April 17, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the City and with Kate Winki.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Podcast, let's talk about men in relationships fits because this
is what we've touched on earlier about the emotional intimacy
that happens in a relationship.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
And I didn't.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Realize And if anybody wants to argue this fact thirteen
twenty four to ten, men apparently need more emotional intimacy
than women.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Okay, I would.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Agree with that, So can we can you give us
an explanation of emotional intimacy and what do we need
to do actually take this.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Off conversations, being told that I love you, being told
you love me, all of those things, there's your emotionals,
because that's the one. And apparently it stems from when
you are younger, as young boys need emotional assurance more
than young girls. So young boys need to be told
I love you, you're doing a great job, you're a great kid.
(00:57):
And then as we get older, we still want to
walk in the door the age of forty five of
our wife, so oh, you're doing a great.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Job, you're a good kid.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And I think when I look at my relationship, I'm
the one that says I mean physically, I'm the one
that says.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh, where are you come and sit on the couch
next to me?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Why are you over there ten meters away having a
cup of tea watching the movie when you could just
struggle next to me.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
She's relaxing, mate, She just wants to she just wants
to have a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And I'm the one that also I get into bed
probably before her, so I'm the one that will give
her a kiss good night.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So I do all of that sort of stuff. And
then she wanders off.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
To her own bedroom and whatever she does is does
there is her thing, puts her mouth tape on, and
then falls asleep.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
But I think you know the other thing.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I saw a TikTok video the other day and it
was about how a girl can't run up the stairs
without a guy tapping her on the bum in a relationship.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Ash, do you know what I'm talking about? Jump in
here and.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Against a love tap on the bum as wife goes
up the stairs or down the hallway.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Or while you're cooking, or while you're walking past or
while you're doing any of a day to day task.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So it happens in every relationship, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And it's a sign to say I'm here I love you,
this is cute, this is fun, And then recently I've
been getting a little bit of can you.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Not tap me on the bum?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Right, you've been doing it too.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You've seen one TikTok video and you're doing it everywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I was doing it long before TikTok arrived. But then
I said to her, Honey, the day I stop tapping
you on the bum, there's an issue. So if the
taps stop, that means I'm losing interest. Yeah, these are
not tap ashleyse taps are a sign of love.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I get that. But the problem I have is then
when we're in a scenario, say dinner with my parents,
when he forgets about the surroundings and he does it,
and I'm like, can we monitor?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And then you do my jabbing there?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yes, that's why I say.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
He's got to run up.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
As you're viewing the body of your aunty at a funeral,
not to give me a bum tap.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Do you have a time and.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Place you know?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Tap to tap tap tap Stephen Crow's ness, what do
you think?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (03:13):
Men are hopeless? They need so much attention and validation.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
No offense, but no, I get it. So what do
you give your man? Or what have you seen?
Speaker 9 (03:22):
I don't have a man, but they just hopeless. You
see them come out of divorces and move on straight away,
not even divorces relationships as well. So independent men they're
like puppies. They just need attention.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
We do need validation regularly.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Don't we just say? I love it? It's all you need? Know?
I mean, can can we get like a sense?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Is there a sensor around the office Tom that you
walk past and it's like, oh Tom, great effort today, you.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Did really well.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Is that a good idea? Is that all you need?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Hey you're looking Also, yeah, hey, Grandma, he looks.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Happy. It sits in Whipper with Kate Bridgie podcast.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
There's a brand new movie it's called Spit that stars
David Wenham. Says Hotace oberation.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
I do not believe this darkness world.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Do I need to get across the bridge into Pearl Bay?
Speaker 7 (04:23):
It's not possible.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
I'm fro.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
This is Australia.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
It's still a free country, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Sean Francis Scatiri has been located alive.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
I'm currently suffering from a very bad case of amnus causia.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
So twenty two years ago, Australia was gifted with the
amazing movie Getting Square and Johnny Spatiri was born, and
twenty two years later we have a brand new movie.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
David Wenham joins us.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Now, David, David, Oh, good morning, good to be here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Do you know what I've seen? The film fits? Its
bloody hilarious. I've got to see it and it is
so great.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It must be, David's such a huge reward to sit
there in the cinema and see a crowd reacting the
way they were the other night.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I've been sort of traveling around the country showing the
film before it opens much to six, and you're right,
the reaction has been pretty extraordinary. Actually, I was at
two sessions last night in Sydney and the cremorn Orphium one.
