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The Assembly - Australia Season 2 Episode 1
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00:15Hope I'm in my spot. Hope I'm in my spot. If I'm in my spot then I might be moved
00:18I am so prepared today that I have two backup questions. Well done you
00:22Now Richard's gonna be here in a sec. Can I tuck him down to the ground?
00:30Hi, good. Welcome to the tree. Thank you. Oh, well. Keep you cool Willow. Keep you cool. You're who you're who you like him?
00:37But don't tackle him. Hi Lou. Hello you. How are you? Good. How are you? Yeah, nice to see you. Good to see you.
00:43You okay? Yeah, I'm alright. Come on through. Thank you. We're gonna have a very fun morning.
00:49I know you really well. Hello. How are you? I know you for my favorite show.
00:53Which one's that one?
00:55Two shows
00:57Misapos, Misapos were two and
00:59Annemaruse. Great. Do you want to tell Richard your name? Willow. My name is Willow. Richard. Love is me. Richard
01:05It's very noisy, but I did want you to be able to say hello to Soph as well. Hello. I'm Soph. Hi Soph. How are you?
01:13Good to meet you. Hi, I'm Sam. Hi, Sam. How are you doing? Good. Really good. Happy to be here.
01:20I'm looking forward to this. This will be fun.
01:22Come on.
01:27Can we get Auto QQ'd to Thomas' line?
01:30The Assembly is back. This time there are even more students joining Australia's only Autism Friendly Journalism Foundations course.
01:43Coming in from all around the country.
01:45From New South Wales.
01:46To Western Australia.
01:48South Australia.
01:49A little bit more enthusiasm.
01:51I'm gonna be enthusiastic about Canberra.
01:53We'll be studying at Macquarie University.
01:59With past Assembly graduates employed behind the scenes.
02:03And Leigh Sales is returning as our mentor.
02:06Hello, my friends.
02:07One in 40 Australians is on the Autism Spectrum and it's important that they're included in national conversations.
02:12We'll be interviewing some of Australia's most famous faces.
02:16To unmask the real person behind the public persona.
02:22Do you like the glasses?
02:23I'm just a bit nervous.
02:25Hello, how are you?
02:27What do you think is the best and worst of humanity in general?
02:29Oh my god, what an amazing question.
02:31Do you feel any performance anxiety?
02:33Straight to the tough questions.
02:35Cricket to me is pretty boring.
02:36It can be to me as well, don't worry.
02:37Would you be proud of your legacy?
02:39Oh.
02:40Wow.
02:40Can't get this issue, I'm so sorry.
02:42You've done your homework, haven't you?
02:43It was very special for me, but I loved it.
02:46We are the Assembly!
03:11Being part of the Assembly is something that I've never done before.
03:15or even thought of doing before.
03:16It always is nerve-wracking, especially for someone with autism where they feel they might
03:22screw things up.
03:24There's so many things I'm excited about.
03:28I get to meet new people.
03:29I find it hard sometimes to find friends.
03:33Hey.
03:34Hey.
03:35Really cool to be able to just kind of be with people that have similar interests.
03:40Do you like Minty?
03:41Oh, I love Minty.
03:42That's great.
03:43Maybe have a similar diagnosis with autism and stuff.
03:48I'm really excited to meet the new students.
03:51The main thing I learnt from the first time around is to expect the unexpected.
03:56I know they're all going to bring something different and unique and interesting to the table and ask
04:00people things that they've never been asked before.
04:03I'm so excited to see who our first guess is.
04:05Oh, here she comes.
04:06Good morning, everybody.
04:07That's very kind.
04:08How are you all doing today?
04:09Good.
04:10Okay.
04:11I'm Leigh Sales and I'm going to be your mentor.
04:25I know.
04:26I know.
04:27I know.
04:28I know.
04:29Having my questions critiqued by the Leigh Sales.
04:33Oh, God.
04:34I just, this is a gift.
04:36Are you ready to find out who your first guest is going to be?
04:39Yes.
04:40We're born ready.
04:41Our guest is a big star of Australian television and Australian film and even he's had big international
04:50films that he's been in.
04:51He was in the Elvis movie.
04:52He was in Moulin Rouge.
04:54He was in a television show called Rake.
04:56I'm going, I'm going.
04:57I'm going.
04:58It's Richard Roxburgh.
04:59Ah!
05:00Oh, yeah.
05:01I love Rake.
05:02Do you?
05:03Beautiful.
05:04So funny.
05:05What do you like?
05:06Rake.
05:07Oh, Rake.
05:08So funny.
