Perth actor Marcus Graham spoke to Clairsy & Lisa ahead of series 2 of Ten Pound Poms hitting our screens. They spoke about the show, the new movie studio opening in Malaga next year and a family mystery that Marcus discovered after his dad passed away.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, I thoroughly enjoyed season one of Ten Pound Palms,
and I'm glad that season two is finally out on
stand today because season one ended up on somewhat of
a cliffhanger. You know, Michelle Keegan's character took off with
a son, so I can't wait to see where it
picks up. And joining the cast for season two is
Marcus Graham. Another reason I can't wait to see how
(00:24):
it plays out.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good morning, Marcus, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now you've joined as Benny Bates, unscrupulous landlord spoiler alert,
spoiler alert, bit of a villain? Is it always more
fun playing the quote unquote villain?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh, there's so much more to do, so much fun. Yeah,
because you've just got to go and charm the pants
off everyone. Yes, and then be dartedly at the end
of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It sounds like you're going to tie someone to a
railway line.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Just a little luck, a little bit of luck with
us with an evil snicker without spoilers, mate, we didn't
tell us about season two.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Oh seasons Well, look, I can think it's really interesting
looking at Australia through a British lens because we don't
we don't really do that very often, and they just
love this country so much, and they going, what is
it about it? Like, there's just so much light and
sky and so much space, and we all just take
it for granted, you know. I mean, look how huge
(01:31):
the sky is in Perth. But after a while ago, yeah,
you know, that's normal time for these palms. No, So
I sort of found that quite interesting. And also the
whole the whole look of the fifties. I mean, it
must have taken women about four hours to get out
of the house, and with the hair rolls and all
(01:51):
the beautiful dresses and the hairy one just oh my god.
It this was quite a different time. We were shooting
this this log chipping thing, right, and and all the
men and women segregated, and I didn't sort of realize,
and I just thought we were shooting these scenes and
there's all you know, and all these men around. Here's
your shoot the scene, okay. And I turned went to
get get a coffee and I turned the corner and
(02:12):
walked into them into this area and it was just
full of women and I was like what And then
I thought this is what it would have been like actually,
and it was just I just suddenly was a strange
experience to have only women here and only men there,
and I kind of I can't there what And then
I looked up and looked up like women's rights and things,
(02:33):
and I'm not really a feminist or anything, but you guys,
look and Wikipedia told me that women in Australia couldn't
have their own bank account until like seventy three or something.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, yeah, I know it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I know. I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
That they could buy a house, you know, they couldn't
say this is I mean, this is why women didn't
leave their husbands, couldn't.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Get super schemes or anything.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, it out of the door now, I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
But it's quite mean.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
That's the seventies, so they think about exactly fifty Wow. Yeah,
so it's quite quite. It is quite extraordinary, I think.
But the show isn't isn't in any way kind of
banging on about that sort of politics, although it's very
faithful to what it was like then. So I think
that's that's kind of great. It's really and I just
(03:29):
get to have a lot of fun and wear a
lot of great clothes. I drive this really fabulous old jack.
There's fifty three. Yeah, and I tell you, no, no
power steering. I could metal. Yeah. The car is all
metal and all wood. The more you drive it, the
(03:51):
more you drive it, the harder it gets. Survive. Yeah,
you can survive the Gyman winter.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No one's going to smash into it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And he gets hotter and hotter and hotter. So we're
shooting in summer and I'm in a three piece woolen
suit and We're driving this jag. I'm like, oh, it
is so hot, and pretend it's cold. Pretend it's cold.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, you, I know. I knew your dad Ron was
an actor. But what I've only just read this morning
is he was a beneficiary of the assisted passage immigration scheme.
So this is brings it even closer to home for you.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, it does. But he didn't tell us that. He
didn't tell me. He really had some bullshit story that
he came out with a Shakespeare company nice. The last
stop was per and he said, I'm not getting back
on the boat. I'm going to stay and work here. Yeah.
