June 5, 2025 • 14 mins
Take a stroll down memory lane with Director of 'Territory' and 'Wolf Creek', Greg McLean, and hear from South Aussie twins Danny and Michael Philippou about new horror flick 'Bring Her Back'.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hihart Essode Hi, I am Jackie Limb with iHeart Essay.
This week we'll look into a few massive silver and
small screen projects filmed right here in Essay. Each year's
screen production injects one hundred and eighty seven million dollars
into our state's economy, with about sixty seven percent of
spending going to sectors including hospitality, travel and retail. Particularly
(00:22):
in our regions, Essay is a popular choice for outback
location shooting and can double as other remote locations, such
as the Pilborough which was the backdrop for the film
Red Dog. Coffin Bay and other areas across the Air
Peninsula were used in place of the Western Desert for tracks,
while the Riverland's Wakeery hosted crews for the twenty twenty
three flick Run Rabbit Run on the small screen. However,
(00:45):
probably the biggest show to ever be filmed here is
the Netflix hit Territory. The Rating Sensation, premiered last year
after filming in several locations across our state, including McLaren Vale, Malila,
murray Bridge, Taylor and Bend, and the Adelaide Hills. I
spoke to director Greg MacLean about the six part thrillers.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Success Territory is about the world's largest cattle station located
in Northern Tertury, Australia, and when the favored son who's
meant to take over the station dies in this kind
of shock event, there's a power vacuum that opens up
and a whole lot of different forces start swirling around
trying to grasp control of this cattle station, which is
incredibly valuable.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And without giving anything away, I'm sure most people have
seen it by now, but for those who haven't, what's
the grand finale of the show, what can we look
forward to?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, it's basically you get. What you get is a
family drama, which is extremely you know as heightened family drama,
so as a Shakespearean element to it, you get a
family squabbling over the spoils of this incredibly vast cattle station.
But you also get a whole lot of other parties
coming into place. So there's a very strong indigenous storyline
and some fantastic Indigenous characters in the show, as well
(01:54):
as some kind of scheming mining company characters as well
as some desic gangsters from the Territory, all of which
line out to take over this station. So it ends
up with quite a compelling finale where all of these
thoughts is gathered to fight it out, literally fight it
out to the death for control of the Scattle Station.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Were expecting such an overwhelming worldwide reception over you know,
six million views in the first week, hit the top
ten in seventy four countries. That's pretty you know, outstanding.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, I mean it's obviously you know, when making things,
no one knows what's going to work. You know, you
could have everything lined up and think it's going to
work and then for some reason it doesn't. Conversely, you
can make something and you know timing, who knows why
things catch on when they do. Having said that, the
show has so many incredible elements to it that we
all felt were pretty unique. As soon as I read
(02:40):
the scripts, I thought this is going to be an
incredible show just because of the writing was so great,
the ambission was so great. We had great support from
Netflix to make the show on the scale it wanted
to make it in the cast obviously elevate the whole
the whole thing, and we just had a really incredible
experience making it. And I think one of the other
quite funny things is that Ben Davis to a producer
(03:02):
while was shooting the show, he would walk around to
us and say to us, without being funny, that he
would basically comeup and guns and say, we're making a
global hit. We're making a global hit. And we would
all sort of laugh and say, oh, yes, it's very
funny and amusing. But he was serious anything. He was
kind of helping us visualized idea that we should really
should for the stars and make this as big and
(03:23):
bold as we possibly can. I think secretly we all
thought that that we just weren't saying it out loud
because you don't want jinx anything. But we certainly were
more making it new that were making something special because
I think because of the actress, we had to a
real cut off station to you know, we really I mean,
the show was made and work in cattle station. So
I think just the fact that way able to get
into that location and show people the inside of the
(03:46):
workings of a station about size is pretty awesome in
a way that I think people were obviously going to
respond to it, which they have.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, definitely, And you feel in some parts of it,
of course in essay, including in Malalla and the largest
ever Netflix production, to film and how Australia. Why did
you choose Essay? What was the location scouting process?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I mean there was more set up as a SA production,
which isn't a way suit in the NT so. We
pre produced the show at the Sales tam Film Corporation,
so we had all the offices and staff there. We
shot the exteriors in the NT so we needed to
do obviously the cattle station and the Kakado, but pretty
much everything that's an interior and some of the other
exterior locations were found in SA. And I think also,
(04:27):
you know, interiors were kind of easier to do closer
to a city, and obviously there's more infrastructure in Essay
than NT, so it was very very easy for us
to do all those beautiful interiors in different homes and
locations in SA. But also there's a huge amount of
variety of locations in Australia that were able to match
seamlessly with the NT and people. I mean, no one
will ever known as where we're swapping between locations, but
