May 8, 2026 • 27 mins
Today we were lucky enough to be joined by Mortal Kombat II star and Kiwi legend Karl Urban!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Whole Achy Big Show with Jason, Mike and Kezy.
Tune in week days at four on Radio Darkey, You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Back, your messive Backbones and Yellows Fellows. Jeez, I tell
you what what a messive treat. I mean, We've had
some amazing people on our show.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's fair to say.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I mean, I remember when you two backbones, you know,
you you interview who are those guys from that movie
that mega stars you know movie.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Oh Warfare, the Alex Garlan film that came out last year,
Charles Mountain and Will Poulter and should we get the
intro downe and then we can talk about a movie
that's not Carls.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, that because kick it off with that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, no, I was just sitting the scene, you know
what I mean, I was going to put you up
on another airy.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I got to start again. You're welcome back. I thought
we were just doing the doing the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah yeah, kid a Fellows.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
He's a good special treat.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We've got an absolute superstar on this podcast, a very
special treat, a sort of New Zealand icon and legend. Really,
I think I can say that, Fellas, and I'm talking
of the great Carl Urban joining us in the studio.
Good day, your mad bastard, Holl's.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Life, Good fellas, how are you? It's so good to
be here. I'm pretty grouse, mate. Yeah, have you guys?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I was wondering actually on the on my high speed
drive in here because I was running late, whether you
and Jason ever worked together.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I think we have, Carl, But I'll be bugging if
I can remember what it was. It was many obviously,
many many years ago. It was on something, But I
do remember working with you.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I can tell Carl's got no recollect Probably it was
probably some half assed yeah, many moons ago, that's for sure. Yeah. Well, yeah,
you're different stratospheres now.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, but I knew even then that you know, you
were destined for starting man, because you just had this,
you just had this vibe about you, you.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Know what I mean? Have you ever done broken wood? Carl?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
No, And I need to do that. That that is
something that is uh, you know, I haven't ticked off yet.
It's on the list. I'm trying to get to it. Hey,
but listen, fellas, before we get too deep, yeah, before
we get too balls deep.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I should say I've got a bone to pick with you.
Oh god, I got a bowl of it, so listen.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I'm not one to hold a grudge or anything, but
I was listening to The Big Show August the twenty
seventh last year, five thirteen pm, and you guys did
the segment right on who are.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Your A list international celebrities? Remember? And you said no.
You said, you know, like you know, like your Tiger
Way titis.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
And to a lesser extent, I thought, but no, no,
But I thought, no, not fair enough. Okay, you know
I don't put myself out there as much like like
Tiger did.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And I'm not married a pop star.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
You know, I don't have that sexually transmitted fame, which
is bloody had to get rid of once you.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Catch totally mate, you know, totally.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
But anyway, then you all went on to compile your
lists and completely left me off the list.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'm gonna have to listen to the audio because I
don't believe that. I'm pretty certain that you were like
second on my list there was. But can I ask
you man, in all seriousness, as an actor in this country,
was it always your ambition to think overseas? You know,
because I think as a New Zealand actors back then,
(03:31):
when I like, when I was acting, it was you know,
we did our Hercules and Zena and all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But for me, I never thought about overseas.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But was that always part of the picture for you
that you wanted to expand out?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, you know, I mean listen, I was looking at
actors like Sam Neil and Lawrence and you know, it
was pretty clear to me that the New Zealand industry,
as amazing as it is and as awesomeate is it
telling our stories, if you want a career of some
serious longevity.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You have to look overseas. And I always just wanted.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
To work with the best in the business globally, and
so from a very early point I was had my
my my target set over there.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Because are you from Wellington? Wellington? Originally? Yeah, what part
of Welly, well all over?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Actually we moved around Mount Vick, Oriental Bay, Brooklyn. Yeah,
I moved around a ton Candala.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And then you ended up acting. But briefly, if I remember,
it was like there was something that you did and
then you went and went to UNI. Yeah, and then
I dropped out of UNI, and I remember there had
been Shark Park.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Shark Park Jays. Maybe, actually, maybe that's what we worked on.
What shark Pak was an old sort of It was
a police drama, wasn't it. Yeah, that's right. They probably
recycled the uniforms for your show.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
They would have done, yeah, although you would have been
taking a lot more seriously than I was in my role.
So there was all that sort of stuff that you
clocked through. But back then, it feels like we used
to have a hell of a lot more drama being
made at TV shows and all that sort of stuff.
So even back then, back then it feels like you
could have been a bit more of a careerist, even
in New Zealand. But now you like, you can have.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
A good run. I think you can have a good run. Yeah,
But in New Zealand you can have a run.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I reckon for about ten years, yeah, and then somebody goes,
you know what this bastard's.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Been and everything fun?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah yah, totally yeah, And it's and you're sort of
your your fatealising somebody else's hands. So when you hear
something like and it must have been rings that came
along something like that pops up, you just got to go, fuck,
I've got to make the most of this.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, no, totally.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
You know what, I think it's actually a strength of
actors in this country because the industry is small and
it forces you to do everything from from.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Theater to to radio to TV.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
You know, film, if you can comedy, comedy or everything,
you know, And I think that makes us stronger as performers.
Whereas you look at overseas, like actors in the States,
they get top heavy very quickly. They've got stylists and
agents and managers and dietitians and all all the stuff
that's so on the peripheral. So yeah, but it's you know,
(06:06):
you know, if you want a career of longevity, Yeah,
you know that you've got to think internationally, and the
world's gotten to a point now with the zooms and everything,
the meetings you can do that.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You can achieve a lot more by just staying here. Yeah.
