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April 18, 2024 36 mins

There’s a cosmic event happening Saturday night and Lisa told Russell Clarke in a round about way, all about it.

British comedian Stephen K. Amos got evicted from the I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here jungle last night and he gave Russell Clarke and Lisa a call

Producer Suzy has done 3 pilates classes and 2 PT sessions in 3 days and is very sore so Russell Clarke & Lisa opened the phones to ask when did you over it.

The Man From Snowy River has been turned into a live show with a Symphony Orchestra so Russell Clarke & Lisa spoke to the woman who starred in the original movie, Aussie legend Sigrid Thornton.

In The Shaw Report, we’ve lost another Aussie music legend plus

Our movie reviewer Ben O’Shea gave his thoughts on the new Zendaya tennis themed movie Challengers.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Clearzy Lisa's podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Coming up on the podcast today, Celebrity Jungle evict Stephen
k Amos, Australian treasure SIGRed Thornton, We took your calls
on when did You Overdo It?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
And beno'schet reviews Challenges.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
So Phil in the last couple of years, I've producer
Susie's main aim in life is to make me feel
like the biggest slobberdillo. That's possibly because first of all,
she takes up cricket. That the Susie, you know we
our sport was drinking red wine together. The next minute
she's taken up cricket. So then she's doing Pete personal

(00:46):
training to support the you know, the strain on her
body of the cricket. And now all of a sudden
it's Pilate's Susi's joined us this morning. So are you
saying too much too soon? No, I'm just saying no
one likes a shop, no Susis because this no no,

(01:07):
but anything any kind of activity compared to how much
I do is overachieving. We want to talk about overdoing
it because this week you have taken things to a
little a bit of a new level.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
So cricket just ended, and so I'm looking for something
to do over winter to keep me fit and preoccupied.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
And so I was wrong with that with the couch
and Netflix. But yeah, tell us and.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
I now have this addiction to walking like a cowgirl.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
So this week I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
I'm very sore. So this week I bought a trial
pass to try out a place for polates, and it
was a three class trial pass, really cheap, but you
have to do it all in the same week. So
I was like, I'll just get them all out of
the way and I'll do three days in a row.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
And you want to do all three because you've paid
for it exactly.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah, you don't want to waste your money. Yeah, so
I've just done Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday pilates all different kinds,
and then I had pt on Monday and Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
So common mistake for beginners. Well, I have never.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Been in my life, so you might have overdone it.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
To me, I might have overdone it.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Are you giving.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Polarates the thumbs up? By the way, I loved it?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, they do an old ladies polarates class old ladies
who've never really done much.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
But I haven't done it for twelve years, and if
I can do it, anyone care.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
But what about even longer than twelve?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
What about you? You want to start now consolutely? I
were really good?

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Okay, I do it at your own pace, and.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh well, that's I need that.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Maybe you should have taken that advice.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Here's what I always hated about that sort of group
exercise was that I came from the era of aerobics
instructors yelling you've got use it, don't lose it, and
it's like, shut up.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
And that was on TV at six thirty in the morning.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Would yell at you.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's like they called it motivation. I didn't call it motivation.
I called it today. Want to take your calls on
when you overdid it? It might not have just it
might have been exercise.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
It might have been.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Shopping or food, or could be anything. Jamie and Bullsbrook,
When did you overdo it?

Speaker 6 (03:25):
Good morning, December last year? Really overdone it?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
What did you do?

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (03:32):
I decided to be a.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
Good partner and escort the missus to Nicola or state
watch Robbie yeah, security for Robbie, so the missus didn't
get up on stage and evils winnings, yeah and yeah,
and then we got yeah, all right, so everyone's allowed
a stage pass. So yeah, we got separated in the

(03:57):
crowdch end up going up front stage like teeny boppers,
you know, doing all that sort of stuff. And I
just held the fence up like a good drinker. And
then the show finished and there's.

Speaker 7 (04:08):
Quite a few people there. You wouldn't believe it, And yeah,
I couldn't find it.

Speaker 6 (04:14):
And phone reception out there was a bit naked because
of everyone wanting a download on Facebook and you know, all.

Speaker 8 (04:21):
That sort of stuff.