So I didn't know that until after he died. And
(04:47):
again I went to Wikipedia, and it told me something
about my dad that I never knew.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right, Wiki Isn't that incredible, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
And he had he had a mother and father and
a couple of brothers in Australia that I didn't know existed,
and he had changed his name, and the spelling.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Of his name he had given me was incorrect, so
there was no way that I could trace him or
his family or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Really kind of like what drives someone to be like that?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, yeah, international man, it's a little bit mad men,
isn't it mad man?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Especially with the seas.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yeah, because my wife is at ten pound pom. She
came over with her family in nineteen seventy four and
their names on the little you know, the little poles
down at Fremantle Harbor and all that. But they they
got here and found themselves within a couple of days
at Mullalou Beach, and they said it was like heaven
and hell and once because I've never been so hot
but seen this magnificent beach.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It absolutely trucked out.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And I would imagine there's that kind of thing in
the show where people go, jeez, it's beautiful, it's bloody hot.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well they're just there. That's exactly it. They're just in
awe of it. But then that's cooking them at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Their relatives and they come over.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. I mean I remembers in Mount
Lily Primary School actually, and these these kids came came
over palms and they would have had their first Perth
summer and they turned up at school with these welts,
these boils on their arms, the side of of a
of an apple.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
You know, they had to get out in the sun.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
But they'd never.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yes slop slapping then either, of course, I know we
would go.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
We were going down to Scarborough Beach and putting cooking oil, peeling.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Each other's back at the end of the day, Marcus.
We've got new film studios, as you probably know, opening
next year and they're pretty state of the old art
and we've got a lot of people coming to Perth
and to w a to film stuff. Are we likely
to see you over here a bit more when they
(06:58):
open up?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
We get your home, I hope, Can I bring your home?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah. I spent a lot of time in Perth last year,
last winter actually writing. I've got this film that I've
written that I said in Perth that I want to
make it. Yeah, and it's a feature film. Yeah, I'll
keep it posted on that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, yeah, please do.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yes, it's about social politics. It's not a political film.
It's not left or right or anything, but it's about
all the madness that we seem to be all going through.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, I know, potential leading lady Marcus we is right here.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Okay, a bit of an actress.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We know what he is talking about about.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
We would love you to keep us posted on that.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And in the meantime, Season two of Ten Pound Poms
is out on stand today.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I will I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Know if it's all coming out at once or if
it's I'll try to pace myself. I'm a shocking binger
like I just yeah, it's like a packet of few times.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I've got to have the ball, have another one. You
needed a Stangini, don't you?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Thank you Marcus for joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Your voice say yeah about
Well, I thoroughly enjoyed season one of Ten Pound Palms,
and I'm glad that season two is finally out on
stand today because season one ended up on somewhat of
a cliffhanger. You know, Michelle Keegan's character took off with
a son, so I can't wait to see where it
picks up. And joining the cast for season two is
Marcus Graham. Another reason I can't wait to see how
(00:24):
it plays out.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good morning, Marcus, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now you've joined as Benny Bates, unscrupulous landlord spoiler alert,
spoiler alert, bit of a villain? Is it always more
fun playing the quote unquote villain?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh, there's so much more to do, so much fun. Yeah,
because you've just got to go and charm the pants
off everyone. Yes, and then be dartedly at the end
of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It sounds like you're going to tie someone to a
railway line.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Just a little luck, a little bit of luck with
us with an evil snicker without spoilers, mate, we didn't
tell us about season two.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Oh seasons Well, look, I can think it's really interesting
looking at Australia through a British lens because we don't
we don't really do that very often, and they just
love this country so much, and they going, what is
it about it? Like, there's just so much light and
sky and so much space, and we all just take
it for granted, you know. I mean, look how huge
(01:31):
the sky is in Perth. But after a while ago, yeah,
you know, that's normal time for these palms. No, So
I sort of found that quite interesting. And also the
whole the whole look of the fifties. I mean, it
must have taken women about four hours to get out
of the house, and with the hair rolls and all
(01:51):
the beautiful dresses and the hairy one just oh my god.
It this was quite a different time. We were shooting
this this log chipping thing, right, and and all the
men and women segregated, and I didn't sort of realize,
and I just thought we were shooting these scenes and
there's all you know, and all these men around. Here's
your shoot the scene, okay. And I turned went to
get get a coffee and I turned the corner and
(02:12):
walked into them into this area and it was just
full of women and I was like what And then
I thought this is what it would have been like actually,
and it was just I just suddenly was a strange
experience to have only women here and only men there,
and I kind of I can't there what And then
I looked up and looked up like women's rights and things,
(02:33):
and I'm not really a feminist or anything, but you guys,
look and Wikipedia told me that women in Australia couldn't
have their own bank account until like seventy three or something.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, yeah, I know it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I know. I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
That they could buy a house, you know, they couldn't
say this is I mean, this is why women didn't
leave their husbands, couldn't.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Get super schemes or anything.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, it out of the door now, I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
But it's quite mean.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
That's the seventies, so they think about exactly fifty Wow. Yeah,
so it's quite quite. It is quite extraordinary, I think.