And did you have a swing at Ozzie as well?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I did for a brief minute. Actually, it was the
most disparaiting year of my life. It was after Shorty
Street and I went over there and was basically starting
again and I was working at a bottle store in
Double Bay.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, and it was tough. It was brutal.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
But yeah, I eventually got off at something back here
and came back in the rest of history.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I did three and a half years. There was a
furniture remove list.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Right, that's why it's built Stallion right.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It was funny you should mention Shorten Street because I
was talking to a friend today and I was telling
her that we were interviewing you, and, to her eternal shame,
she wasn't quite sure who I was referring to, and
she said, oh, did you.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Do Shortened Street? See it?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Actually, yeah, he did do short and Street. But she
was thinking of Carl Burnett, you know, the one of
the blonde hair. Easy confusion to make now they're kind
of quite so similar.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
How long were you on short six months?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah? Okay, yeah, I did six months now.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And is there you know, overseas and in the States
in particular, is there a sense of community amongst sort
of New Zealand actors? Is there a sort of do
you sort of hang out together? What's the sort of situation?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, I heard, I've heard that there is. I can't
I'm not part of it. Let me know. I'm I'm
on the wait list.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
But no, to be fearful, is I live here, you know,
and you know, I've sort of really taken my inspiration
from the likes of you know, Peter Jackson and Sam
Neil who have international.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Careers but work here. I thought, that's a that's a
pretty good way to do. Do you live in here
the whole time? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Wow, never moved Holy And you know, partly is because
you know, when I had kids and I didn't want
to move them away from their grandparents.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, it's a great place to live. That's yes, Come on,
it's so good. Yeah, yeah, it certainly is.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And so you've got now about eighteen different projects that
have come out. Yeah, you've got the last season of
the final season of The Boys, which and I just
there's something good coming col just wait.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I hate superhero shit.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
And it took me a long time to realize that
I did, because all of these Marvel things would come
out and everyone was raving about them, The Avengers, five Stars,
five Busies, sorry five, and then I go along to
it and it's like it's nine hours long.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I hate it.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
And then I realized that it's actually it's just not
for me. There's no point keeping on going. And then
eventually you realize that you're either too old. You know,
it's for the kids, it's passed you by.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Fundamentally, you got to realize that the whole comic book
genre is made was.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Designed for ten year old It's not year old man.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yes, but The Boys is brilliant because it sort of
tips the whole thing on its head and it's really
mean spirited, which I love about it. And you get
to have a hell of a lot of a hell
of a lot of fun. Yeah, when that came to you,
is that something that got offered to you and you're
straight into what you auditioned for it?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I was actually I was driving along here in New Zealand. No,
I won't say I was driving. I was at home
and I was checking my phone as you do, and
I saw that my mate and star had been cast
in this thing called The Boys, and I'm like, oh.
I read about the synopsis went the Boys, and read
the synopsis about this satirical look at the superhero genre.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I thought, that's a catchy title, it's a good.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Premise, sounds interesting and just you know, two weeks later,
a week later, I got an offer to be in it.
I read the script was immediately loved the character of
William Butcher, this fun, kind of Machavellian character who could
convince people to do anything, you know, sort of a
sort of a tough guy, but you know, not to
(09:55):
be trusted. And yeah, and so I went met with
the producers with with Seth Rogan and Eric Kripkey in
those guys, and decided to jump on it.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, it's bloody good, isn't it. Because obviously it's it's funny,
it's hyper violent as well, and so it's sort of
you know, mocks the superhero thing, but also a real
you know, holds up a mirtor to what's going on,
particularly in America, I guess. But weirdly, you can't really
keep up because what happens on the show, you know,
it should be worse than what's happening in real life,
(10:30):
but then all of a sudden, real life catches up.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
It's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Actually, they call it the Devil's Writers Room because Eric Kripkey,
I mean he writes about things that are of concern,
of importance to him. Yes, So like in the first season,
you know, he wrote a lot about sort of sexual assaults.
And in the second season, you know, it was you know,
sort of racism and stuff. And when both of those
seasons came out, it just happened to coincide with, you know,
(10:56):
the Me Too movement and Black Lives Matter. So he's
kind of like gazing into a crystal. And in this
season he's sort of written. One of the characters on
the show sort of you know, is you know head Christ. Yeah,
he thinks he's God and stuff and literally, you know,
on the clock, you know, the President of the United States,
(11:16):
you know, issues this picture of him allegedly is Jesus
Christ as a doctor.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
He was a But.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well that's actually really true and a really good point,
you know, because the world has got so extreme now,
you know, so these these characters don't see is extreme
because actually they're parodying themselves now, you know what I mean,
these characters. But let me ask you, in terms of
your career, and you've obviously had a massive amount of success,
is it the point for you now where you simply
(11:46):
get asked to play a part or are you still
having to audition or is it cal Would you like
this part?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Yeah, it's it's mainly a you know, an incoming phone
called business and I get offered, you know, a bunch
of stuff, the stuff that I'd like to do, you know,
all the stuff that you know with you know, directors
that you know you've admired for so long that stuff
is worth you know, chasing and that stuff you you know, Yeah,
(12:13):
you know you want to work with a you know,
a Spielberg or a Chris Nolan or something. Yeah, you
go and you take the meetings and you go on
an audition.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The Whole Archy Big Show week days from four on
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Speaker 4 (12:29):
Well, that's right, because it is different. There's different kinds
of acting as well as you know Jason and I
to a far lesser extent. No, you know, you know
it's pretty pretty you know, you're doing pretty big stuff
when you're doing what we do in the Shadows or
particularly Willington Paranormal and Broken Wood is a different kind
of an acting to a Gormsby or whatever it might be.
(12:50):
And then for you to be doing superhero stuff, so
you're doing Dread, you're doing Billy Butcher, you're doing the
Mortal Kombat. You know, like that these humans see if
they have a really fill a space, you can't be
quiet and reserved and real and so that's sort of
the performance that you've give him.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Something like Out of the Blue is completely different. Oh
it is.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
It's tonally, it's completely different. I mean, but you always
have to find you know the truth at the moment
and find the reality. But then also you know, you
have to take that artistic license and have fun with it. Yes,
otherwise watching paint dry, you're.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
In the wrong show.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, And that is that the sort of stuff because
obviously a lot of key actors they go away so
they can come back, or they go away and then
eventually they'll come back.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Marden and I'm probably gonna say, is Henderson.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Who comes back and he does quite a lot of
drama where he's you know, the father figure. I've never
heard the guy talk in my life, but he seems
to tune up in quite a lot of you know,
small New Zealand drama stuff. Is that the sort of
stuff that you were always open to?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
No, absolutely, I'm always no, no, But I'm serious, you know,
on the lookout because I grew up and I was
I was inspired by the like of you know, as
I said, you know, Sam and Bruno and and obviously
Tim and you know, good New Zealand movies that are
represented of our culture, whether it be like Utu or
Smash Palace or Warriors Movie. You know the films that
(14:13):
Tiger made early in his career. You know that those
those those stories that are intrinsically New Zealand. I want
to continue to be a part of the New Zealand
film industry and I want to find those stories to tell.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, well listen, because I was thinking about it, Carl.
