Actor Luke Bracey from "Point Break" and "Elvis" joins us on Story & Craft.
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Actor Luke Bracey from “Point Break” and “Elvis” joins us on Story & Craft.
Luke stars in Netflix’s “Interceptor” and co-stars in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.” We talk about “Point Break,” “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” acting with Tom Hanks, and what acting has in common with rugby.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Luke Bracey joins Story & Craft
Acting, Collaboration, and Personal Growth
Discussion of Elvis and Rugby Careers
Working With Tom Hanks in Australia
Netflix Rankings and Filming in Sydney
Seven Questions
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Full Transcript
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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: Glad to have you stop by, be a part of the
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Marc Preston: show today If you've never been here before.
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Marc Preston: Welcome.
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Marc Preston: If you've been here for different episodes,
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Marc Preston: glad to have you back.
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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: Now, don't forget Story and Craft podcom.
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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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Luke Bracey: Neighbours, so yeah, there's a whole
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Luke Bracey: history of people.
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Luke Bracey: But in terms of a place to start, if you
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Luke Bracey: don't know anything about acting, it's a
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Luke Bracey: great place to start.
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Luke Bracey: You really learn that it is a big team and
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Luke Bracey: I came in when it had already been on for
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Luke Bracey: 20-something years.
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Luke Bracey: So, having no idea, you kind of come in and
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Luke Bracey: you've got to fit in and do your work and
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Luke Bracey: be part of the team and it's a great place
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Luke Bracey: to kind of ply your trade and the turnover
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Luke Bracey: is quick.
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Marc Preston: It's really hard work and I think oh yeah,
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Marc Preston: you have to memorize tons of dialogue on
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Marc Preston: soap operas and you just kind of plow right
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Marc Preston: through it.
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Marc Preston: I mean, I don't know if I could do that.
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Marc Preston: I'm not the best at memorizing.
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Luke Bracey: I'd never done it before, so I'd never
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Luke Bracey: learned any lines or anything.
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Luke Bracey: So I look back now and it's not the bit
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Luke Bracey: that I remember, but I must have spent many,
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Luke Bracey: many a Sunday just memorizing lines for the
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Luke Bracey: next week, because we'd film a half hour
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Luke Bracey: episode a day, essentially Monday to Friday,
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Luke Bracey: and then you're doing external scenes for
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Luke Bracey: the next week's storyline and, yeah, it's
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Luke Bracey: really getting thrown in the deep end.
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Luke Bracey: I went to school and played rugby with a
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Luke Bracey: Life of Us, love my Way and I finished
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Luke Bracey: I had to call up my father, who I was
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Luke Bracey: And they're like what's going on?
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Luke Bracey: I said I've been asked to be on television,
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Luke Bracey: I thought why not go for it?
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Marc Preston: Yeah, and I saw it was funny.
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Marc Preston: But, I had never seen West Side.
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Marc Preston: What was that about it?
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Luke Bracey: was.
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Luke Bracey: It was a.
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Luke Bracey: It was a pilot that I did that we did back
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Luke Bracey: Mcg directed it and there was a few people
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Luke Bracey: I'd never done anything like that.
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Luke Bracey: It was a great experience.
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Marc Preston: Was that your first US based show?
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Marc Preston: Was that the first thing you did over here?
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Luke Bracey: No, I'd done.
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Luke Bracey: I'd done a movie or two, a small movie or
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Luke Bracey: I'd had a part playing kind of the bad guy
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Luke Bracey: I shot that 2013 and then the start of 2014.
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Luke Bracey: I got the best of me and then a you know, a
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Luke Bracey: that, I went off and did point break and
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Luke Bracey: after that I did a little job here and
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Luke Bracey: there and did a hacksaw ridge and it just
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Luke Bracey: keep the momentum up, you can, you can find
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Luke Bracey: your way up the ladder each time.
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Luke Bracey: And that's all that I've been trying to do
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I mean, you know, I think that's.
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Marc Preston: You know, I mean hacksaw ridge.
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Marc Preston: I was a Mel Gibson you directed, didn't he?
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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, so was it.
