Speaker 1: Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Perhaps his news today.
Speaker 1: Incredible scenes yesterday Liam Neeson, he loves Melbourne. Liam Neeson
Speaker 1: is making his third movie in Melbourne within the last
Speaker 1: four years. It's incredible work rate. This is now must
Speaker 1: be as like second at home. He spends a lot
Speaker 1: of time here.
Speaker 2: Does he Is he going back and forth or does
Speaker 2: he live in massive in somewhere now?
Speaker 1: So yesterday his new movie The Mongoose. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see already. They've got my money, take my money
Speaker 1: whatever he's in that some retired army event. I guarantee
Speaker 1: the Mongoose. They shut down the Carder Freeway yesterday at
Speaker 1: a really quiet time of the day, six pm. There's
Speaker 1: no one on the card of Freeway at six pm
Speaker 1: want to get home or go to work for six
Speaker 1: to ten. I don't even know how much money does
Speaker 1: this cost to close a freeway for a movie for
Speaker 1: four hours.
Speaker 2: And it's not like there's a lot of alternatives to
Speaker 2: the cold. You're either go in that way you're not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, today and tomorrow they're filming in Castlemaine, the CBD there.
Speaker 2: It's all for this new movie.
Speaker 1: Five hundred people are working on his new movie, which
Speaker 1: is incredible. Here are some of the clips about it
Speaker 1: that we went around in Australia yesterday. Drivers on the
Speaker 1: Calder Freeway are in for a surprise tonight with a
Speaker 1: section of the road shut down for a Hollywood film shoot.
Speaker 2: This is incredible.
Speaker 3: They love actually and Taken Star has been in Melbourne
Speaker 3: for the past couple of weeks filming his latest thriller
Speaker 3: action film, The Mongoose. He's been here in Elfinstone or
Speaker 3: right throughout the day filming a highway chase scene which
Speaker 3: did force the Colder Freeway to close.
Speaker 1: Now apparently it's a big sort of chase movie, so
Speaker 1: this scene is key. It's the big sort of action piece.
Speaker 3: It's a critical part of the film, which Senter's on.
Speaker 3: Neeson's character, a war veteran accused of a crime he
Speaker 3: did not commit, leading police on a televised cross country
Speaker 3: car chase. Great news for film fans, not so much
Speaker 3: for travelers though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm deferent to see the film. Waited it.
Speaker 1: And also you get this ridiculous thrill spotting local locations
Speaker 1: on TV show. Oh that's the coffee shop there, anyone
Speaker 1: will They're going to make so much money just from
Speaker 1: Australians here in Melbourne, right, just to go and see
Speaker 1: bits of the Calder Freeway and the Castle Main CBD
Speaker 1: bad news.
Speaker 2: I mean, did they warn anyone?
Speaker 1: You know sometimes they say major roadworks on the thirty first?
Speaker 1: Was there any countdown that the mongoose is coming to
Speaker 1: the Golder Freeway?
Speaker 2: Was he signing autographs if people stuck in traffic?
Speaker 3: Motorists are being told to expect delays of up to
Speaker 3: thirty minutes for their journey.
Speaker 2: This is my favorite bit. If you use Melbourne roads regularly,
Speaker 2: I kind of do.
Speaker 1: The potholes here are like anything I've ever experienced in
Speaker 1: the world. It's like driving a moon buggy in your
Speaker 1: car and the various potholes of Melbourne trying to fight
Speaker 1: film a Hollywood chasing where they get the stunt drivers
Speaker 1: that were going at high speed.
Speaker 3: And today we did learn that the government was concerned
Speaker 3: the state of Victoria's it might be a problem for
Speaker 3: the movie cruise. They sent repair cruise.
Speaker 1: Oh great, well, now I just moan about my roads
Speaker 1: around my way. So there's a major the mongoose is
Speaker 1: filming around here.
Speaker 2: Please Liam come and film.
Speaker 1: Oh we can't have a Hollywood star crashing around into
Speaker 1: one of those craters that are everywhere.
Speaker 2: That is incredible.
Speaker 3: And today we did learn that the government was concerned
Speaker 3: the state of Victoria's roads might be a problem for
Speaker 3: the movie Cruise. They sent repair Cruise here ahead of
Speaker 3: time to fix the potholes.
Speaker 1: You can imagine currently working through Liam Neeson is coming
Speaker 1: filled these potholes in So if there's five hundred people
Speaker 1: working on this movie and Liam Neeson's been here for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, odds on, just like Shark and
Speaker 1: well week, you know where, we've got listeners in various
Speaker 1: places and do different things. Yesterday we've been just doing
Speaker 1: a phone and actually Shark and the Shark story yesday
Speaker 1: came from a guy who'd been a key grip and
Speaker 1: a former child star of Home and Away who was
Speaker 1: actually calling us from the location of Home. Someone who
Speaker 1: listens to this show must be working on that movie.
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