You know, in terms of broken, for example, I mean
I I'm pretty India. Now you could put in a word.
I mean I can put in a word. Really, you know,
we see what happened. I mean, I audition.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You know how this industry is.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Man, I can't I can't make promises, but it may
be that, you know, I get you a character's name,
Ray Raise, I don't even remember. He just runs a
paba and pizza plays. I can't remember Raised. Long lost
twin brother turns up. Yes, there you go, mate.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
And then you've got Mortal Kombat that's just been doing
the rounds as well.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Yeah, that's right. Super excited about this fellas. It's, without
a doubt, the most physically challenging role I've ever done.
In my life, I won't like because I finished the
sort of season four of The Boys, and I had
some fuel in the tank and I was like, I
said to my agent, find me something with a bit
of action. And they came at me with us and
they went, oh, this is great. And then Johnny was
(15:25):
one of the great older right, yeah, this is an age.
It's not it's not the point in our story that
we find Johnny. He's a washed up actor and he's
neglected as training. The world's forgotten about him, and it's
this very juncture that gets called upon to save the earth,
which I thought was really fun. That's great. So the
potential for comedy was was amazing. So yeah, so it
(15:48):
was like it was months and months of of of
of training. And when I told my kids that I
was going to be Johnny Cage, they were like, big
fan base, don't f it up, no pressure, do.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You you know, isn't it you know?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I look at someone like Liam Neeson for example, where
he seems to have made a conscious decision somewhere along.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
In his career.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I'm doing action. Yeah you know what I mean, That's
that's who I am now. I mean, is that something
that you ever considered that I'm just going to go
on this one genre or you still want to stay
open to those other roles.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
No, man, I'm open to anything. And you know it's
I'm just interested in playing as many different kind of
characters as I can. And I think, you know, people
often get caught up in the oh, you're you're in
this genre and that genre and stuff. And it's like
I think, if you look at my film og for
my work, I like the idea of that. You know,
you'd hold these characters up and go, my god, that's
the same guy, you know. Yeah, And I guess it's
(16:46):
just the question is you know, knowing if it's action
of when you should get off that bus, when it's
when it's when it's time to stop doing it. Your
body will tell you, yeah, when it can no longer go,
when you can no longer get out of the Porsche
with agility, styling, grace.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Is the time to stop, and once when you I've
always wondered about this because like Jermaine was over doing
what was it what we do in the Shadows over
in Vancouver, and he was talking about the hours that
they do over there compared to what they do so
sort of like seven and eighty hour days every single day. Yeah,
and they're doing nights as well, but asking how especially
(17:24):
with that with comedy, it's hard to be funny after
ten hours, twelve hours, fourteen hours, and they're doing sixteen, seventeen,
eighteen hours. That is still just standing over there. Those
are the days that you're doing.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It is a standard day.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
You know, you got your twelve hour day, then you've
got an hour for lunch and our for your hair, wardrobe, makeup,
all that stuff. You're traveling an hour to get to
work there and back, and then if you're doing overtime,
you know you're you're working long days. I can tell
people how hard we work. You know, you tried doing
that for seven months in a row. It's a slog.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Well, you know, and this is a thing that's every
now and again.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You know, one of the soundings will release a recording
of a Christian bale or somebody else exploding on set
and it's like, fuck, there's thirty of those per job. Yeah,
you know, because people are like absolutely exhausted. Yeah, it's exhausting,
exhausting work.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It was really interesting, you know when Xena and Hercules
and all that stuff was going on, and you get
the American actors over to New Zealand and the mentality
was so different.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I remember being in a situation and we finished the
scene and I was working with an American actress and
the crew were picking stuff up and I went to
pick something up and she.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Was like, oh no, no, no, no, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And I was like just helping, helping pick stuff up,
you know, because they're really staunch about, you know, looking
after the actors and the talent and all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
But seventeen or eighteen hour days.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yes, it's your union, that's the actual issue. It's all unionized. Yes,
you know, don't you dare take someone else's job.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
You has taken someone else's job, Jason. You either got
smacked over by a gaff or something like that.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
But I was.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Genuinely taken back by her horror of what i've and
it was simply trying to help you something up.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
But that's very indicative of how we are here in
New Zealand. You know, you're shooting a movie, you say,
on a farm somewhere. It's like you're carrying stuff like
the cruise carrying stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Well, it was the last time that Jaycee did. Yeah,
I mean, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I was stoked to find that out, you know, and
never tried to help ever again.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, spirit, that's the spirit.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And what other stuff have you got coming up now?
Because you come back and I'm assuming you're trying to
do like two or three jobs a year. Is that
sort of what you look at.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yeah, it's been pretty full on for the last few years.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Because how long does how long did the Boys take
to shoot a season?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
The Boys was about seven to eight months, m K
was about four. Film was filmed on the Goldie Oh yes,
I love it over there.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I got to say, I do like it. I'm not
going to move, but it's so close.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Yeah yeah, and they were ten ten hour days over there,
which is so civilized.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
But yeah, so no, I mean the last thing I
filmed actually was a colonoscopy.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah. So that's due to be released later on the year.
We're just finishing up some.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Special musical on it and should be a ripper. I
have one of those on my fortieth birth and actually
was an enema. I went and had an anima because yeah,
and yeah, it wasn't as life changing as I anticipated
or hoped.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I got to say, oh bloody loved it.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
You know, they took me in there, they knocked me out.
When I woke up, I was high as a ka.