I thought they were going to you know, the roof
was about to blow off with the level of laughter. Yeah,
very very very poch.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Do you know what the other thing I love about
it too is your character is a true supporter, if
not a role model, for the mullet.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Now, there was eighty hours went into that wig, is
that correct?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Eighty hours of hand sewing, hair by hair right onto
a piece of lace to make the wig, and then
once it's put on my head, I sit in front
of a mirror myself and makeup and hair artists testna totally.
We sort of craft and she cuts and we'll take
that bit there. That did there. And there's also in
the in the wig a lovely piece of devon as
(05:55):
I caught it the ball patch at the back.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
So it was that. But what there moment where you
thought about growing it yourself, David, Were you're going to
do it yourself before.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
You made the movie? Well, the mullet's fine, but it's
having the piece of devon at the back of your head.
I'd have to do a bit of a shaved job
and I wasn't prepared to do that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And if you had a snack with a bit of
tomato sauce, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I know.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
But did I think I'd smell it a little bit
too much? Johnny probably wi. You know, he's got a
bit of a whip, but not that much.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Well, tell us about like leading into a role, because
you've been Faramir in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Fry Carlin van helsing Dillios for three hundred rips David, So,
how do you prepare for Johnny Spatiri. Literally the wardrobe is.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
The key for me with this one. And I hadn't
worn a pair of thongs in twenty two years. I'd
graduated to birkenstocks. Yeah, sometimes I should admit at birkenstocks
and socks, but in twenty two years, out of the thongs.
But seriously, the minute I put the thongs back on,
the character sort of came back to me. And the
thongs dictate how the character walks, and you know, then
(06:59):
I feel it. Then I squeeze into his lovely, lovely
type jeans and you know, the mullet with a ball
patch goes on, and yeah, it comes back pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You know what I thought was so great too.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And you look at how when you look at world
stage films that are made here in Australia, like Elvis
that you were in and Helen Thompson was also in that.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Which she plays Elvis's dad.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, she's in Spit two, which is phenomenal. But when
you look at Ossie talent and Ossie films being made.
It's great to see the Hollywood version of Basis Elvis,
but to see the Ossie character in Australia. I mean,
it's just so relatable that everybody can fall in love
with you know, you just want more and more of it.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
As you say, we've got a number of the cast
members from Getting Square who come back twenty two years ago,
twenty two years ago, and we'd look exactly the same.
Please don't laugh at me, love towards me. But we
also have the same crew essentially, same director, same cinematographer,
same designer and whatever. And a lot of those people
(08:01):
they do get offered big jobs on big American films.
They turned down so much work in order to actually
work on this little independent Australian production because it actually
meant so much to them, and we had We shot
it seven weeks, very very quick to show. Yeah, and
it was I got to say, the most productive and
creative time that I've worked on a film shoot in
(08:24):
many a year, and probably the most uplifting and joyous
for the whole crew. Yeah, we loved it.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Well, it's obviously a comedy, but we are being told
and we have to get this lady on some We've
had someone's been ringing us all morning knowing that you're
coming on the show.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Her name is.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Cianne, She's from Elwood and she's seen the movie. Ceanne,
what did you want to say to David?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
The floor is yours.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
Oh look, I absolutely loved the movie. I saw Getting
Square when it first came back the Wheeler's first release,
many many years ago, and the only character I could
remember out of the entire movie was john theecurity. So
when I saw that the rit Cinema was having a
special screening of it, I not only booked tickets for me,
but I booked it for my imaginary friend I was
(09:09):
going to take with me. I hadn't even seen the movie,
and I went and I absolutely adored it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I laughed, I cried.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
I just loved Johnny. I loved how you ran in
his song, and he's such an ozzy little battler and
it was the best fun and it was so joyful.
And at the end of the screening last night, everyone
clapped so brilliant.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
So the emotional what is the emotional side to it, David?
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Is there?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Yeah, there's a little bit of a surprise for the audience.
