Luke Bracey | Rugby & Blue Suede Shoes

I wanted to be a professional rugby player.

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Luke Bracey: You know, growing up with that background,

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Luke Bracey: it's only helped me in doing my job now.

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Luke Bracey: You know the parallels are so numerous

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Luke Bracey: between, I think, sport and art.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Hey, welcome, I'm Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Welcome.

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Marc Preston: Today's episode Going Down Under.

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Marc Preston: Actually, technically, we're going to the

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Marc Preston: UK with a man from Down Under, luke Bracey,

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Marc Preston: Australian actor, very talented.

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Marc Preston: A couple new films out right now on Netflix.

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Marc Preston: He's an interceptor Also.

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Marc Preston: He plays Elvis's best friend in the new Boz

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Marc Preston: Lerman movie, elvis, which is getting rave

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Marc Preston: reviews.

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Marc Preston: Everybody's talking about how great that is.

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Marc Preston: I'm going to be chatting with him and going

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Marc Preston: to cover the Australian basis.

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Marc Preston: Vegemite does come up, just heads up.

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Marc Preston: All right, so today it is Luke Bracey Day,

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Marc Preston: right here on Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: What are you joining me from today?

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Luke Bracey: I'm in London.

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Luke Bracey: I just moved into a flat in London actually,

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Luke Bracey: so it's kind of my first kind of home for

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Luke Bracey: longer than a couple of months in a few

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Luke Bracey: years.

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Luke Bracey: So it's nice, it's nice and empty.

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Luke Bracey: That's got to be nice, it is.

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Luke Bracey: It's nice to hang some clothes up.

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Marc Preston: Have you been traveling for projects a lot,

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Marc Preston: or have you just been kind of sampling

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Marc Preston: different places and decided, OK, UK is

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Marc Preston: going to be where you want to land?

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Luke Bracey: Well, kind of traveling for work.

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Luke Bracey: I was back home from about Christmas 2019.

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Luke Bracey: So I had a few months at home there and

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Luke Bracey: then I was up in the Gold Coast filming all

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Luke Bracey: of us from about September for about six

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Luke Bracey: months, then back in Sydney for a few

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Luke Bracey: months and then I was in North Carolina

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Luke Bracey: doing a job, saw some family in England for

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Luke Bracey: Christmas, went back to New York to do a

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Luke Bracey: job in February till April, and now I'm

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Luke Bracey: here and I finally found myself a little

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Luke Bracey: home, which I'm really excited about.

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Marc Preston: actually Very good, you're from Sydney,

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Marc Preston: though originally correct.

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Luke Bracey: Originally.

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Luke Bracey: Yes, yes, my mom's originally English, but

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Luke Bracey: has been in Australia for many decades now.

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Luke Bracey: So I've got the British passport, which

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Luke Bracey: makes everything a bit easier, very nice.

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Marc Preston: Wait, so they filmed Elvis on the Gold

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Marc Preston: Coast.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, we filmed on the Gold Coast.

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Marc Preston: Really, I did not Everything.

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Marc Preston: Oh, that must have been.

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Marc Preston: Is that where I heard Tom Hanks got?

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Marc Preston: You know, he got COVID when he was in

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Marc Preston: Australia.

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Marc Preston: Was he filming Elvis at the time, is that?

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Luke Bracey: I think that was.

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Luke Bracey: I think he got it maybe a few days before

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Luke Bracey: they were supposed to start shooting the

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Luke Bracey: first time around, and then it got kind of

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Luke Bracey: put on the back burner while the whole

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Luke Bracey: world went through COVID.

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Luke Bracey: And then it came around again.

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Luke Bracey: I actually wasn't attached to it on the

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Luke Bracey: first way around, but then COVID happened

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Luke Bracey: and they needed to recast and I was lucky

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Luke Bracey: enough that I was in Australia at the time,

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Luke Bracey: so the ball fell my way and Baz gave me a

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Luke Bracey: call.

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Luke Bracey: So you know, quite fortunate of some, my

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Luke Bracey: end.

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Marc Preston: Hey, any chance to meet a Baz Lerman show?

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Marc Preston: I mean gosh, that's got to be just too much

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Marc Preston: fun.

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Marc Preston: But congratulations on the gig, man.

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Marc Preston: I've heard nothing but really wonderful

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Marc Preston: things about Elvis and Baz Lerman.

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Marc Preston: I mean God, he's just I hate to use, like I

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Marc Preston: hate to say, hollywood speak.

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Marc Preston: He's got a very singular vision, his very

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Marc Preston: unique style, you know.

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Marc Preston: So was it a fun experience shooting the

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Marc Preston: show it was a blast.

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Luke Bracey: It was a blast.

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Luke Bracey: You know, baz is such a wild creative.

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Luke Bracey: Him and Catherine Martin.

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Luke Bracey: They're geniuses, you know, like the worlds

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Luke Bracey: they create are so unique and so larger

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Luke Bracey: than life, and I guess him and Catherine

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Luke Bracey: are really the only people to tackle Elvis.

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Luke Bracey: If we're going to be honest, I don't know

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Luke Bracey: if there's another filmmaker or storyteller

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Luke Bracey: in the world that kind of has the largeness

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Luke Bracey: that was required.

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Luke Bracey: But Baz is just.

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Luke Bracey: You just sit there in awe some days on set

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Luke Bracey: where you kind of there's days when he

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Luke Bracey: don't quite know exactly what you're going

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Luke Bracey: to get or what you're doing, and then

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Luke Bracey: suddenly you'll see something that is just

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Luke Bracey: pure magic and it's really impressive.

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Luke Bracey: So then, just on a personal level, he

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Luke Bracey: entrusted you as an actor to do your job

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Luke Bracey: and to know the character well and to come

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Luke Bracey: with ideas and to be fresh and open with it.

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Luke Bracey: And he was so collaborative and so open

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Luke Bracey: that way to you know our ideas and

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Luke Bracey: everything like that.

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Luke Bracey: I couldn't speak highly enough for working

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Luke Bracey: with Baz and with everyone, the whole crew,

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Luke Bracey: the whole cast.

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Luke Bracey: It was, yeah, it was a really special movie.

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Luke Bracey: When you're there for six months doing

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Luke Bracey: something as special as that, you become a

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Luke Bracey: big old family and I think we all were

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Luke Bracey: aware that we were part of something pretty

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Luke Bracey: unique and pretty special.

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Marc Preston: This is uniquely.

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Marc Preston: It seems to be Australian.

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Marc Preston: With him and with I see, was it Docker

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Marc Preston: Montgomery I always have a heart.

