⏮️ From The Archives: JACKI WEAVER (Exclusive Chat)

We were lucky enough to chat to the one and only Jacki Weaver! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Jackie Weaver? Who does love Jackie Weaver? Every single Australian
was thrilled when she made it big in Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Remember she was in Animal Kingdom.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now she played Smurf and there was nothing likable about
her character Smurf in Animal Kingdom.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
What a nasty piece of work Jackie Weaver turns out
to be in this movie.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
She's a bit scary. I was a bit scared myself.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Is this the first evil woman you've played?

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh? No, I've played a few villains before. But yeah,
she's the full She's the full number, isn't she. She's
a real and the scary thing about her is you
don't realize how bad she is at the beginning. She
seems just like anybody's mum.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
We've got a piece from the movie This is You
in the movie hy Randal.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Before we go on, this boy currently being looked after.
Tell me if you agree with this, This boy who's
been looked after he knows.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Who you are, and you know how these things go.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
They're going to ask him all sorts of questions about
everything he's ever seen or done, everyone he's ever met toomuzzle.
And you've done some bad things, sweetie, haven't you. I
want this part to be clear. This is not about
you doing me a favor or me black miiling or

(01:32):
anything like that. It's just a bad situation for everyone.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
You know, when you say a piece of work, she
really is a piece of work.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, she's shocking. She is. I read a lot about
psychopaths and sociopaths particularly, and I did a lot of
reading about you know, crime family is true crime families
in Australia. So she's a kind of a she's a
kind of mixture of everything I read about those kind

(02:02):
of people. It's the venality of evil. It's you know,
ordinary seemingly ordinary people and how they can and they're
just they're only a small part of society. They're you know,
like two percent of society or something. But they've got
no conscience. They're just they do what they want to do.
They're totally self obsessed. And these people exist. I mean,

(02:25):
we've got them in every city.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Jackie, not all your roles have been successful. What about
the asparagus, Well, it.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Was with a virgin asparagus. It didn't have any off ring. Yeah,
that was that was a momentous day. That's the only
time I've been sacked though. But I what job was that?
It was behind fifty seven varieties vegetables, you know, and
there was every kind of vegetable and I just couldn't
stop laughing. I they said you better go home, and

(02:56):
they rang. My agent said it was the most unprofessional beha.
And it was a bit like you know, see when
Dustin Hoffman says a tomato would not sit down. It
was a bit like that. But I was miscast. Anyway
you've met me, I'm about I'm umber five feet tall.
I should have been a squash or.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Something, perhaps a squash or a capsicle.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, you don't want to.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Know you sorry, Jackie. And I think of my memory
when I first saw you on the screen was in
the REMOVALSS and when we did it at school, and
I remember I went to a boys' school and then
and we saw your bosom so like it, and we're
all fourteen year old boys, and I remember thinking, well,
this is.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Great this is a boys Catholic school.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes, and there was a lot of shifting uncomfortably from
the brothers.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Well, you know what, you didn't see the actual bosom.
I went to great trouble to hide the nipple, and
I reckon, unless you've seen the nipple, you haven't seen
the bosom.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
This is this philosoph of novel. If you haven't seen
the nipple, you haven't seen the body.