Let me as Sammy and said, we don't need to
see you for five years. I can we do this
again next week?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
This is great? Yeah, totally. Well, actually I should get
onto that, especially some of my.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Seriously, on a serious note, if you haven't done it,
and you get into a certain age, go and do it,
because the rates of us cancer in this country are
off the rectorscale.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
What I had a colonoscopy. Jase, you're in your late thirties.
You're here, man, you gotta get onto it. Yeah, well
that's why I thought too. You know, I just hit
my forties and like, nows the time exactly? And your
kids now you've got have you got a couple of
boys too? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
They must be now you know age me? How old
are they? Yeah? Twenty and twenty five?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Do you go? Yeah? So no, tys? Really? Now? Man?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
The idea of sticking around here, you could you could
go and hav an imagine ground with us man?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Or what's again? Brisbane?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Oh the rugby you're inviting. I'm coming for sure, mate,
I'll be there.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah, And what else do you have going on? When
you bet you've still got the grandparents? They're all still
up here? Are they down and welly or no, everyone's
up here. So you know, I just like to just
to be low key here, like take the boat out
for a fish nice you know, and just do all
things for you, rounds of golf, just to just relax,
you know. That was the other thing I wanted to
ask you about, was that end up on It was
(21:52):
on Amazon, because there's another recap that you've been on
the last few months at.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
The Bluff with Prianka Chopa.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Yeah, on Amazon's Yeah Pirate movie. Good fun, good fun,
and yeah it from the Bluff into the boys and
now intermrtal people get well, I'm sick of me, Jason.
It's sorry. Yeah, it is time for me to just
take a little breather. I think, Yeah, that's the that's
(22:20):
the plan.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
What's your handicap and golf? It's not flash fellas, and
that's the problem. I'm on a seventeen moment. What's yours?
When he said, right, we should play for money?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, Well I need a partner at the.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
House. Is that right? You beg for a bit? Yeah, yeah,
back for a bit, which is good.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
But no, listen, I've just sort of finished this two
week tour of promoting Mortal. I couldn't be happy with it.
The movie plays so well. I've seen it with.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
A bunch of fans a couple of times.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
And you know, if you're a fan of you know,
martial arts movies or just big fun you know, Blockbuster
Summer Entertainment, it's a great watch.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Can I ask you, cal you know, when you're sort
of having some downtime, how long is it before you
start getting ansty?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You know, when you start going?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I need you know because I don't know if for
your anything like me, I don't like sitting around in
my head for too long. Need to be doing stuff.
How long before you go no, I need to go
back to work.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It changes all the time.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I don't idle well either, but you know, just the
sort of the first quarter of this year for me
has just been all taken up promoting these projects. Yes,
so I'm not at the stage yet where when I'm
jumping up and down to go back to work, but
I will know when that script lands I'm on my
desk and I start reading it and start feeling, you know,
(23:39):
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
That'll be the point for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
The great thing about that Mortal Kombat, the trailer that
came out, which is all I've seen so far. It's
not a great track record with video games, man, they
managed to really fuck them up. But what looks great
about this is it's clearly got a sense of humor
about itself. Yeah, it's got a sense of humor about
Johnny Kay. Yeah, you're playing it very very straight, but
(24:02):
they're making you do some funny shit, and I think
that's the key to it, right, So there has to
be another dimension, especially to those fighting films with a
zero storyline.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
It's just.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Round one, round two, round three. It looks like a
lot of fun. And the reviews online have been great.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Views have been fantastic, they really have, and particularly from
the audience of the fans that have seen it. And
you know, one hundred percent of the critics love this
movie sixty nine percent at the time, so I will
take that that's a win.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
But I guarantee you that it's one of those films
with the score from you know, from the audience there
is always going to be higher because it's not. To
be honest, it's not really for the critics.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
No it's not, it's not. But no, it's fun.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Like the thing that this movie does so well as
it does strike the balance between delivering you know, your
top notch martial arts and then with the character like
Johnny Cage totally you know, his sort of fight you know,
at times sits more in the world of like Jackie Chan.
There's this element of fun physical comedy that I get
to do, you know, which was a lot of fun
to shoot.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
But yeah, boy, as I said before.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Challenging, you know when you're learning, like, you know, a
twenty five beat move, you know, fight move, and they
set up a dolly a tracking shot and you have
to remember them all.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, that's a nightmare. Yeah, I mean not that I
could ever do it. You don't do that, They're like, oh, yeah,
that's it. I remember doing the thirty move stunt. I
didn't even pretend to hit my head when I had
to do that.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
So are you telling me there's no martial arts on
Broken Wood? Not at this point? Missing a trick here,
I am missing a trick.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I know it'll be good to get you on there,
Carl and you turn up scene one, but you but
you get murdered.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah, people get really excited.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
You're gone. Yes, I've seen one. Yeah, what else.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Is happening to?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Man, there was another question I had, but it's gone
out of my head. Oh when's it open?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Oh well it's open from today. Yeah, open from today
in cinemas. Now do your muma favor. Leave her at home,
get out of the house and go and see this movie.
In fact, take her along too, because like, if you're
a fan of movies like Sense and Sensibility and The Godfather,
and this.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Is a movie for you, you know, your mum of
Medicine County right in that wheelhouse fellas beautiful, Will cal Urban,
thanks so much for coming in, mate. It's been an
absolute treat. Cheers for having me, guys, I really really
do appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
You know. You know I was talking to Tiger about
about your your your issue. I mean clearly, and not
to be disparated, but you're kind of in New Zealand
sort of internationally on the D list a little bit.
