🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: David Berry

Outlander's David Berry joins Jonesy & Amanda for a chat!

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Well, if you're an Outlander nut and you know I'm
completely obsessed, you'll know our next guest. He is Lord
John Gray in the series. He played that for close
to ten years an AUSSI actor. He swapped the TV
set momentarily for a recording booth and a brand new project.
David Berry.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hello here he is?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hello, look at you?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Can we start with Outlander? And how could we not?
What an incredible series to drop into and to be
part of. How did that come about for you?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
It came back through an audition I did in Sydney.
They were looking for John Gray. I got the audition
brief from my agent and I had barely time to
prepare for it, maybe a night or two. I honestly
didn't look at the auditions hill very closely at all,
and I thought I'd just go in and see what happens.
A week later, I was on a playing to Scotland.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
And I look at you know you've come. You were
on home and away and then a place to call home.
So you had a Home theme going there and when
you're on Home and.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I just made the connection there.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, so I thought that was a thing. Was
that just the universe choice?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
It was to your agent only shows with Home in
the name, but.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
You played logan that was like, were you on that
for a long time? On Home and Away?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
You were there for a while. It's a deep cut,
he was.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
No, I wasn't not on that for very long at all.
I think it was on that for three months. But
it did make a huge impact to me at the time.
It was my first gigs out of drama school, and
I remember acting opposite Samara Weaving, who's gone great things.
I came in and I ruined Samara's marriage. I have

(01:56):
the claim to fame of getting to have a kiss
with Samara Weaving.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, this is an indelicate question. You know, you're relatively young,
You're on a set. Is it closed mouth these days?

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Look on Outlander you have intimacy coordinated, so every single
piece of physical choreography is talked about, and you know
you have all kinds of consent and discussions beforehand. I
think back back when I did Home and Away, I
think it was a bit more sort of just.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
And hope that you're pasted.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
Okay, And there's possibly Hugo standing in the wings old man.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
That could be I think his uncle.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
He's the uncle anyways, uncle but related nonetheless, because he's
an intimidating dude.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know, I've seen the matrix. I wouldn't want him
to stand around and look about it either.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
I don't think he's going to haunt his niece. That
would be unusual if he turns up on sets he
was on.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Set that that would have been amazing.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Actually, Hugo Weaving watch me kiss his niece and then say,
very good, that's all.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Your dream of. Let's talk about your new project, which
I'm always looking for a good audio book. Tell us
about what you're lending your voice to.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
It's called Mending Hearts, And much like an Outlander's a
it's a romance book.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
You know.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
I think you know modern romance is so difficult these days.
I think where we're trying to find, what we're finding
love stories is in our in our books, in our
TV shows, And this is just another example of, you know,
a good romance that people can connect to and engage with.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Was it inappropriate that you tried to go the passion
the book reading as well.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
That's an interesting question. Actually, well there's eighty. I don't
want to get to carry away in the weeds of it.
But like you know, on TV shows, you do actually
have to go into the recording studios from time to time.
And the funny thing is that if you have to
make kissing noises, what you do is you start making
out with your hands, so you hold your fist up
like this close to your your mouth demonstration.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Please do open mouth kiss, close.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
My eyes, and do it one more time. That one
was too intimate.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
I'd say, get a room, but I feel like I'm
in it.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
But didn't You used to do that when I was younger,
and I'd practice. You try to kiss into the mirror
when you were younger, but you couldn't see anything. So
then I practiced. I'd cut a hole in the top
of an orange.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
An orange.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, so I never got scurvy, which I think was
a good citrusy kiss kiss gave me.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
This is what you came here for. Well, Many Hearts
is available now exclusive to Audible. David, thank you for joining.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Us, Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
That's right, it's yeah, it's check it out.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
I think it's it's really good. It's got also Remy
he in it.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
We've got Image in Sage and we have Sophie Low
some terrific actors also letting their voices to the to
the book.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
And if you needed some sound effects from Amanda doing.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I'm happy to do it. I'll bring my orange in.
I'm not a weirder. I'm not doing it to my hand.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
David, thank you, thank you so much. Thanks mate,