05:09I'm a big fan of Rake.
05:10It's brilliant.
05:11I've watched the entire series.
05:14Ah, yes.
05:15Well, yes, yes.
05:16Ah, yes.
05:17See, I've said yes in the broad sense of yes.
05:22There's so many talents, like a real scope, a real variety, um, start with theatre.
05:27I'm a big fan of his show, correspondent as well.
05:30So our arrest here is not a mistake.
05:33And as a journalist, this is my battle.
05:37I can no longer pretend it'll go away by keeping quiet and crossing my fingers.
05:42And it's going to be a great experience to meet him because he's so, um, just such a good actor.
05:49Oh, Gabriel.
05:54Welcome to my summer palace.
05:56He's also, um, married to a Italian wife.
06:00Yes.
06:01And she's done a show on the ABC where she has guests come over, kind of do what we do, but with cooking.
06:06That's right.
06:07Her name's Sylvia.
06:08So let's split up into our groups now and then we'll set the room and I'll work with you all to come up with our questions.
06:17Hello, James. How are you this morning?
06:19Good, thank you, Tiana.
06:20Do you want to do this as a career journalism?
06:26It's definitely appealing.
06:28I definitely enjoy doing it.
06:29Because I can see you as a newsman.
06:31Like the moment you first walked in, it was just like, wow.
06:35You know, like.
06:36Thanks.
06:38Hello, everybody.
06:40I have lots.
06:42Good.
06:43But some of them are really random and some of them are still yes or no.
06:46Well, it's good.
06:47It's the right ideas.
06:48It's great.
06:49There's no bad ideas.
06:50It's all good.
06:51What I would really love to see the students get out of this is confidence.
06:55You have got heaps to work with there.
06:57They're all really good questions.
06:58I love it.
06:59Well done.
07:01If I can do anything that makes them feel like, yeah, I've got this, I can do it.
07:04That is, I think, the most important thing for me.
07:07Okay.
07:08Thomas.
07:09American movies.
07:10Yeah.
07:11Can you still do the Duke's voice from Moulin Rouge?
07:14Oh, yeah.
07:15What's that like?
07:16I can't remember.
07:17I'm just trying to remember what he sounds like.
07:19It's quite camp.
07:20It's, yeah, it is quite camp.
07:21It's kind of up.
07:22Yeah.
07:23Kind of effeminate and oh no.
07:26Yeah, that's right.
07:27It is too.
07:28I'm a big fan of Richard Roxborough.
07:29So to talk to Richard, who is a king of his craft, is a gift.
07:35Hi, I'm Oliver Hetherington-Page and we are at the gorgeous Bribie Island.
07:42Well, not as gorgeous today.
07:43It's overcast as hell.
07:45Good boy.
07:47I wanted to do the assembly because before I was born, my mum was a journalist.
07:54And I think journalists are gods.
07:57They hold the powerful to account.
08:02This is my DVD collection.
08:05I love my movies.
08:08I love storytelling in general.
08:11I write my own theatre because I started wanting to be an actor.
08:15And I wasn't seeing myself and I didn't fit the boxes that the industry put me into.
08:22So I started making my own work.
08:24That started with a show called The No Bang Theory.
08:27My shows are about autism and relationships.
08:35So this is my bedroom.
08:36Don't have anyone in here all that often because 27-year-old virgin.
08:41I joke about the fact that I'm a 27-year-old virgin.
08:44Ha, ha, ha.
08:45I do get lonely.
08:46You get me on the right day, I go, God, I wish I was neurotypical.
08:49Sure.
08:50But really deep down, would I change it?
08:53No.
08:54I don't want to fit into the world.
08:56I want the world to go, what Oliver is doing is amazing.
09:00Let's go to him.
09:04Does Richard have any other passion?
09:06It's like...
09:07I know he loves ocean swimming.
09:10Oh, yeah, that's right.
09:14Okay, so tell me some things that fascinate you.
09:17Yeah, great.
09:18I think that'd be a lovely question.
09:21Having Liselles as our mentor is pretty cool.
09:24Getting to speak with her is fun.
09:26That one's great.
09:27You've come up with some really good creative ones here.
09:29They're fantastic.
09:30Good work.
09:31Hello.
09:32My name is Soph, and that is short for Sophia, not Sophie.
09:43I'm autistic and mostly a non-speaking, multimodal communicator.
09:48I'm deaf.
09:49I use my device to communicate and I'm very outgoing.
09:54This is my dad, Andrew.
09:56We like to jam and play music together.
09:58Except I'm better than him.