(04:49):
literally when you walk into the door of the main homestead,
in the door the territory at the cattle station, as
soon as you walk through that door, he's in home
in North Adelaide, so it was quite fascinating. Obviously, all
slicks we do, but the Malala location is the Young Turks,
we call them the Young Turks, which is the young
Marshall and Shinning and Riches hang out. That's this incredible
location in Mala La which we just happened to stumble on,
(05:12):
which is just such a beautiful spot. And we did
digitally put in a few cacad F mountain in the
background in the white shots, but it's just a unique
location and essays for those amazing spots that you can
use for all kinds of different film production.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, I wholeheartedly concur we've got some really cool landscape
around here out in the bush. Did you have any
funny stories while filming? I know, you know you said
that being close to the city was a win, but
was there anything you know that went on out bush
that was a little bit interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Oh? Look, I think you know, working on a real
working cattle station, they didn't stop doing cattle station stuff
or we were shooting. So for example, we had a
seen more were shooting actors doing a scene around the cemetery,
one of the funeral scenes, and then you know, we
had our one hundred and eighty person crew or you know,
working away doing our and then suddenly the word were
around everyone get behind something quickly, and one of the
(06:04):
cattle guys was running around to anyone to hide, and
then we all just jump behind a box or a
tree or something not. Then when they was done, and
then the real cattle guys musted like thirty bulls through
the panic were in and maybe the bulls raced through
the set and then basically once they passed, everyone just
stood up and thought, okay, cool, back to work. So
that kind of stuff what happened all the time because
(06:25):
we were kind of working around what they were doing,
which was in cattle, you know, doing all the business
the us to do, so we had to kind of
work in and around that. The little village that we built,
which was all of these hundreds of motor homes that
everyone was saying, and was in the middle of this forest,
and in that forest there's some very interesting wildlife. So
there were some quite hilarious photographs that came out was
going around with the crew where people would go into
(06:47):
the bathroom and see our giant python wrap around the
basement of the toilet. Shop a few people at nighttime,
and these things are like, you know, six feet to
seventy feet long. Oh my man. They don't need they
don't need people. They mts and things. But when you
open the door of a toilet at night with your
torch and you came across the six foot pythe and
wrapped around the toilet, it made some of the crew
members tell me nervous about going to the bathroom. Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, absolutely. And the show was almost called Desert King.
It sounds like it should have been, judging by the snakes.
But why the change.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, I think it was the first tittle we had
and we all were in love with it, and then
as we got into post production, we sort of realized
that it's not really desert because the territory is tropical.
I mean, obviously there's a desert elpment the outback, but
northern territory is different to most parts as ray because
it's verging on a tropical place. So we wanted to
sort of focus it more on the territory and northern
(07:39):
territory as opposed to just the outback. So I think
the change kind of focused more upon where specifically it
was set as opposed to just being you know about
the Outback, which I think was a good call.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah. Absolutely, And for anyone who hasn't yet watched the show,
it is being you know, yeah, it is very widely
regarded as an excellent, excellent show. And moving on to
something else that you've worked on in the past and
will again filming for Wolf Creek three. What can you
tell us about that project anything.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, we're working on a third Wolf Creek movie. There's
obviously been two movies in two TV series in the
Wolf Creek franchise. Wolf Pak three continuation of the you know,
the the Scary Zaga of Mick Taylor's adventures in the nfact,
it'll be shot all of Sub Australia or produced by
South Australians, I mean all the Wolf Creek franchise has
done in South Australia. It's essentially it's kind of wet
(08:29):
into the landscape there. So we usually we usually have
the flinters. We love that location up there, so we
kind of either base out of Corker or a bit
Corn and then we offshoot there into the or some
locations around the Cliners and you know, the landscape up
there is just I mean, I don't need to tell
Substralian people, but it's unbelievably beautiful and gorgeous and also
(08:50):
quite haunting, so we use those landscapes of those roads
for much of the locations Fourth Creak, So that's coming
together now.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Filming for Wolf Creek three, also known as Wolf Creek Legacy,
is now underway, with the team taking up residents in
corn and the Flinders Rangers from March this year. The
film is due for theatrical release in the middle of
next year. We've got more coming up after the break.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I HEARTESSI, I Heartessided Welcome Back.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
We just took a short stroll down memory lane, revisiting
a chat with director of the Wolf Creek franchise and
the Hits show territory. We now move on from thriller
to horror though, a film made by former South Aussie Twins,
has ranked number four at the weekend box office for
Hoyts Bring Her Back, making eight hundred and twenty seven
thousand dollars, coming in just behind other Mega productions including
(09:42):
Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning and Disney's Leelow and Stitch.