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Marc Preston: Is that a pronounced?

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Luke Bracey: name.

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Marc Preston: Daker, daker so I see he was in it and I

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Marc Preston: mean being able to shoot near a home's got

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Marc Preston: to be cool.

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Marc Preston: Now, gold Coast is that?

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Marc Preston: Is that considerate as Brisbane on the Gold

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Marc Preston: Coast, or?

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Luke Bracey: is that that's Brisbane's about an hour up

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Luke Bracey: the freeway.

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Luke Bracey: So the Gold Coast is kind of the real

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Luke Bracey: bottom part of Queens and the state of

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Luke Bracey: Queensland it's just.

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Luke Bracey: It's absolutely beautiful there.

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Luke Bracey: The weather's unbelievable, the surf's

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Luke Bracey: really great.

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Luke Bracey: It's such a lovely place to be.

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Marc Preston: You're killing me right now.

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Marc Preston: See, I have these fanciful ideas of being a

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Marc Preston: USX Pat Living maybe in Melbourne or

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Marc Preston: Brisbane, and I have friends in both places

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Marc Preston: and they're both like whatever you do,

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Marc Preston: don't go to Sydney.

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Marc Preston: I was like why?

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Marc Preston: It's like no, no, no, they're too stuffy

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Marc Preston: I was like so well, now I've got to sample

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Marc Preston: Sydney as well.

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Marc Preston: Gotta check that out.

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Luke Bracey: But look, I'm from Sydney so I'm a little

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Luke Bracey: biased in that way.

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Luke Bracey: But you know, maybe people from Melbourne

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Luke Bracey: and Brisbane might have a little chip on

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Luke Bracey: their shoulder about Sydney.

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Luke Bracey: Sydney's a beautiful place.

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Luke Bracey: We hugged the limelight and I get it.

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Luke Bracey: Melbourne's an awesome city.

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Luke Bracey: Brisbane's really on the up.

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Luke Bracey: It's a really cool place.

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Luke Bracey: But Sydney's not too bad.

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Luke Bracey: Don't let them tell you that it's all bad

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Luke Bracey: in Sydney.

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Marc Preston: So the so kind of going to go in kind of

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Marc Preston: the origin story was this something doing,

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Marc Preston: the acting thing?

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Marc Preston: Was that something in the DNA?

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Marc Preston: Were your folks in acting or anything

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Marc Preston: creative, or did you just kind of break

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Marc Preston: them all inside just to kind of do

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Marc Preston: something on your own there?

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Luke Bracey: Yeah, it was.

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Luke Bracey: Yeah, no history of art or acting or kind

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Luke Bracey: of anything in my family.

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Luke Bracey: My father's a builder, my mother used to

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Luke Bracey: work in a bank, just you know, when she was

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Luke Bracey: younger, and then now works kind of running

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Luke Bracey: the books for my dad's business.

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Luke Bracey: My sister's one of you know a

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Luke Bracey: physiotherapist and a veterinarian.

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Luke Bracey: So no one, no one of the the the thespian

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Luke Bracey: kind of background in my family.

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Luke Bracey: But it was just something that I completely

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Luke Bracey: fell into, something that I never planned

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Luke Bracey: on doing.

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Luke Bracey: I got asked to audition for one of the long

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Luke Bracey: running soap repers in Australia when I was

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Luke Bracey: about 19.

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Luke Bracey: It's called Home and Away and I went into

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Luke Bracey: the audition and didn't really know what I

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Luke Bracey: was doing and then the next day I got a

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Luke Bracey: call saying I got the job.

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Marc Preston: So I had to.

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Marc Preston: Is it Neighbors the big one Neighbors?

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Marc Preston: Is that the other big?

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Marc Preston: Is that a soap opera or is it just a long

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Marc Preston: running series?

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Luke Bracey: That's a soap opera.

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Luke Bracey: So Neighbors is the one that's kind of set

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Luke Bracey: in Melbourne and Home and Away is set in a

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Luke Bracey: fictional place called Summer Bay.

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Luke Bracey: So they're both really long running kind of

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Luke Bracey: they've been on since the 80s and they're

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Luke Bracey: just kind of classic, classic Australian

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Luke Bracey: soap operas and have produced.

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Luke Bracey: You know, everyone kind of starts there and

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Luke Bracey: it's an amazing place to start if you're

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Luke Bracey: going to act in any way.

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Marc Preston: I think a lot of people started their music.

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Marc Preston: It was a, it was younger, many moons ago

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Marc Preston: and it landed far, far away.

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Marc Preston: When I had a radio show I just we were

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Marc Preston: playing, it was a Tina Arena, that's what.

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Marc Preston: I think she was on and it seems like a lot

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Marc Preston: of the singers also had the folks that came

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Marc Preston: out and had musical careers.

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Marc Preston: They would start there as well.

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Luke Bracey: Yeah well, kylie Minogue started on

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Marc Preston: You played rugby.

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Luke Bracey: That was my.

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Luke Bracey: You know that's most of it, yeah you can

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Luke Bracey: rely on inspiration and raw talent, up to a

479

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Luke Bracey: certain point, you know.

480

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Luke Bracey: And then, and then you've got to couple

481

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Luke Bracey: that with with with hard work, really, and

482

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Luke Bracey: dedication, and you'll be amazed what can

483

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Luke Bracey: come of it.

484

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I think as far as the the rugby thing,

485

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Marc Preston: I was watching others in American TV.

486

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Marc Preston: There was American TV host Anthony Bourdain

487

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Marc Preston: at the show.

488

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Marc Preston: We tried to OK and he went.

489

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Marc Preston: I think I don't know if it was an episode

490

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Marc Preston: where he was in Sydney or Melbourne, but he

491

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Marc Preston: went to go see was the rabbit owes, I think

492

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Marc Preston: some of the teams.

493

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Luke Bracey: Yeah, that's Russell Crowe's team that he's

494

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Luke Bracey: owns.

495

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Marc Preston: Yeah, apparently they're always doing well

496

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Marc Preston: and they just don't do well at the very end

497

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Marc Preston: of the season.

498

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Marc Preston: It's kind of like I'm a big baseball guy in

499

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Marc Preston: my Texas Rangers Same thing.

500

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Marc Preston: There's like never one a big championship.

501

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Marc Preston: You know, as far as the Elvis movie which

502

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Marc Preston: is, I've heard nothing, like I said nothing,

503

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Marc Preston: but great things about it.

504

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Marc Preston: Were you how, how dialed in were you to the

505

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Marc Preston: mystique and the history of, of, of all

506

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Marc Preston: things, elvis?

