WEBVTT - Lachlan Buchanan - WELLMAINIA - Actor 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:02.920 TV Reload. 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.960 The podcast Past Deep Aline. Welcome back guys to TV Reload. 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:08.399 As you may know, my name is Benjamin Norris and 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.240 this is your podcast to get all the inside goss 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.880 all the popular TV shows you may be watching from 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.079 around the world. Undeniably, our TV sets are still a 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.120 major part of our home entertainment, and yet very little 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:22.800 is note about how our favorite shows get made. 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This chat, I'm joined by 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.560 Australian actor Lochlan Buchanan, who is currently in the smash 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.360 hit series well Mania, which is now available on Netflix Australia. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.520 Lockie takes on the role of actress comedians Celeste Barber's 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.440 brother and he is actually very funny in this series, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.440 which has actually been out for a few weeks now 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.720 and has been ranking extremely high across Netflix around the world. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:09.759 Well Mania is an Australian comedy drama streaming television series 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.600 co created by Bridget Delaney and Benjamin Law for Netflix. 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.679 The series is based on Delaney's memoir Repertoire Hybrid Wellmania 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.319 Misadventures in the Search for Wellness, and it follows live 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.880 herely Celes Barber, a thirty nine year old woman who 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:30.000 struggles with a major health crisis as she tries various 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.559 methods to reclaim her wellbeing. I will talk to Locke 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.319 about his life in Los Angeles and how he has 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.759 survived for fourteen years trying to crack the biz. Lockie 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.640 will also explain if the show was scripted or if 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.240 they had to improvise a lot of the comedy. We 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.600 will talk about gay culture in television and film, and 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.560 why he thinks this show offers an alternative to some 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.639 of the stereotypes that we've seen over the years. Plus, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.480 we will get plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.120 of Wellmania, which you can now binge the whole thing 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:04.120 on Netflix. Anyway, let's bring Lockie into the podcast and 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.160 I really hope you enjoy this chat. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:08.320 Hi Lockie, how are you? 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.040 Hi? Good? Thanks man, how are you. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.040 The worst part of ever talking to anyone I've worked 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.680 out in my real life is ever saying hello to 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.040 someone or saying goodbye, Like I have no authentic way 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:20.600 of doing it. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.399 This is like my two hundred. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.640 And fiftieth podcast, And I still when I say to 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.600 say when I go to say hello, I'm like, hello, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:28.800 I'm right there with you. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.480 I'm as awkward as they come, like I And then goodbye. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.679 It's like that, and then the weird handshake thing happens. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.760 Yeah, that's story of my life. So I hear you 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:38.760 know it's. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.680 Really weird as well as like when I leave parties, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:41.919 I don't say goodbye to anyone. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.160 I do a runner and it's so it's so rude, 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:45.920 Like who does that to. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.320 People have invited you to their house, You're having a 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.200 great time and all you're out with them socializing and 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.160 then you don't even say goodbye to them, and you 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.040 think in your mind at the time, that's better than 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.760 actually going up and having to depart from them properly. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.000 Do you know what I'm so with you on that. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.800 I think It depends on the situation, because sometimes it 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.040 can be there are too many people to say goodbye to, 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:07.760 and it's like I'm going to spend the next thirty 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.119 minutes saying goodbye to people, or I can just duck 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.240 out now, and like are they really going to notice? 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.320 I have this one friend, though, who and I think 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.040 what I've discovered is that he tracks me on his phone, 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.400 like my location and so because within five minutes of 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.440 just disappearing out of a party, I'll get a message 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.359 but you left, like what how does he? How does 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.160 he notice this stuff? But it depends like there's sometimes 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.959 where I'm like, oh that was that was probably a 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.600 bit rude, like genius, a bit a bit rude, and 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.680 then there's other times where I'm like, I'm fine with it. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.160 So I think it depends. So don't don't be too 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:37.920 hard with yourself. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.720 People love to make you feel better and say no, 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.840 stay stay. I don't think they want you to stay either. