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Speaker 1: Jum Mission with Jonesy and Amanda Well. For the last

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Speaker 1: five or so weeks, I've been banging on about a

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Speaker 1: new show.

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Speaker 2: Called White Lotus.

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Speaker 1: It's dropped once a week finales tonight, Jones Are you binged?

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Speaker 2: Where we're up to on the weekend? My tummy is

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Speaker 2: full of white Loas.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it is. It is such an

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Speaker 1: interesting program. It's unsettling, it's funny, it's caustic. And the

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Speaker 1: star of the show is an Australian who now lives

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Speaker 1: in La Murray Bartlett. He plays Armand, the resort manager

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Speaker 1: at this Hawaiian resort where all the big white richies

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Speaker 1: go to have a fabulous holiday.

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Speaker 2: And on the surface, Armon's got it all together, hasn't.

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Speaker 1: He unravels in a spectacular way. Murray Bartlet, Hello, Hi,

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Speaker 1: so oh, it's so nice to talk to you. When

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Speaker 1: I first heard about this show, I well, none of

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Speaker 1: us knew what to expect. But from the minute it starts,

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Speaker 1: you know something extraordinary is going to happen. And then

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Speaker 1: my hands are all prickly just talking about it because

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Speaker 1: the small little bits and pieces you scratch the surface

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Speaker 1: of every character and there's something awkward and uncomfortable.

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Speaker 2: It's just so enjoyable.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm glad to hear you say that. Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 3: You know. Mike White, who's the writer, creator, director of

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Speaker 3: this show, is brilliant in that he you know, he

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Speaker 3: just writes really complex characters, and he also writes, you know,

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Speaker 3: incredibly funny scenes, but they have this kind of, you know,

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Speaker 3: real edge to them, so you're you're laughing, but you

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Speaker 3: feel like someone's also sticking with you with a knife.

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Speaker 4: And the opening scene has a body going onto a plane,

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Speaker 4: and so someone dies out of the cast, and I

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Speaker 4: just presumed that it was the Bride that the dye.

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Speaker 1: Why would you watch you?

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Speaker 4: Amanda and I were talking earlier and she said, well, then, no,

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Speaker 4: it's not the Bride, And I went because my wife

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Speaker 4: and I have been watching the whole show and I'm

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Speaker 4: thinking it's a shame she's going to die because I

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Speaker 4: really like her. And then this morning the bombshell would

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Speaker 4: dropped this it might not be her, so I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the amazing thing about this writing. Again,

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Speaker 3: you know, he's also woven this like suspense kind of

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Speaker 3: you guessing, and it could be, you know, any one

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Speaker 3: of a few people that bites the dust in the end.

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Speaker 3: So it's it's kind of brilliant in that it helps

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Speaker 3: you along that way. It sure does.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about your character. Did you have fun with

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Speaker 1: Armand because you start being very proper and particular and

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Speaker 1: then you just got you unwine in an extraordinary way.

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Speaker 1: Did you have fun?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean it's you know, this kind of character

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Speaker 3: is kind of like an actor's dream, you know, because

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Speaker 3: he's such a rollercoaster and it is i mean, the

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Speaker 3: whole setup of the character. You know, he's the manager

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Speaker 3: of the hotel, so he has this very public facade,

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Speaker 3: but he's also got this really kind of intent inner

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Speaker 3: life that's bubbling away underneath, and you get to show

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Speaker 3: both in this show, you know, and it's it's you know,

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Speaker 3: it's it's not often that you get such an incredibly

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Speaker 3: sort of rich character that gets to fully express themselves,

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Speaker 3: all the elements of themselves. So it was it was,

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Speaker 3: you know, it was it was challenging at times for sure,

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Speaker 3: just trying to find the levels of that, but incredibly fun.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you always have moments of terror at the

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Speaker 3: beginning of each job and then once that passes. With

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Speaker 3: this job anyway, it was just you know, a lot

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Speaker 3: of fun and an amazing group of people, obviously incredible

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Speaker 3: cast and Mike White, the create a director writer guy

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Speaker 3: is just creates this a really wonderful sense of play

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Speaker 3: on set. So we really had a great time.