Craig Pittman and Murray Bridge caught up with the brothers
responsible for Bring Her Back, Danny and Michael Philippo.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Congrats on the film. It blew my mind, honestly.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
It was so good to go into like a feature
film and see like an Adelaide.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Bus's good to see your own home.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
And I reckon as well was a Harrison Funerals where
the funeral home was.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
It actually was shout out because.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
The thing about everyone in Adelaide is and like sadly
a lot of people would have maybe been to a
funeral there. But if you haven't, you've seen it on
a TV commercial, I know, and they like it really beautifully.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I think we made it look a little bit more scary,
and didn't you They were really beautiful players.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You guys did some incredible location scouting, no doubt for
the whole thing. One thing I wanted to touch on
as well was the soundtrack was incredible. The Veronica's untouched
in that one scene was really well done. And I
wanted to know Shannon Nole. Does Shannon Nole know he's
in the film.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I don't know if the Ronicas do either.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
They might hate us after it, why no, they might
love us so much so, but we have to play
ode to the classic Australia.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
The old Ossie Slappers, mate, Yeah, there are good old
Ossie Slappers. We love them both.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You guys are big on special effects and there was
no shortage of them here. And honestly, I was holding
my teeth through the scene that you guys will know.
I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but the
teeth get broken. You've been doing this for so long
on YouTube and things like that, are you desensitized to it?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
And just because it's so fun to film as well,
So anything that looks really horrific is actually so much
fun to film, so you never know how bad it
is what you're recording. How line further than other people's lines.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Are you still as hands on as you were in
your YouTube days or have you found people that can
bring these visual effects even better?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Well, yeah, wear hands on.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
But we also have these incredible artists that we look
up to elevate things the levels that we could never achieve.
And that's the best part of working on a film
is the collaboration of it.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I wanted to say as well, Piper that one of
the main characters played by Saa Wong, she had a
vision impairment. And you guys put the sport of goalball
very subtly into the movie, like it wasn't forced in
anyone's face. But was there any talk around putting that
on a big feature film?
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Well, like we spoke to non cited people for the
scriptwriting process, and that was a sport that a couple
of them played. And it just shows that they're really
resilient and they're really tough because it's such a physical
sport and like Saw was playing it for real, like
you are on the floor, you're completely blindfolded, and you've
got these heavy balls with like bells of them, like
(12:07):
flying at your face and you have to block it
with your body, like you have to get hit to
stop it from going in.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Did you get hit in the throat?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Mate?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
You can't even speak? He lost his voice, used to talk.
This is a radio. Yeah, I ever switched off by now,
I apologize to our voices are already as annoying as
it is. This is worse.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Sally Hawkins played Missus Brown in Paddington. How have you
taken her from such a sweet, dear old lady? And
she just blew up on the screen. I was terrified
of it.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
The reason that we loved Sally is she's such an
amazing character performer.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
She's able to fully embody.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Different characters, and each one of her movie is very
different from the last. So having that talent put towards
a horror villain role was magic.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
We're so we thought there was gonna be no way
she said, was gonna say yes. She's a two.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Time nominated Academy Award, you know actor filming with two
Bogans from.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Adelaide, and we love to say it.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
The movie was dedicated at the end. And now I
didn't catch the name of the person. It was from
two thousand and one to two thousand and four, I believe,
and I reckon at the Adelaide premiere, we may well
have had that person's mum in the audience, because I
certainly heard someone say something.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Could you tell us who it was dedicated to?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Him? What?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Yeah, it's a very close hot family friend. His name
was Harley Wallace, and he was so proud of what
we're doing. And he lived in a small town in
Alice Springs, and he would drive an hour and a
half to watch Talk to Me, and he did it
seven times and he passed away right the start of
pre production. We didn't fully been able to process that
(13:40):
and it kind of made its way into the movie
in some way, and it's our way of nodding to
him with.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
A messed up film. But I think he would have
loved that. Yeah, I think so as well. We love you, Holly.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's it for this week. Don't forget you can hear
iHeart Essay and the iHeart app or wherever you get
your podcasts. I'm Jackie Limb. Join us again next week
for more of the store sorries you want to hear
I Heard Essay the Voice of South Australia
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I Heart Essay
Hihart Essode Hi, I am Jackie Limb with iHeart Essay.
