1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation'd. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: Be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't heard of 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 2: Nannie Hazelhurst, from her time educating and entertaining kids on 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 2: play school to her many extraordinary roles on stage and 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 2: on screen. Well, now, the Hall of Fame inductee is 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 2: sharing her life in a new memoir called Dropping the Mask, 7 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 2: and she joins us, now, I know needs. 8 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 3: Has been a stroll. 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 2: Through memory lane for me to looking at the photographs 10 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: to start with, all those extraordinary shows you've been in 11 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 2: and all the actors you've starred with. I'm looking at 12 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: some great photos in here of Colin Friel's and Mel Gibson. 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 2: You were all young and at the beginning of your career. 14 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 2: Did you have any sense of all the people you've 15 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 2: worked with when you're working with people like that, going yep, 16 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 2: you're going to be famous? Or is it all looking 17 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 2: back going wow? 18 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 3: Who knew? 19 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 4: Certainly Mel, I think because when we work together on stage, 20 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 4: he had just done Mad Max one and the movie 21 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 4: Tim and his good looks were already a thing, and 22 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 4: so yeah, it was clear Mill was going to go on. 23 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 4: And also he already had an American passport, so he 24 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 4: was able to kind of go over there. He had 25 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 4: the green card, all happening and everything. So half Americans, 26 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 4: So yeah, he was definitely destined for big things. 27 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 3: There were some crushes on them. 28 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 4: No, not a Malek, No, No, he's a dad. He's 29 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 4: a funny guy and goofy and yeah. 30 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 3: Did you see him? Now? Do you keep in contact 31 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 3: or no? 32 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: It's just no, I haven't seen mel for probably thirty years. 33 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know people who are in contact with him, 34 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 4: so I sort of hear about him, but no, it's. 35 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 5: All part of the alma mater. There was a thing 36 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 5: of you on It came up on social media of 37 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 5: you in Homicide or Division four playing an angsty teen 38 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 5: at Flinder's Street railway station, and you did angsty teen 39 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 5: very well. 40 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 3: You're like a runaway or something like that. 41 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: Well, if teens can't do ans, what can they do? 42 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 3: That's what you're going to do, is. 43 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: It's given. 44 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just wasn't aware that you were a singer. 45 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: There's an your album is being launched in this there's 46 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 2: a photo of an album being launched and it says 47 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 2: no new rocks the album shout and whisper. What part 48 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 2: of your career did that happen. 49 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 4: Well, that was in about nineteen ninety. ABC Records came 50 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 4: and said, you want to do some albums. I said sure, 51 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 4: So I chose to do one for kids older than 52 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 4: play school age with music that was not kind of 53 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 4: sex and drugs and rock and roll, but it was 54 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 4: just rock and roll. So there's a quiet side and 55 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 4: a sort of upbeat side, and people are still finding 56 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 4: it in op shops. 57 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 2: It's wonderful the record where you had something on one 58 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 2: side and something on the I. 59 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 5: I do like there's a bit about your early days 60 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 5: with virginity and things like that in the book, in 61 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 5: the book album. 62 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: What song was that? 63 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 5: But I do like your one to ten grading of intimacy. Yes, 64 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 5: so you've got one holding hands to ten all the way. 65 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 5: But then in there two arms kissed, arms around, three kissing, four, 66 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 5: tongue kissing, five upstairs outside six man for me upstairs 67 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 5: inside an upstairs that's number six, downstairs outside is seven, 68 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:17,399 Speaker 5: eight is downstairs inside. 69 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: So what's nine? 70 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 3: And then nine is half the way? Whatever that was? Yes, 71 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 3: so that's it, and then you've got all the way. 72 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 3: What is half the way? 73 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:27,119 Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, that's what I've said. 74 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 2: Whatever that was, And is this when you talk to 75 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 2: your friends and you go, oh you about other people? 76 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: They went number six. 77 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: Yes, it was the kind of rumor grade. Yeah, that's right. 78 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 2: I think upstairs outside was as far as anything happened 79 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: for me. 80 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: Still. Finally, so what's that seven? 81 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 4: Now? 82 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: Upstairs outside? 83 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 3: Three? No, you were you were five? 84 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 2: Five raunchier that I knew. 85 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 3: You get halfway through the scale, which is pretty good. 86 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 2: Looking back at all the roles you've had, is there 87 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: one that sticks out? You go, God, I love. 88 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 4: Look play School, I think is the one that really 89 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 4: formed me the most and gave me the most. But 90 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 4: the one woman show that I've just been doing that 91 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 4: was written for me by Daniel Keane called Mother, is 92 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 4: probably the most challenging thing I've ever done. 93 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 2: And isn't it nice that you can still have roles 94 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 2: that still challenge you at any age? Things can still 95 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 2: come at you. 96 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's life, Things come at you. 97 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's over eleven on the list. 98 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 4: That is. No, I've been really lucky, but I've also 99 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 4: got a low boredom threshold. So I like to constantly 100 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 4: do different things and not keep playing the same role 101 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 4: over and over. 102 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: I do that in real life, so I don't need 103 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: to do it. 104 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 2: You must have lots of people of all ages that 105 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 2: say that they've seen you on play school. 106 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 4: Every day, every single day. It's wonderful their kids watched me, 107 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 4: or they watched me, or I'm now getting what I 108 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 4: consider to be old people saying they grew up with you. 109 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 5: When was the last time you made something out of 110 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 5: toilet roll holders and paddle pops. 111 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: Things telling such personal comes? 112 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 3: Where's that? Where's that on the scale of what? Noney? 113 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 3: It's great to talk to you. The book Dropping the 114 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 3: Mask is 115 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 4: Out now, Noney, Hazel Us, thank you, Thanks guys, love 116 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 4: to be with you.