507

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Marc Preston: Were you already very aware, or did you

508

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Marc Preston: have to do a little bit of research before

509

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Marc Preston: you jumped into the film?

510

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Luke Bracey: I think, like everyone you know, I

511

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Luke Bracey: certainly certainly knew of Elvis and knew

512

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Luke Bracey: of a number of his songs and kind of his

513

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Luke Bracey: influence, but but obviously once you start

514

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Luke Bracey: diving into it and you get, you get the

515

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Luke Bracey: full scope of kind of this insane life that

516

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Luke Bracey: he lived in over a short period of time.

517

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Luke Bracey: He was only 42 when he passed away.

518

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Marc Preston: And I didn't use that young, really he was

519

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Marc Preston: that young and it seems like he existed for

520

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Marc Preston: the entire 20th century in a way.

521

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Luke Bracey: You know, once he burst into scenes seems

522

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Luke Bracey: like he existed for such a huge period and

523

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Luke Bracey: he went through so many different stages in

524

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Luke Bracey: his life from, you know and that's what the

525

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Luke Bracey: movie's great at it kind of him as a young

526

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Luke Bracey: boy and then through the fifties.

527

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Luke Bracey: He's this one person and then he involves

528

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Luke Bracey: into another person in the sixties and then

529

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Luke Bracey: the seventies and, you know, there were

530

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Luke Bracey: some songs that I wasn't aware about, some,

531

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Luke Bracey: some parts of his life that I didn't didn't

532

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Luke Bracey: know about.

533

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Luke Bracey: But diving into it, I mean, I don't think

534

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Luke Bracey: anyone's going to have a life or an impact

535

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Luke Bracey: on on people the way he did and still does.

536

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Luke Bracey: You know, he's one of the most loved

537

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Luke Bracey: entertainers in the world still, and he

538

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Luke Bracey: died 40 years ago, 45 years ago or

539

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Luke Bracey: something.

540

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Marc Preston: So I try to explain to my kids, though I

541

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Marc Preston: was trying to explain what I said speaking

542

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Marc Preston: with you, and I was like Elvis.

543

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Marc Preston: You have to understand that there was no

544

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Marc Preston: star really like him ever until he showed

545

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Marc Preston: up on the scene.

546

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Marc Preston: You know, yeah, there are the people like,

547

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Marc Preston: you know, sinatra, he would sing, he would

548

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Marc Preston: be in movies, but but there's something

549

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Marc Preston: like Elvis.

550

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Marc Preston: I mean, you know, he really seemed to put

551

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Marc Preston: Vegas on the map also, as you know, he

552

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Marc Preston: created the idea of a residency, didn't he

553

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Marc Preston: you?

554

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Marc Preston: know, oh indeed indeed.

555

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Luke Bracey: Oh well, the colonel was the mastermind

556

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Luke Bracey: behind that.

557

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Luke Bracey: But another thing with Elvis is he.

558

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Luke Bracey: You know, it's this perfect storm of of of.

559

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Luke Bracey: It's this perfect storm of things to create

560

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Luke Bracey: Elvis and what he was.

561

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Luke Bracey: You know, he was, television was just

562

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Luke Bracey: starting, you know what I mean.

563

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Luke Bracey: And this idea that he could be in someone's

564

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Luke Bracey: living room and to be such a larger than

565

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Luke Bracey: life figure and to be something that no one

566

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Luke Bracey: had ever, no people had ever seen before,

567

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Luke Bracey: than most people hadn't seen before, and

568

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Luke Bracey: then for that to exist in people's homes

569

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Luke Bracey: like it never had before, just catapulted

570

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Luke Bracey: him as well.

571

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Luke Bracey: You know the.

572

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Luke Bracey: I don't think there'll be anyone who really

573

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Luke Bracey: went through what he went through when it

574

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Luke Bracey: comes to his rise and his and his zenith,

575

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Luke Bracey: or his numerous zeniths of his career.

576

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Marc Preston: Yeah, and considering you, it's got to have

577

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Marc Preston: that level of charisma.

578

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Marc Preston: At the same time, you're the first one

579

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Marc Preston: doing all these things.

580

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Marc Preston: You know everybody makes mistakes, but I

581

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Marc Preston: mean he really had a consistent path and

582

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Marc Preston: then he would not disappear.

583

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Marc Preston: But like we went into the military or

584

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Marc Preston: whatever, you know he had these momentary

585

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Marc Preston: breaks but he came in a little bit

586

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Marc Preston: reinvented.

587

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Marc Preston: Now Jerry Schilling, the character you

588

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Marc Preston: played how does he fit into the ecosystem

589

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Marc Preston: of the Elvis world?

590

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Luke Bracey: Well, Jerry is one of his, Elvis's kind of

591

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Luke Bracey: best mate in a way.

592

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Luke Bracey: They know each other from back in Memphis

593

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Luke Bracey: when they were teenagers and then Jerry

594

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Luke Bracey: ended up going to University of Arkansas on

595

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Luke Bracey: a football scholarship.

596

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Luke Bracey: Funnily enough, he came back one summer

597

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Luke Bracey: holidays and Elvis was just blowing up and

598

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Luke Bracey: he was just about to go to Los Angeles.

599

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Luke Bracey: He kind of said to Jerry, hey, you want to

600

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Luke Bracey: come over?

601

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Luke Bracey: And Jerry said you know what?

602

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Luke Bracey: Yeah, I will.

603

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Luke Bracey: He went over there and and you know, it was

604

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Luke Bracey: kind of quote on quote part of the Memphis

605

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Luke Bracey: mafia, but more.

606

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Luke Bracey: He kind of found his own life as well,

607

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Luke Bracey: Jerry.

608

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Luke Bracey: He ended up being a music manager, managed

609

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Luke Bracey: the Beach Boys and a bunch of other people.

610

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Luke Bracey: But he, he was kind of the one person that

611

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Luke Bracey: didn't want anything from Elvis and was

612

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Luke Bracey: just looking out for his friend.

613

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Luke Bracey: You know, and that's kind of what you see

614

00:22:04,607 --> 00:22:07,762

Luke Bracey: in the movie, that Elvis always had someone

615

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Luke Bracey: trying to get something from him.

616

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Luke Bracey: What, in whatever capacity, that is not

617

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Luke Bracey: necessarily fiscally, but you know,

618

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Luke Bracey: attention, love, whatever, there's always

619

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Luke Bracey: people wanting things from him.