10:01Functional neurological disorder, FND, is like a glitch in the brain's software, disrupting
10:17the connection between the nervous system and the body.
10:20FND looks different for everyone.
10:23But for me, it includes a loss of voice, mobility challenges, episodic paralysis.
10:29It is extremely difficult having both autism and FND.
10:33But FND will not also sparkle and if it does, it has another thing coming.
10:44My experience of becoming mostly non-speaking has gained me a passion to advocate for all
10:50the non-speakers and help other people like me see that they can also achieve their dreams.
10:56FND
11:07Okay, hold it out in front of you.
11:09Hold it out in front of you.
11:10Okay, and mark it.
11:13See you, Mum?
11:15I've been a little bit nervous.
11:18I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this.
11:21I don't want to be too busy.
11:23I look a bit silly so I need to be calm.
11:25Hi, Liseos.
11:28Hey, Willi, how are you?
11:29I'm good.
11:34Hi, Lee.
11:35Hello, you, how are you?
11:36Good.
11:37Come on through.
11:39Have a very fun morning.
11:40I know you really well.
11:41Hello.
11:42Sorry, I love you.
11:43Right.
11:44Buongiorno.
11:45Timmy.
11:46Buongiorno.
11:47That Timmy, that Timmy.
11:48Buongiorno.
11:49Oh, you're speaking in Chinese?
11:50Go again.
11:51Buongiorno.
11:52Buongiorno.
11:53Buongiorno.
11:54Oh, Timmy, that's right.
11:55You're Timmy.
11:56Who else?
11:57There's so many faces.
11:59Molly, would you like to do our opening for us?
12:04Hello, Richard.
12:05Hi, Molly.
12:06This is a safe space.
12:07Everyone can relax and be themselves.
12:10There will be absolutely no judgement.
12:12It's not allowed.
12:13Please do what you need to join in.
12:15For example, fidget, move, take a break, anything you need to do.
12:19Ask if you need anything to help you feel included.
12:24Thanks, Molly.
12:25Oliver, would you like to welcome Richard?
12:27Hello, Richard.
12:28We are delighted to have you join us today.
12:30Our rules are simple.
12:32No subject is out of bounds.
12:34No question is off the table and anything might happen.
12:37Welcome to the assembly.
12:39Thanks, Oliver.
12:40Guardedly, thank you.
12:42Our first question is going to be from Kai.
12:47Welcome to the assembly.
12:52Grazie.
12:53Take us back to your days when you were Dracula in the 2014 Van Helsing.
12:59How did it feel to be with the legendary Hugh Jackman?
13:02Well, it was really fantastic.
13:04I mean, we were kind of locked away in Prague for six months over a long winter filming.
13:10It was freezing cold, but Prague is a gorgeous city.
13:14And Hugh is an adorable human.
13:17So there was a lot to love about shooting that film.
13:20And of course, one of the best things about it was that my wife was also on that film.
13:27And that's how we met.
13:28So the very first words that my wife ever said to me was,
13:32Hello, Richard.
13:33I'm Sylvia.
13:34I'm your Italian wife.
13:36And I thought,
13:38Oh, yes, you are.
13:40Oh, yes, you shall be.
13:43And you ended up being your wife anyway.
13:48She did, yes.
13:49Finn, you're up.
13:50Hello, Richard.
13:51Hi, Finn.
13:52I love Rake.
13:53And I've seen all the episodes.
13:55Has Cleaver Green infiltrated your life at all?
13:58That's a really interesting question, Finn.
14:04There would be some people who thought that maybe my life infiltrated Cleaver.
14:10What was great about shooting Rake was, because I was playing, you know, he was a wild and crazy character.
14:18He was addicted to everything.
14:20He was a lunatic, right?
14:21But he also had to operate as a fully functioning lawyer during the days.
14:27So he would operate as a lawyer and then he would go nuts at nights and on the weekend.
14:32And I guess what I felt was really lucky that I could do a character like that from the safety of my own life,
14:40which is not like that anymore.
14:47Although there have been stages in my life which were a lot more like that.
14:52Oliver's next if you want to pass along.
14:54Hello, Richard.
14:56Hi, Oliver.
14:57As a performer, you must have been in some projects that you knew weren't great.
15:01Yet I've never once heard an actor ever say while doing press,
15:04this movie's a dog's breakfast, I'm doing it for the money.
15:07How do you navigate the gap between your honest assessment of a project
15:14and the story you have to tell in the media?
15:17So great.
15:22I love this.
15:24Yes, you're right.
15:25Of course.
