Kiwis will be able to experience the drama as ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ returns for a second season.
Nicole Kidman’s Masha Dmitrichenko has invited a new cast of characters to join a transformational wellness retreat in the Austrian Alps, pushing them to the brink over the course of a week.
Annie Murphy and Murray Bartlett are among the cast, playing alongside Henry Golding, Lena Olin, Christine Baranski, Lucas Englander, King Princess, Dolly de Leon, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Mark Strong, Aras Aydin, and of course, Nicole Kidman.
For Murphy, the ensemble nature was a huge draw, telling Mike Hosking she was thrilled by the prospect.
“We were there for six months Munich, with a whole bunch of really talented, really theatre, dorky actors... I was thrilled.”
Bartlett was also excited to be a part of the show, having watched and “devoured” the first season.
Season 2 will be releasing on May 22nd worldwide on Amazon Prime.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nine. Perfect Strangers came out in twenty twenty one was
generally seen as a hit. I thoroughly enjoyed it. My
wife was circumspect on it. I thought it was good. Anyway,
Nicole Kidman's Start Strangers come together for a retreat. They connected,
but you don't know how. It was set in Australia.
Now we've got season two which is set in Austria,
and Murray Bartlet and Nannie Murphy are two at the Stars.
(00:21):
Butlet went of course an Emmy for his role as
resort manager in the first season of White Lotus, Andie
Murphy is best known as Alexis on Shit's Creek. Anyway,
Murray and Annie both were this good morning back at you. Annie.
Have you seen it in totality and if so, what
do you make of it?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I've experienced it in totality. I've only watched the first four.
It is a wild, unhinged ramp of a season of television,
and it is We were so lucky. The cast is
so extraordinary and the crew was so extraordinary, and so
we really really looked out with everybody involved in this
(01:00):
full world ride.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
What did you know going into it? Did you see
season one were you a fan? Have you heard of
it at all?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I of course had heard of it. I watched it.
After getting the offer for season two, I did a
full binge and it was so exciting. The thing that
was most exciting to me was the ensemble nature of
all of it, knowing that I was about to go
into this, you know, long shoots. We were there for
six months in Munich with a whole bunch of really talented,
(01:31):
really theater dorky actors, and so I was. I was
thrilled by the prospect.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What about you, Murray, What did you know of it?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I'd watched the first season and I really loved the
whole premise of the show, so I, like I dove
in and devoured it. So I was super excited to
be part of the second season.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Do you think this has got legs? And this question
is applicable to both of you because if you look
at White Lotus, MA, that's got legs, that changes lives,
it's a thing. Could this be a thing? I think
it is a thing.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think you know it's it's a It is a product,
as White Lotus was of a time when we were
all locked down, so we were looking for shows where
we could all be locked down together and make a
TV show. So, I but I think it's a it's
a great concept for for how to shoot a TV show.
It it I and I had this experience on White
(02:29):
Lotus and on nine Perfect Strangers where you're all transplanted
to another place, you kind of you know, in each
other's worlds the whole time as characters and as people,
and there's something really beautiful about that that translates into
the show, I think. So I think it's I think
it's got legs and it's running on them.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Are you desperate to be back for season three?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I don't think we'd be welcome back. I don't think either.
I think the whole thing is your toss. You toss
what you had and you get a whole new batch
of people, and.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's very complete this season. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure
we could see where these characters go.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I mean, I'm open to it. But I think it's
the sort of design of the show that is that
if there was a third season, it'd probably be a
whole new group of people.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Is that the word it's going any because I mean
the White Lotus thing, you will have followed as much
as anybody else. And once upon a time, say Shit's Creek,
for example, what you do as you start, you get
a hit, then you get another season of the hit,
third season, and so it goes for its entirety, for
an arc, whatever it may be. These things White Lotus
seems to be a The cast come in, some die,
some don't, some never come back. So you do your
(03:35):
thing and then you move on to other things. Is
that how it works?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I mean with this show, that that's how it works.
And it's you know, it's so bittersweet because you get
so close with this group of people, and I've been
saying it did feel like you're with a theater troupe
because of the amount of time that we spent together
and then but for this particular show, I think we
all knew that it was and we most likely weren't
(04:02):
going to carry on to a season three, and so
we just tried our best to make the most of
it when we will. We had that time together.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It was time you're talking about. And he said that
this buying that you know, there's so much time involves
so much sort of this extended period of six months
in the snow Pop from anything else. I mean, that's
a big ask, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know what, I love snow. I'm one of those.