But he is n but he has he's written a
Star Wars movie, and I think he's got a way
to get you guys off the D into the APE.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I think so as well, that would be nice. I mean,
I you know, I don't mind it all being on
the D, but my friend of the Dad, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah, we like that. You love to get into the well. Look,
if the A was there, you know, then certainly i'd
give it a crack. But because he's written you guys
from Roles all.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Right, A couple of androids and c three keys.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
You play Obi Wan Minogi.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Very nice Jedi and unfortunately I left the bad guy,
so you're Darf Hoyt. Because Carl Solo was taken, sort
of got the build.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Of two D two though true. Beautiful oh good follows
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Tune in week days at four on Radio Darkey, You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Back, your messive Backbones and Yellows Fellows. Jeez, I tell
you what what a messive treat. I mean, We've had
some amazing people on our show.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's fair to say.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I mean, I remember when you two backbones, you know,
you you interview who are those guys from that movie
that mega stars you know movie.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Oh Warfare, the Alex Garlan film that came out last year,
Charles Mountain and Will Poulter and should we get the
intro downe and then we can talk about a movie
that's not Carls.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, that because kick it off with that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, no, I was just sitting the scene, you know
what I mean, I was going to put you up
on another airy.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I got to start again. You're welcome back. I thought
we were just doing the doing the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah yeah, kid a Fellows.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
He's a good special treat.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We've got an absolute superstar on this podcast, a very
special treat, a sort of New Zealand icon and legend. Really,
I think I can say that, Fellas, and I'm talking
of the great Carl Urban joining us in the studio.
Good day, your mad bastard, Holl's.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Life, Good fellas, how are you? It's so good to
be here. I'm pretty grouse, mate. Yeah, have you guys?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I was wondering actually on the on my high speed
drive in here because I was running late, whether you
and Jason ever worked together.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I think we have, Carl, But I'll be bugging if
I can remember what it was. It was many obviously,
many many years ago. It was on something, But I
do remember working with you.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I can tell Carl's got no recollect Probably it was
probably some half assed yeah, many moons ago, that's for sure. Yeah. Well, yeah,
you're different stratospheres now.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, but I knew even then that you know, you
were destined for starting man, because you just had this,
you just had this vibe about you, you.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Know what I mean? Have you ever done broken wood? Carl?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
No, And I need to do that. That that is
something that is uh, you know, I haven't ticked off yet.
It's on the list. I'm trying to get to it. Hey,
but listen, fellas, before we get too deep, yeah, before
we get too balls deep.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I should say I've got a bone to pick with you.
Oh god, I got a bowl of it, so listen.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I'm not one to hold a grudge or anything, but
I was listening to The Big Show August the twenty
seventh last year, five thirteen pm, and you guys did
the segment right on who are.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Your A list international celebrities? Remember? And you said no.
You said, you know, like you know, like your Tiger
Way titis.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
And to a lesser extent, I thought, but no, no,
But I thought, no, not fair enough. Okay, you know
I don't put myself out there as much like like
Tiger did.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And I'm not married a pop star.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
You know, I don't have that sexually transmitted fame, which
is bloody had to get rid of once you.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Catch totally mate, you know, totally.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
But anyway, then you all went on to compile your
lists and completely left me off the list.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'm gonna have to listen to the audio because I
don't believe that. I'm pretty certain that you were like
second on my list there was. But can I ask
you man, in all seriousness, as an actor in this country,
was it always your ambition to think overseas? You know,
because I think as a New Zealand actors back then,
(03:31):
when I like, when I was acting, it was you know,
we did our Hercules and Zena and all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But for me, I never thought about overseas.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But was that always part of the picture for you
that you wanted to expand out?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, you know, I mean listen, I was looking at
actors like Sam Neil and Lawrence and you know, it
was pretty clear to me that the New Zealand industry,
as amazing as it is and as awesomeate is it
telling our stories, if you want a career of some
serious longevity.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You have to look overseas. And I always just wanted.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
To work with the best in the business globally, and
so from a very early point I was had my
my my target set over there.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Because are you from Wellington? Wellington? Originally? Yeah, what part
of Welly, well all over?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Actually we moved around Mount Vick, Oriental Bay, Brooklyn. Yeah,
I moved around a ton Candala.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And then you ended up acting. But briefly, if I remember,
it was like there was something that you did and
then you went and went to UNI. Yeah, and then
I dropped out of UNI, and I remember there had
been Shark Park.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Shark Park Jays. Maybe, actually, maybe that's what we worked on.
What shark Pak was an old sort of It was
a police drama, wasn't it. Yeah, that's right. They probably
recycled the uniforms for your show.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
They would have done, yeah, although you would have been
taking a lot more seriously than I was in my role.
So there was all that sort of stuff that you
clocked through. But back then, it feels like we used
to have a hell of a lot more drama being
made at TV shows and all that sort of stuff.
So even back then, back then it feels like you
could have been a bit more of a careerist, even
in New Zealand. But now you like, you can have.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
A good run. I think you can have a good run. Yeah,
But in New Zealand you can have a run.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I reckon for about ten years, yeah, and then somebody goes,
you know what this bastard's.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Been and everything fun?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah yah, totally yeah, And it's and you're sort of
your your fatealising somebody else's hands. So when you hear
something like and it must have been rings that came
along something like that pops up, you just got to go, fuck,
I've got to make the most of this.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, no, totally.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
You know what, I think it's actually a strength of
actors in this country because the industry is small and
it forces you to do everything from from.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Theater to to radio to TV.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
You know, film, if you can comedy, comedy or everything,
you know, And I think that makes us stronger as performers.
Whereas you look at overseas, like actors in the States,
they get top heavy very quickly. They've got stylists and
agents and managers and dietitians and all all the stuff
that's so on the peripheral. So yeah, but it's you know,
(06:06):
you know, if you want a career of longevity, Yeah,
you know that you've got to think internationally, and the
world's gotten to a point now with the zooms and everything,
the meetings you can do that.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You can achieve a lot more by just staying here. Yeah.