620

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Luke Bracey: And with Jerry he just wanted the best for

621

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Luke Bracey: his friend and kind of was was the one that

622

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Luke Bracey: was always looking out for him and you know

623

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Luke Bracey: selfishly to play that role.

624

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Luke Bracey: It's a really lovely character to play and

625

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Luke Bracey: a really nice person when your job is to be

626

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Luke Bracey: someone's good mate and I got a lot of

627

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Luke Bracey: respect for Jerry that way.

628

00:22:41,461 --> 00:22:43,588

Luke Bracey: He really cared about Elvis and the family

629

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Luke Bracey: and I think he's still very close with

630

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Luke Bracey: Priscilla and I think that's just a

631

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Luke Bracey: testament to the kind of guy he is?

632

00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,687

Marc Preston: Did you have a chance to chat with him,

633

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Marc Preston: have a phone conversation or a meetup with

634

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Marc Preston: him?

635

00:22:54,940 --> 00:22:57,511

Luke Bracey: I sent him an email or two before I started

636

00:22:57,571 --> 00:23:00,261

Luke Bracey: shooting but I never heard back from him,

637

00:23:00,401 --> 00:23:00,963

Luke Bracey: unfortunately.

638

00:23:01,384 --> 00:23:03,770

Luke Bracey: But I've heard he saw the movie and really

639

00:23:03,811 --> 00:23:04,172

Luke Bracey: loves it.

640

00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:06,251

Luke Bracey: So hopefully I'll get to get on the phone

641

00:23:06,271 --> 00:23:08,000

Luke Bracey: with him at some point and just say good

642

00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:11,048

Luke Bracey: day and you know, hopefully he can tell me

643

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Luke Bracey: he's proud of me.

644

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Marc Preston: Well, you know, I think that just the

645

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Marc Preston: commercials alone, if they.

646

00:23:17,090 --> 00:23:19,744

Marc Preston: If they like for instance, austin Butler,

647

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Marc Preston: when I see him I think the commercials

648

00:23:21,710 --> 00:23:23,686

Marc Preston: really showcase him kind of the early part

649

00:23:23,706 --> 00:23:24,168

Marc Preston: of his career.

650

00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:26,269

Marc Preston: I mean, he seems to have a little bit of

651

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Marc Preston: that mystique, a little bit of that

652

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Marc Preston: charisma.

653

00:23:29,024 --> 00:23:30,972

Marc Preston: You know, it seems that Baz kind of

654

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Marc Preston: captured that.

655

00:23:32,820 --> 00:23:34,485

Marc Preston: I mean, what was, what was your kind of

656

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Marc Preston: thought on?

657

00:23:35,788 --> 00:23:37,968

Marc Preston: Here's this guy playing this icon, you know,

658

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Marc Preston: and having to kind of carry the weight of

659

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Marc Preston: that.

660

00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,165

Marc Preston: What was, what was that experience like,

661

00:23:41,206 --> 00:23:42,550

Marc Preston: watching that transformation?

662

00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,507

Luke Bracey: I mean, what's what's impressive watching

663

00:23:44,568 --> 00:23:47,760

Luke Bracey: something someone tackle such a huge thing

664

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Luke Bracey: is the, the work that goes into it.

665

00:23:52,260 --> 00:23:54,671

Luke Bracey: Let's start with the impressed by the

666

00:23:54,711 --> 00:23:56,820

Luke Bracey: dedication that he had and the effort that

667

00:23:56,861 --> 00:23:59,050

Luke Bracey: he put in and everything like that.

668

00:23:59,431 --> 00:24:01,438

Luke Bracey: And you know to have that pressure on you

669

00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:04,548

Luke Bracey: and for how he handle it and to not only

670

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Luke Bracey: survive but thrive and put in such a

671

00:24:09,358 --> 00:24:10,220

Luke Bracey: wonderful performance.

672

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Luke Bracey: I'm just so happy for him.

673

00:24:13,134 --> 00:24:14,340

Luke Bracey: You know I played his best mate in the

674

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Luke Bracey: movie and we became really good friends

675

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Luke Bracey: over the filming and so for me I just feel

676

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Luke Bracey: I'm proud of him for tackling something so

677

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Luke Bracey: big and doing a great job and never shying

678

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Luke Bracey: away from it.

679

00:24:26,095 --> 00:24:28,541

Luke Bracey: And there were plenty of days where on set

680

00:24:28,581 --> 00:24:31,054

Luke Bracey: you'd kind of you just do a double take

681

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Luke Bracey: because you're watching Elvis.

682

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Luke Bracey: And then you know we had in the makeup

683

00:24:35,390 --> 00:24:37,698

Luke Bracey: rooms we had just they were just plastered

684

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Luke Bracey: with photos of Elvis from all ages, all the

685

00:24:41,309 --> 00:24:43,655

Luke Bracey: way around, and you get in after a day of

686

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Luke Bracey: work and take off your makeup and your wig

687

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Luke Bracey: or whatever, and then you kind of look at

688

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Luke Bracey: these photos and you're like that's not

689

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Luke Bracey: Elvis.

690

00:24:50,326 --> 00:24:52,234

Luke Bracey: I just saw Elvis, you know, like he really

691

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Luke Bracey: blurred the line where they were really

692

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Luke Bracey: indistinguishable a number of times, and

693

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Luke Bracey: selfishly as well.

694

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Luke Bracey: There were so many days on set where I just

695

00:25:01,565 --> 00:25:05,481

Luke Bracey: got to go to an Elvis concert for 12, for

696

00:25:05,501 --> 00:25:07,089

Luke Bracey: 10 hours, you know what I mean and I got to

697

00:25:07,109 --> 00:25:07,210

Luke Bracey: go to.

698

00:25:07,351 --> 00:25:08,435

Luke Bracey: Now was he singing?

699

00:25:08,475 --> 00:25:09,801

Marc Preston: was he actually singing, or are they

700

00:25:09,841 --> 00:25:11,990

Marc Preston: playing an actual Elvis track with him?

701

00:25:12,130 --> 00:25:12,230

Marc Preston: He?

702

00:25:12,271 --> 00:25:12,772

Luke Bracey: would sing.

703

00:25:13,273 --> 00:25:15,999

Luke Bracey: So all the young Elvis is Austin, and then

704

00:25:16,339 --> 00:25:19,613

Luke Bracey: for the older stuff they mix his voice with

705

00:25:19,673 --> 00:25:22,359

Luke Bracey: older Elvis, but he does, he sings all the

706

00:25:22,379 --> 00:25:22,699

Luke Bracey: way through it.