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.839 They just am like they're being polite, no you can't go, 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.400 And I hate having to be like, well, you know now, 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.800 I'm looking for some bad reason to leave when actual fact, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.760 it's as simple as this, I'm done. I'm done, You're 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:56.160 just done? 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.600 Yeah, well, and then to flip it around though, are 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.440 you then the person that when someone says they leave 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:01.560 and you go okay. 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:06.360 I say get out. I say get out. I don't 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.080 want to see you anymore. I'm so weird. 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.000 Even with these pasts, I get so excited about talking 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.680 to people, but it's like food for me, and I 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.640 get so excited about doing the podcast, but then as 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.160 soon as it's done, I just push the plate away 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.080 like I never want to see it again. And like 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.159 with these people, they'll then try and stay friends with 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.680 you afterwards. You know, they'll chat to you on Instagram 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:28.200 forever or do. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.320 You want to catch up for coffee? And I'm like, oh, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.279 I don't ever want to see you again. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:34.560 We already talk like. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.080 I mean, that's how I feel about most of my 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.000 friends after I hang out with them, like okay, we're 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:40.120 gone for a while, right. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.560 But it's also because I get so like I'm I'm not. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:45.320 I don't know. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.120 When it comes to being in a podcast, I get 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.800 the license to ask all the questions that you want 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.000 to know, like from these people, and then to sort 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.160 of move from that stage of being able to ask 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.640 all those questions to being social where it's actually kind 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.400 of really intrusive to say, you know, you just one 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.400 Master Chef and you've won two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.120 how are you going to spend it? Like I can 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.040 ask that in a podcast, right, but socially no. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:09.040 Yeah, it's a different thing. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.160 Yeah, with you, all I want to talk to you 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:12.880 about is how do you look this good? 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:13.200 Like? 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.240 You are one of the best looking men I've ever 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.919 seen in my entire life. When I was going to 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.359 do this podcast, I looked at your Instagram and I 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.640 basically felt like shutting my Instagram down. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.040 I was like, I can't throw my face anyway. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:27.919 Oh so it must be early there. You must have 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:29.480 sleeping your eyes still or something. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.160 No, this is the end of day. I know who 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:32.599 you are. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.280 But when the interview came across my desk, I then 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.679 went to the Instagram as the first point of call, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.040 and I just was like, wow, and I feel like 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.720 this is on brand. It's not me being creepy because 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.720 you know we're talking about the show. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.520 Wellness, Well, thank you, that's really kind. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.920 You've made my day. I'm in LA at the moment. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.880 So it's Monday, afternoon. I was the week's already. This 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.400 is the high point in the week already, so it's 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:55.159 downhill from here. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.480 How are you going in Los Angeles? Because I went 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.160 there in two thousand and seven and I have had 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.800 the best time while I was there, and people would 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.800 come from Australia over to see me, and I worked 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.799 out that not a lot of other Rossies loved Los Angeles, 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.839 where I've had a great time, Like, I've really seem 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.479 to find quite easy for me. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.640 What about yourself, Yeah, that's funny. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.800 It's you either love it or you hate it. I 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.080 think there's kind of very few reasons to be in between. 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.719 I'm used to it because I've been here for about 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.760 fourteen years now and I just got back a week ago. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.960 I was in Australia for a while. It's like a 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.200 home for me. But I love getting out of here. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:32.159 You know. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:33.640 There's a lot of things about it that I love. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.320 There's a lot of things about it that I kind 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.200 of hate. But it's weird because it's one of those 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.760 cities where everything happens here in the world first, and 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.120 so that can get a little bit addictive sometimes, and 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.320 I think that's what some people can really love about it. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.240 But you've just got to remind yourself. 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:49.960 And as time goes on, you realize more and more 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.520 that's that's not the real world, and that it's not 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.800 how all things go. So yeah, it's good to escape. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.800 But I'm very happy here. I'm very happy to leave 0:06:58.839 --> 0:06:59.279 here now. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.200 I had a great time, and I just recommended a 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.320 fellow journalist to go and have ale. Well, he was 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.200 already going there, and I said, look, these are the 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.560 things you've got to do. Run run in canyon every day, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.320 go to the grove, to the farmers market, get the sushi, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.880 keep your head on, you know, don't get sort of 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.520 lure it into traps, keep socializing, keep meeting new people, 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.800 and you know, have like a whole schematic. And he's 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:21.360 there at the moment. He just thinks it's the best 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.200 thing in the world. He's like, Ben, you're so right. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:24.480 Los Angeles is the bomb. 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.000 Yeah, because there is, because there's everything at your fingertips, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.080 and so that's just it's so easy. And it's funny 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.880 when I go back to Australia and you know, even Sydney, 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.560 and Sydney you know it's an international city, but you know, 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.560 everything's fairly easy. But LA is just a different kind 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.440 of easy where there's just everything's there and it's just 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.120 so simple, and you kind of get used to that, 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.080 and then you can kind of confront you when you 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.440 go home or look up from the Sunshine Coast originally 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.480 and it can spect Oh everything closes at five pm? 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.400 Got it? Okay? So yeah, it's a bit of fun, 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:54.160 but it's great. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.760 Yeah, Like there's a lot of cool people, people from everywhere, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.600 and I have to say the last few years, like 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.920 the food and drink scene is off the hook. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:01.960 It's really good. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:03.880 How do you stand out in a place though, where 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.240 all of the gay men over there look like they've 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.760 been carefully molded out of clay? I mean, you also 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:12.440 have a body like that, but you know, how do 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.080 you stand out like? Because that was the one thing 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.600 I found while I was there was that I felt 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.680 like I sort of just looked nothing like what the 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.160 gay men look like on the scene. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:25.280 Well again, I thank you, but be loud and have 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.600 an Australian accent. I guess I don't know. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.600 Here's the thing, though, so many of them are too 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.080 worried about what they look like themselves that they're not 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:33.480 really noticing anybody else. 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.400 So there's also that they're just looking in the mirror. 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.040 Yeah, pretty much, pretty much. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.040 That's the funny thing is because you know so many 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.320 people here, models, actors and influencers. Everybody's too worried about 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.160 themselves that they don't care. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:47.600 What you're doing. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.480 What's the best advice that you have for actors wanting 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.640 to move from Australia to America, Because you know, there 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.880 was that blitz for a while, like there was the 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.600 Heath Ledger time where you know, all of a sudden, 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.600 it's just seemed so possible with you know, the Hamsworth's 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.680 going over there as well. But like for you, what 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.000 is your best advice for austraands wanting to go over there? 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.360 Well, it's very different now than it was when I 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.520 moved here. I think you've got technology and COVID and 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.640 all these things to sort of blame for that. You 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.320 don't have to be here anymore if you want to 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.480 work in America. No, that sounds weird, but you can. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.079 You can audition from other places. So I don't think 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:26.880 people need to have that feeling of like, oh I'm 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:28.439 going to do it, I have to move to la 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.160 That's not necessarily the case, which is great for a 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.600 lot of people, and it's really handy sometimes, like I 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.400 can be in different cities and still audition for things 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.839 or do meetings. If it's something that you really really 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.840 want to do and that's just your dream is to 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.439 just be here, I mean, go for it. My biggest 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.680 piece of advice they would be to work in Australia, 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.760 your home country, as much as you can first, just 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.760 so that you're kind of coming in at it'll only 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.520 make life easier for you in so many different ways, 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.640 whether that's getting other jobs or even a visa. You know, 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.760 So just take him in it and make sure that 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.280 you haven't exhausted kind of the options that are available 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.560 to you there, because it's also a much bigger pond, 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.640 and if you're in Australia, there's not as many people obviously, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.280 so chances are better, odds are better, and there's so 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.959 much work heading down there now with the rise of 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.480 all the streaming services and stuff, there's more work than ever. