April 17, 2024 • 9 mins
Aussie actor John Jarratt spoke to Russell Clarke & Lisa about his new movie What About Sal, he also talked about the best call back he ever got and he also revealed there’s at least another three Wolf Creek movies on the way.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
John Jarrett's movie What About Sale is going to be
in cinemas this Friday. That's only on the East coast.
We are going to have to wait until May fourteen.
And now I'm disappointed because I already had it locked
away for the weekend. You saw me watching the trailer
before thirty seconds in. I was just a mess of goosebumps.
John Jarrett joins us, Now, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You sorry about that. Well, it's really hard to get
all the cinema's ready to rock and roll the same time.
Never mind, we've got the decent seaboard pretty well shown up.
But yes, I concentrated on them. Then I went to
Wa South Australia and they haven't got any openings to
(00:45):
well May fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
All right, Well it just builds the anticipation, does Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yes, so it's a bit of an early one. But
folks out there brought it down May fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So you don't forget the point is John this move?
He looks wonderful. Now. What about Sal is about a
man with Down syndrome who is about to lose his
mother to cancer, so he goes on a journey to
find his strange rock muso father. Enter mister John Jarrett.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, and he finds me and I'm a drunk. He's
having a lot of disappointment and tell us about mum's
dying lung cancer from smoking. And he finds the old
man and he's a drunk. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Tell us about Jared O'Dwyer who plays Sal jaredo Jered.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Love that Jared O'Dwyer is one of the best actors
I've ever worked with, and not down syndrome make the
best one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Yes, Yes, extraordinary.
He won Best Actor in two thousand and nine at
trot Fest. You know, so he's been around and he's exceptional.
In he doesn't get the Best actorate nod, I'll be
(02:05):
very disappointed.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
He holds John Jared angry.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Don't make anger. It's an extraordinary performance, and he holds
the film. We don't think it down syndrome actors held
a film before. What I mean by that is usually
there's a partnership going on. Yes, but he's on his
own and he's on a mission, and he ends up
in Sydney City, living with a derelict and trying to
(02:32):
find his dad. It's an extraordinary journey and it's being
a box of tissues and it's kind of uplifting, happy ending.
But anyway, it's one of those wonderful domestic dramas, classic
classic Aussie indie film that we're very very good at.
(02:53):
If I didn't say so myself.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, you know, you say he's one of your absolute
favorite actors for stop not you know, specifying down syndrome actors,
but the number of incredibly talented actors that come from
the down syndrome community is amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well that's because they're emotionally more intelligent than.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Will ever be I suppose.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Ninety eight percent happiness. They've got, you know, every reason
to be filmed. Sad occasionally, but they really they really
enjoy life. They embrace life, and they're very happy people.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
New right for people you write you've gone full minder
on this, you've written it, you've directed it, and you've
started it. Is that is it hard to juggle?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
The hardest thing is selling it right, Okay, the two
ends it's that I'm not overly fond of is getting
the money. But if that was easy ever, you want
to be doing it and then getting it out there,
you know, getting it out Offenheimer and Barbie and Elvis
(04:04):
and all these monster movies Hollywood people keep throwing out,
it's pretty hard to get a lovely little Ossie film
through all that. So that's the hard button that used
to be. But services the nineties, you know, when nineties
we had Shine, which you could probably parallel this movie with.
(04:28):
There's that kind of film. It's not a huge film.
All those films back in the nineties, Murials, Wedding and
all of those Priscilla made on a reasonable budget and
they couldn't wait to get an Aussie film out. But
now I'm telling it, it's really hard.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, I thank you for fighting a good fight in
amongst all those ridiculous big blockbusters and you know, comic
book movies and stuff, because these are the movies that I,
for one love and I'm not alone spandex.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And you've been able to tire her before the next
round of summer blockbusters come out. So timing is really
everything with these, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It is.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
We couldn't put it out last year because everyone came
back to the cinemas in March and just everything was released.
You know, it would have been swamped. So it took
us to April to find a gap that wasn't too
full on, you know, so it's really difficult.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
John, you play his rock musician father Tommy, who doesn't
mind a drink. Did any particular rock star did you
have to sort of do a bit of research. Was
there any particular rockstar that you modeled yourself on?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
No, no, I just yeah, I was inspired by John
Jarrett and he's passed. I'm not a drunk anymore, but
I had an affair share in the seventies, you know,
different times and if I didn't get into Nider trying
to become a singer in a band, thinking all right,
(06:01):
I've seen pretty well.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Right, So well I can tell you got into Nider
from the way you've pronounced one John after Nider. This
is a question that we love to ask people of
your year standing. Do you remember where you were when
you got the callback for your first very big role?