707

00:25:22,739 --> 00:25:26,091

Luke Bracey: He was unbelievable and the way he took it

708

00:25:26,211 --> 00:25:28,316

Luke Bracey: on and the way he gave it everything, every

709

00:25:28,336 --> 00:25:28,998

Luke Bracey: single take.

710

00:25:29,058 --> 00:25:31,271

Luke Bracey: And you know we had scenes where there's

711

00:25:31,791 --> 00:25:36,859

Luke Bracey: 400 extras and the energy in those rooms,

712

00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:40,605

Luke Bracey: be it the 68 Comeback Special or in the

713

00:25:41,271 --> 00:25:44,605

Luke Bracey: International Hotel in Vegas, it was fever

714

00:25:44,645 --> 00:25:45,770

Luke Bracey: pitch and that was.

715

00:25:46,031 --> 00:25:47,918

Marc Preston: Wait, was it the 68 Special?

716

00:25:47,938 --> 00:25:49,483

Marc Preston: Was that where it was like in the round and

717

00:25:49,524 --> 00:25:50,427

Marc Preston: he was wearing like black.

718

00:25:50,447 --> 00:25:51,230

Luke Bracey: Yeah, he's like blacked it off.

719

00:25:51,390 --> 00:25:53,156

Marc Preston: Yeah you know that is.

720

00:25:53,498 --> 00:25:55,565

Marc Preston: I remember my parents had that on VHS and I

721

00:25:56,167 --> 00:25:58,337

Marc Preston: was just farting around as a kid and I

722

00:25:58,377 --> 00:25:58,920

Marc Preston: threw it in.

723

00:25:58,961 --> 00:26:00,409

Marc Preston: I was just like watching stuff.

724

00:26:00,429 --> 00:26:01,736

Marc Preston: You know this is before we had cable.

725

00:26:02,238 --> 00:26:03,706

Marc Preston: He had a really good sense of humor.

726

00:26:03,746 --> 00:26:05,051

Marc Preston: He was, I mean, like I said, I keep saying

727

00:26:05,071 --> 00:26:07,978

Marc Preston: charisma and that's the thing that would be

728

00:26:08,018 --> 00:26:09,582

Marc Preston: intimidating if I'm an actor, to kind of

729

00:26:09,931 --> 00:26:10,594

Marc Preston: embody that.

730

00:26:10,774 --> 00:26:12,923

Marc Preston: You know that, still having a sense of

731

00:26:12,983 --> 00:26:14,670

Marc Preston: humor but being the sex symbol, you know.

732

00:26:14,813 --> 00:26:16,272

Luke Bracey: at the same time, you know I think there

733

00:26:16,292 --> 00:26:18,461

Luke Bracey: was a great thing about the 68 Special is

734

00:26:18,481 --> 00:26:21,152

Luke Bracey: that you know the way they kind of designed

735

00:26:21,192 --> 00:26:22,799

Luke Bracey: it was going to be a whole other thing and

736

00:26:22,819 --> 00:26:25,230

Luke Bracey: they we chopped this in the movie of what

737

00:26:25,331 --> 00:26:26,416

Luke Bracey: it was actually going to be.

738

00:26:26,436 --> 00:26:28,386

Luke Bracey: But what it ended up turning out to be was

739

00:26:28,406 --> 00:26:29,912

Luke Bracey: something completely different to what the

740

00:26:29,932 --> 00:26:32,019

Luke Bracey: Colonel had in mind and what he wanted, and

741

00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:34,052

Luke Bracey: a lot of it was Elvis.

742

00:26:34,072 --> 00:26:37,403

Luke Bracey: You're a charming, funny guy and let's just

743

00:26:37,504 --> 00:26:39,109

Luke Bracey: show the people that you know he'd been

744

00:26:39,129 --> 00:26:41,859

Luke Bracey: making movies for 10 years and you know

745

00:26:41,899 --> 00:26:44,208

Luke Bracey: these formulaic kind of movies that people

746

00:26:44,228 --> 00:26:46,134

Luke Bracey: really enjoyed at the start but it had

747

00:26:46,174 --> 00:26:49,442

Luke Bracey: become a bit cliche and so it was time to

748

00:26:50,405 --> 00:26:52,651

Luke Bracey: really kind of show people that Elvis still

749

00:26:52,691 --> 00:26:56,441

Luke Bracey: exists and still this effervescent and kind

750

00:26:56,461 --> 00:26:59,389

Luke Bracey: of engaging and warm character.

751

00:26:59,429 --> 00:27:00,773

Luke Bracey: And that was one of the great things about

752

00:27:00,793 --> 00:27:03,424

Luke Bracey: the 68 Special is that it was him in his

753

00:27:03,464 --> 00:27:05,391

Luke Bracey: element, you know, playing in the round

754

00:27:05,491 --> 00:27:08,091

Luke Bracey: with his old band just having a good time.

755

00:27:08,190 --> 00:27:10,711

Luke Bracey: They kind of saw the band and him mucking

756

00:27:10,810 --> 00:27:12,437

Luke Bracey: around in the dressing room beforehand and

757

00:27:12,457 --> 00:27:13,441

Luke Bracey: went you know what.

758

00:27:14,145 --> 00:27:15,571

Luke Bracey: We should put that on stage, because that's

759

00:27:15,611 --> 00:27:17,398

Luke Bracey: magic and that's kind of what it was.

760

00:27:17,478 --> 00:27:20,168

Luke Bracey: It was stripping him all the way down to

761

00:27:20,268 --> 00:27:22,613

Luke Bracey: who he was and who he was was this once in

762

00:27:22,653 --> 00:27:27,802

Luke Bracey: a lifetime, once in a generation character

763

00:27:27,922 --> 00:27:31,397

Luke Bracey: who was warm, funny, talented, sexy, all

764

00:27:31,417 --> 00:27:33,606

Luke Bracey: the things and to really strip it down into

765

00:27:33,626 --> 00:27:34,470

Luke Bracey: that, it was a great show.

766

00:27:34,991 --> 00:27:36,957

Marc Preston: You had mentioned the thing with Colonel

767

00:27:37,017 --> 00:27:37,458

Marc Preston: Tom Parker.

768

00:27:37,479 --> 00:27:38,481

Marc Preston: I mean, of course, Tom Hanks.

769

00:27:39,550 --> 00:27:40,834

Marc Preston: You mentioned the makeup trailer.

770

00:27:40,874 --> 00:27:43,701

Marc Preston: How long did it take to get his makeup set?

771

00:27:43,801 --> 00:27:44,523

Marc Preston: Every single day.