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Speaker 2: Everyone is talking about the sex scene in episode four.

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Speaker 4: So you shot this during you shot this during COVID,

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Speaker 4: So I'm presuming that you would have had intimacy advice

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Speaker 4: At what point in COVID is it this is where

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Speaker 4: you put your face into another man's bump.

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Speaker 3: That's really like CDC recommendations, isn't you know? We're all

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Speaker 3: we're all locked down together in this resort in Hawaii,

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Speaker 3: so we were we went through a kind of a

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Speaker 3: rigorous sort of COVID protocol to get there, and then

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Speaker 3: we were quarantined and then we couldn't leave for the

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Speaker 3: resort for the three months or we were shooting there.

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Speaker 3: So you know, we were all trusting that each other was,

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Speaker 3: you know, completely safe. But yeah, I mean doing a

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Speaker 3: but you know, in the spirit of the show, a

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Speaker 1: How was it living in a resort for three months?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a beautiful looking resort. I've heard that

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Speaker 1: it's the Four Seasons in Hawaii, although they don't call

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Speaker 1: it that, but it looks amazing. Was that a fun

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Speaker 3: I mean it was It was a lot of things.

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Speaker 3: You know, we were in the middle of lockdowns here

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Speaker 3: in the US, and so we were all plucked out

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Speaker 3: of our COVID pods and you know, not a expecting

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Speaker 3: Hawaii and in this kind of incredibly beautiful place. So

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Speaker 3: it was it was amazing and it was it Also,

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Speaker 3: it all felt very surreal. We couldn't leave the Result,

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Speaker 3: so that was beautiful. But it was, Yeah, it had

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Speaker 3: this very odd kind of feeling to it because the

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Speaker 3: completely locked down and we'd come from that, so we

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Speaker 3: felt incredibly lucky. But there was something slightly eerie about

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Speaker 3: about it as well, because the result was empty. You know,

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Speaker 3: it was shut down be COVID, which is partly why

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Speaker 3: we could shoot there. But it was, I mean, it

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Speaker 3: was it was joyful and like a gorgeous place to work.

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Speaker 3: So we all felt, you know, every day I woke out,

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Speaker 3: looked out and saw palm trees and felt incredibly lucky.

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Speaker 2: Can't be a bad thing.

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Speaker 1: Can't be a bad thing. And no one tried to

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Speaker 1: stop you being Australian. They didn't try and make it

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Speaker 1: turn you into having to have an accent or anything.

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Speaker 3: No. The woman who cast it, who is, you know,

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Speaker 3: a college friend of Mike White actually and been a

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Speaker 3: casting casting agent in New York for for years. I've

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Speaker 3: been to many many castings for her over the years,

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Speaker 3: and so I think she pitched me as an Australian,

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Speaker 3: and Mike liked that idea because it's, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: a resort, and there's people from all over the world

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Speaker 3: who work in that industry and sort of end up

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Speaker 3: in different places. So it kind of made sense. And weirdly,

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, I mean, he wrote such an

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Speaker 3: amazing character, and then when you added the Australian accent

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Speaker 3: to it, it seemed to just really kind of work

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Speaker 3: very well, so, yeah, it was. It was kind of

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Speaker 3: a it was it was a sweet thing that came together.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's it's a dream job when you look at it.

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Speaker 2: You stuck in Hawaii for three months. Sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't talk to many people about it. You know,

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Speaker 3: I felt embarrassed because it was it was COVID times,

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Speaker 3: particularly my active friends. You know, it was like it

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Speaker 3: just seemed completely unfair. It was unfair. But we were,

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Speaker 3: you know, we were quietly lapping it up over there.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the same.

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Speaker 4: And you can see Matt Murray lap it up. Catch

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Speaker 4: the White Ladys season finale tonight on Foxtel. Congratulations Murray,

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Speaker 4: it is so good. Your your portrayal of as Armand

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Speaker 4: is amazing.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for tonight. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: No, I was great to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Watch White Laders on Foxtel is absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 3: And on Binge, Jonesy and Amanda's gamation