This week we'll look into a few massive silver and
small screen projects filmed right here in Essay. Each year's
screen production injects one hundred and eighty seven million dollars
into our state's economy, with about sixty seven percent of
spending going to sectors including hospitality, travel and retail. Particularly
(00:22):
in our regions, Essay is a popular choice for outback
location shooting and can double as other remote locations, such
as the Pilborough which was the backdrop for the film
Red Dog. Coffin Bay and other areas across the Air
Peninsula were used in place of the Western Desert for tracks,
while the Riverland's Wakeery hosted crews for the twenty twenty
three flick Run Rabbit Run on the small screen. However,
(00:45):
probably the biggest show to ever be filmed here is
the Netflix hit Territory. The Rating Sensation, premiered last year
after filming in several locations across our state, including McLaren Vale, Malila,
murray Bridge, Taylor and Bend, and the Adelaide Hills. I
spoke to director Greg MacLean about the six part thrillers.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Success Territory is about the world's largest cattle station located
in Northern Tertury, Australia, and when the favored son who's
meant to take over the station dies in this kind
of shock event, there's a power vacuum that opens up
and a whole lot of different forces start swirling around
trying to grasp control of this cattle station, which is
incredibly valuable.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And without giving anything away, I'm sure most people have
seen it by now, but for those who haven't, what's
the grand finale of the show, what can we look
forward to?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, it's basically you get. What you get is a
family drama, which is extremely you know as heightened family drama,
so as a Shakespearean element to it, you get a
family squabbling over the spoils of this incredibly vast cattle station.
But you also get a whole lot of other parties
coming into place. So there's a very strong indigenous storyline
and some fantastic Indigenous characters in the show, as well
(01:54):
as some kind of scheming mining company characters as well
as some desic gangsters from the Territory, all of which
line out to take over this station. So it ends
up with quite a compelling finale where all of these
thoughts is gathered to fight it out, literally fight it
out to the death for control of the Scattle Station.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Were expecting such an overwhelming worldwide reception over you know,
six million views in the first week, hit the top
ten in seventy four countries. That's pretty you know, outstanding.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, I mean it's obviously you know, when making things,
no one knows what's going to work. You know, you
could have everything lined up and think it's going to
work and then for some reason it doesn't. Conversely, you
can make something and you know timing, who knows why
things catch on when they do. Having said that, the
show has so many incredible elements to it that we
all felt were pretty unique. As soon as I read
(02:40):
the scripts, I thought this is going to be an
incredible show just because of the writing was so great,
the ambission was so great. We had great support from
Netflix to make the show on the scale it wanted
to make it in the cast obviously elevate the whole
the whole thing, and we just had a really incredible
experience making it. And I think one of the other
quite funny things is that Ben Davis to a producer
(03:02):
while was shooting the show, he would walk around to
us and say to us, without being funny, that he
would basically comeup and guns and say, we're making a
global hit. We're making a global hit. And we would
all sort of laugh and say, oh, yes, it's very
funny and amusing. But he was serious anything. He was
kind of helping us visualized idea that we should really
should for the stars and make this as big and
(03:23):
bold as we possibly can. I think secretly we all
thought that that we just weren't saying it out loud
because you don't want jinx anything. But we certainly were
more making it new that were making something special because
I think because of the actress, we had to a
real cut off station to you know, we really I mean,
the show was made and work in cattle station. So
I think just the fact that way able to get
into that location and show people the inside of the
(03:46):
workings of a station about size is pretty awesome in
a way that I think people were obviously going to
respond to it, which they have.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, definitely, And you feel in some parts of it,
of course in essay, including in Malalla and the largest
ever Netflix production, to film and how Australia. Why did
you choose Essay? What was the location scouting process?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I mean there was more set up as a SA production,
which isn't a way suit in the NT so. We
pre produced the show at the Sales tam Film Corporation,
so we had all the offices and staff there. We
shot the exteriors in the NT so we needed to
do obviously the cattle station and the Kakado, but pretty
much everything that's an interior and some of the other
exterior locations were found in SA. And I think also,
(04:27):
you know, interiors were kind of easier to do closer
to a city, and obviously there's more infrastructure in Essay
than NT, so it was very very easy for us
to do all those beautiful interiors in different homes and
locations in SA. But also there's a huge amount of
variety of locations in Australia that were able to match
seamlessly with the NT and people. I mean, no one
will ever known as where we're swapping between locations, but
(04:49):
literally when you walk into the door of the main homestead,
in the door the territory at the cattle station, as
soon as you walk through that door, he's in home
