Speaker 1: Laura, come on here.
Speaker 2: We go.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, everybody. Happy Friday, No, it is a happy Friday.
Speaker 3: But you know what, I've had my dad staying with
Speaker 3: me for the past couple of days. And my dad
Speaker 3: lives in a tiny little island off a townshill. It's
Speaker 3: called Magnetic Island. And he's like Crocodile Dundee. And now
Speaker 3: he's down here in the big smoke.
Speaker 4: How long is he staying with you for?
Speaker 3: He actually a week.
Speaker 1: Your Dad's amazing, but he is like a fish out
Speaker 1: of water. He one hundred percent is crocodile Dundee in
Speaker 1: the city.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like I can't describe him, but he's such
Speaker 3: a unique character. But he just likes being out in
Speaker 3: the bush by himself. So when you like take him
Speaker 3: out of.
Speaker 1: The bush and you put him in Bondai, he gets
Speaker 1: very confused and discombobulated.
Speaker 2: The poor guy.
Speaker 4: Has he gone to the tourist things around Sydney.
Speaker 3: No, God, no, he won't. He doesn't want to drive,
Speaker 3: doesnt want to go anywhere. He thinks it's freezing constantly.
Speaker 3: But also it's so good for the kids, like at
Speaker 3: least having granddad in town. It's like a built in
Speaker 3: babysitter that's trying to make them hunt in the garden.
Speaker 2: I would not leave him alone with the children.
Speaker 5: Throw from a crocodile. Okay, let's just take a trip
Speaker 5: down memory lane. The man doesn't know what an aeroplane is.
Speaker 5: He's perplexed by doors. I've left him with my kids.
Speaker 3: He's so good. So he lives doors.
Speaker 4: He doesn't live in a tent.
Speaker 3: He doesn't.
Speaker 5: When you say magnetic island, I picture him just hovering
Speaker 5: around a hob aball with a tinfoil hat on.
Speaker 4: I still have a house.
Speaker 3: He just lives in a house and loves koalas. That's
Speaker 3: pretty much my dad to it.
Speaker 2: It's a better way to wrap him up. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: love him.
Speaker 1: Hey, guys, we have an absolutely huge guest I'm so
Speaker 1: excited about it coming up after the break.
Speaker 4: Asher Keddy, the one and only.
Speaker 1: She's the star of Offspring, which was the most incredible series,
Speaker 1: but that was a long time ago. Now she is
Speaker 1: Mea Friedman right in the new Binge season of Strife. Now,
Speaker 1: Strife is based around Mea Friedman from and Mia.
Speaker 4: It's her whole entire life.
Speaker 1: It's her coming of age and her coming into the
Speaker 1: entertainment to the Spotlight and she's chose Asha Kenny to
Speaker 1: fill that role.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited to talk to us.
Speaker 5: Ash's going to join us live on the pick Up. Next,
Speaker 5: we're here for your Friday AVO. And I speak for
Speaker 5: you guys, Britta, Laura and myself when I say how
Speaker 5: excited we are for our guest today. We've been talking
Speaker 5: about this series for quite a while, anticipating it at
Speaker 5: landing on Binge. It is finally here, the brand new
Speaker 5: Binge original drama series Strife, starring Asha Kenny from the
Speaker 5: producers of Big Little Lives. We have Asher here to
Speaker 5: tell us all about it. Hello, Asha, Welcome to the Pickup.
Speaker 6: Hi Asha, Hi, how are you guys?
Speaker 4: Asha?
Speaker 1: I'm going to be honest, I am ridiculously excited to
Speaker 1: be speaking to you today because you're one of my
Speaker 1: favorite Australian actresses and not just mine. You've won seven
Speaker 1: low Ye Awards, which is I mean, the proof is
Speaker 1: in the pudding. But I do have a bit of
Speaker 1: a bone to pick because I have never truly recovered
Speaker 1: from Patrick's death in Offspring. Oh yeah, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you get this all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh you haven't either.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I know.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's just extraordinary reason't it that that endures.