Speaker 9 (04:22):
So I couldn't couldn't get a phone signal, couldn't ring her.
So I thought, I'll walk out onto the great Northern Ioway.
See me, I got out on a great Northern Ioway.
Who pointless standing around? I might as well just head
north and they'll seem my fat shape walking along the road. Yes,
So about ten minutes later, one of several beers want

(04:44):
to jump out.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
So I pulled up on the.

Speaker 9 (04:45):
Side of the road and in the dark and had
a bit of a you know, come back out onto the.

Speaker 7 (04:50):
Footpath headed North.

Speaker 8 (04:52):
Oh damn, half past five. The next morning got into
bulls Brook.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Oh my god, you want all all the way home
and you still meet some of the people out of
the car pome, Yes you did.

Speaker 9 (05:04):
When you're built like a paving brick, you're not really
meant to walk too far.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
So yeah, it took me three days to pretty much
get over it. And yeah, my calf muscles even now,
I still a little bit sore from carrying my ninety
kilo friend or frame half across the country.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Did you have your calorie counter on?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Because boy do you fit.

Speaker 6 (05:27):
Yeah, when you're four foot sixteen, you sort of got
to do twice as many steps as everyone else to
get there.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
So yeah, I felt like a bit of a duck.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
Walking on home.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (05:36):
Yeah, laying up slawing, no, No, he's a big ugly fellow.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Now, when to patch that? So when I got into
bully Oh no, I can't do it anymore. I've got
to walk up the bloody big ells.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
Lots of kids, he's having lots of kids with lots
of lice, is later on in.

Speaker 7 (06:00):
Law to one of them.

Speaker 6 (06:05):
It took me an hour.

Speaker 8 (06:06):
I was sitting in.

Speaker 6 (06:07):
Town, ringing around, ringing, around, ringing around until someone answered,
because I wasn't doing the last two and a half
ks went. I was that crawling sty by the time.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Find out how your friends are ja, Yes, exactly.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
I appreciate that, mate.

Speaker 10 (06:21):
Yeah, wow, yeah, that's I think a few people overdid
it after the Robbie.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Confers, Well, was just getting back to the highway.

Speaker 10 (06:27):
Was quite quite the high and then people walked back
the following day to get that kind of whoa.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
I think some has overdone that this year enough already
a major point.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Now by mother Nature.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Has you know, Shaye Midland, when did you overdo it?

Speaker 7 (06:43):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (06:44):
So I was watching Brooklyn ninety nine on Netflix one night.

Speaker 8 (06:50):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
I thought it was only midnight by the time I finished.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
But I've looked to my window and I saw a
day like.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh Brooklyn nine nine can do that? Well with all
that have Yeah, binge watching a show overdoing it? That's
something I can get around.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Except with me, I watch, I can see the clock,
I can see it's getting.

Speaker 10 (07:11):
Late, and I still go, yeah, just one more one more, yeah.

Speaker 8 (07:16):
Yeah, you just one more episode.

Speaker 7 (07:18):
I can do it.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
I can go to bed right out.

Speaker 9 (07:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
So I caught chips you can't just do one, just
you know, one at the.

Speaker 8 (07:26):
End of happening to do the rest of the day
just acting like a zombie.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yes, but it was worth it, wasn't it. What a
great show, Thank Shaye, Thank you. Yeah, and something I
can relate to just about everything. Yeah, see that never
used to happen once upon a time, because you know,
to wait, you'd have to wait till now. I find
my saying.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
I just hung.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I hate it the shows that come out week a
weekly basis. I can't remember what happened. I've watched so
many other things in between. AnyWho, I'm a celebrity. Get
me out of Here continues seven thirty tonight on ten.
But I was quite sad last night to see my
favorite in the jungle exit, Stephen k Amos.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Were you as sad as I was?

Speaker 8 (08:10):
Ques?

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Are you just really keen for a shower?

Speaker 8 (08:15):
What a great question, Lita, and thank you very much.
I was very, very sad to leave because you know,
I could see them finishing line, and I was so
grateful for the vote to try and keep me in.
But you know what, my armpits and my nether regions
are reaching to high heaven. So it was only a

(08:36):
matter of time that shampoo and conditioner could do the design.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Effect if you weren't already you know, a little on
the sweaty side, only with a cold shower.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
The challenge that you did the other night.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Scaling up a rock face blindfold, and we of we
are of well, we're the same age, Stephen, I can.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I just.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yes, yes, exactly. I know that I wouldn't in a
fit with my eyes open. How hard was that?