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.280 But there's so much that film's down. 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.440 There, that there's a ton of great stuff going on 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.800 down there. And one of the mistakes that I think 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.240 some people make is that they'll go to La straight away, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.599 thinking that they're being clever and bypassing, you know, the homeland. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.679 But it's it's not going to do you any favors 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.240 because that's what a lot of people do, and there's 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.520 it's just it makes it so much tougher for you. 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.720 But you know, like not to disparage anyone from their dreams. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.319 It's more just a tip. I guess it. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.480 Looks good in the first interview if they're you know, 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.720 being nominated from an Academy award, They're like, you know, 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:51.760 I wasn't on neighbors in home and away in Australia. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.080 I just came straight here. I guess that's their ego talking, 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:56.480 you know what I mean, Like they'd love to be 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.360 able to say that. But the truth of the matter 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.319 is we do have a lot of vehicles in Australia 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.520 and also now that are great training and great stomping ground. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.360 And you know, I wonder whether or not. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.920 A lot of actors these days feel the allure of 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.839 going over to America as you know, for the work, 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.040 because the work is getting richer, you know, that is 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:17.400 being here in Australia. 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:18.439 Yeah, less and less. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.640 I think people are wanting to come over here or 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.079 feel like they have to. A lot of friends in 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.120 Australia who are actors used to want to be over here, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:27.760 or they'd sort of go back and forth, and now 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.240 they're just like, no, I'm staying around and living my 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:31.800 best life here because I can do all the same 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.360 stuff from here. I mean right now, auditions are still 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.920 all self tapes or by a zoom even if you're 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.240 in LA. So unless you're working, there's not really much 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.160 point to be here if that's what you're wanting to 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:44.640 be here for. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.560 You know, one question I love asking people that you 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.120 know expats living over there is what's your best LA story? 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.400 I feel like everyone has a really unusual story where 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.000 they're like, you know, going to pump some gas and 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.439 Brad Pitt comes over and you know they've forgotten wallet 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.160 and he pays for their petrol. I don't know, there's 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.480 just always some really bizarre things that you know, really 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.440 could only ever happen in that city. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.680 Yeah, daily, I mean, it's it is bizarre. It's where 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.560 everybody is, and so you never know who you're going 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.559 to run into or what's going to happen. 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.000 It's it's really strange. I'm trying to think of some 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:21.920 like g rated ones. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.360 But like I tell us the non ger rated ones. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.319 A few parties where you see some interesting things happen 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.280 and it's like okay, and you have to remind yourtuff 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:33.360 like what is my life? 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.319 Like what is going on here? But no, there's you know, 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:37.199 there's always the fun things. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.280 Like my older sister came and visited a few years ago, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.640 and you know, people always want to see famous people 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.160 and I was like, well, the best way to do 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.160 it is just live your daily life and go to 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:45.880 the supermarket. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.160 Like you're not going to see them on the star 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.200 tours or on Hollywood Bulevard or any that. 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:50.960 So we were just going to the gym one day 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.199 and we're taking the elevator up from the parking garage 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:55.720 like you know, five floors or whatever it was up 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.800 to the gym and we get in and then this 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.320 couple gets in and we've just been talking about how 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.080 it was the first time in LA and she's like, 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.000 I want to see celebrities, and Emily Blunt and John 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.240 Krasinski walk in the elevator and they're just standing there too. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.600 I'm kind of like, cool, Okay, she's going to love this, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.160 This is great, this is a good one. We go 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.120 up a couple like, I just assume she'd see there's 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:15.360 two other people in the elevator. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:16.200 You think she noticed. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.680 We go up two floors, it opens, they get out, 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.760 doors closed, and went, well, there you go. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.000 You got a good one there. She's like, what are 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.280 you talking about? And it's like the two people that 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.600 just got in the elevator. She's like, oh my god, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.160 I'm such an idiot. Ah so dumb. A couple of 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.079 missed that. Blah blah blah. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.840 The doors opened back up and she's standing there shaking 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.280 her head, going god, and they hop back in and 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:36.400 they go sorry and hop back in. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.280 I'm like, no worries. We go up again, doors open, 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.000 we all get out, haven't I stare? Are you too cool? 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.599 You're going to go? We got your second chance. She's like, 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.000 what do you mean. I'm like, oh my god, she's 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.960 had no idea, just missed it twice. So I was. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.400 Probably looking for, like, you know, old school, big Hollywood actors. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.160 She wanted Julia Roberts, which you know, the funny thing 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.400 is when you see a lot of these big A listers, though, 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.839 I find friends of mine don't notice them because they. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.200 Don't really look like how they look on television. They 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.599 usually look smaller. They usually look smaller, you know what 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:05.880 I mean. 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.280 Like, so you can just be like, ah, the best 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.240 one to do is Runyan Canyon. If people came with me, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.480 I would take them to runy In Canyon because you 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.679 would always see people like I had a friend come 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.240 over and we saw Ellen with Porsche. One day, my 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.320 partner and I were back in Los Angeles not that 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.800 long ago, and awkwardly, what's her name? 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:25.480 Who's the woman who? 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.320 She's like an activist for the me too movement and 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:29.880 she was in like the first screen movie. 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.320 Oh, nev Campbell? No, I mean or Corney Cox. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.160 No, she's kind of she was like one of the 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.560 b part characters. She paid Tatum in the movie. But 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.720 I can't think of it anyway. She had had some 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.880 work done that made her look quite different. And so 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.800 I said to my partner do you know who that is? 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.720 And he was like no, And I was like, we 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.400 sort of the roads on Runyan Canyon can split, but 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.200 then they come back together. So as we split, I 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.040 was like, oh, this is this actress and he was like, oh, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.640 did she have a car accident? Is that why her face. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.640 Looks like that? And the roads had come back together. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.440 This is probably good that I haven't mentioned her name 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.440 and the roads came back together, and we were still 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.480 talking about whether or not she'd had a car accident, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.480 and that's why her face looked like that while using 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.160 her name, and she was less than a meter away 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:12.440 from us. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.760 Oh, that's so awkward. Hopefully she just couldn't hear for 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:21.000 whatever reason, she looked a few people. She looked at you. Okay, 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.920 well there you go. You can't come back for a minute. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.240 Look at that anyway. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.040 People be like, shut the hell up, and you know, 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.320 we want to hear more about well Mania. I want 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.760 to ask you, how did this show come about for you? 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.200 I mean, it's it's brilliant, it's so amazing, It is 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.960 so funny, and everyone in it is firing on all cannons. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.520 First of all, it's been so exciting the response to it, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.240 Like people have just really fallen in love with it, 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.320 and it's been pretty overwhelming. We weren't expecting it to 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:51.240 be such a hit. Really, it's really cool. The pretty 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.560 normal story for me, I was shooting another show over 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.600 here and I just got set an audition from my 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.560 Aussie agent to do a tape, threw that down. Two 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.000 months get a call from then go hey, they want 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.320 you to chemistry to Celeste Barber and I was like, 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.800 oh that isn't did the motions and did that and 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.160 it was wonderful and then I got the job. But 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.640 like I first, when I read the script, I loved it. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.200 It was one of those jobs that, oh, this is 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.520 so funny and has so much heart and it's such 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.960 a beautiful story, like cool, would love to be a 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:20.360 part of it, but you know, you just always wait 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.560 and wait and see. And then when it actually came around, 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.200 I was thrilled because it was a this job that 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.480 sounded so cool and I was really wanting to do 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.440 and then be working back in Australia again for the 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.000