15:26There's been some things that I've been in that I just sort of think,
15:29oh God.
15:31And of course you can't talk about it because it'd be inappropriate to throw something under the bus.
15:38Because after all, you know, we're in a creative environment.
15:43Nobody's ever gone into those projects thinking,
15:47let's make a complete stinker here, guys.
15:51Let's make something that's really going to stink the screener.
15:55So you go into it.
15:57Everybody's hearts are open.
15:58You go into it with the best intentions.
16:00So I think in the end when it comes to doing publicity,
16:03you have to kind of honour that.
16:05I'm not going to ask you to name one of those projects.
16:07Please don't.
16:08But if you want to.
16:09I won't name.
16:10I won't name the stinkers.
16:12Because you probably already know them, you know.
16:15Thank you very much.
16:18That was great.
16:19You're married to an Italian chef.
16:23And I hope you don't disappoint her with his answer.
16:26Do you like carbs?
16:28I love my carbs.
16:33So we are kindred spirits in that way.
16:37You once said,
16:38we are the memorial of everything we love.
16:41We pick up things for everyone.
16:42Bices or virtue,
16:44what have you picked up in a way of bad habits from your wife
16:47and don't say loving carbs.
16:52This is great.
16:54Let me have a think about this for a while.
16:58She...
16:59She...
17:01This is really great.
17:03Because she's here, right?
17:04She's here somewhere.
17:06So she's going to love this.
17:07Oh, she's here now.
17:08Yeah, she's over there somewhere.
17:12I'm trying to think of the bad things she's made me do.
17:17Okay.
17:19Here's the thing.
17:20She will only holiday in warm climates.
17:27What's that about?
17:28And I love the snow.
17:30Me too.
17:31And our eight-year-old has never seen snow.
17:34So that's Sylvia's fault.
17:40So we have a deprived child out there somewhere
17:43who has never seen snow.
17:44And that's Sylvia's fault.
17:48You have three children.
17:49Babies don't stay babies forever.
17:51They grow taller and grow into themselves
17:54and develop a beautiful brain.
17:56Have they made you aware of time
17:58and that youth does not last forever?
18:00Uh...
18:01Oh my God.
18:10Uh...
18:13Yes.
18:14They have.
18:15They have.
18:16I think, you know,
18:18it's a really interesting thing becoming a parent
18:20because you...
18:22because it brings as much fear with it
18:26as it does love
18:27and you spend your life trying to combat the fear.
18:31to the kind of...
18:33exactly the same shape as love.
18:37It's like love's shadow.
18:40And that's fear that you have
18:42that anything bad
18:44would happen to them.
18:46So, yeah, they do make you really aware of mortality
18:50and all the other things that go with that.
18:53Thank you so much for that
18:54and for your insightful answers.
19:00Thomas, do you want to ask yours?
19:02So...
19:03Okay.
19:04So...
19:05my questions involve Moulin Rouge
19:08in which you starred in as the Duke
19:11and so I wonder if you could say
19:15the answers to my questions, please.
19:20What was it like working on that movie?
19:24It was mad.
19:26It was so much fun.
19:27It was basically the best party in town
19:30for about five or six months.
19:32So it was great.
19:33What did you used to do?
19:35Off screen?
19:36Yeah.
19:39Well, I hung out a lot with Ewan McGregor
19:42who's a wonderful fella
19:44and we got ourselves into some trouble.
19:50And, of course, with your character, the Duke,
19:52can you still do the voice of him?
19:57I'd like to think I could, yes.
20:00Yes, I can bring back the Duke,
20:02but I don't have my teeth, you see.
20:06And I feel like I need my teeth.
20:08Could you maybe speak louder?
20:10It was a bit quiet.
20:12It was good, it was good.
20:13It was good.
20:14It was good, but I didn't get the job?
20:16No, no, no, no.
20:17Could you just speak a little louder?
20:19It's a bit soft.
20:20Yes, sorry.
20:21Um, I don't...
20:22You know what I don't have is my teeth.
20:24I had additional teeth as the Duke
20:27and it really used to help
20:29with playing that character.
20:32Baz ended up with those teeth,
20:36which is another fun fact.
20:38Baz was the director.
20:39I don't know what he does with those teeth,
20:41but he's got them.
20:44So, could you do a little more of that voice?
20:49Can I do a bit more of the voice?
20:51Yes, I could do a bit more of a voice.
20:53How's that working for you?
20:55Happy now?
20:56Yes, I'm happy.
20:57Yes?
20:58Happy now?
20:59Yep, yep.
21:01Yep, yep.