And did you have a swing at Ozzie as well?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I did for a brief minute. Actually, it was the
most disparaiting year of my life. It was after Shorty
Street and I went over there and was basically starting
again and I was working at a bottle store in
Double Bay.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, and it was tough. It was brutal.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
But yeah, I eventually got off at something back here
and came back in the rest of history.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I did three and a half years. There was a
furniture remove list.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Right, that's why it's built Stallion right.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It was funny you should mention Shorten Street because I
was talking to a friend today and I was telling
her that we were interviewing you, and, to her eternal shame,
she wasn't quite sure who I was referring to, and
she said, oh, did you.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Do Shortened Street? See it?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Actually, yeah, he did do short and Street. But she
was thinking of Carl Burnett, you know, the one of
the blonde hair. Easy confusion to make now they're kind
of quite so similar.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
How long were you on short six months?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah? Okay, yeah, I did six months now.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And is there you know, overseas and in the States
in particular, is there a sense of community amongst sort
of New Zealand actors? Is there a sort of do
you sort of hang out together? What's the sort of situation?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, I heard, I've heard that there is. I can't
I'm not part of it. Let me know. I'm I'm
on the wait list.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
But no, to be fearful, is I live here, you know,
and you know, I've sort of really taken my inspiration
from the likes of you know, Peter Jackson and Sam
Neil who have international.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Careers but work here. I thought, that's a that's a
pretty good way to do. Do you live in here
the whole time? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Wow, never moved Holy And you know, partly is because
you know, when I had kids and I didn't want
to move them away from their grandparents.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, it's a great place to live. That's yes, Come on,
it's so good. Yeah, yeah, it certainly is.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And so you've got now about eighteen different projects that
have come out. Yeah, you've got the last season of
the final season of The Boys, which and I just
there's something good coming col just wait.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I hate superhero shit.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
And it took me a long time to realize that
I did, because all of these Marvel things would come
out and everyone was raving about them, The Avengers, five Stars,
five Busies, sorry five, and then I go along to
it and it's like it's nine hours long.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I hate it.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
And then I realized that it's actually it's just not
for me. There's no point keeping on going. And then
eventually you realize that you're either too old. You know,
it's for the kids, it's passed you by.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Fundamentally, you got to realize that the whole comic book
genre is made was.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Designed for ten year old It's not year old man.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yes, but The Boys is brilliant because it sort of
tips the whole thing on its head and it's really
mean spirited, which I love about it. And you get
to have a hell of a lot of a hell
of a lot of fun. Yeah, when that came to you,
is that something that got offered to you and you're
straight into what you auditioned for it?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I was actually I was driving along here in New Zealand. No,
I won't say I was driving. I was at home
and I was checking my phone as you do, and
I saw that my mate and star had been cast
in this thing called The Boys, and I'm like, oh.
I read about the synopsis went the Boys, and read
the synopsis about this satirical look at the superhero genre.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I thought, that's a catchy title, it's a good.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Premise, sounds interesting and just you know, two weeks later,
a week later, I got an offer to be in it.
I read the script was immediately loved the character of
William Butcher, this fun, kind of Machavellian character who could
convince people to do anything, you know, sort of a
sort of a tough guy, but you know, not to
(09:55):
be trusted. And yeah, and so I went met with
the producers with with Seth Rogan and Eric Kripkey in
those guys, and decided to jump on it.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, it's bloody good, isn't it. Because obviously it's it's funny,
it's hyper violent as well, and so it's sort of
you know, mocks the superhero thing, but also a real
you know, holds up a mirtor to what's going on,
particularly in America, I guess. But weirdly, you can't really
keep up because what happens on the show, you know,
it should be worse than what's happening in real life,
(10:30):
but then all of a sudden, real life catches up.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
It's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Actually, they call it the Devil's Writers Room because Eric Kripkey,
I mean he writes about things that are of concern,
of importance to him. Yes, So like in the first season,
you know, he wrote a lot about sort of sexual assaults.
And in the second season, you know, it was you know,
sort of racism and stuff. And when both of those
seasons came out, it just happened to coincide with, you know,
(10:56):
the Me Too movement and Black Lives Matter. So he's
kind of like gazing into a crystal. And in this
season he's sort of written. One of the characters on
the show sort of you know, is you know head Christ. Yeah,
he thinks he's God and stuff and literally, you know,
on the clock, you know, the President of the United States,
(11:16):
you know, issues this picture of him allegedly is Jesus
Christ as a doctor.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
He was a But.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well that's actually really true and a really good point,
you know, because the world has got so extreme now,
you know, so these these characters don't see is extreme
because actually they're parodying themselves now, you know what I mean,
these characters. But let me ask you, in terms of
your career, and you've obviously had a massive amount of success,
is it the point for you now where you simply
(11:46):
get asked to play a part or are you still
having to audition or is it cal Would you like
this part?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Yeah, it's it's mainly a you know, an incoming phone
called business and I get offered, you know, a bunch
of stuff, the stuff that I'd like to do, you know,
all the stuff that you know with you know, directors
that you know you've admired for so long that stuff
is worth you know, chasing and that stuff you you know, Yeah,
(12:13):
you know you want to work with a you know,
a Spielberg or a Chris Nolan or something. Yeah, you
go and you take the meetings and you go on
an audition.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The Whole Archy Big Show week days from four on
Radio Hiarchy The Wary Big Show Podcast.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Well, that's right, because it is different. There's different kinds
of acting as well as you know Jason and I
to a far lesser extent. No, you know, you know
it's pretty pretty you know, you're doing pretty big stuff
when you're doing what we do in the Shadows or
particularly Willington Paranormal and Broken Wood is a different kind
of an acting to a Gormsby or whatever it might be.
(12:50):
And then for you to be doing superhero stuff, so
you're doing Dread, you're doing Billy Butcher, you're doing the
Mortal Kombat. You know, like that these humans see if
they have a really fill a space, you can't be
quiet and reserved and real and so that's sort of
the performance that you've give him.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Something like Out of the Blue is completely different. Oh
it is.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
It's tonally, it's completely different. I mean, but you always
have to find you know the truth at the moment
and find the reality. But then also you know, you
have to take that artistic license and have fun with it. Yes,
otherwise watching paint dry, you're.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
In the wrong show.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, And that is that the sort of stuff because
obviously a lot of key actors they go away so
they can come back, or they go away and then
eventually they'll come back.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Marden and I'm probably gonna say, is Henderson.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Who comes back and he does quite a lot of
drama where he's you know, the father figure. I've never
heard the guy talk in my life, but he seems
to tune up in quite a lot of you know,
small New Zealand drama stuff. Is that the sort of
stuff that you were always open to?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
No, absolutely, I'm always no, no, But I'm serious, you know,
on the lookout because I grew up and I was
I was inspired by the like of you know, as
I said, you know, Sam and Bruno and and obviously
Tim and you know, good New Zealand movies that are
represented of our culture, whether it be like Utu or
Smash Palace or Warriors Movie. You know the films that
(14:13):
Tiger made early in his career. You know that those
those those stories that are intrinsically New Zealand. I want
to continue to be a part of the New Zealand
film industry and I want to find those stories to tell.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, well listen, because I was thinking about it, Carl.