(06:24):
Might have been that what was that something McCarthy, the
one about the football?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh no, I had a callback. The most the most
memorable one, yes, is the callback for playing Ned Kelly
in the in the Last All Right Played miniseries. I
got Best Actor for it. In the day before you
(06:49):
were all born.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
That's nicer for you, And it wasn't before I was surprised.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'm usually older than anyone I'm talking to. But it
was a brilliant mini series. Yes, but with that property
name was between me and Mel Gibson. I think I
won it because it was the same height as Ned
and he wasn't. But that's the best callback I ever got,
because that's that's that's the best thing I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You dine out on that for a while, beat Mel.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The people took a while. He wasn't famous then.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He was pretty good from the get guy he was.
You know, I mean, we can't we have to. We
can't talk to you without saying the words Wolf Creek
and I don't do. And I imagine that that is
something that has become part of your life that people
have got to either you know, they quote a bit
at you, or they do the laugh or whatever. Are
you okay with that? Does it mean?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, if they didn't think I'm not relevant anymore? And
we're going to do We're going to make Wolf Creek
free in Hope. At the end of in early twenty
five it fell over with COVID. We will go a
lot COVID killers. But we're going to try and do three,
(08:10):
four and five when we're chasing a package. Hopefully we'll
get it together.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Because there's still a lot of backpackers out there.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I heard it. Yeah, there's still a lot of people
to terrify, teach me sit.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You know, it's pretty good to stay fit and healthy,
to bade me.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Separates the men from the boys as to who comes
to our country.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
To go on travel, separate the men and the boys
and shoot them.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well, John, what about sal looks absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
People can just go online and have a look at
the trailer to get them through until May fourteen when
it opens at Luna. And thank you. It's always a
real pleasure to chat to.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You and you too. Yeah, and John, No one's come
up to me and Tommy they didn't like the film.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No, I don't think anyone will. Don't think it will
be driving. I don't think anyone will.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
John, Thank you, thank you, thanks for your support. Machael
John Jarrett's movie What About Sale is going to be
in cinemas this Friday. That's only on the East coast.
We are going to have to wait until May fourteen.
And now I'm disappointed because I already had it locked
away for the weekend. You saw me watching the trailer
before thirty seconds in. I was just a mess of goosebumps.
John Jarrett joins us, Now, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You sorry about that. Well, it's really hard to get
all the cinema's ready to rock and roll the same time.
Never mind, we've got the decent seaboard pretty well shown up.
But yes, I concentrated on them. Then I went to
Wa South Australia and they haven't got any openings to
(00:45):
well May fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
All right, Well it just builds the anticipation, does Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yes, so it's a bit of an early one. But
folks out there brought it down May fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So you don't forget the point is John this move?
He looks wonderful. Now. What about Sal is about a
man with Down syndrome who is about to lose his
mother to cancer, so he goes on a journey to
find his strange rock muso father. Enter mister John Jarrett.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, and he finds me and I'm a drunk. He's
having a lot of disappointment and tell us about mum's
dying lung cancer from smoking. And he finds the old
man and he's a drunk. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Tell us about Jared O'Dwyer who plays Sal jaredo Jered.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Love that Jared O'Dwyer is one of the best actors
I've ever worked with, and not down syndrome make the
best one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Yes, Yes, extraordinary.
He won Best Actor in two thousand and nine at
trot Fest. You know, so he's been around and he's exceptional.
In he doesn't get the Best actorate nod, I'll be
(02:05):
very disappointed.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
He holds John Jared angry.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Don't make anger. It's an extraordinary performance, and he holds
the film. We don't think it down syndrome actors held
a film before. What I mean by that is usually
there's a partnership going on. Yes, but he's on his
own and he's on a mission, and he ends up
in Sydney City, living with a derelict and trying to
(02:32):
find his dad. It's an extraordinary journey and it's being
a box of tissues and it's kind of uplifting, happy ending.
But anyway, it's one of those wonderful domestic dramas, classic
classic Aussie indie film that we're very very good at.