21:02Thank you, Richard.
21:03Thank you, Richard.
21:05My pleasure.
21:07Hey, Richard.
21:08Hi, Daniel.
21:09Good to see you, mate.
21:10You too.
21:11As a kid, I used to be a drama queen
21:13and so, like, I'd pretend to, like, hurt myself
21:16because I just like to make people, like, think I hurt myself
21:19because it's funny.
21:20So, I wanted to know, were you a drama queen at school
21:24or anything like that?
21:26Um, I...
21:29Look, I was the youngest of six, uh,
21:34on the Hume Highway in Albury-Wodonga,
21:36so to get any attention coming my way,
21:39I reckon I probably did have to be a bit of a drama queen.
21:43Um, I can't remember exactly, you know,
21:49pretending to have hurt myself,
21:51but I think I was an attention seeker in other ways, maybe.
21:54Yeah.
21:55Yeah, yeah.
21:56It's your go, Timmy.
21:58Hi, Richard.
21:59Hi.
22:00What music do you usually play on the road trip?
22:04Well, I have an eight-year-old daughter,
22:07so I listen to a lot of Taylor Swift.
22:10Taylor Swift.
22:11You're Swiffy then.
22:12Yeah.
22:13You're Swiffy's dad.
22:14Yeah.
22:15What was something that you really wanted to do as a kid
22:18but never got...
22:20had the opportunity to do?
22:23Oh, that's a great question.
22:25Um...
22:27I did think I would have liked to have done,
22:31um, a, uh...
22:34like a martial art.
22:36Oh, okay.
22:37Because all my brothers got to do that.
22:39But, uh, I never was offered that for some reason.
22:43Uh, so, uh, so, yeah, I think that would have been good.
22:47Oh, okay.
22:48Don't you think?
22:49Yeah.
22:50Maybe you could have done a karate movie later on in the future.
22:52Exactly.
22:53You never know.
22:54It might not be too late.
22:55I'm, uh, I'm not sure that I have many karate days in front of me,
22:59but we'll see how that pans out.
23:03Thank you, Timmy.
23:05Hi again, Richard.
23:06Hi again.
23:07Um, you won Worst Male Fake Accent at the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
23:11and got married to your wife in the same year, 2004.
23:14How do you deal with those types of ups and downs in your life?
23:17Was the worst accent, was that for Van Helsing?
23:24I love that.
23:30Um, I'll tell you, I mean, the good part, the getting married part,
23:34that's pretty easy to deal with, right?
23:36Well, actually, it was pretty stressful, to be honest,
23:38because it's a wedding.
23:40Um, but, and you were dealing with Italians.
23:43But, um, but that was the good bit.
23:46So, the other stuff, I'll tell you how I deal with it.
23:50I don't read reviews.
23:52For a start, you only ever remember the worst,
23:56the shittest things that people have said about you,
23:58and it's horrible.
24:00And it gets in your head, and it's unfair.
24:02So, in the end, I thought, okay,
24:05well, if you're going to believe them when they say
24:07you're the best actor of your generation,
24:10like, you're so sublime,
24:12you also have to believe them when they say,
24:15this actor is appalling and dreadful.
24:18So, don't believe any of it.
24:20Well, thank you.
24:21Pleasure. Thank you.
24:22Thanks, Molly.
24:23Shay.
24:24Hello.
24:25Hello.
24:26Your father was a prisoner of war in Burma.
24:29What did your father tell about that experience?
24:32Yeah, it's really interesting.
24:34He, he really, he never talked about it until after my mum died.
24:41And then, because I think that generation of men were,
24:47you know, there was no, there was no PTSD.
24:52There were no groups to discuss.
24:54There was no counselling after the war.
24:56It was just like, you came back, you got on with it.
24:59But I think the downside to that was that my dad never was able
25:04to give expression to a lot of things.
25:07One of the most amazing days of my life,
25:10we went with him to an Anzac Day service,
25:13and I thought it was going to be a whole bunch of,
25:16you know, blokes standing around slapping each other's backs
25:19and beers and two up and whatnot.
25:22And it was the opposite of that.
25:25It was these old guys with their kind of sunspots
25:29and skin flakes and things,
25:31grabbing each other's faces
25:33and looking at each other in the eyes
25:36and stroking each other's heads.
25:38It was really tender.
25:40It was completely different.
25:43And I'll never forget that.
25:46So, yeah.
25:47Well, thanks, Vic, for your answers.
25:50My pleasure. Thank you.
25:56Hello, Richard.
25:57Hello.
26:00What would your dying wish be?