You know, in terms of broken, for example, I mean
I I'm pretty India. Now you could put in a word.
I mean I can put in a word. Really, you know,
we see what happened. I mean, I audition.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You know how this industry is.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Man, I can't I can't make promises, but it may
be that, you know, I get you a character's name,
Ray Raise, I don't even remember. He just runs a
paba and pizza plays. I can't remember Raised. Long lost
twin brother turns up. Yes, there you go, mate.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
And then you've got Mortal Kombat that's just been doing
the rounds as well.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Yeah, that's right. Super excited about this fellas. It's, without
a doubt, the most physically challenging role I've ever done.
In my life, I won't like because I finished the
sort of season four of The Boys, and I had
some fuel in the tank and I was like, I
said to my agent, find me something with a bit
of action. And they came at me with us and
they went, oh, this is great. And then Johnny was
(15:25):
one of the great older right, yeah, this is an age.
It's not it's not the point in our story that
we find Johnny. He's a washed up actor and he's
neglected as training. The world's forgotten about him, and it's
this very juncture that gets called upon to save the earth,
which I thought was really fun. That's great. So the
potential for comedy was was amazing. So yeah, so it
(15:48):
was like it was months and months of of of
of training. And when I told my kids that I
was going to be Johnny Cage, they were like, big
fan base, don't f it up, no pressure, do.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You you know, isn't it you know?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I look at someone like Liam Neeson for example, where
he seems to have made a conscious decision somewhere along.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
In his career.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I'm doing action. Yeah you know what I mean, That's
that's who I am now. I mean, is that something
that you ever considered that I'm just going to go
on this one genre or you still want to stay
open to those other roles.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
No, man, I'm open to anything. And you know it's
I'm just interested in playing as many different kind of
characters as I can. And I think, you know, people
often get caught up in the oh, you're you're in
this genre and that genre and stuff. And it's like
I think, if you look at my film og for
my work, I like the idea of that. You know,
you'd hold these characters up and go, my god, that's
the same guy, you know. Yeah, And I guess it's
(16:46):
just the question is you know, knowing if it's action
of when you should get off that bus, when it's
when it's when it's time to stop doing it. Your
body will tell you, yeah, when it can no longer go,
when you can no longer get out of the Porsche
with agility, styling, grace.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Is the time to stop, and once when you I've
always wondered about this because like Jermaine was over doing
what was it what we do in the Shadows over
in Vancouver, and he was talking about the hours that
they do over there compared to what they do so
sort of like seven and eighty hour days every single day. Yeah,
and they're doing nights as well, but asking how especially
(17:24):
with that with comedy, it's hard to be funny after
ten hours, twelve hours, fourteen hours, and they're doing sixteen, seventeen,
eighteen hours. That is still just standing over there. Those
are the days that you're doing.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It is a standard day.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
You know, you got your twelve hour day, then you've
got an hour for lunch and our for your hair, wardrobe, makeup,
all that stuff. You're traveling an hour to get to
work there and back, and then if you're doing overtime,
you know you're you're working long days. I can tell
people how hard we work. You know, you tried doing
that for seven months in a row. It's a slog.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Well, you know, and this is a thing that's every
now and again.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You know, one of the soundings will release a recording
of a Christian bale or somebody else exploding on set
and it's like, fuck, there's thirty of those per job. Yeah,
you know, because people are like absolutely exhausted. Yeah, it's exhausting,
exhausting work.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It was really interesting, you know when Xena and Hercules
and all that stuff was going on, and you get
the American actors over to New Zealand and the mentality
was so different.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I remember being in a situation and we finished the
scene and I was working with an American actress and
the crew were picking stuff up and I went to
pick something up and she.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Was like, oh no, no, no, no, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And I was like just helping, helping pick stuff up,
you know, because they're really staunch about, you know, looking
after the actors and the talent and all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
But seventeen or eighteen hour days.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yes, it's your union, that's the actual issue. It's all unionized. Yes,
you know, don't you dare take someone else's job.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
You has taken someone else's job, Jason. You either got
smacked over by a gaff or something like that.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
But I was.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Genuinely taken back by her horror of what i've and
it was simply trying to help you something up.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
But that's very indicative of how we are here in
New Zealand. You know, you're shooting a movie, you say,
on a farm somewhere. It's like you're carrying stuff like
the cruise carrying stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Well, it was the last time that Jaycee did. Yeah,
I mean, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I was stoked to find that out, you know, and
never tried to help ever again.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, spirit, that's the spirit.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And what other stuff have you got coming up now?
Because you come back and I'm assuming you're trying to
do like two or three jobs a year. Is that
sort of what you look at.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yeah, it's been pretty full on for the last few years.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Because how long does how long did the Boys take
to shoot a season?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
The Boys was about seven to eight months, m K
was about four. Film was filmed on the Goldie Oh yes,
I love it over there.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I got to say, I do like it. I'm not
going to move, but it's so close.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Yeah yeah, and they were ten ten hour days over there,
which is so civilized.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
But yeah, so no, I mean the last thing I
filmed actually was a colonoscopy.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah. So that's due to be released later on the year.
We're just finishing up some.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Special musical on it and should be a ripper. I
have one of those on my fortieth birth and actually
was an enema. I went and had an anima because yeah,
and yeah, it wasn't as life changing as I anticipated
or hoped.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I got to say, oh bloody loved it.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
You know, they took me in there, they knocked me out.
When I woke up, I was high as a ka.