Speaker 7: That storyline was so.
Speaker 6: Devastating for so many people.
Speaker 7: At the time, I was really really shocked about why
Speaker 7: we would possibly do that, But I know why we did,
Speaker 7: and it, you know, gave our character Nina another two
Speaker 7: seasons of journey.
Speaker 6: And anyway, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3: I wanted to do in validation.
Speaker 4: I just want a validation.
Speaker 3: I wanted the apology. Asha. You play Evelyn in the
Speaker 3: new series Strife. What was it about her character that
Speaker 3: really drew you to the storyline, to the show itself.
Speaker 7: Look, really, it was the relatability of the actual story
Speaker 7: holistically and the character and the opportunity to create a
Speaker 7: character from the ground up. What I loved about Evelyn
Speaker 7: as a character was that I just wanted to lean
Speaker 7: into and explore the complication that is, you know, being
Speaker 7: a woman with strong ambitions, a drive that she finds
Speaker 7: impossible to push down, yet has you know, really big
Speaker 7: fragilities and vulnerabilities. And I just thought it was a
Speaker 7: fantastic opportunity to be honest about a discussion you know
Speaker 7: that is very relevant at the moment. And also, even
Speaker 7: though it was set in twenty twelve. It was such
Speaker 7: a pivotal time and things of the landscape was changing
Speaker 7: so much as well.
Speaker 5: Well. Many Australians will be very familiar with the story
Speaker 5: because the character of Evelyn is loosely based off Mia Friedman, who,
Speaker 5: of course love We've had a friend of our yeah,
Speaker 5: and she created Mama Mia, which is now this empire,
Speaker 5: this media empire. How closely did you work We've met
Speaker 5: in the creative process and trying to create the character
Speaker 5: that we know is Evelyn.
Speaker 7: Look closely in the sense that MIA's stories gave us
Speaker 7: so much in inspiration. Her stories are incredible, She's inspiring.
Speaker 7: Her bravery is extraordinary when you think about it, the
Speaker 7: public and the private and what has been pulled apart
Speaker 7: and polarized. And she was so generous with those stories,
Speaker 7: and then those stories discussion as we were developing the
Speaker 7: show became my stories and Jodie's and Brunners and Sarah Scheller's,
Speaker 7: and it was a really amazing experience to be honest
Speaker 7: about the experiences we've had as professional women and mothers
Speaker 7: as well.
Speaker 3: Something that I think a lot of people don't know
Speaker 3: about me. She is the first person whenever brit Or,
Speaker 3: I have had something that's gone not to our liking
Speaker 3: in the media. She is the first person who will
Speaker 3: send you a message on WhatsApp to be like it's okay,
Speaker 3: I've been here before. She's such a champion of other
Speaker 3: women who work within the media space, and that doesn't
Speaker 3: normally exist because we're always talked kind of like you
Speaker 3: get that media women are pitted against each other, we're
Speaker 3: all in competition, but it really goes against what she
Speaker 3: has stood for.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, and we really explore that as well. We
Speaker 7: really kind of delve into female relationships and how around
Speaker 7: that period it was the beginning of a shift culturally,
Speaker 7: socially obviously and politically, but it also felt like a
Speaker 7: shift to me that has evolved enormously with women in
Speaker 7: the media, certainly in my industry. There's a lot of
Speaker 7: championing that goes on and they're the people that I
Speaker 7: want to surround myself with and I want to return
Speaker 7: that as well.
Speaker 1: And actually, you have a son, Valentino, an eight year
Speaker 1: old son that you had at age forty one, and
Speaker 1: I say that I bring that in because firstly, obviously
Speaker 1: you can relate to the life of me where you're
Speaker 1: juggling multiple things. You are a mum, and you are
Speaker 1: running multiple businesses. You're a busy woman. But secondly, I
Speaker 1: have found it really interesting listening to you talk about
Speaker 1: and I hate the term saying an older mom because
Speaker 1: we know that forty one is an old but I
Speaker 1: can relate to that a lot. I'm thirty seven this year.