26:04Wow.
26:05What would my...
26:10Um...
26:14What would my dying wish be?
26:19Um...
26:21I guess, uh...
26:23I guess I would wish...
26:27For...
26:29Um...
26:31For my...
26:33Hard to get that one out.
26:35Uh...
26:36I...
26:37I...
26:38I would wish for my kids to have...
26:39Beautiful lives.
26:40That would be...
26:41That would be it.
26:43I would want them to...
26:45I mean...
26:46Not to not suffer and go through hardship and terrible things,
26:49because that's life.
26:50Right?
26:52But...
26:54Overall, to have...
26:56Um...
26:57To have beautiful lives.
26:59That's what I would wish for.
27:00Hmm.
27:03Thanks for answering my question.
27:05Absolute pleasure.
27:10Here we go.
27:11Oh.
27:12Hi, Mr. Richard Roxenborough.
27:13You've directed a few productions in your time.
27:15Is this something you would like to do more of, honestly and emphatically?
27:20Honestly and emphatically?
27:22I...
27:23Would like to.
27:25But I think I would like to do...
27:27To direct things that had funny bones.
27:31If you know what I mean.
27:32I think I'd like to do...
27:34Material that is...
27:36Um...
27:37That has some fun in it.
27:38Because I think the world needs it.
27:40I think the world needs...
27:42Fun.
27:46Hi, Richard.
27:47Hi, Tiana.
27:48What would be an idea for a film?
27:49The world is taken over by a brain disease that kills everyone except people who are neurodiverse.
27:54What would be the plot of your dream movie or TV show?
28:00That's a great plot.
28:02That's actually a great plot.
28:04Um...
28:05Can I have that plot?
28:07No.
28:09Kelly, give me your plot.
28:11No.
28:12No, sorry.
28:13No, no.
28:14What would be great is to film in the best place that you can imagine in the world.
28:19So imagine filming in a vineyard in Italy.
28:24Mmm.
28:25On the coast.
28:26Wow.
28:27Oh, beautiful.
28:28Exactly.
28:29So then you start to engineer a plot out of that.
28:34Maybe, you know, a plot about corruption in the wine industry or something like that.
28:39So...
28:40And then you work out your plot around where you want to spend six months of your life.
28:45I think that's the best thing.
28:46To be honest, I can't fully picture that because I've never been outside this country.
28:50Oh, really?
28:51Yeah.
28:52Oh, you will.
28:53It's...
28:54Yeah, it's beautiful.
28:55Thank you for answering my questions.
28:56My pleasure, Tiana.
28:57Thank you, Tiana.
28:58Karen's gonna have a go now.
28:59What else do you like to do?
29:02So what's your downtime?
29:04Aside from acting or swimming, are you a follower of football or do you play soccer?
29:09You won't expect to see me, uh, on a soccer pitch anytime soon.
29:14Okay.
29:15Um, I have weird things that I like, like I like to learn languages.
29:21Uh, I tried learning Arabic for a while.
29:25And then I worked with a whole bunch of actors from different Arabic-speaking countries
29:31on that film, The Correspondent, that I did.
29:34And they asked me to say some of my Arabic to them.
29:39And I did.
29:40And they said, what's that?
29:42And I said, that's Arabic.
29:45And they said, no, it's not.
29:47And they said, that's like Shakespearean Arabic, you're learning there.
29:52So I was like, well, what if I spend all of these months and months doing that for them?
29:57So I put that to one side and now I'm learning Russian.
30:00Thank you very much.
30:03Thanks, Karen.
30:05Um, Willow, you're next.
30:08Um, you work with Tom Cruise on Miss Impossible 2.
30:14Did you, did he try to make you do any dangerous stunts?
30:19Any dangerous stunts?
30:21No.
30:22But there was a moment when, you know how Tom Cruise has got a famous run?
30:30Like he's like, you know, he's got this famous run.
30:34Okay.
30:35There's a moment in that film where he's running and it's him, but he's got a mask of my face on.
30:42That he pulls off.
30:44What that meant was that I had to spend a day learning to run like Tom Cruise.
30:54So I had Tom Cruise running lessons.
30:57So I had to, you know, I was like running, like I run, like just kind of running.
31:01And it was like, yeah, man, you know, it's a bit more, you know, it's more like, you know, you had to pull through.
31:06And I was like, oh, God.
31:09So I had to, I had to get that out of my system just for my own entertainment.
31:14Yes.
31:15So, uh, but no dangerous stunts.
31:19Good, good.
31:21My apologies, Richard.
