00:00of course this was based on the true story of sam bloom and her family naomi how did you first
00:17come across this story the book came to me through my friend emma cooper who's also a producing
00:23partner and uh she sent it to me and said tell me what you think call me after you read it and i
00:29read it on a sunday morning with my children in bed um leafing through the pages of and being
00:36completely drawn in by these beautiful images of this creature this little tiny bird i just felt
00:42really like drawn in by um this moment that i was having with my children this family unity and how
00:51that would translate in in the telling of this story on the screen and i saw the magic of this bird
00:58um creating the unity and the and the repair of one's hope you want to erase yourself who you were
01:06she's still you sam andrew this is your first feature project since departing the walking dead
01:15a little bit of a different role but how are you able to connect to playing cameron and what were
01:20those conversations with him like as soon as i agreed to do the project he was we were skyping
01:26one another i sort of bombarded him with a thousand ridiculous questions and and then i went out and
01:32i went surfing with his family and we hung out and we just spent time and i and i suppose the key thing
01:39that i said why do you want what what do you want of this film what is the thing you most want he said i
01:45want them to get that we're soulmates that throughout this terrible trauma this family that that it is
01:52ultimately a love story you know in sickness and in health she doesn't want to be stuck inside does
01:57she boys and i were struggling you're struggling yes it's all of us naomi you had to learn how to be
02:05in a wheelchair for a majority of this film did you have any learning curves with that or was it easy or
02:11difficult to navigate i had to practice a lot and um read a lot about it and um sam again being the
02:20generous soul that she is sent video footage over before i got there of her um making transferring
02:28from bed to chair and um and it's not an easy thing to do um even getting lifted by someone andrew had
02:37multiple moments where we were he was having to lift me up but thankfully um sam was there on the set
02:42monitoring things and um and she was really able to you know put me set me straight when when things
02:50went awry hello maybe should have left it there she needs a night penguin the other star of this
03:01film was of course penguin this was a real life magpie that you both acted alongside what was that
03:07experience like andrew was it difficult were they well behaved what was that like we had seven uh magpies
03:13uh so when one of them got tired or full because they're sort of uh this extraordinary guy paul would
03:21feed them with live worms they only uh responded to the live worms um it sounds really gruesome doesn't
03:29it i'm surprised that there were seven that there were seven of them i thought this was just one
03:33extraordinary bird as it grew because obviously it's it spans you know the growth from the the chick to
03:40obviously a full-grown flying bird and also it was augmented by cgi a couple of times when they
03:47were flying shots and then also i think that there was a puppet as well an animatronic puppet but these
03:54birds were extraordinary must be weird to have wings and not be able to fly naomi you of course mentioned
04:01that sam and her family were very involved in the filming process what was something that you took away
04:06from your conversations with her well firstly i was blown away by the generosity i mean she she not
04:12only shared her house and you know dark secrets of everything her family members her mom i met her
04:20friends but she also shared her diaries um in the lead up which were deeply personal and gut-wrenching i
04:29sobbed and sobbed when i read these words on the page you know and truly got closer to understanding
04:35you know what a private hell that she was living in really understood her her strength it's an
04:42inspiring story being on set and i had my family naomi had my actual family with us we there was an
04:49extraordinary atmosphere of a a sort of culture on set that was really really conducive to being as
04:56honest and as true and as open and also honoring this extraordinary true story turns out magpies make
05:03for life totally monogamous maybe that explains why they're so miserable
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