Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
Speaker 1: TV Reload, the podcast last Pekoline. Welcome back guys to
Speaker 1: TV Reload. My name is Benjamin Norris and on this
Speaker 1: podcast I go behind the scenes with the biggest players
Speaker 1: in television. Each episode you will get a front row
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Speaker 1: casting agents, plus the talent that we see on our screens.
Speaker 1: TV reloads the shows that we are all currently watching
Speaker 1: and gives you a better insight into our television industry
Speaker 1: and our streaming services. Today. On the podcast, I have
Speaker 1: an Australian actor, ed Oxenbold, who is here to discuss
Speaker 1: his latest Netflix series, The Irreverant, which drops this Sunday
Speaker 1: in Australia. The Irreverant tells the story of a criminal
Speaker 1: from Chicago who is forced to hide here in Australia
Speaker 1: in a small reef town posing as the new church reverend.
Speaker 1: This is a comedy drama which packs a massive punch
Speaker 1: with an outstanding cast which includes one of my favorite
Speaker 1: Australian actors, Ed Oxenbold, who shot to fame in the
Speaker 1: TV series Puberty Blues. He has then gone on to
Speaker 1: star in a string of American movie playing alongside the
Speaker 1: likes of Maggie and Jake Gillenhal. He has worked with
Speaker 1: Paul Dano and m Knight Shamaline, which is just some
Speaker 1: of his achievements which we will get a chance to
Speaker 1: unpack a little of today. I will ask ed about
Speaker 1: puberty blues rumors and where they came from, what kind
Speaker 1: of preparation does a kid do before acting in a
Speaker 1: horror movie with m Night Shamaline, plus some great insights
Speaker 1: into his latest project, Irreverent. However, let's get started with
Speaker 1: today's episode. I'd like to welcome ed Oxenbolt to TV Reload.
Speaker 2: So I started this room, I'm hoping that it would
Speaker 2: maybe work. Start looking for God to give you something
Speaker 2: and go take it. As soon as I've done out
Speaker 2: that I had the role mean Mum Watch and sixth Sense,
Speaker 2: and it did scare me.
Speaker 1: That ability to forgive is what makes this whole thing work.
Speaker 2: Paul Dana I really, I really idolize his career.
Speaker 1: He should be careful.
Speaker 2: People might actually start.
Speaker 1: To like you.
Speaker 2: It was just very different to anything I'd played before.
Speaker 3: You don't have a family who's there to stop you
Speaker 3: from sinking.
Speaker 2: It's showing Americans how interesting unique side of Australia.
Speaker 3: Hi, Ed, how are you going? Thanks for joining the podcast.
Speaker 2: No Worries, Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Well, this is so exciting to have this chat with
Speaker 1: you because I'm actually a really big fan of your work.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: It sounds really strange to say that to you, because
Speaker 1: you know, you were so young when we first all
Speaker 1: you became like a household name here in Australia with
Speaker 1: Puberty Blues, but that role was just so amazing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's strange to be a big fan of a child.
Speaker 2: It is. It's a very interesting thing. I'm kind of
Speaker 2: still coming to terms with the fact that I'm not
Speaker 2: a child, despite the fact that I still get cast
Speaker 2: as children and I still look like a child. It's
Speaker 2: weird to think that I actually I am an adult
Speaker 2: and there's no dirting back. It's an interesting kind of thing,
Speaker 2: making that transition from child actor to just actor. But
Speaker 2: there's nothing kind of special about you then.
Speaker 1: You know, it was interesting with Puberty Blues because you know,
Speaker 1: I kept thinking, how does a kid pull off a
Speaker 1: performance like this? Like it was you sort of acted
Speaker 1: people off the screen, and you were acting up against
Speaker 1: some Australian royalty.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, how did you manage to pull
Speaker 3: that performance off.
