🎞 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Hugo Weaving

Hugo Weaving joins Jonesy & Amanda to chat about his new film, How to Make Gravy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
James and Amanda jam Nason.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hugo Weaving has been gracing our screens for decades, and
now it's back starring in a movie based on one
of Paul Kelly's most iconic songs, How to Make Gravy
Hugo Weaving.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hi, Hi guys.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Were you a fan of the song?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, very much so. I think I must have seen
it pretty early on after it was first the clip
first came out. I can remember seeing it way back whenever.
That was no specific memory, but a general memory which
then builds over the years every time Christmas came around
and that it would be played. But like a lot

(00:40):
of Paul's music, it's incredibly catchy and easy to listen to,
and it's very moving too. So yeah, I'm a big
fan of the song, and I thought it was a
fantastic idea to make a film out of it.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Curiously, when it came out, I was working on radio
at the time when it came out, and it was
a real slow burn of a song. It it didn't
real It's quite a extraordinity to see the impact it
has now, Like when people have Gravy Day on the
twenty first of December.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
The song has become such a huge classic.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I wonder if because as we as listeners have got
older and more sentimental.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Maybe yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
It was a slow burn when I realized, Oh, I
think there is such a thing as gravy day, and
people sid to wut gravy Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
So the it's a great song, and it's about family
and it's something we all understand, and it's about loving
people but not being with them, you know, it's about
missing home, and it's about sort of being able to
say sorry for things.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
So I think it's.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Something that I don't know that it's maybe we are
you know, as you get older, you get more sentimental.
I hope not. I hope you just get more open
to love. Actually, I hope that life enables you to
love better. And I think that's kind of what the
song is about, really, someone realizing that they've messed up

(02:02):
and they'd like to love better and saying sorry for
who they are.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's this fantastic song because of that.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
You know, you play Noel or no Well as we
should say as we get closer to Christmas, Noel actually
isn't in the song, So tell us about nol.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well because it's so it's a if you know the
song or if you don't know the song. Basically it's
about family and Joe. Joe is writing from prison. He's
writing from prison back to his brother and talking about
his family and he's going to miss them. So if
you make a film about this song, you're going to
be needing to see Joe inside prison. And if you

(02:42):
if you've got prison scenes, then you need other prisoners
and you need you know people who are running them prison.
So it's a kind of Nol is a father figure inside.
He runs a men's group and he runs the kitchen.
So he's a prisoner, but he's also he's he's done
a lot of work on himself and he's he's a

(03:04):
he's a very Australian male, but he's also he's very
warm hearted and so that he's a father figure for Joe.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
And it was Paul Kelly's actual gravy recipe. He told
us have you tried the recipe, Hugo, Well, we did.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
We made quite a lot of gravy on set. Some
of the gravy was and we had to taste it.
Some of the gravy was but some of it was
film gravy. What does it look?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
You know, I'm an actor, like, that's young film gravy.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, it's just metre's flour, wine and a bit of
a sweetener. And yeah, Paul's Paul's recipe, I think, which
is his father first father in laws. That extra dollar
tomato sauce.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Extra sweet and tang and then that's what you go.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
But forever known as film gravy.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's so good to talk to you.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
How watch How to Make Gravy is from the first
of December only on Binge.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Hugo Weaving always a treat.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Thank you so much, guys,