Speaker 8 (09:10):
Well, I've not scaled a war since I was probably
about seven years old, and I had a Spider Man
outfit on and it was at a birthday part of
my nine year old friend. So scaling wars has not
been my forte But you know what, and heights, well,
I'm not a big fan of heights either, But I

(09:32):
had Ellie with me, and I trusted her and her
judgment and her being calm despite the fact that her
head was surrounded by snake. And thankfully I had Peter
in the first couple of weeks of my time in
the jungle to help me work on my guns so
that I could pull my whole body weight up at

(09:53):
the strategic point so I could scale that war. It
was tough, but Wow.

Speaker 10 (09:58):
We didn't Stephen. So that's one challenge. Did you have
a particular favorite or was it at least favorite?

Speaker 8 (10:06):
My favorite challenge in terms of fun and excitement was
trying to fill the pie.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Now, oh, that was hilarious.

Speaker 8 (10:16):
One that was, yeah, myself and Tristan wearing a complete
chef white and on her head on a treadmill, filling
a chef's hat with pie filling and then running across
an assault course and then filling the pie. I mean
that was I'm being shocked.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Yes, at the same time.

Speaker 8 (10:36):
Now, the last time I was near any form of
pastry or filling was when I was about twelve years
old and I licked my mother's wooden sea And that
is not a euphemism.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
It sounds as dangerous. And working at Gordon Ramsay's kitchen.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, now, this was more like licking the beatas while
they were still plugged in. Still, there's no small fate
that you learned to swim while you were there, that
you know?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
That is amazing, do you know what?

Speaker 8 (11:12):
I'd be honest, that was not in my remit. I
didn't even know that in the jungle there was a
creek and a waterfall. I didn't even know that we'd
have supreme athlete and the jungle let alone, a power
Alupian with seventy gold medals and seventeen mothers in total.
I thought, Wow, what an opportunity. How ridiculous would I

(11:34):
have looked if I said to Ellie, no, I don't
need lessons from you. I'm going to wear slippers and
just survived.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Athletes.

Speaker 10 (11:44):
You have walked out of there with life changing skills. Yeah,
look at it that way.

Speaker 8 (11:50):
Absolutely, it really has been. You know, I didn't expect that,
to be honest, I did not expect to have moments
where they were really so deep and meaningful. Learning out
to swim, learning how to build a fire, learning how
to be self sufficient, learning how to live for nearly
four weeks without my mobile phone elestricity.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (12:12):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
So look, I have a question that I've been wondering
for a while about. I'm a celeb.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
We watch you do the challenges to get the stars
to get your dinner, but of course we watch Sunday
to Thursday. So what do you eat on Friday and
Saturday night?

Speaker 8 (12:32):
What a great question, and I've got to say, you're
the third person to answer that question. You must assume
that we send out for cake out birds notes. You know,
we eat what we don't we eat In the morning
we eat oats and then for lunch we have beans
and rice. That was exactly what we eat.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Get anything on Friday Saturday night?

Speaker 4 (12:56):
No, no, you can't come back Monday healthy.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
No, that's right.

Speaker 8 (13:04):
Can you imagine though? Yeah? Can you imagine if on
on Friday and Saturday we have the five STARMI with
a mission stance chef knowing right now, dis I'm last
nearly SEVENTI. Oh wow, that can't get.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Back the jungle diet. Well listen before we let you go. Well,
first of all, who would you like to see?

Speaker 8 (13:25):
Win I would like to see in my I've got
to say this. In my top three, I want to
see Ellie, Tristan and Sky. Okay, I had to choose.
It has to be Sky.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
She has been quite a little pocket rocket of entertainment,
hasn't she? Tell us about your upcoming show at the
Record Button the Regal during the Comedy Festival Oxymoron.

Speaker 8 (13:50):
Yes, well, my show that's coming up in w A
is called oxymoron, which literally means a self contradict group phrase.
I love when the English saythings like oh, he's Allrey,
good show, I can tell you right now. So it's
going to be so different. It's going to be more
about what through than the jungle. Yeah, get on board

(14:11):
and see the real trooth.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yes, friend of mine, it's going to be hard not
to talk about it for a while. Well, Stephen k Amos,
it's been great fun watching you in the Jungle. I've
enjoyed everything about it. I think Robert Erwin's done a
great job stepping into the doctor's shoes to join Julia.