in North Adelaide, so it was quite fascinating. Obviously, all
slicks we do, but the Malala location is the Young Turks,
we call them the Young Turks, which is the young
Marshall and Shinning and Riches hang out. That's this incredible
location in Mala La which we just happened to stumble on,
(05:12):
which is just such a beautiful spot. And we did
digitally put in a few cacad F mountain in the
background in the white shots, but it's just a unique
location and essays for those amazing spots that you can
use for all kinds of different film production.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, I wholeheartedly concur we've got some really cool landscape
around here out in the bush. Did you have any
funny stories while filming? I know, you know you said
that being close to the city was a win, but
was there anything you know that went on out bush
that was a little bit interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Oh? Look, I think you know, working on a real
working cattle station, they didn't stop doing cattle station stuff
or we were shooting. So for example, we had a
seen more were shooting actors doing a scene around the cemetery,
one of the funeral scenes, and then you know, we
had our one hundred and eighty person crew or you know,
working away doing our and then suddenly the word were
around everyone get behind something quickly, and one of the
(06:04):
cattle guys was running around to anyone to hide, and
then we all just jump behind a box or a
tree or something not. Then when they was done, and
then the real cattle guys musted like thirty bulls through
the panic were in and maybe the bulls raced through
the set and then basically once they passed, everyone just
stood up and thought, okay, cool, back to work. So
that kind of stuff what happened all the time because
(06:25):
we were kind of working around what they were doing,
which was in cattle, you know, doing all the business
the us to do, so we had to kind of
work in and around that. The little village that we built,
which was all of these hundreds of motor homes that
everyone was saying, and was in the middle of this forest,
and in that forest there's some very interesting wildlife. So
there were some quite hilarious photographs that came out was
going around with the crew where people would go into
(06:47):
the bathroom and see our giant python wrap around the
basement of the toilet. Shop a few people at nighttime,
and these things are like, you know, six feet to
seventy feet long. Oh my man. They don't need they
don't need people. They mts and things. But when you
open the door of a toilet at night with your
torch and you came across the six foot pythe and
wrapped around the toilet, it made some of the crew
members tell me nervous about going to the bathroom. Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, absolutely. And the show was almost called Desert King.
It sounds like it should have been, judging by the snakes.
But why the change.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, I think it was the first tittle we had
and we all were in love with it, and then
as we got into post production, we sort of realized
that it's not really desert because the territory is tropical.
I mean, obviously there's a desert elpment the outback, but
northern territory is different to most parts as ray because
it's verging on a tropical place. So we wanted to
sort of focus it more on the territory and northern
(07:39):
territory as opposed to just the outback. So I think
the change kind of focused more upon where specifically it
was set as opposed to just being you know about
the Outback, which I think was a good call.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah. Absolutely, And for anyone who hasn't yet watched the show,
it is being you know, yeah, it is very widely
regarded as an excellent, excellent show. And moving on to
something else that you've worked on in the past and
will again filming for Wolf Creek three. What can you
tell us about that project anything.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, we're working on a third Wolf Creek movie. There's
obviously been two movies in two TV series in the
Wolf Creek franchise. Wolf Pak three continuation of the you know,
the the Scary Zaga of Mick Taylor's adventures in the nfact,
it'll be shot all of Sub Australia or produced by
South Australians, I mean all the Wolf Creek franchise has
done in South Australia. It's essentially it's kind of wet
(08:29):
into the landscape there. So we usually we usually have
the flinters. We love that location up there, so we
kind of either base out of Corker or a bit
Corn and then we offshoot there into the or some
locations around the Cliners and you know, the landscape up
there is just I mean, I don't need to tell
Substralian people, but it's unbelievably beautiful and gorgeous and also
(08:50):
quite haunting, so we use those landscapes of those roads
for much of the locations Fourth Creak, So that's coming
together now.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Filming for Wolf Creek three, also known as Wolf Creek Legacy,
is now underway, with the team taking up residents in
corn and the Flinders Rangers from March this year. The
film is due for theatrical release in the middle of
next year. We've got more coming up after the break.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I HEARTESSI, I Heartessided Welcome Back.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
We just took a short stroll down memory lane, revisiting
a chat with director of the Wolf Creek franchise and
the Hits show territory. We now move on from thriller
to horror though, a film made by former South Aussie Twins,
has ranked number four at the weekend box office for
Hoyts Bring Her Back, making eight hundred and twenty seven
thousand dollars, coming in just behind other Mega productions including
(09:42):
Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning and Disney's Leelow and Stitch.