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Marc Preston: How was that project?
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Luke Bracey: to work on.
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Luke Bracey: I mean, mel's a genius at telling stories.
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Luke Bracey: So if I, if I got to work with Mel again
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Luke Bracey: anytime in my life, I would.
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Luke Bracey: I would sign on the dotted line right away.
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Luke Bracey: I had such an amazing time.
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Luke Bracey: He taught everyone so much and, I know, in
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Luke Bracey: I find like the best directors I've ever
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Marc Preston: Do you prefer working with directors that
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Marc Preston: hiring you, he recognizes the skills, you
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Marc Preston: Or do you like the directors that kind of
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Marc Preston: Do you just kind of like to be cut loose to
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Luke Bracey: Well, I like, I like a bit of both, in the
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Luke Bracey: Making a film, you know, if I, you know, to
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Luke Bracey: I love the fact that when we make films,
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Luke Bracey: our at our best, we create great stuff.
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Luke Bracey: And I love the collaborative process
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Luke Bracey: between us actors and the director, between
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Luke Bracey: I just enjoy the, the complete kind of
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Luke Bracey: flooding of ideas from from many different
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Luke Bracey: That always excites me when you get to be
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Luke Bracey: You know, two people thinking about the one
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Luke Bracey: So, yeah, I guess, I guess that's what I
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Luke Bracey: But the one thing that's important is that
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Luke Bracey: you retain.
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Marc Preston: You mentioned the sports thing.
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Marc Preston: You did a.
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Marc Preston: You played rugby.
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Marc Preston: You said, did you do that just in high
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Luke Bracey: That was my.
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Luke Bracey: As a child, I wanted to be a professional
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Marc Preston: That's all I got to ask you who was your
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Luke Bracey: Well, I'm a huge, huge Manly Seagulls fan
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Luke Bracey: in the, in our real, at home Absolutely,
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Luke Bracey: absolutely Love them and ride every game of
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Luke Bracey: Now, you know, the parallels are so, so
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I think as far as the the rugby thing,
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Marc Preston: I think I don't know if it was an episode
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Marc Preston: Yeah, apparently they're always doing well
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Marc Preston: and they just don't do well at the very end
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Marc Preston: It's kind of like I'm a big baseball guy in
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Marc Preston: There's like never one a big championship.
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Marc Preston: You know, as far as the Elvis movie which
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Marc Preston: Were you how, how dialed in were you to the
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Luke Bracey: I think, like everyone you know, I
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Marc Preston: And I didn't use that young, really he was
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Luke Bracey: You know, once he burst into scenes seems
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Luke Bracey: But diving into it, I mean, I don't think
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Luke Bracey: You know, he's one of the most loved
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Marc Preston: So I try to explain to my kids, though I
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Marc Preston: You have to understand that there was no
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Marc Preston: You know, yeah, there are the people like,
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Marc Preston: you know, sinatra, he would sing, he would
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Marc Preston: be in movies, but but there's something
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Marc Preston: like Elvis.
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Marc Preston: I mean, you know, he really seemed to put
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Marc Preston: Vegas on the map also, as you know, he
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Marc Preston: created the idea of a residency, didn't he
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Marc Preston: you?
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Marc Preston: know, oh indeed indeed.
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Luke Bracey: Oh well, the colonel was the mastermind
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Luke Bracey: behind that.
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Luke Bracey: But another thing with Elvis is he.
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Luke Bracey: You know, it's this perfect storm of of of.
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Luke Bracey: It's this perfect storm of things to create
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Luke Bracey: Elvis and what he was.
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Luke Bracey: You know, he was, television was just
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Luke Bracey: starting, you know what I mean.
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Luke Bracey: And this idea that he could be in someone's
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Luke Bracey: living room and to be such a larger than
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Luke Bracey: life figure and to be something that no one
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Luke Bracey: had ever, no people had ever seen before,
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Luke Bracey: than most people hadn't seen before, and
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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
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Luke Bracey: him as well.
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Luke Bracey: You know the.
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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,
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Luke Bracey: or his numerous zeniths of his career.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, and considering you, it's got to have
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Marc Preston: that level of charisma.
