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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome to the hot Seat, you Sheridan, Thank you. Okay.
Do you have a favorite city in the whole world? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Oh yeah, I would say it's New York.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it's a god you suit New York.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I mean, I've got a lot of favorite cities, but
I think New York is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Shitty nice What about nature Spot?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Nature Spot would be the Flury opening in South Australia.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh wow, that sounds good.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
She's a beach beautiful, Yeah, beach farms and oh yeah,
that's beautiful, stunning.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'll take you there, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I'm going to hold you to that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, when you come down and see the California kreams
clung in March, I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Coming to see you at Carol's in like a few weeks.
Might I say, I'm a massive Chrissy fan. Okay, so
I always ask this food wise sweet or savory?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh I'm pretty I like both.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You're easy go like yeah, like I'm like a banana
split with vanilla ice cream kind of guy.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And also I love like spaghetti Botlenames.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I have to ask.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
This is a bit of a I'm going to take
your memory back, but your character Ben on Pack of
the Ruffers eight a lot in scenes I did.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah that was yes, yeah, oh you're.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Doing a brad pit and literally yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well I was starving as well, Like don't forget that
was my first job.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
It's like scenes of you though, like we literally a
tub of blue ribbon ice cream, just like.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
In every single time.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I made it like a thing, Like every time I
walked into the set, I would go straight to the
friuite because you know, like if you your mum and
dad sounds like I just go straight to you love
the cheese.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
That was a character choice.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, oh how good?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Okay, because I mean that was you know, it's endearing.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It totally is, and it's so relatable. It's exactly what
you do when you go home. For sure.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I can't believe you notice that that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh yeah, because I always I always wonder behind the scenes,
I'm like, is he eating it?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Or is there like someone holding a bin wedding for.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Your I always eat it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah? Oh good, Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I was the human incinerator.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So good.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Okay, this is a hard question. Do you have a
favorite trait about yourself?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I think I think I'm ever present when I'm with someone.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah, from our
encounters for sure.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, that's a gift. I think that's I think it's
a nice trait.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, very Yeah. I also think you're very What you
see is what you get.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I would say, is you as well for sure, like
you're quite honest. Yeah, definitely not to psychoanalyze you as well?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
When present, I mean like I think I listen and like,
you know, a genuine maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, yeah you are.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What is a gift that you've been in It can
be like a physical gift or like something someone told
you that just sticks with you.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
A gift, a gift that you've received.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
A gift that I was born with, or a gift that.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I was We know the gifts you were born with.
My friend, it.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But I mean as in, like, has there been a
moment or a piece of advice or something someone's given,
like physically given you that you're like, this is the
effing coolest thing ever.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I've been given a lot of good gifts of advice.
I'm just trying to think what my favorite would be.
I think definitely, and I've probably said it in other things,
so be a bit boring say it, but I definitely think,
you know, don't judge anyone unless you've walked in their
shoes is a really really good piece of advice. Yeah,
(04:12):
and nothing happens by chance, that's definitely. But I'm trying
to think of something different for you. Let's come back
speaking of before.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Speaking of shoes.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
As an actor, Yes, does costume play a big part
for you? Or like when you put on the act
of character's shoes huge Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I like to rehears in the shoes from really.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Like the way they walk, carry their body affects all
of that.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah, I think all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
That is training in ballet school and that sort of
early thing definitely made.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Me much more physical actor.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
But I do one of my good teachers and I
always encouraged me to wear the shoes of the character
from just the very start, Yeah, very first rehearsal.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So that's such a good tip.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So many actors.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Don't share their process, Like I watch an interview with
Jacob already recently and he's like, it feels like lightning
in a bottle.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So I'm too scared to share it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And I understand that too, But I also think it's
so nice when people do share what works for them,
like you saying the shoes, and you know, like little
things that work, because sets, as you know, can be
so overwhelming and there's a lot of chaos and you
got to make sure you hit the mark. But maybe
you're shooting coverage for half an hour before it's on you,
and there's a.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Lot of things that are going on.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So I love knowing like little not necessarily tricks, but
like things that work for you to help you feel like, no.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I'm in character. I know exactly where I'm in it.
Other than shoes. Is there anything else that you do
to like?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh, I think I think all of that is, like
I mean costumes, I think hair and makeup and all
of all of everything that you can see is very,
very very important to me. Like I mean, for instance,
with the shoes, Like I when I watch the TV
show and like people put their feet up often on
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a table, and like if the shoes.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Aren't scuffed, yeah, it feels weird.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I'm like, who did that? Like who was their wardrobe person?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Like unless they're playing, unless it's like Succession and they're
super super wealthy. But even on that, like I know
super wealthy people that wear the same shoes they like that. Yeah,
you know, it's highly unusual to have that sort of thing.