772

00:27:46,170 --> 00:27:48,677

Luke Bracey: Many hours, yeah, yeah, a lot of respect

773

00:27:48,697 --> 00:27:50,602

Luke Bracey: for Tom when it comes to that.

774

00:27:50,662 --> 00:27:53,056

Luke Bracey: It was, yeah, it was a number of hours in

775

00:27:53,076 --> 00:27:56,227

Luke Bracey: the chair for him and to get up and give

776

00:27:56,268 --> 00:27:57,432

Luke Bracey: that performance while doing it.

777

00:27:57,452 --> 00:28:00,140

Luke Bracey: You know a lot of respect for Tom and you

778

00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:00,260

Luke Bracey: know.

779

00:28:00,871 --> 00:28:01,974

Marc Preston: Any nuggets of wisdom.

780

00:28:02,094 --> 00:28:04,339

Luke Bracey: Yeah well, nuggets of wisdom in the way

781

00:28:04,379 --> 00:28:06,732

Luke Bracey: that, just to how to kind of carry yourself

782

00:28:07,333 --> 00:28:10,239

Luke Bracey: on set and be professional and be a nice

783

00:28:10,279 --> 00:28:14,252

Luke Bracey: guy and do a good job and was lucky enough

784

00:28:14,292 --> 00:28:16,998

Luke Bracey: to do a number of scenes with him and, you

785

00:28:17,018 --> 00:28:19,022

Luke Bracey: know, play with him really.

786

00:28:19,563 --> 00:28:22,940

Luke Bracey: And it was a yeah, definitely a pinch

787

00:28:22,961 --> 00:28:25,109

Luke Bracey: yourself moment when you're standing next

788

00:28:25,129 --> 00:28:27,459

Luke Bracey: to Tom Cruz, talking to him in an American

789

00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:29,688

Luke Bracey: accent, pretending to be someone else, and

790

00:28:29,709 --> 00:28:30,231

Luke Bracey: Tom Hanks too.

791

00:28:30,291 --> 00:28:30,993

Marc Preston: no, I'm just kidding.

792

00:28:31,094 --> 00:28:32,800

Announcer: You said Tom Cruz, I'm sitting here

793

00:28:32,820 --> 00:28:34,071

Announcer: thinking oh sorry, tom Hanks, sorry.

794

00:28:34,632 --> 00:28:36,377

Marc Preston: There's just there's simply too many Tom's

795

00:28:36,437 --> 00:28:38,182

Marc Preston: happening, you know, right now and on.

796

00:28:39,070 --> 00:28:39,935

Luke Bracey: I just walked past.

797

00:28:40,023 --> 00:28:42,187

Luke Bracey: I just walked past a top gun post and

798

00:28:42,275 --> 00:28:43,018

Luke Bracey: that's what it was.

799

00:28:43,106 --> 00:28:44,723

Luke Bracey: I literally just walked past the post, as

800

00:28:44,783 --> 00:28:45,224

Luke Bracey: if you want it.

801

00:28:45,744 --> 00:28:46,885

Marc Preston: Oh, I geeked out on that.

802

00:28:47,025 --> 00:28:49,151

Marc Preston: I took my son to go see Top Gun and I was

803

00:28:49,171 --> 00:28:50,698

Marc Preston: like I was back to 1986.

804

00:28:50,718 --> 00:28:52,306

Marc Preston: I was back to being 13 years old again.

805

00:28:52,346 --> 00:28:55,374

Marc Preston: I was like, oh, this is just for guys of my

806

00:28:55,434 --> 00:28:55,935

Marc Preston: generation.

807

00:28:55,955 --> 00:28:57,479

Marc Preston: That was, that was the thing, man.

808

00:28:57,779 --> 00:28:59,683

Marc Preston: But no, so Tom Hanks was.

809

00:29:00,151 --> 00:29:01,779

Marc Preston: It's funny because Tom Hanks to me is a lot

810

00:29:01,819 --> 00:29:02,824

Marc Preston: like Elvis was.

811

00:29:02,864 --> 00:29:04,390

Marc Preston: He's had his stages and he was doing the

812

00:29:04,451 --> 00:29:06,837

Marc Preston: rom-coms and you know, I remember watching

813

00:29:06,897 --> 00:29:08,461

Marc Preston: on Booz and Buzzing Buddies when he did a

814

00:29:08,581 --> 00:29:09,750

Marc Preston: TV show years ago.

815

00:29:09,869 --> 00:29:12,517

Marc Preston: So to be there with him, I mean he just, I

816

00:29:12,636 --> 00:29:13,712

Marc Preston: mean everybody loves Tom.

817

00:29:13,831 --> 00:29:14,071

Luke Bracey: Hanks.

818

00:29:14,071 --> 00:29:15,555

Luke Bracey: It's just, it's a surreal moment.

819

00:29:15,856 --> 00:29:18,925

Luke Bracey: It's a surreal moment because he kind of is

820

00:29:19,046 --> 00:29:19,487

Luke Bracey: movies.

821

00:29:19,968 --> 00:29:22,435

Luke Bracey: Right, my entire life it's been him.

822

00:29:23,277 --> 00:29:24,740

Luke Bracey: When I think of movies, he's been in them

823

00:29:25,282 --> 00:29:27,895

Luke Bracey: and been in all the great ones, and so it's

824

00:29:27,936 --> 00:29:28,779

Luke Bracey: quite surreal.

825

00:29:28,899 --> 00:29:30,445

Luke Bracey: When you get to work with him in a movie,

826

00:29:30,506 --> 00:29:30,927

Luke Bracey: it's, it's.

827

00:29:31,108 --> 00:29:32,794

Luke Bracey: It is a real pinch yourself moment.

828

00:29:33,597 --> 00:29:34,901

Luke Bracey: You never quite think you're ever going to

829

00:29:36,366 --> 00:29:37,751

Luke Bracey: work with someone like that, because they

830

00:29:37,771 --> 00:29:40,481

Luke Bracey: kind of exist on the screen and then

831

00:29:40,521 --> 00:29:42,248

Luke Bracey: suddenly they're in front of you and you're

832

00:29:42,268 --> 00:29:42,730

Luke Bracey: creating it.

833

00:29:42,911 --> 00:29:44,880

Luke Bracey: So when, when I got to see the movie and

834

00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,868

Luke Bracey: see me standing next to him and talking to

835

00:29:46,909 --> 00:29:49,418

Luke Bracey: him, I was a bit, oh, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm

836

00:29:49,458 --> 00:29:49,940

Luke Bracey: in a movie.