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Marc Preston: At the same time, you're the first one
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Marc Preston: doing all these things.
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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
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Marc Preston: then he would not disappear.
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Marc Preston: But like we went into the military or
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Marc Preston: whatever, you know he had these momentary
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Marc Preston: breaks but he came in a little bit
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Marc Preston: reinvented.
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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
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Marc Preston: of the Elvis world?
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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.
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Luke Bracey: They know each other from back in Memphis
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Luke Bracey: when they were teenagers and then Jerry
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Luke Bracey: ended up going to University of Arkansas on
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Luke Bracey: a football scholarship.
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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.
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Luke Bracey: He kind of said to Jerry, hey, you want to
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Luke Bracey: come over?
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Luke Bracey: And Jerry said you know what?
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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
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Luke Bracey: kind of quote on quote part of the Memphis
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Luke Bracey: mafia, but more.
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Luke Bracey: He kind of found his own life as well,
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Luke Bracey: Jerry.
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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.
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Luke Bracey: But he, he was kind of the one person that
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Luke Bracey: didn't want anything from Elvis and was
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Luke Bracey: just looking out for his friend.
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Luke Bracey: You know, and that's kind of what you see
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Luke Bracey: in the movie, that Elvis always had someone
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Luke Bracey: trying to get something from him.
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Luke Bracey: What, in whatever capacity, that is not
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Luke Bracey: necessarily fiscally, but you know,
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Luke Bracey: attention, love, whatever, there's always
619
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Luke Bracey: people wanting things from him.
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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
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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.
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Luke Bracey: It's a really lovely character to play and
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Luke Bracey: a really nice person when your job is to be
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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
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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
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Luke Bracey: Priscilla and I think that's just a
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Luke Bracey: testament to the kind of guy he is?
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Marc Preston: Did you have a chance to chat with him,
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Marc Preston: have a phone conversation or a meetup with
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Marc Preston: him?
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Luke Bracey: I sent him an email or two before I started
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Luke Bracey: shooting but I never heard back from him,
637
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Luke Bracey: unfortunately.
638
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Luke Bracey: But I've heard he saw the movie and really
639
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Luke Bracey: loves it.
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Luke Bracey: So hopefully I'll get to get on the phone
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Luke Bracey: with him at some point and just say good
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Luke Bracey: day and you know, hopefully he can tell me
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Luke Bracey: he's proud of me.
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Marc Preston: Well, you know, I think that just the
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Marc Preston: commercials alone, if they.
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Marc Preston: If they like for instance, austin Butler,
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Marc Preston: when I see him I think the commercials
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Marc Preston: really showcase him kind of the early part
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Marc Preston: of his career.
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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.
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Marc Preston: You know, it seems that Baz kind of
654
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Marc Preston: captured that.
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Marc Preston: I mean, what was, what was your kind of
656
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Marc Preston: thought on?
657
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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
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Marc Preston: that.
660
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Marc Preston: What was, what was that experience like,
661
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Marc Preston: watching that transformation?
662
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Luke Bracey: I mean, what's what's impressive watching
663
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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
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Luke Bracey: Let's start with the impressed by the
666
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Luke Bracey: dedication that he had and the effort that
667
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Luke Bracey: he put in and everything like that.
668
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Luke Bracey: And you know to have that pressure on you
669
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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
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Luke Bracey: wonderful performance.
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Luke Bracey: I'm just so happy for him.
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Luke Bracey: You know I played his best mate in the
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Luke Bracey: movie and we became really good friends
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Luke Bracey: over the filming and so for me I just feel
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Luke Bracey: I'm proud of him for tackling something so
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Luke Bracey: big and doing a great job and never shying
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Luke Bracey: away from it.
679
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Luke Bracey: And there were plenty of days where on set
680
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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
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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
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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
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Luke Bracey: Elvis.
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Luke Bracey: I just saw Elvis, you know, like he really
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Luke Bracey: blurred the line where they were really
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Luke Bracey: indistinguishable a number of times, and
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Luke Bracey: selfishly as well.