Speaker 1: I'm freezing all my eggs right now because I feel
Speaker 1: like it's not in my near vicinity. And I've always
Speaker 1: wondered if I hit forty, would I continue to do
Speaker 1: it and what would that look like.
Speaker 4: How have you found that?
Speaker 7: Well, it's just been a lot because when I turned
Speaker 7: forty in my life started really accelerating professionally as well
Speaker 7: as personally. So while I was probably about thirty seven,
Speaker 7: you know, my husband Vincent and his little boy, my stepson, Luca,
Speaker 7: and things shifted a lot for me then. But heading
Speaker 7: into my forties, life was very full. And I've spoken
Speaker 7: about this. At the time when I was pregnant with
Speaker 7: val I felt really robust, I felt fit physically and mentally.
Speaker 6: I didn't think about it at the time.
Speaker 7: I think I made a comment which you're probably relating
Speaker 7: to not that long ago where I said that, you know,
Speaker 7: just recently heading towards fifty very soon, I have had
Speaker 7: a couple of moms when I thought, oh, gosh, well,
Speaker 7: how old is that? How am old am I going
Speaker 7: to be when VAL's eighteen or thirty or whatever. It
Speaker 7: just does an interesting thing heading into your fifties as
Speaker 7: opposed to your forties. I'm not afraid of it, and
Speaker 7: I don't feel kind of discombobulated by it.
Speaker 6: It's just something that I've thought about.
Speaker 7: It was a passing comment that was kind of interestingly
Speaker 7: popped all over the net.
Speaker 6: Out of context, as things were are. But that's okay.
Speaker 7: It's like, I'm happy to talk about it, you know.
Speaker 7: That's honestly how I feel.
Speaker 5: So happy to have you on, Asha Ketty a true privilege.
Speaker 5: You can get the new Binge original drama series Strife,
Speaker 5: starring the one and only Asha Ketty from the producer
Speaker 5: of Big Little Lies, streaming on Binge out now.
Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on the pick up.
Speaker 1: I feel really uncomfortable talking about this, but what better
Speaker 1: place than national radio.
Speaker 2: Laundry do it?
Speaker 3: Laura?
Speaker 4: You and I have been really close friends for a.
Speaker 1: Long time, years and years now, Darling, Yes, exactly. And
Speaker 1: I feel very close to your kids and your husband,
Speaker 1: Matti J. And I feel like it would be remissive
Speaker 1: me not to bring up. Oh, I feel so uncomfortable
Speaker 1: to bring this up. Matt's made me uncomfortable. Matt has
Speaker 1: done something. Okay, long story short. I got to work
Speaker 1: and on my desk there was a present. It's been wrapped,
Speaker 1: and I opened it up and it was semi nude
Speaker 1: photo of your husband. And I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is for Laura. I've accidentally opened it and I
Speaker 1: turned it over. But then there was a big card
Speaker 1: that said to Brittany, Merry Christmas from Maddie J.
Speaker 3: And it was literally, what this is?
Speaker 1: You know, he's sending me send me nude photos like
Speaker 1: a calendar or something.
Speaker 4: I couldn't even look at them all.
Speaker 3: Had you didn't even look at them all?
Speaker 1: I felt like I was breaking some sort of friendship law.
Speaker 3: Why is he sending me new pictures? He's not nude.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, it has gone a bit far. He's
Speaker 3: wearing his budget smugglers. Everyone, yes, he had smugglers. He's
Speaker 3: got tiny little swimmers on. And also it's not just him,
Speaker 3: there's another guy in an ash Wick. So it's the
Speaker 3: two of them.
Speaker 1: Which was more perplexing, posing with not much clothes and okay,
Speaker 1: so to set the scene, this is a calendar that
Speaker 1: they have created.