I'm one of those. It loves a good snow sworem
and a good winter experience. But no, I mean, you know,
it was post COVID, post strike. It was this incredible
opportunity to go and travel and meet new people. And yes,
(04:42):
it was tough being away from my loves at home
for six months. But smoke them while you got them,
you know, just I'm trying to take every opportunity I
possibly can want.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Smoke them while you've got them. I've never rid Mike.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You may not have heard of that, But that's how
well is that? Like?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
What is that? Is that a Canadian North American thing?
You smoke them while you got them.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's just why we did the whole shirt.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We just smoked them while we had them.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Do you know, Murray, whether they think about and putting
an ensemble cast together for such a sustained period of
time with all the egos in the room, do they
work through who it is their hiring and whether it's
actually going to work in a confined space. That's a
good question.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I mean, I guess it depends what the result that
they they they want, you know, I guess they could.
They could decide they wanted to have like a really
kind of intense, sort of combative experience, So maybe they
that's that's how they choose people. Fortunately, with this they
they it seemed like they were going for harmony because
we all loved each other. What was interesting I think
about this this group of people is that we're all
(05:52):
very different sort of personalities and the characters are very different.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So it's it's kind.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Of an experiment putting very very different personalities together in
this way. But yeah, whatever they were doing, they chose
really well because we we we had a great time.
We connected really well as actors and also as people,
so you can't really ask for more than that.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Any how much of the cast or how many of
the cast did you know? And of those who didn't,
how many did you google and check out?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I knew what was her name? Nicole Kidman knew of her.
We both heard of her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had
to IMDb her. Goodle her up.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
She's really she's done a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, I mean, I of course knew Murray and was
such a massive, massive massive fan of his, Christine Baranski,
who is truly one of the most incredible women I've met.
I knew her, I knew Henry Golding, and then everyone
else I did. I did Google up and I was
thrilled to, you know, realize what a truly motley crue
(06:59):
they wrangled together. We we yeah, it just it really
did work out, because it doesn't. It doesn't always work
out that everyone kind of is.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Like, you know, hard, especially for a show, for a
job that's like six months and we're all, you know,
like transplanted together. It was, yeah, we were. We were very.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Fortunate, fantastic. Any how much time and if it and
energy and thought did you put into what happens post
Shit's Creek? Not enough?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Apparently, you know what it was. It was a bit
of a not a rude awakening. But it's always, no
matter what the show is or how much success it has,
you do kind of commit yourself to an amount of
time and relationships with people. And Shit's Creek was, you know,
(07:52):
seven years of my life, really big, special, important, life
changing years, and so you don't really want to think
about what comes next. And then it ends, and then
you're just kind of sitting there trying to figure out
if you're a Lexus or you're any and if you
can be anyone but Alexis, and so it was. It
was an adjustment for sure, and that's why I really
(08:16):
wanted to challenge myself with something very very different with
the next show that I did, and I still I
want to keep challenging myself and do things as possible.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yet, well, as the song went, you're a little bit
of Lexis, aren't.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You always a little bit?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Thank God? Yeah, exactly. Well, listen, good luck with us
and maybe season three, who knows. But nice to meet
and talk with you, and I hope it works out well.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Murray Bartlett, Annie Murphy nine Perfect Strangers Prime video this Thursday.
Two episodes dropped, then you got weekly after that. If
you haven't the Prime Minister and I were talking about
this off here. He's just into it now, Mobland just
it's got the buzz and so it started. I started
binging on about it about six or seven weeks ago,
and it's now got the buzz. Whim enough people have
(08:58):
seen it, so you know, long ago.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
What even I was at dinner with a couple on
Saturday night and they said we had to watch.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It Moblands where it's at, and it was it was
suggested on the socials that last nights and when I
said last night, we watched it last night when it dropped,
last night's episode was the best episode yet, I'm not
convinced that's true. But it's right up there and it
leaves you a wanting more. But be second guessing and
(09:27):
third guessing and fourth guessing as to what the next
twist is the twist from last night's show, Katie goes,
by the end of it, I am so proud of myself.