Let me as Sammy and said, we don't need to
see you for five years. I can we do this
again next week?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
This is great? Yeah, totally. Well, actually I should get
onto that, especially some of my.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Seriously, on a serious note, if you haven't done it,
and you get into a certain age, go and do it,
because the rates of us cancer in this country are
off the rectorscale.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
What I had a colonoscopy. Jase, you're in your late thirties.
You're here, man, you gotta get onto it. Yeah, well
that's why I thought too. You know, I just hit
my forties and like, nows the time exactly? And your
kids now you've got have you got a couple of
boys too? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
They must be now you know age me? How old
are they? Yeah? Twenty and twenty five?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Do you go? Yeah? So no, tys? Really? Now? Man?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
The idea of sticking around here, you could you could
go and hav an imagine ground with us man?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Or what's again? Brisbane?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Oh the rugby you're inviting. I'm coming for sure, mate,
I'll be there.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah, And what else do you have going on? When
you bet you've still got the grandparents? They're all still
up here? Are they down and welly or no, everyone's
up here. So you know, I just like to just
to be low key here, like take the boat out
for a fish nice you know, and just do all
things for you, rounds of golf, just to just relax,
you know. That was the other thing I wanted to
ask you about, was that end up on It was
(21:52):
on Amazon, because there's another recap that you've been on
the last few months at.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
The Bluff with Prianka Chopa.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Yeah, on Amazon's Yeah Pirate movie. Good fun, good fun,
and yeah it from the Bluff into the boys and
now intermrtal people get well, I'm sick of me, Jason.
It's sorry. Yeah, it is time for me to just
take a little breather. I think, Yeah, that's the that's
(22:20):
the plan.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
What's your handicap and golf? It's not flash fellas, and
that's the problem. I'm on a seventeen moment. What's yours?
When he said, right, we should play for money?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, Well I need a partner at the.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
House. Is that right? You beg for a bit? Yeah, yeah,
back for a bit, which is good.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
But no, listen, I've just sort of finished this two
week tour of promoting Mortal. I couldn't be happy with it.
The movie plays so well. I've seen it with.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
A bunch of fans a couple of times.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
And you know, if you're a fan of you know,
martial arts movies or just big fun you know, Blockbuster
Summer Entertainment, it's a great watch.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Can I ask you, cal you know, when you're sort
of having some downtime, how long is it before you
start getting ansty?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You know, when you start going?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I need you know because I don't know if for
your anything like me, I don't like sitting around in
my head for too long. Need to be doing stuff.
How long before you go no, I need to go
back to work.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It changes all the time.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I don't idle well either, but you know, just the
sort of the first quarter of this year for me
has just been all taken up promoting these projects. Yes,
so I'm not at the stage yet where when I'm
jumping up and down to go back to work, but
I will know when that script lands I'm on my
desk and I start reading it and start feeling, you know,
(23:39):
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
That'll be the point for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
The great thing about that Mortal Kombat, the trailer that
came out, which is all I've seen so far. It's
not a great track record with video games, man, they
managed to really fuck them up. But what looks great
about this is it's clearly got a sense of humor
about itself. Yeah, it's got a sense of humor about
Johnny Kay. Yeah, you're playing it very very straight, but
(24:02):
they're making you do some funny shit, and I think
that's the key to it, right, So there has to
be another dimension, especially to those fighting films with a
zero storyline.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
It's just.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Round one, round two, round three. It looks like a
lot of fun. And the reviews online have been great.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Views have been fantastic, they really have, and particularly from
the audience of the fans that have seen it. And
you know, one hundred percent of the critics love this
movie sixty nine percent at the time, so I will
take that that's a win.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
But I guarantee you that it's one of those films
with the score from you know, from the audience there
is always going to be higher because it's not. To
be honest, it's not really for the critics.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
No it's not, it's not. But no, it's fun.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Like the thing that this movie does so well as
it does strike the balance between delivering you know, your
top notch martial arts and then with the character like
Johnny Cage totally you know, his sort of fight you know,
at times sits more in the world of like Jackie Chan.
There's this element of fun physical comedy that I get
to do, you know, which was a lot of fun
to shoot.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
But yeah, boy, as I said before.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Challenging, you know when you're learning, like, you know, a
twenty five beat move, you know, fight move, and they
set up a dolly a tracking shot and you have
to remember them all.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, that's a nightmare. Yeah, I mean not that I
could ever do it. You don't do that, They're like, oh, yeah,
that's it. I remember doing the thirty move stunt. I
didn't even pretend to hit my head when I had
to do that.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
So are you telling me there's no martial arts on
Broken Wood? Not at this point? Missing a trick here,
I am missing a trick.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I know it'll be good to get you on there,
Carl and you turn up scene one, but you but
you get murdered.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah, people get really excited.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
You're gone. Yes, I've seen one. Yeah, what else.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Is happening to?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Man, there was another question I had, but it's gone
out of my head. Oh when's it open?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Oh well it's open from today. Yeah, open from today
in cinemas. Now do your muma favor. Leave her at home,
get out of the house and go and see this movie.
In fact, take her along too, because like, if you're
a fan of movies like Sense and Sensibility and The Godfather,
and this.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Is a movie for you, you know, your mum of
Medicine County right in that wheelhouse fellas beautiful, Will cal Urban,
thanks so much for coming in, mate. It's been an
absolute treat. Cheers for having me, guys, I really really
do appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
You know. You know I was talking to Tiger about
about your your your issue. I mean clearly, and not
to be disparated, but you're kind of in New Zealand
sort of internationally on the D list a little bit.
But he is n but he has he's written a
Star Wars movie, and I think he's got a way
to get you guys off the D into the APE.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I think so as well, that would be nice. I mean,
I you know, I don't mind it all being on
the D, but my friend of the Dad, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah, we like that. You love to get into the well. Look,
if the A was there, you know, then certainly i'd
give it a crack. But because he's written you guys
from Roles all.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Right, A couple of androids and c three keys.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
You play Obi Wan Minogi.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Very nice Jedi and unfortunately I left the bad guy,
so you're Darf Hoyt. Because Carl Solo was taken, sort
of got the build.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Of two D two though true. Beautiful oh good follows
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