Because we didn't want to make Getting Square two, so
there had to be a really good reason to bring
the character back. And the first time I read the
very first draft of this script Chris Nist, who wrote it,
I just thought, oh my god, it is inspired. Yeah,
he's absolutely nailed it. And without giving too much away,
(09:59):
we get to we get to see Johnny's backstory, we
get to understand why Johnny is the way he is,
and we also get to see him in a really
interesting environment. He's basically like an alien thrown into on
another planet whereby here we go. I'll give you a
little bit of a spoiler. At the beginning, he tries
to sneak into Australia using a fast false passport, but
(10:21):
doesn't get too far, so he gets thrown into immigration
to tension, and so we meet some fantastic new friends
in there, and yeah, very much more. Suffice to say
that it's extremely funny and yeah, quite poignant.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
David j done a F bomb count on the film.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
All I know is that we're willing to triple figures.
Jonathan and I knew there were rather a few F
bombs in it, but I've got to be honest, we
weren't aware of how many until the very first time
we screened the film at Johnny's Pateria Spiritual Home on
the Gold Coast Course. And at the end of the film,
we both turned to each other and, oh, we didn't
realize this.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
They make sense because there's teaching in it.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
There is a clue. Every one of every f bomb
is justified.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
When you talk about.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Big films that you can talk about crew and casts
that you want to work on, Ozzie films and local
films are there films are the states that you've said
no to or that you regret turning down when it
was on the table.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Yeah, any characters, Yeah, there has been a few. I
tell you one little story I got quite so many
years ago. I got off at a film. It was
an American job and it was only five days work
and they said it's only five days work and this
is the amount of money. Went, oh yeah, I'm in great, okay,
and send the script. The script came. I started to
(11:42):
read it. Then my character in Inverted Commas came up
and it was I thought, I can't do it. It's
like the character was so unbelievably violent but with no reason.
It wasn't justified, and I thought, you know, I've got kids.
I can't do it. So I rang my agent. I said,
I'm sorry, I'm going to have to turn it down,
and he said, are you serious? And I said, yeah,
(12:03):
I can't do it, and he said really, okay, okay,
cut to nobody has ever seen that film. It died
at the box office. No one saw it. Cut to
the very next thing. I got offered to do a
Marvel job and I didn't get to read the script
or anything. It was a television series. I find myself
not too many months after turning down that film on
(12:24):
the Marvel job that I hadn't read. Two o'clock in
the morning in a warehouse in New York. I'm bent
over this body on the floor with a hammer in
each hand, bashing the skull of this persons. Yeah, and
I had two special effects people on either side of
me squirting me with blood.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
And I'm thinking, oh my god, what I could have
taken the cash on comp completely you are what are
these casting agents?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
So like n he'd be perfect role? Yeah, exactly, we
had Hugo. He said his favorite Australian. Australian film industry
is very healthy at the moment, and I know you're
a massive supporter. His favorite movie was Ten Canoes, what's
your favorite Australian movie of all time?
Speaker 7 (13:10):
David, have you got one that I'm in or not in?
No spit that I'm in definitely spit and yeah, yeah,
no spit, Spit, Spit. And what I'm not in is
a film that was made in the nineteen seventies. It's
called Wake in Fright, which I think is probably it's
my favorite, I grasp, best Australian film ever made. I
could go on and on about you know, some greatest films,
(13:31):
but I'll stop there.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Well, David, why are you're in here? Because it's commercial radio.
We want to maximize your talent.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Do I have to read something?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, you don't have to read.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
But we want you to play a game called brand Man.
It's a brand new game. I'll explain it when we
come back. If you could stick around, that'd be great.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Standing by thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
I thought David.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
At the Premierre the other art of the new movie
Spit Out March six, he said, I will come into
the studio as long as we can play Brand.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay, gagging your dream honest, very.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Very simple game here. So you look, let's have a
half a bit a million brands in the world. So
the game is simple. You buzz a David right, So
you've got to get I'm going to read a question
about a brand, and you've got to answer to score
a point ten questions. Whoever gets the most right is
the winner. Question can be from anything from colors of
(14:28):
the logo to a slogan to a jingle.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Let's go with the first one, which the odorant brand's
logo includes.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
A tick days start with R. Yes, it is good.
David goes bang. I was down.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Here.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
You're going to go down the links right there?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Okay, Open Happiness. There's a tagline for which brand.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Open Happiness?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Open Happiness?
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Tommy, do you want to get involved? Hinder?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You've let your mind run a little farther. But it's not.
It's not only fans either.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
It's not.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
That's for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Open Happy?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Can We have a clue.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's a popular soft drink, opens tom It's not Coca.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Heard that campaign?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Who came up with that happiness?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeh open it? There's the happiness.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Here we go, snap, crackle and pop a found on
which cereals it's David Rice bubbles, David Good on.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Which streaming service would you hear this noise?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Netflix?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
James? The Law and Order? Isn't it very law in order?