Speaker 1: It's a question that I've always wanted to ask you,
Speaker 1: and of course we're going to get into the Reverend.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I think so much of that show
Speaker 2: was just the writing. The writing was so brilliant. There
Speaker 2: was not a bad line in the show, and especially
Speaker 2: they had so much fun with my character. They made
Speaker 2: my characters say the dirtiest things and pulled the crudest pranks,
Speaker 2: and really I just had to follow the brilliant words
Speaker 2: that they wrote, and then it was kind of you
Speaker 2: know that did all the work. I really lucked out
Speaker 2: with that role. I absolutely love that and I'll forever
Speaker 2: be sad that we didn't do a season three, and
Speaker 2: I'm still secretly gunning for a kind of soft reboot
Speaker 2: where I can kind of be the age of Debbie
Speaker 2: and Sewer in the first one.
Speaker 1: What did you think about where there was all of
Speaker 1: those diehard fans that just started leaking stuff saying that
Speaker 1: there was a season three. There was even photos like
Speaker 1: set photos up saying that it was secretly being filmed.
Speaker 1: Were you aware of all of that conversation that was
Speaker 1: happening online.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I started that. I started that. I was
Speaker 2: really bored one day and I posted a TikTok saying
Speaker 2: that it's coming back, and I didn't think that many
Speaker 2: people watch it, and then it ended up getting like
Speaker 2: one point four million views, and still to this day
Speaker 2: on my TikTok, I get constant comments about it. And
Speaker 2: off the back of that TikTok, Daily Mail wrote an article,
Speaker 2: Pedestrian TV wrote an article, and all this stuff came out.
Speaker 2: So I started this, remember hoping that it would maybe work.
Speaker 1: I was about to say, you did not. But you
Speaker 1: know what's so funny is that the music, you know,
Speaker 1: the score of that show is just etched into people's minds,
Speaker 1: and so it was so well put together because we
Speaker 1: got to see the hope of it, but you also
Speaker 1: got that music, which was what did you think of
Speaker 1: that score?
Speaker 2: I think it was it was so amazing. It was
Speaker 2: such a good mix of kind of nostalgia for the
Speaker 2: parents watching the show and then kind of great old
Speaker 2: songs for the new generation to discover. I mean, the
Speaker 2: main one, are You Old Enough? Is such a statement
Speaker 2: of the show and just perfectly stums it up, and
Speaker 2: that's what I used in the TikTok out of the rumor.
Speaker 2: But so yeah, that's really I really was hoping that
Speaker 2: that rumor would cause enough attention that some studio might go, hey,
Speaker 2: let's pick it up and make a third which was
Speaker 2: wishful thinking and a bit cheeky, but.
Speaker 1: I still thick there's a lot of people out there
Speaker 1: that would love to see it. But I have to ask,
Speaker 1: you know, did that show open up a lot of
Speaker 1: doors for you overseas? I mean, anyone that could see
Speaker 1: that performance of yours would be like, You've got to
Speaker 1: put this guy in a movie.
Speaker 3: This guy is so talented.
Speaker 2: It did? It really did launch a lot of things
Speaker 2: because I got I started with a short film, and
Speaker 2: then I got Puberty Blues, and then after that things
Speaker 2: just kind of started snowballing. It opened up a really
Speaker 2: wonderful world and just lots of eyes and it was good.
Speaker 2: It was such a great foot in the door. It's
Speaker 2: such a cool show to be a part of. And
Speaker 2: that's what I'm really noticing is each year goes on
Speaker 2: and the older again, I kind of realized how lucky
Speaker 2: was to be a part of a really important kind
Speaker 2: of cultural show and then you.
Speaker 1: Go on to work with Jake Gillenhale, Paul Dano, the
Speaker 1: m Nut Shameline world. Like, it's a huge global scale
Speaker 1: to then have put upon you, and you've grown up
Speaker 1: a lot in front of the world over the years,
Speaker 1: and you know that's a lot for a young person.
Speaker 1: Are the things in place to make sure that you
Speaker 1: don't fly completely off the handle?
Speaker 2: Well, my parents really, you know, my parents kind of knew.
