, I don't even take that 34 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: into consideration. I mean, if a character needs to have 35 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: redeeming features, then I just need to make sure that 36 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: I'm successful in portraying those. And sometimes there's great conflict 37 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 1: where where a character is doing some terrible things, but 38 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: ani we need the audience to actually have sympathy or 39 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: empathy for them. So that's, you know, that's something that 40 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: I have to get right. So yeah, there's a combination 41 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: of things that I'm feeling and thinking about when I'm 42 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: choosing a character. But it sort of has to just 43 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: take me or not straight away, like reading a book 44 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: and going wow, oh my gosh, you know, and then 45 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: I just go I'm in that's me, and I don't 46 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,119 Speaker 1: necessaradly know what it might be. I just go, oh, yeah, 47 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: it's the combination of that and that and that isn't it. 48 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 2: Yeah? 49 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 3: Could you run a cult? Yeah? 50 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: I run a couple already, but they're all pretty much 51 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: under the radar. 52 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 3: Well, is that there? The idea of the cult's got 53 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 3: to get out there, though. I've like because I've watched 54 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 3: a lot of those evangelist TV shows on late at night, 55 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 3: and I think these guys just repeating the same thing. 56 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 3: It's just so easy to do. You just keep repeating 57 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 3: the same thing. 58 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: Well, it's funny because I looked. I watched recently the Vow, 59 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: which was the sort of Keith Ranieri. You know, it 60 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: was sort of like a business proposition at first, so 61 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: it all seemed very practical, and then it all just 62 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: slowly got out of control, and he started having sex 63 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: with all the young women, and eventually they were tattooing 64 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: his initials on themselves, and it all sort of got 65 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: out of control. 66 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 3: So that's when when you get the tattoo stage. When 67 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 3: you get to the tattoo stage, it's when you've gone 68 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 3: too far. 69 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: That's right, Hang on, what's gone wrong here. So but 70 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: even in that there were there were some experts on 71 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: that documentary talking about what it was that he was doing, 72 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: and they were saying, he's just drawn from this, He's 73 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: drawn from that business model. He's taken this, he's taken 74 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: this old whatever teaching, and he's rolled it up all 75 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: together and then he's called it his own thing. So yeah, 76 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of regurgitating. I think it's 77 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: just power trips that people have. I mean, and maybe 78 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: a lot of them start off with good intents, you know, 79 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: and and but there are a lot of vulnerable. 80 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 3: Well Jim Jim Jones, Jim Jones started with good intentions. 81 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 3: He actually started with market some kool aid and then everyone's. 82 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: Lining up to drinks getting out before he had no 83 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: success at Coca Cola drink company. 84 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 3: Well, it's great to see you in this, I must 85 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 3: feel do you feel ripped off about the neighbors think 86 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 3: because Neighbors finished and you thought, well, i'll give him 87 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,679 Speaker 3: a good go, and now they're coming back. They can't 88 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 3: do that. 89 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: I don't feel ripped off, but I mean I'm pleased 90 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: that it's come back, and I'm pleased for Henrietta Graham, 91 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: my lovely friend who whose father I played in the show, 92 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,280 Speaker 1: so I'm pleased for her. But it was a little 93 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: bit like, okay, now what do we do because Annie 94 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: Jones and I live in the street again. Got to 95 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: figure that out. 96 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 3: You've got to stick to your character. 97 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 2: You become a daughter door salesman who's never home that 98 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 2: he's gone to Britain. 99 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: The motorbike. You see the motorbike going off down the street. 100 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: And you that's so well, well mate, we love this. 101 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 3: The Clearing starts streaming May twenty four on Disney Plus. 102 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 3: Guy Pierce enigmatic as usual. I'll join the cult. We're 103 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 3: drinking the kool aid. 104 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Lovely to see you too.