Speaker 3: It is called the chore play calendar.
Speaker 1: Now, so this wasn't just an individual present for me, I.
Speaker 3: Am to blame for this. So I have always said
Speaker 3: to Matt that the thing that women like more than
Speaker 3: anything in the world, it's not presents, it's not gifts,
Speaker 3: it's not words of affirmation. No one wants you to
Speaker 3: tell them that they're pretty. They just want you to clean.
Speaker 3: They want you to come home, they want you to
Speaker 3: clean the house, they want you to mop the floor,
Speaker 3: they want you to put away your dishes. They want
Speaker 3: to get you, pick up your stinky undies and put
Speaker 3: them in the washing machine yourself. Women just around the
Speaker 3: country they just want their husbands to clean.
Speaker 4: That is it's so much more sense.
Speaker 3: So what Matt has now gone and done is he's
Speaker 3: taken that literally. But he's kind of combined the two
Speaker 3: assets that he has, one that he can clean and
Speaker 3: two that he has a very nice body. And so
Speaker 3: he's created a calendar which is called chow play, and
Speaker 3: he's doing it all naked pretty much.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I actually this is so much better because I thought
Speaker 1: I had to in the friendship. I was like, I
Speaker 1: can't be friend with you guys anymore if he's sending
Speaker 1: me these photos. But so it's not just me, it's
Speaker 1: I'm not specially gets you in hundreds of other people
Speaker 1: who are receiving this Christmas.
Speaker 3: This Yet I'm not using that calendar. I should. I
Speaker 3: think we need one in the studio.
Speaker 2: Mitch will use it.
Speaker 5: I was just about to say, I've got the opposite
Speaker 5: opinion to Britt. I actually will be more of your
Speaker 5: friend if you can get your husband to send.
Speaker 3: Me that surprised, although I think it is quite telling
Speaker 3: that he hasn't sent you one. Mitch, I think it's coming.
Speaker 5: Can I be honest with you. He text me the
Speaker 5: photos and ask for my opinion.
Speaker 3: I thought you were just getting to the calendar with
Speaker 3: a tear away section in the middle.
Speaker 2: In the center. Oh oh, is that the line? Is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is smell like Pino clean, Okay, because all
Speaker 3: he's doing is cleaning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, true, And yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, it's a bit fun. But I I stand
Speaker 3: by this. I think that every woman out there just
Speaker 3: wants a man who just will clean their house interesting
Speaker 3: in their undies.
Speaker 2: I've got some other ideas for my men.
Speaker 1: You need.
Speaker 2: To do some other things.
Speaker 3: You guys don't have kids, all right?
Speaker 5: Everyone next on the show, and we got five hundred
Speaker 5: dollars at Chemists Warehouse. And all you need is a name.
Speaker 5: It's true, you just need to have a name.
Speaker 4: The easiest competition you'll ever have.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, potentially, don't say we don't give stuff out
Speaker 5: for free. On the pick up five hundred bucks at
Speaker 5: Chemists Warehouse up for grabs.
Speaker 3: Next, Yeah, we.
Speaker 1: Have a five hundred dollars Chemist Warehouse voucher to give
Speaker 1: away today.
Speaker 3: I love giving away money.
Speaker 2: We really really good at it.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: But this came off the back of earlier in the
Speaker 1: week I was talking about, Well, you guys actually three
Speaker 1: round the bus. But I have nicknames for everyone, and
Speaker 1: they're always really weird nicknames, like no one would ever
Speaker 1: ever know where they came from. Like my dad is
Speaker 1: Popsical home Slizes, my mum's President Nixon, my sister is Shrek.
Speaker 2: If you miss that, we paid brit out we laughed,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh there is nobody at all? Who has as many
Speaker 3: nicknames as Britt has for everyone? And some of them
Speaker 3: make absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1: Even my dog Delilah is squid, she responds to squid,
Speaker 1: Squidlert squiddy, We just do it doesn't even make sense
Speaker 1: kind of endearment.