Speaker 8 (14:30):
For such a young man, Yeah, a young man with
such such intelligent and well lived shoulders. Yeah wow, Yeah,
great encouragement, great support to the lovely Julia. And you know, guys,
I can't fault them.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Well, we can't fault you, which is why you need
to get in for tickets for Steven at the Comedy
Festival May seventeen and eighteen. Tickets are available through Perthcomedy
Festival dot com.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Go and eat something delicious, Thank.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
You, Steven. Go have a shower.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, and they need something delicious.

Speaker 8 (15:05):
I can myself okay, thank you Steven.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Bye.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
More Crazy more Lisa, More podcasts soon.

Speaker 10 (15:18):
The Sure Report on ninety six air FM.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Mark Twain once quipped age is a case of mind
over matter. If you don't mind it, it doesn't matter.
And when it comes to Martin Scorsese, age certainly isn't
mattering to him. After landing ten Oscar nominations for last
year's Killers of the Flower Moon, which went for about
nine hours, the eighty one year old director has mapped
out two big new projects he's going to make back

(15:46):
to back.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
First, I'll film.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
About Jesus, just you know, I mean, they're never easy,
no film about Jesus. And then a Frank Sinatra biopic,
Sure about that? Yes, Now he's got his eye on
Andrew Field for the Jesus picture, and who do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Scorsese wants to.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Play all Blue Eyes Wow his frequent favorite Leonardo di Caprio.
Let's talk of Jennifer Lawrence playing Sinatra's second wife as agent.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
But he loves the boy.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
And if that's not enough on his plate, Scorsese is
set to collaborate with Steven Spielberg on a TV series
version of the classic Cape Fear for Apple TV. Of course,
he directed Robert de Niro in the nineteen ninety one
film Come Out, Wherever you are.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
Thankful.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm from the Black I'm from the Black Forest. That
was so terrifying.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Of course, Robert Mitchum was that guy in the Unit
sixty two original and then he popped up in the
the ninety two version or ninety one version, just just brilliant.
Both versions were fantastic, So I have, you know, high
hopes for the TV version. Ben o'she is going to

(17:12):
join us after eight thirty for his movie review today.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
He's going to do the new tennis themed flick Challenges.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
At the film's La premiere last night, its star Zendaa
said Challenges is incredibly sexy, despite there being no sex
scenes in it.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
She said, the tennis is the sex.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
There are a lot of terms in tennis that probably
wouldn't be out of place in the bedroom. I mean
love all foot fault out in anyway.

Speaker 10 (17:42):
You cannot be serious, can be serious?

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Any who? We will see Ben race in about half
an hour.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
That's very funny, Russell. But look some sad news that
you may have seen yesterday. Gavin Webb, founding member and
basis for The Master's Apprentices has died. Where was seventy seven.
He had been battling cancer for the past six years,
tributes have been flowing, not least from his master's bandmates,
who said Gavin entered our lives sixty years ago. He
joined our band as a bassist and from that moment

(18:16):
became a member of our family, our brother. He really was,
you know, part of such a quintessential moment in Australian
music history, wasn't he.

Speaker 10 (18:23):
Yeah, they were very, very successful, very successful bandies.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
I don't know about you, but I love a bit
of stargazing and you know, normally you don't see anything,
but on the odd occasion that you do get a
glimpse of a comet that's passing by or something. This
weekend is going to be the best time to catch
a comet that won't be back again for seventy one years,
or you might have any Yes, it's called twelve p

(18:51):
Ponds Brooks, better known as the devil Comet. We'll go
with that one, so named because of it's It has
this emission tail of ice and gas that looks like
the Devil's horns. Anyway, it's going to be passing by
brightest it will be in seventy years. I reckon you'll
still need binoculars, but the experts say it'll be visible

(19:15):
in the southern sky.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Just after sunset. That doesn't give you much, does it
to go on?

Speaker 4 (19:25):
So what are we looking at there? Before seven.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Kids will still be Yeah, look for the comet just
above the western horizon at an hour after sunset.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Wow, well, less, we're going to have clear skies.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
I can't give you a gup.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Do you have the cord?