How many do you do? Is a question asked by
which brand? Wheat bitch? Congratulations? How many do you do?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
David?
Speaker 7 (15:57):
How many did you do back in the day the
day out be, I'd be three, you'd be you'd be
the dozen day we got up to twelve? Well, Trevor,
do you remember Trevor Hindy used to do twelve and
so that's.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I tried to keep up with him. Do you and
Trevor Handy? You really put on nfortunate? Okay? What brand
uses the tagline the Happiest place on Earth?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Disneyland? It's very close to call them between Queensland and Disneyland.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
And I love how you're going into the Johnny'sbuteri character
and that's just nerves.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Which brand does this jingle belong to?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
My dad makes the fruit? That makes.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
That?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I like members were my dad pixies?
Speaker 7 (16:57):
No that I don't remember that?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Which that one? Josi would have loved that. Okay? Which
brand has a polaroid camera within its logo?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Just go on?
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Probably not, but I'm going to guess you can go
out on the Limono codec.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But it's not.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
No, it's not Instagram is r Yes, I really wanted
to say Polaroid. I've got to be honest.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Would have made sense. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It probably does, it creates Okay, takes the rainbow? Is
the slogan for which brand?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That's Skittle? You are flying? Ryan James?
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well, if I hit the lead, I think I've taken it.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
I thought it was going to be pride.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
What about this on the Skittles log the iye dot
is dotted with a skittle? What color is the skittle? David?
Is we go out on a high? Ryan James? You've
bet them? David? When them by one? You Tom you
were pathetic? Well, everybody, what a great game, don't you
(18:02):
think David the best?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Just that not we're not recording or anything, but could
you if you could just say, Hi, I'm David Wenham.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Brand Man is a great game.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Hi, I'm David Wenham. I only play brand game.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Okay, the brand man. Yeah, because the brand.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Well you're not recording that. We're recording. Okay, Hi, I'm
David Wenham and I only play brand Man.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You don't have to set him up just before he's picking.
It's hard to work.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Do you do cash for comment?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I don't know what you're talking about talking about? Can
we get him out of the building?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
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This is the City and with Kate Winki.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Podcast, let's talk about men in relationships fits because this
is what we've touched on earlier about the emotional intimacy
that happens in a relationship.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
And I didn't.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Realize And if anybody wants to argue this fact thirteen
twenty four to ten, men apparently need more emotional intimacy
than women.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Okay, I would.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Agree with that, So can we can you give us
an explanation of emotional intimacy and what do we need
to do actually take this.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Off conversations, being told that I love you, being told
you love me, all of those things, there's your emotionals,
because that's the one. And apparently it stems from when
you are younger, as young boys need emotional assurance more
than young girls. So young boys need to be told
I love you, you're doing a great job, you're a great kid.
(00:57):
And then as we get older, we still want to
walk in the door the age of forty five of
our wife, so oh, you're doing a great.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Job, you're a good kid.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And I think when I look at my relationship, I'm
the one that says I mean physically, I'm the one
that says.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh, where are you come and sit on the couch
next to me?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Why are you over there ten meters away having a
cup of tea watching the movie when you could just
struggle next to me.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
She's relaxing, mate, She just wants to she just wants
to have a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And I'm the one that also I get into bed
probably before her, so I'm the one that will give
her a kiss good night.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So I do all of that sort of stuff. And
then she wanders off.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
To her own bedroom and whatever she does is does
there is her thing, puts her mouth tape on, and
then falls asleep.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
But I think you know the other thing.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I saw a TikTok video the other day and it
was about how a girl can't run up the stairs
without a guy tapping her on the bum in a relationship.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Ash, do you know what I'm talking about? Jump in
here and.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Against a love tap on the bum as wife goes
up the stairs or down the hallway.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Or while you're cooking, or while you're walking past or
while you're doing any of a day to day task.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So it happens in every relationship, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And it's a sign to say I'm here I love you,
this is cute, this is fun, And then recently I've
been getting a little bit of can you.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Not tap me on the bum?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Right, you've been doing it too.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You've seen one TikTok video and you're doing it everywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I was doing it long before TikTok arrived. But then
I said to her, Honey, the day I stop tapping
you on the bum, there's an issue. So if the
taps stop, that means I'm losing interest. Yeah, these are
not tap ashleyse taps are a sign of love.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I get that. But the problem I have is then
when we're in a scenario, say dinner with my parents,
when he forgets about the surroundings and he does it,
and I'm like, can we monitor?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And then you do my jabbing there?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yes, that's why I say.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
He's got to run up.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
As you're viewing the body of your aunty at a funeral,
not to give me a bum tap.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Do you have a time and.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Place you know?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Tap to tap tap tap Stephen Crow's ness, what do
you think?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (03:13):
Men are hopeless? They need so much attention and validation.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
No offense, but no, I get it. So what do
you give your man? Or what have you seen?