Speaker 2: I don't know, they just had such a lid on
Speaker 2: things and they made sure that I didn't turn to
Speaker 2: anything nasty. But there's still time Mom and Dad. But
Speaker 2: I think the main thing it was just that was
Speaker 2: just family because they're really Unfortunately in that world, there
Speaker 2: aren't a lot of things in place to stop people
Speaker 2: from flying off the handle, and that's what happened so often.
Speaker 2: It's just a pretty messy, bizarre world at times. But
Speaker 2: I was very lucky and very fortunate, and I think
Speaker 2: a big part of it was that I always had
Speaker 2: Australia to come back to, is that I wasn't living
Speaker 2: in the States and working over there. It kind of
Speaker 2: was a bit of a holiday and then I could
Speaker 2: come back and have a kind of regular life where
Speaker 2: it wasn't just money and show and a bit of
Speaker 2: all the crazy stuff that goes on in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1: Well, you weren't really a fish out of water in
Speaker 1: that sense because your parents kind of understand the industry
Speaker 1: of course, yeah, you know, in their own right, So
Speaker 1: I guess they weren't unfamiliar to it. You hear those
Speaker 1: stories of you know, Lindsay Lohan or you know a
Speaker 1: few others that were young child actors and the parents
Speaker 1: were overwhelmed by the glitz and the glamor and read
Speaker 1: all that wrong where I think if you've got Showbi's parents,
Speaker 1: they that sounds like a terrible way of describing your parents,
Speaker 1: by the way Showbiz's parents they would.
Speaker 2: Hate they wouldn't they. Yeah, you're right, they do. They
Speaker 2: knew it to expect. They've been dealing, you know, they've
Speaker 2: they've known actors their whole life, and they've seen the
Speaker 2: kind of dark side of actors and the good side.
Speaker 2: And I think they just kind of really subtly pushed
Speaker 2: me in the right direction. And they were like my
Speaker 2: two mentors, And anytime I had any kind of question,
Speaker 2: I always had these the two best acting coaches to
Speaker 2: turn too. Well.
Speaker 1: They're mentors for other actors as well, so you know
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. You've got them on speed dial. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've been in some pretty big projects on a global scale.
Speaker 1: Is there anything massively different about acting in Australia versus,
Speaker 1: you know, acting in America.
Speaker 2: Yes, totally. I mean America. You know, they just go
Speaker 2: everything's bigger, and it's the classic thing about the portions
Speaker 2: are bigger and that everything's bigger, and that is true.
Speaker 2: There's always more crew, there's always more more funding putting
Speaker 2: into it, which just enhances everything. It kind of gives
Speaker 2: it this kind of surreal, hollywoody feel, Whereas in Australia,
Speaker 2: and I'm noticing here and New Zealand, the budgets tend
Speaker 2: to be a lot smaller. It means that people have
Speaker 2: to be a lot smarter and more resourceful. And I
Speaker 2: think the crews here seem to have teem to have
Speaker 2: each other's backs a little bit more. I'm really lucky
Speaker 2: to have worked in both, but I think as I
Speaker 2: get older, I really really love working in Australia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you hear big Australian actors, like even Nicole Kidman
Speaker 1: talks about it publicly about you know, yes, it's amazing
Speaker 1: to work on a big project with a big budget,
Speaker 1: but how much she enjoys the intimacy of working back
Speaker 1: here in Australia and she does come back and do it.
Speaker 1: I just always wondered from your perspective, is it easier
Speaker 1: do you think to play those roles on a big,
Speaker 1: bigger scale, or do you find that you're much better
Speaker 1: doing it when it's I don't know, on an Aussie budget.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I just so much of the Aussie budget
Speaker 2: I think it is it is, I don't know. It
Speaker 2: just it feels a lot more comfortable, and when you're comfortable,
Speaker 2: you can get a better performance. So I feel like
Speaker 2: it it is kind of easier here. There's just less
Speaker 2: going on and it's more about It feels more about
Speaker 2: the craft here, which which is you know, kind of
Speaker 2: what every actor likes, and I don't know, just it
Speaker 2: feels a lot more personal working in the Australian industry
Speaker 2: and kind of trying to push it and beef it
Speaker 2: up so it can kind of compete with the other
Speaker 2: kind of markets, with the international markets.