(02:53):
If I didn't say so myself.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, you know, you say he's one of your absolute
favorite actors for stop not you know, specifying down syndrome actors,
but the number of incredibly talented actors that come from
the down syndrome community is amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well that's because they're emotionally more intelligent than.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Will ever be I suppose.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Ninety eight percent happiness. They've got, you know, every reason
to be filmed. Sad occasionally, but they really they really
enjoy life. They embrace life, and they're very happy people.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
New right for people you write you've gone full minder
on this, you've written it, you've directed it, and you've
started it. Is that is it hard to juggle?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
The hardest thing is selling it right, Okay, the two
ends it's that I'm not overly fond of is getting
the money. But if that was easy ever, you want
to be doing it and then getting it out there,
you know, getting it out Offenheimer and Barbie and Elvis
(04:04):
and all these monster movies Hollywood people keep throwing out,
it's pretty hard to get a lovely little Ossie film
through all that. So that's the hard button that used
to be. But services the nineties, you know, when nineties
we had Shine, which you could probably parallel this movie with.
(04:28):
There's that kind of film. It's not a huge film.
All those films back in the nineties, Murials, Wedding and
all of those Priscilla made on a reasonable budget and
they couldn't wait to get an Aussie film out. But
now I'm telling it, it's really hard.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, I thank you for fighting a good fight in
amongst all those ridiculous big blockbusters and you know, comic
book movies and stuff, because these are the movies that I,
for one love and I'm not alone spandex.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And you've been able to tire her before the next
round of summer blockbusters come out. So timing is really
everything with these, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It is.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
We couldn't put it out last year because everyone came
back to the cinemas in March and just everything was released.
You know, it would have been swamped. So it took
us to April to find a gap that wasn't too
full on, you know, so it's really difficult.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
John, you play his rock musician father Tommy, who doesn't
mind a drink. Did any particular rock star did you
have to sort of do a bit of research. Was
there any particular rockstar that you modeled yourself on?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
No, no, I just yeah, I was inspired by John
Jarrett and he's passed. I'm not a drunk anymore, but
I had an affair share in the seventies, you know,
different times and if I didn't get into Nider trying
to become a singer in a band, thinking all right,
(06:01):
I've seen pretty well.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Right, So well I can tell you got into Nider
from the way you've pronounced one John after Nider. This
is a question that we love to ask people of
your year standing. Do you remember where you were when
you got the callback for your first very big role?
(06:24):
Might have been that what was that something McCarthy, the
one about the football?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh no, I had a callback. The most the most
memorable one, yes, is the callback for playing Ned Kelly
in the in the Last All Right Played miniseries. I
got Best Actor for it. In the day before you
(06:49):
were all born.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
That's nicer for you, And it wasn't before I was surprised.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'm usually older than anyone I'm talking to. But it
was a brilliant mini series. Yes, but with that property
name was between me and Mel Gibson. I think I
won it because it was the same height as Ned
and he wasn't. But that's the best callback I ever got,
because that's that's that's the best thing I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You dine out on that for a while, beat Mel.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The people took a while. He wasn't famous then.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He was pretty good from the get guy he was.
You know, I mean, we can't we have to. We
can't talk to you without saying the words Wolf Creek
and I don't do. And I imagine that that is
something that has become part of your life that people
have got to either you know, they quote a bit
at you, or they do the laugh or whatever. Are
you okay with that? Does it mean?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, if they didn't think I'm not relevant anymore? And
we're going to do We're going to make Wolf Creek
free in Hope. At the end of in early twenty
five it fell over with COVID. We will go a
lot COVID killers. But we're going to try and do three,
(08:10):
four and five when we're chasing a package. Hopefully we'll
get it together.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Because there's still a lot of backpackers out there.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I heard it. Yeah, there's still a lot of people
to terrify, teach me sit.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You know, it's pretty good to stay fit and healthy,
to bade me.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Separates the men from the boys as to who comes
to our country.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
To go on travel, separate the men and the boys
and shoot them.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well, John, what about sal looks absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
People can just go online and have a look at
the trailer to get them through until May fourteen when
it opens at Luna. And thank you. It's always a
real pleasure to chat to.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You and you too. Yeah, and John, No one's come
up to me and Tommy they didn't like the film.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No, I don't think anyone will. Don't think it will
be driving. I don't think anyone will.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
John, Thank you, thank you, thanks for your support. Machael
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