Speaker 9 (03:22):
I don't have a man, but they just hopeless. You
see them come out of divorces and move on straight away,
not even divorces relationships as well. So independent men they're
like puppies. They just need attention.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
We do need validation regularly.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Don't we just say? I love it? It's all you need? Know?
I mean, can can we get like a sense?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Is there a sensor around the office Tom that you
walk past and it's like, oh Tom, great effort today, you.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Did really well.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Is that a good idea? Is that all you need?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Hey you're looking Also, yeah, hey, Grandma, he looks.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Happy. It sits in Whipper with Kate Bridgie podcast.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
There's a brand new movie it's called Spit that stars
David Wenham. Says Hotace oberation.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
I do not believe this darkness world.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Do I need to get across the bridge into Pearl Bay?
Speaker 7 (04:23):
It's not possible.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
I'm fro.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
This is Australia.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
It's still a free country, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Sean Francis Scatiri has been located alive.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
I'm currently suffering from a very bad case of amnus causia.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
So twenty two years ago, Australia was gifted with the
amazing movie Getting Square and Johnny Spatiri was born, and
twenty two years later we have a brand new movie.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
David Wenham joins us.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Now, David, David, Oh, good morning, good to be here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Do you know what I've seen? The film fits? Its
bloody hilarious. I've got to see it and it is
so great.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It must be, David's such a huge reward to sit
there in the cinema and see a crowd reacting the
way they were the other night.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I've been sort of traveling around the country showing the
film before it opens much to six, and you're right,
the reaction has been pretty extraordinary. Actually, I was at
two sessions last night in Sydney and the cremorn Orphium one.
I thought they were going to you know, the roof
was about to blow off with the level of laughter. Yeah,
very very very poch.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Do you know what the other thing I love about
it too is your character is a true supporter, if
not a role model, for the mullet.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Now, there was eighty hours went into that wig, is
that correct?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Eighty hours of hand sewing, hair by hair right onto
a piece of lace to make the wig, and then
once it's put on my head, I sit in front
of a mirror myself and makeup and hair artists testna totally.
We sort of craft and she cuts and we'll take
that bit there. That did there. And there's also in
the in the wig a lovely piece of devon as
(05:55):
I caught it the ball patch at the back.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
So it was that. But what there moment where you
thought about growing it yourself, David, Were you're going to
do it yourself before.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
You made the movie? Well, the mullet's fine, but it's
having the piece of devon at the back of your head.
I'd have to do a bit of a shaved job
and I wasn't prepared to do that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And if you had a snack with a bit of
tomato sauce, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I know.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
But did I think I'd smell it a little bit
too much? Johnny probably wi. You know, he's got a
bit of a whip, but not that much.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Well, tell us about like leading into a role, because
you've been Faramir in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Fry Carlin van helsing Dillios for three hundred rips David, So,
how do you prepare for Johnny Spatiri. Literally the wardrobe is.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
The key for me with this one. And I hadn't
worn a pair of thongs in twenty two years. I'd
graduated to birkenstocks. Yeah, sometimes I should admit at birkenstocks
and socks, but in twenty two years, out of the thongs.
But seriously, the minute I put the thongs back on,
the character sort of came back to me. And the
thongs dictate how the character walks, and you know, then
(06:59):
I feel it. Then I squeeze into his lovely, lovely
type jeans and you know, the mullet with a ball
patch goes on, and yeah, it comes back pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You know what I thought was so great too.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And you look at how when you look at world
stage films that are made here in Australia, like Elvis
that you were in and Helen Thompson was also in that.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Which she plays Elvis's dad.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, she's in Spit two, which is phenomenal. But when
you look at Ossie talent and Ossie films being made.