31:26I'm just going to quickly refer to my notes because I was taking notes as the interviews were going ahead.
31:32Oh, no, that's okay.
31:33That's all right.
31:34Tell us the story of how you met your wife.
31:36Now, now you've kind of already done that, but is there any more that you could?
31:40Yeah, look, there is, there is a bit more to the story.
31:44Um, so we were working on a, you know, a vampire movie in the Czech Republic.
31:51And Sylvia was coming to the end of a relationship, uh, at the time.
31:56And so we kept a respectful distance from each other at that point.
32:02Although I think, um, you know, I, I like to think that I, I was kind of flirty a little bit, maybe.
32:11Um, because it became clear that I think she was, that that relationship was, was ending.
32:18But that's, but nothing happened.
32:21And then I came back to Australia and I sent her what I thought were really daring and flirty texts.
32:30And she thought they were the most ridiculous, pointless things that she'd ever read in her life.
32:38So she was getting things saying, greetings from sunny Australia, which, you know, if you get my tone, greetings from sunny Australia.
32:51That's what I had going on in my head.
32:53But what she was getting is greetings from sunny Australia.
32:57So, I blame text.
33:01So that, that was a bit more to the story.
33:03Yeah.
33:05Hello Richard.
33:06Hi Laura.
33:07I have heard that you regularly get confused with David Wenham.
33:11What was it like to act alongside him and did people get you confused on set?
33:16You know, there's a story about this, is that I was telling my wife, we were driving, we were going to an opening at the Sydney Opera House, right?
33:26And I was complaining to her that somebody had mistaken me for David Wenham and I saying, I think we're that much alike.
33:34And she was like, yeah, no, look, I don't think you're that much alike either, sweetheart.
33:38So anyway, we get out of our cars, it's black and white, men are, it's a black and white thing at the Opera House.
33:43So I'm in a tuxedo and I get out, close the door and I'm talking to some press there and I turn around and I see my wife walking up the red carpet holding another man's hand.
33:56Who do you think the man was?
34:00David Wenham.
34:01Yeah, it's David Wenham.
34:04I was like, we talked about this three minutes ago.
34:10So there's obviously something there.
34:13I don't know.
34:14Yeah.
34:17Thanks Laura.
34:18One of the best parts of being on the Assembly is all the nice people I've met and worked with.
34:25Who was the nicest person you've worked with?
34:29The nicest person I've worked with.
34:33I've worked with a lot of really wonderful human beings.
34:40I know I'm such a huge fan of Sam Neill.
34:47So I've worked with Sam a couple of times and we're pals and I just love the person that he is.
34:56He's kind of, he's just essentially a wonderful human in all ways.
35:03So yeah, I'd say Sam.
35:06Okay, cool.
35:07Thank you so much.
35:09Thanks Sam.
35:15Hello, nice to meet you.
35:16Nice to meet you.
35:17As we know, you don't really like the fame that comes with acting, but you must deal with some of this given your acclaimed career.
35:24Is there a level of fame that you're actually comfortable with?
35:27I have always kind of galloped away from being too much in the public eye and it has freaked me out at times.
35:37So because I'm, because I'm a private person, you know, my family is, my family I'm private.
35:42So there's a kind of sweet spot in Australia, which I really love.
35:46Which is that people who might have seen your work will come up to you in the supermarket and they'll say, well done you or something like that.
35:55I mean, and I love that.
35:58I love the simplicity of it.
36:01What I didn't like was when I had done Mission Impossible 2 and I was at a bar in L.A.
36:08And I was at the urinal and, oh man, and I turn around and this guy's like looking at me, you know, and he's like, oh my God, you're the, you're the dude.
36:23Hey guys, this is the dude.
36:26Hey guys, this is my dude right here.
36:29And I'm like, what the, and so I was kind of, it was horrifying.
36:35I found the whole, and so his friends are coming in.
36:38It was so awful.
36:40So I didn't like that.
36:42Val's turned it off?
36:43Yeah.
36:44Well, thank you for that.
36:48James.
36:49Cheers.
36:52My most confronting experience was as a child when I realised I would inevitably die.
36:56I recall crying on a swing set until my mother came and found me.
36:59What's been your most confronting experience in life?
37:02Wow, mate.
37:04Wow.
37:09Um, okay.
37:11I think honestly, um, having a parent die, having, when my mum died, when I was, I was in my twenties.
37:20So that was, but beyond that, I think it was, um, that somebody who was as kind of incredible as my mum spent the last two years of her life in excruciating pain.
37:36I found that, uh, pretty intolerable.