I also think having little secret things in your pockets can.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Be good, like a little totem.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Well what would that person have in their pocket?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
You know, Like those sorts of things are really good
to Yeah, back into the scene if you're feeling a
little bit out of it and you can put your
hand in the pocket and feel, oh, that's right, there's
a scratchy ticket in there, like that that's a character thing.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, like or an old cigarette butt or you know
something like that that relates to that character.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh, I love that. That's a really good tip.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And I know I asked you something similar to this
on the long form episode, but just again for a
creative that wants that little spark of inspiration when you're
feeling a little bit like fuck, that's just one too
many rejections this week, or you know, like what's a
remedy or something that we can do to just reconnect
and like support ourselves and back ourselves when it kind
(07:08):
of feels like stuff stacked up against you.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I when that happens, I tend to probably take be
a little bit by myself that sort of thing. And
depending on where you are in the world, Like, certainly
it's very easy in Los Angeles and New York and
the States to find like a really like a nice
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little place where you like to go. I love eating
by myself in really these cities because I feel like
it's not so weird. In the States Australia it can
be a little bit stranger, but you just got to
go and get that food that you really love, yeah,
and have some time by yourself, like go and sit
at a at a bar where they've got a nice
bartender and if you drink, have a drink. Not let's
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get what you love and do that and then go
and see a movie like in the scenem you know,
and just have like you've just got to do that
self nurturing thing, and I think food is a really
good way to treat yourself when you're feeling like you know,
often a great actress I won't name it, but we
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did an audition. We ran into each other here and
she she said, what are you going to do now?
And I said, oh, I was about to do the audition.
She'd just come out. She's straining, quite fagerous, and she said, well,
I'm going to go and have a champagne. I said, really,
and she said, I always go and have a champagne
after I do an audition. Really said whether I'm going
to get it or not, she said, I just gone
(08:39):
to it to treat myself, to say well done for
doing that, because you know, every audition is like doing
a job interview. And totally I liked the fact that
she was already sort of celebrating not getting it or
not not getting it, but just the fact that she'd
done it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, that is such a good I.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Thought that was really nice to do something good for
yourself just for doing it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah. Really, my acting coach here always says, throw the
sides out when you walk out of the room and like,
go either buy yourself a chocolate bar.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Go get a drink, catch up with a mate, like
something to celebrate that thing that you went through, but
also to let go of it and disconnect from it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Such good advice. Lee Kilton Smith.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Her whole thing is curiosity. She's like, just stay curious.
She's the best.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
She sounds great.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, this isn't fair for me to ask an actor
these next two questions, So try me. Do you have
a favorite play a favorite player? And I see this
is so loaded though.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I mean I've got a lot, and they change. I
mean I've got I mean, i'd have the top five
for you. But I'm just trying to think what would
be my favorite prey right now if I.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Oh gosh, I chucked me a couple.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I mean, like straight off the top of my hand,
It's like Augustus H County. I just love I love Steppenwolf.
I love all the work that they do. We were
talking earlier about Tennessee Williams. I really really love.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That's my favorite I played.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yeah, Oh my god, I love that. I really love that.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I love Tony Kush and I love a bright room
called Day. I don't know, it's a beautiful, beautiful play.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I played bas In that years ago, and it was
actually a piece from that that I did to audition
to get into Nider. You know, there's so there's there's
so many that I love.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Know that was perfect. Yeah, it's a selfish question. So
I can go and then read them or see them myself.
I'm like, this is going on my list, which brings
me the next one, which is, what about a movie
that you can always watch on repeat?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I mean, gosh, if I just opened my laptop'd like
if you looked at the I mean, I love I
one that I keep for like when you get on
an aeroplane and it doesn't worry.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I could always watch the Bag Cage.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I can hammer that money and anything with Robin Williams
really stout for it's incredible.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Even Aladdin.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
How good is he in Aladdin?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I mean it's just those those films just don't age
at all.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
But that I love High Society. I love Cab.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I mean they sound like a really gay selection. But
I also love Interstellar. I think it's a great film.
I love I love a lot. I mean, yeah, they
are really questions and then on repeat.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Oh, young Frankenstein. I mean, that's been so young it's
really hard to get.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But I'm watching Frankenstein with Jacob E. LORDI right now.
It's on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Now I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, it was, like, I guess there was a lot
of hype going into it, so I was, you know,
I think I felt like young Frankenstein was more.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
That's probably a really content special thing.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Cut that out, No, Die, I love you were so sweet.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You were like, well, but they're so good.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
But I mean I think that whole like ten minutes
standing ovation at the Carnfield.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah. Yeah, Like I was like, don't say that. I
do say it's really good.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Eleven hours in hair and makeup each day.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I believe that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah, I mean, well, what's my excuse. I wasn't even
playing Franken's nine. I had eleven hours just covering that
giant pimple that's got its own national dance and flag
and language.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Wait back to the advice.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
When I was thinking about it, I think, and this
sounds silly, but at least I've never said it before
because it's more what people should know anyway. But I
really do believe that, especially on a set or in
any kind of or on a stage, or in a
rehearsal room or in a classroom. Treating people the way
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that you want to be treated with that love and
kindness and encouragement goes so much further than criticism and
like making and making people feel stifled like they can't
act or have the room to be creative. And yeah,
pretty much like just and not knowing what other people
are going through.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And I think that's good for day to.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Day life totally.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
That's like I mean with everything.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, like you said, until you've walked through someone's shoes,
you've got no idea exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And the best way to lead with that is just
to be a kind person, really, like just be as
kind as like, just always have the benefit of the
doubt for other people and know that most of the
time it's got nothing to do with you.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I fully agree.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You share it, and you're wonderful to the Aussie's listening
to this, they're going to be able to catch you this, Chrissy,
you're everywhere doing Carol's You've got your Christmas album The Marrius,
which is officially out now.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
In the show notes, people can listen to it. Yeah,
it's unreal you do. My favorite song, it's the Hawaiian.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Song Oh Yes, the thing on Bright Hawaiian Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
So good, so good. Thank you, my friend, thank.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You, my wonderful Lullaberry. You've been my favorite guest. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Stop it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
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