Speaker 3 (19:45):
The GPS location astronomer suggests looking for the comet just
above the western horizon an hour after sunset? Right, okay,
But then they say grab your binoculars, so it's and
just scans.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
And yeah, and try to be somewhere.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
That does help.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
I guess they're saying, don't don't look at it from
you know, the middle of the stadium during a game.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Get as dark as as we go, down.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
The beach, down the beach, down the beach, and just
have a look. Nothing to obscure it. And no cloud
in no cloud, So it's going to be sunny.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
So maybe maybe not, but it's there. I guarantee you
it's there.

Speaker 10 (20:25):
At least it's given you at least an idea of
what to do on the weekend, something for your Saturday night.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Just to spice it up, a little bit of a
devil Devil comet.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Devil Devil Comet sounds like a song.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
We love a cinematic experience with the full symphony orchestra.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
No, that is one soundtrack and well.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
And you talk about big soundtracks in the history of
Australian movies, doesn't come much bigger than The Man from
Snowy River.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
And they are.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Going to be live in concert at Crown Theater next
Friday and Saturday. You can get your tickets through ticket Master.
And of course who do you think of when you
think of the Man from Snowy River? You think of
Secret Thornton. Thornton's joining us.

Speaker 11 (21:10):
Good morning, Good morning, Lisa, Good morning, Raster morning.

Speaker 7 (21:15):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Okay, we can you perfectly. This is the the Bruce
Rowland you know soundtrack of The Man from Snowy River,
always incredible, and now it's going to be with a
fifty four piece symphony orchestra doing it.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Indeed, justice, So tell us how this works.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
I believe that the movie is on the screen and
the orchestra accompanies it.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
And that's exactly how it happens. Lisa.

Speaker 11 (21:47):
It's it's a new form relatively, because the technology allows
for that to happen now, so that the orchestra's on
the stage, the film is also on the stage on
a large screen, and the technology such that, you know,
the soundtrack played live by the orchestra can fit seamlessly
into the original soundtrack in place of the recorded soundtrack

(22:11):
the original recorded soundtrack. So it's a really wonderful new
way of watching film.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
It's a movie in one.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
And I've always considered the soundtrack, not just the soundtrack
songs and what have you, but the score to be
such an important character in and of itself in a film.

Speaker 11 (22:31):
No question about it.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
It really is.

Speaker 11 (22:33):
And in this case too, Bruce just somehow from the
word go, from the time we knew he was going
to be composing the soundtrack, and at that time people
didn't know who Bruce Roland was as a film composer
because it was his first feature. But he just had
the spirit and romance and majesty of the film so beautifully.

(22:55):
It's an incredible soundtrack.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Yeah, it's an epic.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
You get that wide open space feel, do you do?
You still get goosebumps whenever you hear the opening notes
to Jessica's theme.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I kind of do.

Speaker 11 (23:08):
It's when before we started this tour, I hadn't seen
the film for you know, quite a long time. And
it's not like I sort of sit there watching what
there is a there is a movie where some an
older actor sits and watches their old their old films
endlessly through the night. I'm not one of those people,

(23:28):
but but it is.

Speaker 8 (23:31):
It is.

Speaker 11 (23:31):
Jack has just been glorious to revisit the film and
to to share memories of making the film and to
see it again in this new iteration is very exciting.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yeah, and rewarding.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
And you and Tom Burlanson are here with it, am
I right right, you're in the audience a lot.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well, well, well you're on the stage, I should say.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (23:55):
Yeah, we're on the stage and we talk to the
audience with the well, we have a conversation for the audience,
as it were, and we share memories and stories anecdotes
really about the film making process and our own personal
kind of feelings and experiences.

Speaker 9 (24:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (24:14):
Yeah, that's fun, Sigaret, What do you think it is
about the Man from Snow River? You know that stayed
so fondly in people's memories and hearts all these years.
I mean, the movie now is quite some time ago,
but the story is an old story and it just
it lives on, doesn't it. In Australiana.