But the show isn't isn't in any way kind of
banging on about that sort of politics, although it's very
faithful to what it was like then. So I think
that's that's kind of great. It's really and I just
(03:29):
get to have a lot of fun and wear a
lot of great clothes. I drive this really fabulous old jack.
There's fifty three. Yeah, and I tell you, no, no
power steering. I could metal. Yeah. The car is all
metal and all wood. The more you drive it, the
(03:51):
more you drive it, the harder it gets. Survive. Yeah,
you can survive the Gyman winter.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No one's going to smash into it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And he gets hotter and hotter and hotter. So we're
shooting in summer and I'm in a three piece woolen
suit and We're driving this jag. I'm like, oh, it
is so hot, and pretend it's cold. Pretend it's cold.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, you, I know. I knew your dad Ron was
an actor. But what I've only just read this morning
is he was a beneficiary of the assisted passage immigration scheme.
So this is brings it even closer to home for you.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, it does. But he didn't tell us that. He
didn't tell me. He really had some bullshit story that
he came out with a Shakespeare company nice. The last
stop was per and he said, I'm not getting back
on the boat. I'm going to stay and work here. Yeah.
So I didn't know that until after he died. And
(04:47):
again I went to Wikipedia, and it told me something
about my dad that I never knew.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right, Wiki Isn't that incredible, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
And he had he had a mother and father and
a couple of brothers in Australia that I didn't know existed,
and he had changed his name, and the spelling.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Of his name he had given me was incorrect, so
there was no way that I could trace him or
his family or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Really kind of like what drives someone to be like that?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, yeah, international man, it's a little bit mad men,
isn't it mad man?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Especially with the seas.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yeah, because my wife is at ten pound pom. She
came over with her family in nineteen seventy four and
their names on the little you know, the little poles
down at Fremantle Harbor and all that. But they they
got here and found themselves within a couple of days
at Mullalou Beach, and they said it was like heaven
and hell and once because I've never been so hot
but seen this magnificent beach.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It absolutely trucked out.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And I would imagine there's that kind of thing in
the show where people go, jeez, it's beautiful, it's bloody hot.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well they're just there. That's exactly it. They're just in
awe of it. But then that's cooking them at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Their relatives and they come over.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. I mean I remembers in Mount
Lily Primary School actually, and these these kids came came
over palms and they would have had their first Perth
summer and they turned up at school with these welts,
these boils on their arms, the side of of a
of an apple.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
You know, they had to get out in the sun.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
But they'd never.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yes slop slapping then either, of course, I know we
would go.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
We were going down to Scarborough Beach and putting cooking oil, peeling.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Each other's back at the end of the day, Marcus.
We've got new film studios, as you probably know, opening
next year and they're pretty state of the old art
and we've got a lot of people coming to Perth
and to w a to film stuff. Are we likely
to see you over here a bit more when they
(06:58):
open up?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
We get your home, I hope, Can I bring your home?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah. I spent a lot of time in Perth last year,
last winter actually writing. I've got this film that I've
written that I said in Perth that I want to
make it. Yeah, and it's a feature film. Yeah, I'll
keep it posted on that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, yeah, please do.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yes, it's about social politics. It's not a political film.
It's not left or right or anything, but it's about
all the madness that we seem to be all going through.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, I know, potential leading lady Marcus we is right here.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Okay, a bit of an actress.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We know what he is talking about about.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
We would love you to keep us posted on that.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And in the meantime, Season two of Ten Pound Poms
is out on stand today.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I will I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Know if it's all coming out at once or if
it's I'll try to pace myself. I'm a shocking binger
like I just yeah, it's like a packet of few times.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I've got to have the ball, have another one. You
needed a Stangini, don't you?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Thank you Marcus for joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Your voice say yeah about
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