I guessed exactly what would happen? Do you have any
recollection of her making that guess? No, I said, I said,
I didn't see it coming. She goes, Oh, I did,
(09:48):
and so I can't tell you what it is because
it'll ruin it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
But is she doing as a revision revisionist history podcast
like where she just says, I still, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Knew that was going. So anyway, that's more Bland and
nine Perfect Strangers once again from our house. I thought
the first season was really good. It's eclectic and weird,
but I thought it was good. Katie Gabbitt probably a
six out of ten. But she saw that she's a
hard marker. Is she very very hard marker?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
On all of us?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Cleant for more from the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live
to news talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Nine. Perfect Strangers came out in twenty twenty one was
generally seen as a hit. I thoroughly enjoyed it. My
wife was circumspect on it. I thought it was good. Anyway,
Nicole Kidman's Start Strangers come together for a retreat. They connected,
but you don't know how. It was set in Australia.
Now we've got season two which is set in Austria,
and Murray Bartlet and Nannie Murphy are two at the Stars.
(00:21):
Butlet went of course an Emmy for his role as
resort manager in the first season of White Lotus, Andie
Murphy is best known as Alexis on Shit's Creek. Anyway,
Murray and Annie both were this good morning back at you. Annie.
Have you seen it in totality and if so, what
do you make of it?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I've experienced it in totality. I've only watched the first four.
It is a wild, unhinged ramp of a season of television,
and it is We were so lucky. The cast is
so extraordinary and the crew was so extraordinary, and so
we really really looked out with everybody involved in this
(01:00):
full world ride.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
What did you know going into it? Did you see
season one were you a fan? Have you heard of
it at all?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I of course had heard of it. I watched it.
After getting the offer for season two, I did a
full binge and it was so exciting. The thing that
was most exciting to me was the ensemble nature of
all of it, knowing that I was about to go
into this, you know, long shoots. We were there for
six months in Munich with a whole bunch of really talented,
(01:31):
really theater dorky actors, and so I was. I was
thrilled by the prospect.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What about you, Murray, What did you know of it?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I'd watched the first season and I really loved the
whole premise of the show, so I, like I dove
in and devoured it. So I was super excited to
be part of the second season.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Do you think this has got legs? And this question
is applicable to both of you because if you look
at White Lotus, MA, that's got legs, that changes lives,
it's a thing. Could this be a thing? I think
it is a thing.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think you know it's it's a It is a product,
as White Lotus was of a time when we were
all locked down, so we were looking for shows where
we could all be locked down together and make a
TV show. So, I but I think it's a it's
a great concept for for how to shoot a TV show.
It it I and I had this experience on White
(02:29):
Lotus and on nine Perfect Strangers where you're all transplanted
to another place, you kind of you know, in each
other's worlds the whole time as characters and as people,
and there's something really beautiful about that that translates into
the show, I think. So I think it's I think
it's got legs and it's running on them.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Are you desperate to be back for season three?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I don't think we'd be welcome back. I don't think either.
I think the whole thing is your toss. You toss
what you had and you get a whole new batch
of people, and.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's very complete this season. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure
we could see where these characters go.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I mean, I'm open to it. But I think it's
the sort of design of the show that is that
if there was a third season, it'd probably be a
whole new group of people.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Is that the word it's going any because I mean
the White Lotus thing, you will have followed as much
as anybody else. And once upon a time, say Shit's Creek,
for example, what you do as you start, you get
a hit, then you get another season of the hit,
third season, and so it goes for its entirety, for
an arc, whatever it may be. These things White Lotus
seems to be a The cast come in, some die,
some don't, some never come back. So you do your
(03:35):
thing and then you move on to other things. Is
that how it works?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I mean with this show, that that's how it works.
And it's you know, it's so bittersweet because you get
so close with this group of people, and I've been
saying it did feel like you're with a theater troupe
because of the amount of time that we spent together
and then but for this particular show, I think we
all knew that it was and we most likely weren't
(04:02):
going to carry on to a season three, and so
we just tried our best to make the most of
it when we will. We had that time together.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It was time you're talking about. And he said that
this buying that you know, there's so much time involves
so much sort of this extended period of six months
in the snow Pop from anything else. I mean, that's
a big ask, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know what, I love snow. I'm one of those.
I'm one of those. It loves a good snow sworem
and a good winter experience. But no, I mean, you know,
it was post COVID, post strike. It was this incredible
opportunity to go and travel and meet new people. And yes,
(04:42):
it was tough being away from my loves at home
for six months. But smoke them while you got them,
you know, just I'm trying to take every opportunity I
possibly can want.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Smoke them while you've got them. I've never rid Mike.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You may not have heard of that, But that's how
well is that? Like?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
What is that? Is that a Canadian North American thing?