Speaker 11 (24:32):
There are lots of reasons, I think Russell. I mean, originally,
of course, the film is you know, and importantly it's
based on loosely on the Banjo Patterson ballad, which everybody
knows and knew a lot of people knew before the
film was ever made. They knew that ballad, know the
work of Patterson. So it was a stroke of genius,

(24:53):
really kind of to do this kind of riff on
the original poems. That's part of it that I think
initially captured people's imaginations. But I think the film somehow
had this struck at just the right time, struck a
chord with Australians who hadn't for many Australians and most

(25:17):
Australians really had not seen that kind of that countryside,
the threadful alpine region of Victoria, and depicts it on
film in such a beautiful way. A lot of that
country was and still is inaccessible, you know, by anything
other than sort of horseback or drive or shopper, and
that's what we used to film it, you know, and

(25:39):
so that it was an undiscovered part of Australia. It
was a very it's a very romantic story. It's it
delivers on what it sets out to do. It's a
very and it's a very It was interesting when we
first screened the film before a sort of public audience,
and this is before its actual social release, that there

(26:00):
were a couple of kind of charity screenings that happened
before a large audience and people were coming out saying
it made them feel so proud, and that was something
that perhaps I hadn't expected.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
So there were there.

Speaker 11 (26:14):
Were a lot of a number of things that struck
chords with people that we couldn't have anticipated. And no
one ever knows, what, you know, how film's going to
be received, but this thing went through the roof and
it do so actually in this context.

Speaker 10 (26:28):
And it was good timing too, because there was a
time there when the Australian cinema was going through a
bit of a renaissance, really, wasn't it. I mean, there
were some big movies around the early eighties that perple
comfortable going to see Australian movies.

Speaker 11 (26:41):
They did, and it opened that up, which was well,
it helped you open that up and for a long
long time to know it was the biggest box office
you know, the biggest box office movie as in Australian
history bar none including an international film.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
So it did.

Speaker 11 (26:57):
It really kind of captured people's imaginations and it did
make them feel proud that we could make movies ourselves.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yes, well it was and you know you say it
was the early eighties. It was a period in Australian
cinema where I think it really became Australian. I feel
as though some of those seventies movies still had a
funny kind of an english person doing an Australian accent
vibe about it, even when they are Australian. But it
doesn't get any more quintessential than the Victorian high Country

(27:25):
and this, you know what we were seeing, what we
were hearing, horses, beautiful young people and Jack Thobson.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
I mean like that.

Speaker 11 (27:37):
You wouldn't make a film like that today because it
is a film of its time. But there's something about
it that that's why it's become a classic. Yeah, because
it catchures a moment in time and a moment in
Australian film making history that I think what will perhaps
never be repeated in just that way, and that's we

(27:58):
have many other elements. That is perfectly fine.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
That is close. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Do you remember where you were when you got the
call to say that you got the role of Jessica Harrison.

Speaker 11 (28:11):
Well, I didn't get a call. Actually, it was a
conversation because I was working with the director, the late
great George T.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Miller.

Speaker 11 (28:20):
Well, he's noticed, he's known as affectionately as Noddy and
or Snowy George. Okay, and because he's not to be
confused with mad Max George Miller. But George and I
had done a few projects already, a couple of projects
at least I think at that time, and I was

(28:40):
working with him on a mini series and he just
made this proposition one one lunchtime, and I said, great,
I'm in. Yes, I I was lucky enough to be
the first person, first cast member involved with it with
the film.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, well that's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Well, it is next, as I said, Friday and Saturday,
April twenty six and April twenty seven. You can get
your tickets through Ticketmaster. Sigurd Thornton. It is always lovely
to catch up with.

Speaker 11 (29:10):
You likewise Lisa and Ruffle, thank you.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Very much, Sigret, appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (29:15):
For seeing you next week.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yes, see you next weekend More Clezy more Lisa Poor
podcast soon.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Read the flick with Ben ohe.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Ben, Yes, I am morning, Ben, Good morning, and it's game,
Set and Match talking about the new film Challenges tennis
theme with the Superstarszen daya Who's so hot right now
from the Spider Man movies from Euphoria from June. She's
doing it all at the moment and now she's playing tennis.

(29:48):
She's bloody good at it too. And the film is
a cracker. It comes from Luca Guardanino, an Italian director
who like his thing is, I guess, making movies that
make the audience feel a little bit uncomfortable. So he
made Call Me by Your Name starring Timidate Chala May
Armie Hammer, which was which was sort of an underage

(30:11):
gay romance tale. And then he made Call Me by
Your Name with an actual cannibal. He had Timidation Shalli
if you know you know, which also started Timidate Shalomy
as a sort of a sexy cannibal like actual cannibalism
in the film, and it was it was an incredible film,

(30:31):
but really polarized audiences. In comparison to those two movies,
Challenges is by far his most accessible mainstream audience. But
because he is a little bit left of center, it's
still you know, it's going to be a little bit
weird for still him.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
It's still him.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
It's still definitely him. And so basically it is the
story of these three tennis prodigies who get to know
each other as teenagers. Zendea's character Tashi Duncan, who's going
to be the next big thing in women's tennis, Alah
sort of a Serena Williams, and then her career is
cut short by a horrific knee injury, can never play again.