837

00:29:50,221 --> 00:29:51,707

Luke Bracey: You know it's one of those moments, you

838

00:29:51,727 --> 00:29:53,332

Luke Bracey: know it's, it's quite a surreal.

839

00:29:53,894 --> 00:29:55,559

Marc Preston: I think that a surreal would be the word I

840

00:29:55,579 --> 00:29:56,301

Marc Preston: would use as well.

841

00:30:03,571 --> 00:30:04,476

Marc Preston: Which did you shoot first?

842

00:30:04,517 --> 00:30:05,945

Marc Preston: This or did you shoot Interceptor?

843

00:30:05,965 --> 00:30:07,634

Marc Preston: Or were they like just butt to butt, Are

844

00:30:07,654 --> 00:30:07,755

Marc Preston: they?

845

00:30:07,775 --> 00:30:08,679

Luke Bracey: butting up against each other.

846

00:30:08,961 --> 00:30:13,497

Luke Bracey: Yeah, so we, we finished this end of

847

00:30:13,537 --> 00:30:15,121

Luke Bracey: February, start of March 2021.

848

00:30:15,862 --> 00:30:18,469

Luke Bracey: And then I went down to Sydney and I think

849

00:30:18,529 --> 00:30:22,098

Luke Bracey: I must have started Interceptor in April

850

00:30:22,459 --> 00:30:26,108

Luke Bracey: sometime and, yeah, that was that was

851

00:30:26,128 --> 00:30:27,452

Luke Bracey: really great, or something Obviously,

852

00:30:27,974 --> 00:30:29,541

Luke Bracey: completely, completely different.

853

00:30:29,561 --> 00:30:31,529

Luke Bracey: I hadn't ever played a bad guy before, so

854

00:30:31,549 --> 00:30:32,473

Luke Bracey: that was really really fun.

855

00:30:33,015 --> 00:30:34,542

Marc Preston: And I got to work with him Well, Chris.

856

00:30:34,582 --> 00:30:36,932

Marc Preston: Semsworth, he's an Aussie as well, correct?

857

00:30:36,972 --> 00:30:37,997

Marc Preston: And didn't he produce this?

858

00:30:38,399 --> 00:30:40,368

Luke Bracey: Yeah, he produced it and Elsa obviously his

859

00:30:40,408 --> 00:30:42,354

Luke Bracey: wife is is the main star and Chris has a

860

00:30:42,394 --> 00:30:43,196

Luke Bracey: little cameo in it.

861

00:30:43,718 --> 00:30:45,482

Luke Bracey: This is really funny and really nice and,

862

00:30:45,831 --> 00:30:47,557

Luke Bracey: yeah, they're great people and it was a

863

00:30:47,617 --> 00:30:48,821

Luke Bracey: really, really fun job.

864

00:30:48,902 --> 00:30:51,671

Luke Bracey: Actually Got to work with Stuart Beatty,

865

00:30:51,712 --> 00:30:53,759

Luke Bracey: who I'd worked with before on Danger Close

866

00:30:53,859 --> 00:30:56,909

Luke Bracey: and he's a such a talented writer and such

867

00:30:56,929 --> 00:30:57,571

Luke Bracey: a great guy.

868

00:30:57,993 --> 00:30:59,960

Luke Bracey: And then Matthew Riley, the director first

869

00:30:59,980 --> 00:31:02,750

Luke Bracey: time director and you know the success of

870

00:31:02,910 --> 00:31:03,552

Luke Bracey: Interceptor.

871

00:31:03,592 --> 00:31:05,657

Luke Bracey: You know there's been, is getting some

872

00:31:05,737 --> 00:31:07,642

Luke Bracey: really good numbers and I couldn't happen

873

00:31:07,682 --> 00:31:09,032

Luke Bracey: to a better bloke.

874

00:31:09,173 --> 00:31:10,376

Luke Bracey: You know I'm so happy for that.

875

00:31:10,396 --> 00:31:11,800

Luke Bracey: All he's ever wanted to do is direct a

876

00:31:11,820 --> 00:31:12,021

Luke Bracey: movie.

877

00:31:12,311 --> 00:31:12,571

Marc Preston: Yeah, I think.

878

00:31:12,692 --> 00:31:14,136

Marc Preston: I think on Netflix it's like number three

879

00:31:14,176 --> 00:31:14,858

Marc Preston: or number seven.

880

00:31:15,019 --> 00:31:17,438

Marc Preston: I forgot where it was landing last last

881

00:31:17,478 --> 00:31:19,105

Marc Preston: night, last few nights, I forgot when I

882

00:31:19,165 --> 00:31:19,587

Marc Preston: checked it out.

883

00:31:19,607 --> 00:31:21,476

Marc Preston: But I mean, you definitely a bad guy.

884

00:31:21,517 --> 00:31:23,426

Marc Preston: When you got blood splattered on a window

885

00:31:23,446 --> 00:31:25,417

Marc Preston: and you're drawing, drawing a frowny face

886

00:31:25,678 --> 00:31:27,166

Marc Preston: in the blood, I'm like, yeah, he's a bad

887

00:31:27,227 --> 00:31:27,790

Marc Preston: dude, you know.

888

00:31:28,973 --> 00:31:29,615

Luke Bracey: Yeah, exactly.

889

00:31:29,815 --> 00:31:32,062

Luke Bracey: But, no, it was really great fun.

890

00:31:32,431 --> 00:31:33,957

Marc Preston: Now, where did y'all shoot Interceptor?

891

00:31:34,550 --> 00:31:35,772

Luke Bracey: That was in Sydney.

892

00:31:36,093 --> 00:31:40,280

Luke Bracey: So I got to be home and weirdly have kind

893

00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,253

Luke Bracey: of a quote unquote normal life for a couple

894

00:31:44,273 --> 00:31:45,416

Luke Bracey: of months, which was strange.

895

00:31:45,436 --> 00:31:47,041

Luke Bracey: You know, I'd go to work Monday to Friday

896

00:31:47,081 --> 00:31:49,614

Luke Bracey: and then on the weekends I'd go to the pub

897

00:31:49,775 --> 00:31:51,941

Luke Bracey: and watch the, the footy with my mates at

898

00:31:51,961 --> 00:31:54,235

Luke Bracey: the at the pub and go to my sisters for a

899

00:31:54,275 --> 00:31:56,762

Luke Bracey: barbecue on Sundays and it was this weird

900

00:31:56,782 --> 00:31:59,517

Luke Bracey: kind of normal life that was just so

901

00:31:59,597 --> 00:32:01,504

Luke Bracey: enjoyable to, to to do your job.