Speaker 1: I remember going to the movies to see you in
Speaker 1: the visit, which was the m Night Chamlin film, and
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, were you allowed to watch all of
Speaker 1: his other films? Because his other films up unto that point,
Speaker 1: I mean, as this film is as well is quite scary,
Speaker 1: but were you allowed to go and watch The Sixth
Speaker 1: Sense and see Haley Joel Osmond, you know, do that performance? Like,
Speaker 1: did you watch any of that before you made the visit?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, we did. When I'm as soon as I've
Speaker 2: found out that I had the role, me and Mum
Speaker 2: watched The Sixth Sense and it did scare me because
Speaker 2: it's really creepy. It's so terrifying, but it was a
Speaker 2: really good kind of indication of what the kind of
Speaker 2: tone of the visit will be or what. And we
Speaker 2: also watched Unbreakable, which I love. I think that is
Speaker 2: his best movie. I think that is so fantastic. And
Speaker 2: we watched The Village as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: Everyone's always ordering the best films of m Night Chamelant
Speaker 1: and Unbreakable. Yeah, it's easily my favorite, and it's so intoxicetting.
Speaker 2: It's such an amazing superhero film. It's such a reinvention
Speaker 2: of the genre and it's so interesting and the performances
Speaker 2: are like out of this world and the imagery I
Speaker 2: think it's so incredible.
Speaker 1: Well, I've got my nerd questions out of the way,
Speaker 1: the questions that you know, if you ever get the
Speaker 1: chance to speak to this person.
Speaker 3: So we need to talk about the Irreverend.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so beautifully made, with so many accomplished actors.
Speaker 1: Is that amazing to be back here in Australia to
Speaker 1: work alongside some of these people that you've probably grown
Speaker 1: up watch on TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so fantastic. To be a part of this
Speaker 2: ensemble cast is just amazing. And it was. It was
Speaker 2: just so incredible, and everyone was so lovely and so supportive,
Speaker 2: and we became a real family up in Mission Beach
Speaker 2: where we filmed it, And yeah, just to be alongside
Speaker 2: them and just to be a part of this incredible,
Speaker 2: really unique, cool show. It was such a dream job.
Speaker 2: I really I would love to do eight seasons of it.
Speaker 1: It's so don't you think it's amazing that we're now
Speaker 1: getting to see kind of a little bit left of
Speaker 1: the center storylines you know that you wouldn't have seen
Speaker 1: on say, Free to Wear back in the day.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it is so interesting and with free to wear,
Speaker 2: it's good that there isn't that the wait each week
Speaker 2: and the kind of all at once bingeable digestive thing.
Speaker 2: Really it really works. You can kind of change the
Speaker 2: whole format. You don't have to have these little cliffhangers,
Speaker 2: and I don't know, it changes the way that TV works,
Speaker 2: and I think it's a really cool step. But you're right.
Speaker 2: I think this is really really you know, good for
Speaker 2: a stream, Yeah, and for it to be on such
Speaker 2: a global stage in the States on Peacock. I think
Speaker 2: it's showing Americans a really interesting, unique side of Australia.
Speaker 2: It's also got the great American lead for Australians. I
Speaker 2: think it works really well for both countries. And I
Speaker 2: think it's I think it's just got a really unique
Speaker 2: tone and look, and the costumes are great in the show,
Speaker 2: and everyone's just a bit quirky. It really captures that
Speaker 2: interesting idea of small town. I think there's so much
Speaker 2: going on that makes it really interesting for kind of
Speaker 2: anyone to watch, regardless of where they're from.