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Luke Bracey: There were so many days on set where I just
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Luke Bracey: got to go to an Elvis concert for 12, for
696
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Luke Bracey: 10 hours, you know what I mean and I got to
697
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Luke Bracey: go to.
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Luke Bracey: Now was he singing?
699
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Marc Preston: was he actually singing, or are they
700
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Marc Preston: playing an actual Elvis track with him?
701
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Marc Preston: He?
702
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Luke Bracey: would sing.
703
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Luke Bracey: So all the young Elvis is Austin, and then
704
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Luke Bracey: for the older stuff they mix his voice with
705
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Luke Bracey: older Elvis, but he does, he sings all the
706
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Luke Bracey: way through it.
707
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Luke Bracey: He was unbelievable and the way he took it
708
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Luke Bracey: on and the way he gave it everything, every
709
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Luke Bracey: single take.
710
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Luke Bracey: And you know we had scenes where there's
711
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Luke Bracey: 400 extras and the energy in those rooms,
712
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Luke Bracey: be it the 68 Comeback Special or in the
713
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Luke Bracey: International Hotel in Vegas, it was fever
714
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Luke Bracey: pitch and that was.
715
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Marc Preston: Wait, was it the 68 Special?
716
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Marc Preston: Was that where it was like in the round and
717
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Marc Preston: he was wearing like black.
718
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Luke Bracey: Yeah, he's like blacked it off.
719
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Marc Preston: Yeah you know that is.
720
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Marc Preston: I remember my parents had that on VHS and I
721
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Marc Preston: was just farting around as a kid and I
722
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Marc Preston: threw it in.
723
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Marc Preston: I was just like watching stuff.
724
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Marc Preston: You know this is before we had cable.
725
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Marc Preston: He had a really good sense of humor.
726
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Marc Preston: He was, I mean, like I said, I keep saying
727
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Marc Preston: charisma and that's the thing that would be
728
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Marc Preston: intimidating if I'm an actor, to kind of
729
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Marc Preston: embody that.
730
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Marc Preston: You know that, still having a sense of
731
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Marc Preston: humor but being the sex symbol, you know.
732
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Luke Bracey: at the same time, you know I think there
733
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Luke Bracey: was a great thing about the 68 Special is
734
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Luke Bracey: that you know the way they kind of designed
735
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Luke Bracey: it was going to be a whole other thing and
736
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Luke Bracey: they we chopped this in the movie of what
737
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Luke Bracey: it was actually going to be.
738
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Luke Bracey: But what it ended up turning out to be was
739
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Luke Bracey: something completely different to what the
740
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Luke Bracey: Colonel had in mind and what he wanted, and
741
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Luke Bracey: a lot of it was Elvis.
742
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Luke Bracey: You're a charming, funny guy and let's just
743
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Luke Bracey: show the people that you know he'd been
744
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Luke Bracey: making movies for 10 years and you know
745
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Luke Bracey: these formulaic kind of movies that people
746
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Luke Bracey: really enjoyed at the start but it had
747
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Luke Bracey: become a bit cliche and so it was time to
748
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Luke Bracey: really kind of show people that Elvis still
749
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Luke Bracey: exists and still this effervescent and kind
750
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Luke Bracey: of engaging and warm character.
751
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Luke Bracey: And that was one of the great things about
752
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Luke Bracey: the 68 Special is that it was him in his
753
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Luke Bracey: element, you know, playing in the round
754
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Luke Bracey: with his old band just having a good time.
755
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Luke Bracey: They kind of saw the band and him mucking
756
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Luke Bracey: around in the dressing room beforehand and
757
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Luke Bracey: went you know what.
758
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Luke Bracey: We should put that on stage, because that's
759
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Luke Bracey: magic and that's kind of what it was.
760
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Luke Bracey: It was stripping him all the way down to
761
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Luke Bracey: who he was and who he was was this once in
762
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Luke Bracey: a lifetime, once in a generation character
763
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Luke Bracey: who was warm, funny, talented, sexy, all
764
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Luke Bracey: the things and to really strip it down into
765
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Luke Bracey: that, it was a great show.