(31:10):
And then you've got these two fellas played by Mike
Feist from West Side Story and Josh O'Connor, who was
Prince Charles in The Crown. And so they are doubles, doubles,
partnersine doubles, the wampions, they're the Woodies. Basically they won
the teen US Open, and then they meet Zendaya's character

(31:32):
and they both fall for her, and that sort of
starts this sort of decades long love triangle, and the
film starts at the end really where we find that
Tashi has married Mike Feist's character Art Donaldson. Art Donaldson
has gone on to become this incredible men's tennis player.

(31:52):
He's won Grand Slams and now he's at the end
of his career. He's got one more US Open left
in him, and Tashi is trying to live vicariously through
him because her career was cut short. She's his coach,
and she realizes he's struggling for motivation. It kind of
honestly disgusts her a little bit because she's thinking, if
this was me, I would be loving it. I wouldn't

(32:14):
be blowing this chance, because she's like this uber competitor,
and so she enters him into a challenger tournament, which
is like a low grade tennis tournament, playing against nobodies
to try and boost his confidence before the US Open.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
It's a bit like what Tomic's doing at the Nment.
Sorry exactly.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
The only thing this particular tournament isn't completely filled with
nobody's there's one somebody. It's Art's former double partner Patrick,
who also happens to be Tashi's former lover, and so
the film is basically about the final match of this tournament,
Art versus Patrick, with Tashi sitting on the sidelines. And

(32:57):
there's a lot going on here, and as the game unfold,
Luca Guardanino, the director, flashes back in time over the
previous thirteen years to individual moments that shaped this love triangle,
the drama, the soap opera. And there's there's intrigue, there's betrayal,
there's passion. The trailer for this film broke the internet

(33:18):
last year, if you remember, because it showed them as
teenagers in a hotel room seemingly about to embark on
a menajatis, which is.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Not a tennis term, and code violation.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Exactly, double fault and so and so you straight away
get the idea that there's a lot going on here,
a lot of emotion that needs to be unpacked, and
the tennis itself is really quite interestingly shot. Mike Feist
Art Donaldson character is the only one who went into
this project as a tennis player. He's actually an extremely

(33:53):
good tennis player. The other two never played tennis to
save their lives, and the director, Luca didn't even know
what the lines on the court men and so despite
all of that, the tennis scenes are.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
Actually or is it real? But it's real.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
It's all real, and it's it's set to a driving
techno soundtrack. All the tennis is that's been created by
Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails and Atticus Ross. That
was kind of film scoring duo who've won Oscars. They're
just like the guys at the moment in Hollywood to
make the score of the film. If you can't get
Han Zimmer and so the film is a little camp,

(34:31):
it's melodramatic. It won't be to everybody's tastes. If you're
going in there expecting a traditional sports movie, that's not
going to happen.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
Like.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
It doesn't give you the big grand stand off. No,
but gosh, it's good. It's one of the most enjoyable
films you'll see this year.

Speaker 10 (34:51):
I'm struggling to think of any other big tennis movie
that's ever There.

Speaker 9 (34:54):
Was mag.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
There's ever been really a few low long whiles. But yeah,
they do like to make a tennis movie. I've always
enjoyed them for some reason. They're just I don't know,
maybe it's because tennis is less violent sports or something.
It's pretty much not violence at all most of the time.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
All right, So oh Wimbledon with Kirston dance. Yes, of
course that was just.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
One about mc and roe beyond Borg a couple of
years ago. I think Emma Stone.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Does she played?

Speaker 1 (35:26):
She play Christy? She plays.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Right, the one we don't remember, So this is the one.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
This is the one we're going to remember.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
And how many new balls please are you giving it?

Speaker 1 (35:40):
I'm going to give this one four and a half. Whoa, yep,
this is this is a crack smash. It's a nice game,
set match. Wow, fantastic guys.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
The look were promised. Snowma, Lisa says after him.
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