Speaker 1: I also think what's phenomenal is that it looks just
Speaker 1: as good as any other show that's being made around
Speaker 1: the world. It looks like a big little lies or
Speaker 1: you know, it looks like a HBO series in a way,
Speaker 1: you know, it looks just as good as anything else,
Speaker 1: so you can sit up against anything, you know, and
Speaker 1: the way in which people are tapping into streaming services. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're just looking at that little picture or you're
Speaker 1: watching the trailer, you know, we in Australia are making
Speaker 1: shows that are just as good as anywhere else in
Speaker 1: the world, which brings in a global audience exactly.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that was one of the main things unfortunately
Speaker 2: the Australian industry that a lot of stuff gets made
Speaker 2: and you look at it and go, oh, that looks
Speaker 2: kind of Australian and it's almost a derogatory kind of thing,
Speaker 2: but it's kind of got this feel to it. You
Speaker 2: I don't know, but when we all watched the trailer,
Speaker 2: we all went, that's a show. That's a that's a
Speaker 2: show that is worthy of heavy you know, you look
Speaker 2: at it and it's it's colorful and rich, and you
Speaker 2: know there was no expenses spared on the filming because
Speaker 2: it just looks so decadent and so good.
Speaker 1: Well, it's movie quality, isn't it. I mean it looks
Speaker 1: like you should be watching this on the in the cinema,
Speaker 1: so and that's kind of how they are making TV
Speaker 1: and lots of ways now, so I guess you can
Speaker 1: keep up with the Joneses.
Speaker 3: How would you describe this series to people?
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people listening to this podcast right
Speaker 1: now won't know the show, might not be familiar with
Speaker 1: it's what's the best way for you to describe what
Speaker 1: this show is about.
Speaker 2: I think, as I said before, ultimately this show is
Speaker 2: it's a fish out of water story. It's about someone
Speaker 2: you know who you know kind of messes up and
Speaker 2: has to deal with the consequences and it's not very
Speaker 2: good at dealing with his consequences, but then finds himself
Speaker 2: in this beautiful town, and I don't know, it's interesting.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting story about kind of acceptance and deceit
Speaker 2: and the kind of big city mentality for a small town.
Speaker 2: I think there's just got It's got lots of themes,
Speaker 2: and it's got lots of beautiful characters, all with their
Speaker 2: own little kind of subplots. There's a little bit of
Speaker 2: a love story, there's crime, there's there's humor and real
Speaker 2: heart to it. But it's just it's really unique. I
Speaker 2: cannot remember the last show that I've watched quite like this,
Speaker 2: with the contrast and look and feel and music, and
Speaker 2: it's just got a really unique tone that I think
Speaker 2: will really resonate and it's very bingeable. I just think
Speaker 2: it's got so much going for it. It's such an
Speaker 2: interesting show about so many different things.
Speaker 1: Well, I kind of liked about the show was bringing
Speaker 1: someone new into community helps people look at things a
Speaker 1: little bit differently, and I think we all need a
Speaker 1: bit of a factory reset every now and again in
Speaker 1: our own lives, and that's what I really enjoyed about it.
Speaker 3: What attracted you to the character of Cameron.
Speaker 2: I just absolutely loved it. From the minute that I
Speaker 2: read the audition scenes. I just thought he was so
Speaker 2: brilliantly naive and silly and really sweet, and it was
Speaker 2: it was just very different to anything I'd played before,
Speaker 2: and it was nice. It was nice that it wasn't
Speaker 2: a character defined by age or kind of backstory. It
Speaker 2: was he wasn't just the kid. It was this just
Speaker 2: strange kind of entity that he's just there and he's
Speaker 2: kind of you know, he's just interesting. He's very sweet,
Speaker 2: but he's very misguided and he does very lovely things
Speaker 2: that get him in trouble lots of the time. But
Speaker 2: I just thought it was I thought it was a
Speaker 2: really interesting character. I thought it would be a real,
Speaker 2: a real, nice, healthy challenge, and I thought I could
Speaker 2: bring enough of myself into it. And I just loved that.
Speaker 2: I had so much fun it was. There are very
Speaker 2: few jobs where you get to set and just really
Speaker 2: love being in this character, and there was lots of
Speaker 2: kind of revising between the cast. Was just it was great.
Speaker 2: I just knew it would be good as soon as
Speaker 2: I read the audition.