Speaker 3: But some of them are endearing, like his sister Shrek.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she loves it, though she at.
Speaker 3: The end doesn't because you're trying cue to fire it
Speaker 3: doesn't actually make it.
Speaker 5: I still we wanted to know on thirteen one sixty
Speaker 5: five what is your nickname?
Speaker 2: Best nickname?
Speaker 5: And I also think best story, because nothing better than
Speaker 5: a nickname is actually something better.
Speaker 3: Than how you ended up with it for one.
Speaker 4: But I think we need to try and guess them.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's try well.
Speaker 5: From thirteen one o six five, we have Tanika aka cement.
Speaker 1: Yes, hello, Hia, I'm going to guess.
Speaker 4: First.
Speaker 1: I reckon, you were running and then you tripped over
Speaker 1: and fell into like fresh wet cement. No that's not right.
Speaker 3: I reckon you're you're really stubborn and hard.
Speaker 2: No, you're a trady.
Speaker 7: No, it's definitely not.
Speaker 3: How did you get this as your nickname?
Speaker 1: Okay, so I apparently just don't shut up. And everyone
Speaker 1: has said that I could literally talk under wet cement,
Speaker 1: that I talk that much.
Speaker 3: That's actually mean to just start calling you cement though
Speaker 3: it's very silent.
Speaker 1: One of a teacher, and it's stuck my whole life.
Speaker 4: Don't worry.
Speaker 3: I got there. I could talk under wet cement to
Speaker 3: water when I was in school, So I feel you.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's got another one. Let's go to a Wendy high. Wendy,
Speaker 2: what's your nickname?
Speaker 4: Big bird?
Speaker 5: What big bird? She's it's a high thing.
Speaker 4: I reckon she fell in cement and rolled around in feathers, Like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, feathers and the street.
Speaker 3: No, I reckon, like she's you. You ran out with
Speaker 3: like a group of girlfriends once and you wore a
Speaker 3: big yellow dress and they just decided that that was
Speaker 3: gonna stick.
Speaker 2: What is it? No, I just told everybody it's still
Speaker 2: leaving the boys.
Speaker 3: Was right, okay with stature, so nothing to do with
Speaker 3: nothing being yellow.
Speaker 2: Vanessa, Hi, what's your nickname?
Speaker 6: It's Toaster?
Speaker 3: Toaster. I reckon it's because you're hot. I guess I.
Speaker 1: Reckon Toaster because you love to be You did something
Speaker 1: really silly when you were younger and like put a
Speaker 1: fork in a toaster or something you like.
Speaker 2: To be used at breakfast.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Mitch, what has happened to you today?
Speaker 4: Where did your improv car go to?
Speaker 2: What toaster? Tell us?
Speaker 7: I was an outdoor farm kid and my classmates were
Speaker 7: not and I had some weird tan lines all the time.
Speaker 2: But that's.
Speaker 3: You're toasty.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: I that toaster. I reckon, who's our favorite? I reckon toasty.
Speaker 1: I think we can give it to the sunburn kids.
Speaker 1: She's going to need it to buy some more sunscreen.
Speaker 1: I also love toast from Chemist Warehouse.
Speaker 2: Congrats toaster. Take five hundred.
Speaker 4: Bucks so much.
Speaker 6: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: You're so welcome. What do you reckon? You're gonna get
Speaker 3: for yourself?
Speaker 2: Great enough?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've got pretty bad skin now, so that would
Speaker 6: help make the Christmas pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Oh no, you go and enjoy it, toaster. And that's
Speaker 3: it from us today, cementingbird.
Speaker 5: We'll see you all Monday. Have a great weekend. We
Speaker 5: can podcast any of the show. Asha Kendy was on
Speaker 5: today Kedder as we call Katie Ashes.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, that is enough from us.
Speaker 4: Yeah,