902

00:32:01,544 --> 00:32:03,331

Luke Bracey: Normally, you know, we have to work in

903

00:32:03,472 --> 00:32:05,100

Luke Bracey: strange places We've never been before and

904

00:32:05,763 --> 00:32:07,230

Luke Bracey: kind of create your own little environment.

905

00:32:07,391 --> 00:32:09,058

Luke Bracey: But to be able to do it at home, you know,

906

00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:10,283

Luke Bracey: such a blessing.

907

00:32:10,584 --> 00:32:11,749

Luke Bracey: I love working in Australia.

908

00:32:11,769 --> 00:32:14,054

Luke Bracey: I think it's one of the best places to make

909

00:32:14,075 --> 00:32:14,475

Luke Bracey: movies.

910

00:32:14,796 --> 00:32:17,803

Luke Bracey: The crews are best in the world and, and,

911

00:32:18,003 --> 00:32:18,371

Luke Bracey: and and.

912

00:32:18,431 --> 00:32:20,378

Luke Bracey: As a place to live it's it's pretty

913

00:32:20,438 --> 00:32:20,839

Luke Bracey: unbeatable.

914

00:32:21,130 --> 00:32:22,815

Marc Preston: My youngest gets off to college in two

915

00:32:22,875 --> 00:32:23,757

Marc Preston: years and I the.

916

00:32:23,778 --> 00:32:25,772

Marc Preston: The idea is I've always wanted to, as I

917

00:32:25,812 --> 00:32:27,280

Marc Preston: mentioned, be an ex-pat, go somewhere.

918

00:32:27,581 --> 00:32:29,230

Marc Preston: To me, australia seems like a great place

919

00:32:29,250 --> 00:32:30,393

Marc Preston: to land for a couple of years.

920

00:32:30,473 --> 00:32:32,257

Marc Preston: You know to live in.

921

00:32:32,658 --> 00:32:33,901

Marc Preston: I'm a big food nerd man.

922

00:32:33,941 --> 00:32:37,014

Marc Preston: I've just loved to just be eating around

923

00:32:37,095 --> 00:32:37,597

Marc Preston: Australia.

924

00:32:37,697 --> 00:32:39,164

Marc Preston: You know some of the best food.

925

00:32:39,325 --> 00:32:41,173

Luke Bracey: we have some of the best food, best produce,

926

00:32:41,334 --> 00:32:43,402

Luke Bracey: great restaurants and, in terms of

927

00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:45,430

Luke Bracey: Australia, it's, it's it's just a lovely

928

00:32:45,570 --> 00:32:46,954

Luke Bracey: place to be a human being.

929

00:32:47,154 --> 00:32:48,659

Luke Bracey: It's a really nice place to exist.

930

00:32:49,220 --> 00:32:52,150

Luke Bracey: You know, it's, it's, it's, it's it's

931

00:32:52,291 --> 00:32:58,019

Luke Bracey: beautiful, lovely way of life, nice and

932

00:32:58,059 --> 00:32:58,640

Luke Bracey: carefree.

933

00:32:58,740 --> 00:33:01,945

Luke Bracey: And, yeah, I feel very fortunate that I,

934

00:33:02,330 --> 00:33:03,876

Luke Bracey: that I grew up there and get to go back

935

00:33:03,896 --> 00:33:04,859

Luke Bracey: there all the time.

936

00:33:05,050 --> 00:33:07,277

Marc Preston: Well, you, being able to shoot a film and

937

00:33:07,318 --> 00:33:10,929

Marc Preston: be able to go home, you know, every day or

938

00:33:10,949 --> 00:33:12,215

Marc Preston: be able to go back to your own place

939

00:33:12,517 --> 00:33:13,964

Marc Preston: instead of a hotel, that's gonna that's

940

00:33:13,984 --> 00:33:15,130

Marc Preston: gonna be really nice, you know.

941

00:33:15,271 --> 00:33:16,537

Luke Bracey: Yeah, yeah it is, it is.

942

00:33:16,598 --> 00:33:17,965

Luke Bracey: And then just having your mates around and

943

00:33:18,005 --> 00:33:19,672

Luke Bracey: having your family around and then getting

944

00:33:19,692 --> 00:33:22,938

Luke Bracey: to kind of experience it with you and and

945

00:33:23,159 --> 00:33:25,932

Luke Bracey: you know, I remember I I wrapped

946

00:33:25,972 --> 00:33:27,940

Luke Bracey: interceptor and my best mate was there and

947

00:33:28,482 --> 00:33:30,229

Luke Bracey: we went out and had a big beer and he'd

948

00:33:30,249 --> 00:33:31,914

Luke Bracey: never been able to be with me when I

949

00:33:31,974 --> 00:33:33,017

Luke Bracey: finished a job before.

950

00:33:33,077 --> 00:33:35,002

Luke Bracey: So that was really fun, you know, and just

951

00:33:35,691 --> 00:33:36,454

Luke Bracey: all those little things.

952

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Marc Preston: Oh, that's a question I've got for you

953

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Marc Preston: Because in the US I don't hear it promoted

954

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Marc Preston: nearly as much.

955

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Marc Preston: I'd say the mid late 90s they were pushing

956

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Marc Preston: fosters really hard and I was talking to a

957

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Marc Preston: friend of mine from from Brisbane.

958

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Marc Preston: He said it's nobody in Australia drinks

959

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Marc Preston: fosters.

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Marc Preston: What is what would you say would be the

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Marc Preston: iconic?

962

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Marc Preston: When you're getting somebody's pulling a

963

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Marc Preston: pint, you just say I want a beer, it's

964

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Marc Preston: going to be the one you want.

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Marc Preston: What's the good Australian beer?

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Luke Bracey: Probably probably the most well known

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Luke Bracey: around the country.

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Luke Bracey: I mean, each state kind of has their

969

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Luke Bracey: different ones, but I'd say VB Victoria

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Luke Bracey: Bitter, that's a pretty classic one.

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Luke Bracey: They always had some really fantastic ads

972

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Luke Bracey: and they always had a really classic theme

973

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Luke Bracey: song for the beer on the ads and that's a

974

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Luke Bracey: pretty, that's a pretty classic beer.

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Luke Bracey: What was the tagline?

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Luke Bracey: A hard-earned first needs a big cold beer

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Luke Bracey: and the best cold beer is VB Victoria

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Luke Bracey: Bitter.

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Luke Bracey: That's a great classy tagline.

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Marc Preston: You know I'm not a big drinker, necessarily,

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