Speaker 1: I also thought it was interesting because you know, like
Speaker 1: as a kid, you're always played as this sort of
Speaker 1: adult in a child's body in a way, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, And then now you're getting to play
Speaker 1: a bit of it, more of a naive character, which
Speaker 1: is for the first time something that we're seeing differently.
Speaker 1: Do you think that we're going to see more of that?
Speaker 1: Is that something that's changed as you've become an adult.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think I do. I do like
Speaker 2: that direction, so I hope I'm stepping into it. I
Speaker 2: just did earlier this year, I did a film that's
Speaker 2: coming out on Stan as well, that's coming out tomorrow
Speaker 2: and Stan actually where I played again quite a silly character,
Speaker 2: quite not that far off Cameron, quite a naive, lovely
Speaker 2: good intentions, but just poor execution of things. So maybe
Speaker 2: I am subconsciously kind of moving towards that. I find
Speaker 2: myself now gravitating towards more comedic things, which I do
Speaker 2: really enjoy and just yeah, it's like every actor's frame.
Speaker 2: It's just fun. It's fun just to get to set
Speaker 2: and try and make people laugh. And if you don't,
Speaker 2: you don't. If you do, you do. But I really
Speaker 2: like it. I'm very interested to see where kind of
Speaker 2: what roles are coming up or in the future. But
Speaker 2: if they're similar to Camera, I'll be very happy.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Making the transition from child actor to an adult actor
Speaker 1: can be quite difficult, but for you it seems to
Speaker 1: be happening quite seamlessly. Have you got people that you're
Speaker 1: looking up to us there people in Australia that you
Speaker 1: look up to with your career or the trajectory of
Speaker 1: your career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you mentioned it before. I think Paul
Speaker 2: Dana I really I really idolize his career. I think
Speaker 2: he's not only an incredible actor, but an amazing director
Speaker 2: and just all round genius. I think, and if I
Speaker 2: can even try and follow in his footsteps and try
Speaker 2: and do some of the things that he did, including
Speaker 2: write and direct, eventually I'd be so happy.
Speaker 1: It must have been surreal to then go to the
Speaker 1: movies and watch The Batman with him in that.
Speaker 2: I know it was bizarre to sive friendly old All
Speaker 2: an absolute menace.
Speaker 1: I love those stories of you doing your lines with him,
Speaker 1: you know, as the director, and I just thought, that's
Speaker 1: what a money car buy experience.
Speaker 3: It must just be so surreal.
Speaker 2: But that was I'll never forget that.
Speaker 1: What could go wrong when you're up against him? So
Speaker 1: you were just saying that you're in New Zealand at
Speaker 1: the moment, you're working on a project. You've been there
Speaker 1: for four weeks. What's the project you're working on at
Speaker 1: the moment.
Speaker 2: It's got The project is called Head South. It's a
Speaker 2: period piece, so it's set in nineteen seventy nine, and
Speaker 2: it's kind of semi autobiographical of the director Jonathan Ogilvie
Speaker 2: and grew up here and kind of started playing in
Speaker 2: punk rock bands, and it's about the early post punk
Speaker 2: music scene in christ Church, and it's great. It's really cool.
Speaker 2: It's got a beautiful tone, it's really funny. It's a
Speaker 2: bit it's got a bit of sing streety kind of vibes,
Speaker 2: but it's great. We've been filming in these amazing locations
Speaker 2: and lots of cool spiky hair and mullets, and we're
Speaker 2: shooting a big gig today actually, so it's gonna be
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a huge, huge day.
Speaker 1: I just love the fact that you called it a
Speaker 1: period piece and it said in did you say nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that sounds ridiculous. Maybe I'm butchering that term.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's we're not there yet.