Craig Pittman and Murray Bridge caught up with the brothers
responsible for Bring Her Back, Danny and Michael Philippo.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Congrats on the film. It blew my mind, honestly.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
It was so good to go into like a feature
film and see like an Adelaide.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Bus's good to see your own home.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
And I reckon as well was a Harrison Funerals where
the funeral home was.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
It actually was shout out because.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
The thing about everyone in Adelaide is and like sadly
a lot of people would have maybe been to a
funeral there. But if you haven't, you've seen it on
a TV commercial, I know, and they like it really beautifully.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I think we made it look a little bit more scary,
and didn't you They were really beautiful players.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You guys did some incredible location scouting, no doubt for
the whole thing. One thing I wanted to touch on
as well was the soundtrack was incredible. The Veronica's untouched
in that one scene was really well done. And I
wanted to know Shannon Nole. Does Shannon Nole know he's
in the film.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I don't know if the Ronicas do either.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
They might hate us after it, why no, they might
love us so much so, but we have to play
ode to the classic Australia.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
The old Ossie Slappers, mate, Yeah, there are good old
Ossie Slappers. We love them both.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You guys are big on special effects and there was
no shortage of them here. And honestly, I was holding
my teeth through the scene that you guys will know.
I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but the
teeth get broken. You've been doing this for so long
on YouTube and things like that, are you desensitized to it?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
And just because it's so fun to film as well,
So anything that looks really horrific is actually so much
fun to film, so you never know how bad it
is what you're recording. How line further than other people's lines.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Are you still as hands on as you were in
your YouTube days or have you found people that can
bring these visual effects even better?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Well, yeah, wear hands on.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
But we also have these incredible artists that we look
up to elevate things the levels that we could never achieve.
And that's the best part of working on a film
is the collaboration of it.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I wanted to say as well, Piper that one of
the main characters played by Saa Wong, she had a
vision impairment. And you guys put the sport of goalball
very subtly into the movie, like it wasn't forced in
anyone's face. But was there any talk around putting that
on a big feature film?
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Well, like we spoke to non cited people for the
scriptwriting process, and that was a sport that a couple
of them played. And it just shows that they're really
resilient and they're really tough because it's such a physical
sport and like Saw was playing it for real, like
you are on the floor, you're completely blindfolded, and you've
got these heavy balls with like bells of them, like
(12:07):
flying at your face and you have to block it
with your body, like you have to get hit to
stop it from going in.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Did you get hit in the throat?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Mate?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
You can't even speak? He lost his voice, used to talk.
This is a radio. Yeah, I ever switched off by now,
I apologize to our voices are already as annoying as
it is. This is worse.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Sally Hawkins played Missus Brown in Paddington. How have you
taken her from such a sweet, dear old lady? And
she just blew up on the screen. I was terrified
of it.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
The reason that we loved Sally is she's such an
amazing character performer.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
She's able to fully embody.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Different characters, and each one of her movie is very
different from the last. So having that talent put towards
a horror villain role was magic.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
We're so we thought there was gonna be no way
she said, was gonna say yes. She's a two.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Time nominated Academy Award, you know actor filming with two
Bogans from.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Adelaide, and we love to say it.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
The movie was dedicated at the end. And now I
didn't catch the name of the person. It was from
two thousand and one to two thousand and four, I believe,
and I reckon at the Adelaide premiere, we may well
have had that person's mum in the audience, because I
certainly heard someone say something.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Could you tell us who it was dedicated to?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Him? What?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Yeah, it's a very close hot family friend. His name
was Harley Wallace, and he was so proud of what
we're doing. And he lived in a small town in
Alice Springs, and he would drive an hour and a
half to watch Talk to Me, and he did it
seven times and he passed away right the start of
pre production. We didn't fully been able to process that
(13:40):
and it kind of made its way into the movie
in some way, and it's our way of nodding to
him with.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
A messed up film. But I think he would have
loved that. Yeah, I think so as well. We love you, Holly.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's it for this week. Don't forget you can hear
iHeart Essay and the iHeart app or wherever you get
your podcasts. I'm Jackie Limb. Join us again next week
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