It's great to see the Hollywood version of Basis Elvis,
but to see the Ossie character in Australia. I mean,
it's just so relatable that everybody can fall in love
with you know, you just want more and more of it.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
As you say, we've got a number of the cast
members from Getting Square who come back twenty two years ago,
twenty two years ago, and we'd look exactly the same.
Please don't laugh at me, love towards me. But we
also have the same crew essentially, same director, same cinematographer,
same designer and whatever. And a lot of those people
(08:01):
they do get offered big jobs on big American films.
They turned down so much work in order to actually
work on this little independent Australian production because it actually
meant so much to them, and we had We shot
it seven weeks, very very quick to show. Yeah, and
it was I got to say, the most productive and
creative time that I've worked on a film shoot in
(08:24):
many a year, and probably the most uplifting and joyous
for the whole crew. Yeah, we loved it.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Well, it's obviously a comedy, but we are being told
and we have to get this lady on some We've
had someone's been ringing us all morning knowing that you're
coming on the show.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Her name is.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Cianne, She's from Elwood and she's seen the movie. Ceanne,
what did you want to say to David?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
The floor is yours.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
Oh look, I absolutely loved the movie. I saw Getting
Square when it first came back the Wheeler's first release,
many many years ago, and the only character I could
remember out of the entire movie was john theecurity. So
when I saw that the rit Cinema was having a
special screening of it, I not only booked tickets for me,
but I booked it for my imaginary friend I was
(09:09):
going to take with me. I hadn't even seen the movie,
and I went and I absolutely adored it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I laughed, I cried.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
I just loved Johnny. I loved how you ran in
his song, and he's such an ozzy little battler and
it was the best fun and it was so joyful.
And at the end of the screening last night, everyone
clapped so brilliant.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
So the emotional what is the emotional side to it, David?
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Is there?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Yeah, there's a little bit of a surprise for the audience.
Because we didn't want to make Getting Square two, so
there had to be a really good reason to bring
the character back. And the first time I read the
very first draft of this script Chris Nist, who wrote it,
I just thought, oh my god, it is inspired. Yeah,
he's absolutely nailed it. And without giving too much away,
(09:59):
we get to we get to see Johnny's backstory, we
get to understand why Johnny is the way he is,
and we also get to see him in a really
interesting environment. He's basically like an alien thrown into on
another planet whereby here we go. I'll give you a
little bit of a spoiler. At the beginning, he tries
to sneak into Australia using a fast false passport, but
(10:21):
doesn't get too far, so he gets thrown into immigration
to tension, and so we meet some fantastic new friends
in there, and yeah, very much more. Suffice to say
that it's extremely funny and yeah, quite poignant.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
David j done a F bomb count on the film.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
All I know is that we're willing to triple figures.
Jonathan and I knew there were rather a few F
bombs in it, but I've got to be honest, we
weren't aware of how many until the very first time
we screened the film at Johnny's Pateria Spiritual Home on
the Gold Coast Course. And at the end of the film,
we both turned to each other and, oh, we didn't
realize this.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
They make sense because there's teaching in it.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
There is a clue. Every one of every f bomb
is justified.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
When you talk about.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Big films that you can talk about crew and casts
that you want to work on, Ozzie films and local
films are there films are the states that you've said
no to or that you regret turning down when it
was on the table.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Yeah, any characters, Yeah, there has been a few. I
tell you one little story I got quite so many
years ago. I got off at a film. It was
an American job and it was only five days work
and they said it's only five days work and this
is the amount of money. Went, oh yeah, I'm in great, okay,
and send the script. The script came. I started to
(11:42):
read it. Then my character in Inverted Commas came up
and it was I thought, I can't do it. It's
like the character was so unbelievably violent but with no reason.
It wasn't justified, and I thought, you know, I've got kids.
I can't do it. So I rang my agent. I said,
I'm sorry, I'm going to have to turn it down,
and he said, are you serious? And I said, yeah,
(12:03):
I can't do it, and he said really, okay, okay,
cut to nobody has ever seen that film. It died
at the box office. No one saw it. Cut to
the very next thing. I got offered to do a
Marvel job and I didn't get to read the script
or anything. It was a television series. I find myself
not too many months after turning down that film on
(12:24):
the Marvel job that I hadn't read. Two o'clock in
the morning in a warehouse in New York. I'm bent
over this body on the floor with a hammer in
each hand, bashing the skull of this persons. Yeah, and
I had two special effects people on either side of
me squirting me with blood.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
And I'm thinking, oh my god, what I could have
taken the cash on comp completely you are what are
these casting agents?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
So like n he'd be perfect role? Yeah, exactly, we
had Hugo. He said his favorite Australian. Australian film industry
is very healthy at the moment, and I know you're
a massive supporter. His favorite movie was Ten Canoes, what's
your favorite Australian movie of all time?