Speaker 1: But you know, everyone who joins the podcast asked this question,
Speaker 1: and that is, what's something from behind the scenes, something
Speaker 1: that we won't see, but kind of like a behind
Speaker 1: the scenes secret of you making the irreverent?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I always I find it so interesting. So
Speaker 2: anytime that we shot inside the church or the Man's
Speaker 2: that was all a set. And anytime we shot outside
Speaker 2: the church or Mance, that was just and I like
Speaker 2: the shell of a building. So anytime we walk in,
Speaker 2: we just walk into nothing and then carry on on studio,
Speaker 2: which I find so funny. But the big I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's noticeable because actually I haven't
Speaker 2: seen the show yet, but I was in the man's
Speaker 2: in the background of through the kitchen, there was just
Speaker 2: they just printed out a big picture, this humongous picture
Speaker 2: of Miss Beach, and I just thought that was hilarious
Speaker 2: that they just printed out this big pitch to the background.
Speaker 2: It was a green screen any thing, It was just
Speaker 2: a picture. I thought it was really funny.
Speaker 3: Well that's what they used to do back in the day,
Speaker 3: like you know.
Speaker 2: Like King Kong. So I thought it was really funny.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look that bad. It doesn't look bad in
Speaker 1: the final production. Everything looks very schmick.
Speaker 2: I knew it would, but you know, but on the
Speaker 2: day you go that going to work, this humongous picture.
Speaker 2: It was good quality, so I guess it won't.
Speaker 1: I think that was the other thing about the show
Speaker 1: as well, as we didn't mention, is I thought it
Speaker 1: was really interesting because religion means different things to different
Speaker 1: people these days, and I thought it was really interesting
Speaker 1: tapping into some of those storylines because it highlighted the
Speaker 1: fact to me that I still see religion to be
Speaker 1: quite important for a lot of people because it brings
Speaker 1: community together and it makes people feeling included.
Speaker 3: And I think that's a real backbone, and.
Speaker 2: It's good because it is about religion, but it's more
Speaker 2: just about people and how and you're right, and how
Speaker 2: community can change and how and how leaders can change community.
Speaker 2: It's got all these interesting things. But it is a
Speaker 2: really interesting topic when you take you know, Mac, this
Speaker 2: character of Mac who's just the most relentless kind of agnostic, atheist,
Speaker 2: anti religion, and then he put him in this position
Speaker 2: and then see how he has to deal with it,
Speaker 2: and it's great. It starts to soften him. And there's
Speaker 2: so many interesting things going on. And you know, Colin Donald,
Speaker 2: who plays Mac, is just such a brilliant lead.
Speaker 1: So yeah, mate, thank you so much for coming on
Speaker 1: the podcast and chatting about the show. Hopefully everyone gets
Speaker 1: a chance to what shoul it'll be out next week.
Speaker 2: Thank you, well pleased to hopefully many more we'll see.
Speaker 1: Puberty Blue season three. I'm just going to go and
Speaker 1: start that rumor all over again.
Speaker 2: I really think, you know, the power of the people
Speaker 2: is a powerful thing and I think if enough people,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of voice their interest, surely, surely we
Speaker 2: can get it off the ground.
Speaker 3: Who knows, you never know. They reboot everything these days.
Speaker 2: They do, they do reboot everything, and sometimes it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: But I reckon we can do a classy reboot. But everyone,
Speaker 2: you're right. Everyone did go oh there was more and
Speaker 2: it didn't feel like it ended on a solid end.
Speaker 2: And everyone loved it absolutely everyone. You know, we had
Speaker 2: almost the entire same crew from season one and season
Speaker 2: two because everyone just went, I need to come back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I think it'd be the same. I think everyone
Speaker 2: would drop whatever they're doing and to come back in
Speaker 2: a half feat. I'm certain of that. Well.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many times I've watched it.
Speaker 3: It's my go to.
Speaker 1: You know how people put on friends like you hear
Speaker 1: people yeah got those old shows.
Speaker 3: That's their comfort show in the background.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Puberty Blues is my comfort show. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what that says about me.
Speaker 2: That says you need a season three.
Speaker 1: I need a season three anyway. Good luck with the
Speaker 1: shoot today. It was fantastic for you to give me
Speaker 1: this time and to be so generous.
Speaker 2: Oh no, wait, thank you very much for having me