37:40Mm.
37:41Yeah.
37:43Yes.
37:44Yes, and my grandfather also passed away quite recently, so, yeah.
37:49And that is all of my questions.
37:52Thanks, James.
37:54Xanthia, you're up.
37:56Um, I find Shakespeare somewhat annoying.
37:59Um, I hated that my English teacher made me learn it.
38:01It's 400 years old.
38:02Why do you think we're still performing Shakespeare in its original language?
38:06It's a dead language and it's very difficult to understand.
38:09Yeah.
38:10I hear you, because I felt the same when I was at school.
38:14Um, I think the reason why he's still around is because he wrote complex humans like nobody else.
38:22Mm.
38:23He's still, I mean, if you try and pull apart the character of Hamlet, that character's just so many layers.
38:31I mean, the writing is just, the creation of that character is a completely unique and transcendent work of art.
38:39But why can't it not be translated?
38:41Why can't it be translated?
38:42They, look, you can do translated versions of it, somehow it loses the poetry.
38:49Hmm.
38:50Just didn't feel very accessible to the wider population.
38:52Yeah, fair enough.
38:53But that's all my questions.
38:54Thank you for your time.
38:55Thanks, Xanthia.
38:56That was great.
38:58All right.
38:59So, James, you're going to explain what we're doing next and then we'll get everyone organised.
39:03Richard, will you play a game with us?
39:07Yeah.
39:08We know you've been in multiple Shakespeare plays, so we have a little quiz to test your memory.
39:13Oh, my God.
39:14This is so terrifying and I'll tell you why.
39:16Because once you've done something, what I've found is you erase your hard drive.
39:22So, anyway, we'll have a go at it.
39:24Yeah.
39:25Okay.
39:26All right.
39:27Ready?
39:28No, but go.
39:29Okay.
39:30To be or not to be, that is the question.
39:38That is Hamlet.
39:40Yes.
39:42One.
39:43I got one.
39:46Now my charms are all athrone, and what strength I have now my own.
39:52Which is most faint?
39:55Oh, God.
39:57Which is most faint?
39:58Uh, that's, that's the Tempest.
40:03Yes, correct.
40:04Good work.
40:05Okay, Zampia.
40:06Yeah.
40:07My bounty is as boundless as the sea.
40:08My love is deep.
40:10Uh, that's, is that Romeo and Juliet?
40:13Yeah.
40:14Well done.
40:15Yes, thank God.
40:16Out, out, brief candle.
40:18Life's but a walking shadow.
40:20A poor player.
40:21Who struts and frets his hour upon the sea.
40:24That's Macbeth.
40:25Is that right?
40:26Yes.
40:27Yes.
40:28Yeah.
40:29Well done, Richard.
40:30You've actually nailed that.
40:31That's extremely difficult.
40:32Oh, guys.
40:33Thank you, guys.
40:34On behalf of the Assembly and everyone here, it's been an absolute honour to have you here.
40:47And I would like to thank you for being able to come and be such an incredible person for everyone here.
40:52Yeah.
40:53Thank you so much.
41:02It's, uh, it's really been quite beautiful and magical and hilarious and everything.
41:08And you guys, uh, completely messed with my brain in that last thing, okay?
41:17It was very special for me.
41:18I loved it.
41:20I have a little gift for you.
41:25I made everyone a bracelet and here's one for you.
41:27Oh, my God.
41:28It's a little bracelet.
41:29This is the Assembly.
41:30Oh, my God.
41:31I love it.
41:36There you are.
41:39Thanks, Si.
41:41It was lovely to meet you.
41:46We are the Assembly.
41:48Woo!
41:51Big smile.
41:53It was so much.
41:54I loved it.
41:56Great group.
41:59Beautiful.
42:00Our next guest is one of Australia's biggest music stars, Guy Sebastian.
42:11The risk is you don't want to ask something personal too early and put him offside.
42:15You've spoken publicly about waiting until marriage to have sex.
42:18Did you feel any performance anxiety?
42:21Oh, straight to the tough questions.
42:24If you had to choose one of your songs as a soundtrack to your life, which would it be?
42:29Very good question.
42:30Can you show us your best dancing?
42:32Do you mind if I ask for a hug?
42:33Not at all.
42:34You've made me tear up.
42:41You've made me tear up.
42:42You've made me tear up.
42:43You've made me tear up.
42:48In your life with me.
42:50You've made me tear up.
42:52You've done everything.
42:53On your hands.
42:54Totally последwd.
42:55You are so eager to have sex with me.
42:57Sorry.
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