Speaker 7 (13:10):
David, have you got one that I'm in or not in?
No spit that I'm in definitely spit and yeah, yeah,
no spit, Spit, Spit. And what I'm not in is
a film that was made in the nineteen seventies. It's
called Wake in Fright, which I think is probably it's
my favorite, I grasp, best Australian film ever made. I
could go on and on about you know, some greatest films,
(13:31):
but I'll stop there.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Well, David, why are you're in here? Because it's commercial radio.
We want to maximize your talent.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Do I have to read something?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, you don't have to read.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
But we want you to play a game called brand Man.
It's a brand new game. I'll explain it when we
come back. If you could stick around, that'd be great.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Standing by thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
I thought David.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
At the Premierre the other art of the new movie
Spit Out March six, he said, I will come into
the studio as long as we can play Brand.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay, gagging your dream honest, very.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Very simple game here. So you look, let's have a
half a bit a million brands in the world. So
the game is simple. You buzz a David right, So
you've got to get I'm going to read a question
about a brand, and you've got to answer to score
a point ten questions. Whoever gets the most right is
the winner. Question can be from anything from colors of
(14:28):
the logo to a slogan to a jingle.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Let's go with the first one, which the odorant brand's
logo includes.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
A tick days start with R. Yes, it is good.
David goes bang. I was down.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Here.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
You're going to go down the links right there?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Okay, Open Happiness. There's a tagline for which brand.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Open Happiness?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Open Happiness?
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Tommy, do you want to get involved? Hinder?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You've let your mind run a little farther. But it's not.
It's not only fans either.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
It's not.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
That's for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Open Happy?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Can We have a clue.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's a popular soft drink, opens tom It's not Coca.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Heard that campaign?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Who came up with that happiness?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeh open it? There's the happiness.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Here we go, snap, crackle and pop a found on
which cereals it's David Rice bubbles, David Good on.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Which streaming service would you hear this noise?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Netflix?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
James? The Law and Order? Isn't it very law in order?
How many do you do? Is a question asked by
which brand? Wheat bitch? Congratulations? How many do you do?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
David?
Speaker 7 (15:57):
How many did you do back in the day the
day out be, I'd be three, you'd be you'd be
the dozen day we got up to twelve? Well, Trevor,
do you remember Trevor Hindy used to do twelve and
so that's.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I tried to keep up with him. Do you and
Trevor Handy? You really put on nfortunate? Okay? What brand
uses the tagline the Happiest place on Earth?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Disneyland? It's very close to call them between Queensland and Disneyland.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
And I love how you're going into the Johnny'sbuteri character
and that's just nerves.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Which brand does this jingle belong to?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
My dad makes the fruit? That makes.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
That?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I like members were my dad pixies?
Speaker 7 (16:57):
No that I don't remember that?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Which that one? Josi would have loved that. Okay? Which
brand has a polaroid camera within its logo?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Just go on?
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Probably not, but I'm going to guess you can go
out on the Limono codec.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But it's not.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
No, it's not Instagram is r Yes, I really wanted
to say Polaroid. I've got to be honest.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Would have made sense. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It probably does, it creates Okay, takes the rainbow? Is
the slogan for which brand?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That's Skittle? You are flying? Ryan James?
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well, if I hit the lead, I think I've taken it.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
I thought it was going to be pride.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
What about this on the Skittles log the iye dot
is dotted with a skittle? What color is the skittle? David?
Is we go out on a high? Ryan James? You've
bet them? David? When them by one? You Tom you
were pathetic? Well, everybody, what a great game, don't you
(18:02):
think David the best?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Just that not we're not recording or anything, but could
you if you could just say, Hi, I'm David Wenham.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Brand Man is a great game.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Hi, I'm David Wenham. I only play brand game.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Okay, the brand man. Yeah, because the brand.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Well you're not recording that. We're recording. Okay, Hi, I'm
David Wenham and I only play brand Man.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You don't have to set him up just before he's picking.
It's hard to work.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Do you do cash for comment?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I don't know what you're talking about talking about? Can
we get him out of the building?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
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