You smoke them while you got them.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's just why we did the whole shirt.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We just smoked them while we had them.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Do you know, Murray, whether they think about and putting
an ensemble cast together for such a sustained period of
time with all the egos in the room, do they
work through who it is their hiring and whether it's
actually going to work in a confined space. That's a
good question.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I mean, I guess it depends what the result that
they they they want, you know, I guess they could.
They could decide they wanted to have like a really
kind of intense, sort of combative experience, So maybe they
that's that's how they choose people. Fortunately, with this they
they it seemed like they were going for harmony because
we all loved each other. What was interesting I think
about this this group of people is that we're all
(05:52):
very different sort of personalities and the characters are very different.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So it's it's kind.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Of an experiment putting very very different personalities together in
this way. But yeah, whatever they were doing, they chose
really well because we we we had a great time.
We connected really well as actors and also as people,
so you can't really ask for more than that.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Any how much of the cast or how many of
the cast did you know? And of those who didn't,
how many did you google and check out?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I knew what was her name? Nicole Kidman knew of her.
We both heard of her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had
to IMDb her. Goodle her up.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
She's really she's done a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, I mean, I of course knew Murray and was
such a massive, massive massive fan of his, Christine Baranski,
who is truly one of the most incredible women I've met.
I knew her, I knew Henry Golding, and then everyone
else I did. I did Google up and I was
thrilled to, you know, realize what a truly motley crue
(06:59):
they wrangled together. We we yeah, it just it really
did work out, because it doesn't. It doesn't always work
out that everyone kind of is.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Like, you know, hard, especially for a show, for a
job that's like six months and we're all, you know,
like transplanted together. It was, yeah, we were. We were very.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Fortunate, fantastic. Any how much time and if it and
energy and thought did you put into what happens post
Shit's Creek? Not enough?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Apparently, you know what it was. It was a bit
of a not a rude awakening. But it's always, no
matter what the show is or how much success it has,
you do kind of commit yourself to an amount of
time and relationships with people. And Shit's Creek was, you know,
(07:52):
seven years of my life, really big, special, important, life
changing years, and so you don't really want to think
about what comes next. And then it ends, and then
you're just kind of sitting there trying to figure out
if you're a Lexus or you're any and if you
can be anyone but Alexis, and so it was. It
was an adjustment for sure, and that's why I really
(08:16):
wanted to challenge myself with something very very different with
the next show that I did, and I still I
want to keep challenging myself and do things as possible.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yet, well, as the song went, you're a little bit
of Lexis, aren't.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You always a little bit?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Thank God? Yeah, exactly. Well, listen, good luck with us
and maybe season three, who knows. But nice to meet
and talk with you, and I hope it works out well.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Murray Bartlett, Annie Murphy nine Perfect Strangers Prime video this Thursday.
Two episodes dropped, then you got weekly after that. If
you haven't the Prime Minister and I were talking about
this off here. He's just into it now, Mobland just
it's got the buzz and so it started. I started
binging on about it about six or seven weeks ago,
and it's now got the buzz. Whim enough people have
(08:58):
seen it, so you know, long ago.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
What even I was at dinner with a couple on
Saturday night and they said we had to watch.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It Moblands where it's at, and it was it was
suggested on the socials that last nights and when I
said last night, we watched it last night when it dropped,
last night's episode was the best episode yet, I'm not
convinced that's true. But it's right up there and it
leaves you a wanting more. But be second guessing and
(09:27):
third guessing and fourth guessing as to what the next
twist is the twist from last night's show, Katie goes,
by the end of it, I am so proud of myself.
I guessed exactly what would happen? Do you have any
recollection of her making that guess? No, I said, I said,
I didn't see it coming. She goes, Oh, I did,
(09:48):
and so I can't tell you what it is because
it'll ruin it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
But is she doing as a revision revisionist history podcast
like where she just says, I still, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Knew that was going. So anyway, that's more Bland and
nine Perfect Strangers once again from our house. I thought
the first season was really good. It's eclectic and weird,
but I thought it was good. Katie Gabbitt probably a
six out of ten. But she saw that she's a
hard marker. Is she very very hard marker?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
On all of us?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
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