766
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Marc Preston: You had mentioned the thing with Colonel
767
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Marc Preston: Tom Parker.
768
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Marc Preston: I mean, of course, Tom Hanks.
769
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Marc Preston: You mentioned the makeup trailer.
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Marc Preston: How long did it take to get his makeup set?
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Marc Preston: Every single day.
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Luke Bracey: Many hours, yeah, yeah, a lot of respect
773
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Luke Bracey: for Tom when it comes to that.
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Luke Bracey: It was, yeah, it was a number of hours in
775
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Luke Bracey: the chair for him and to get up and give
776
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Luke Bracey: that performance while doing it.
777
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Luke Bracey: You know a lot of respect for Tom and you
778
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Luke Bracey: know.
779
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Marc Preston: Any nuggets of wisdom.
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Luke Bracey: Yeah well, nuggets of wisdom in the way
781
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Luke Bracey: that, just to how to kind of carry yourself
782
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Luke Bracey: on set and be professional and be a nice
783
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Luke Bracey: guy and do a good job and was lucky enough
784
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Luke Bracey: to do a number of scenes with him and, you
785
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Luke Bracey: know, play with him really.
786
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Luke Bracey: And it was a yeah, definitely a pinch
787
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Luke Bracey: yourself moment when you're standing next
788
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Luke Bracey: to Tom Cruz, talking to him in an American
789
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Luke Bracey: accent, pretending to be someone else, and
790
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Luke Bracey: Tom Hanks too.
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Marc Preston: no, I'm just kidding.
792
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Announcer: You said Tom Cruz, I'm sitting here
793
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Announcer: thinking oh sorry, tom Hanks, sorry.
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Marc Preston: There's just there's simply too many Tom's
795
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Marc Preston: happening, you know, right now and on.
796
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Luke Bracey: I just walked past.
797
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Luke Bracey: I just walked past a top gun post and
798
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Luke Bracey: that's what it was.
799
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Luke Bracey: I literally just walked past the post, as
800
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Luke Bracey: if you want it.
801
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Marc Preston: Oh, I geeked out on that.
802
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Marc Preston: I took my son to go see Top Gun and I was
803
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Marc Preston: like I was back to 1986.
804
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Marc Preston: I was back to being 13 years old again.
805
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Marc Preston: I was like, oh, this is just for guys of my
806
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Marc Preston: generation.
807
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Marc Preston: That was, that was the thing, man.
808
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Marc Preston: But no, so Tom Hanks was.
809
Working With Tom Hanks in Australia
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Marc Preston: It's funny because Tom Hanks to me is a lot
810
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Marc Preston: like Elvis was.
811
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Marc Preston: He's had his stages and he was doing the
812
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Marc Preston: rom-coms and you know, I remember watching
813
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Marc Preston: on Booz and Buzzing Buddies when he did a
814
,581 --> 00:29:09,750
Marc Preston: TV show years ago.
815
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Marc Preston: So to be there with him, I mean he just, I
816
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Marc Preston: mean everybody loves Tom.
817
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Luke Bracey: Hanks.
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Luke Bracey: It's just, it's a surreal moment.
819
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Luke Bracey: It's a surreal moment because he kind of is
820
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Luke Bracey: movies.
821
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Luke Bracey: Right, my entire life it's been him.
822
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Luke Bracey: When I think of movies, he's been in them
823
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Luke Bracey: and been in all the great ones, and so it's
824
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Luke Bracey: quite surreal.
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Luke Bracey: When you get to work with him in a movie,
826
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Luke Bracey: it's, it's.
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Luke Bracey: It is a real pinch yourself moment.
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Luke Bracey: You never quite think you're ever going to
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Luke Bracey: work with someone like that, because they
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Luke Bracey: kind of exist on the screen and then
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Luke Bracey: suddenly they're in front of you and you're
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Luke Bracey: creating it.
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Luke Bracey: So when, when I got to see the movie and
834
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Luke Bracey: see me standing next to him and talking to
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Luke Bracey: him, I was a bit, oh, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm
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Luke Bracey: in a movie.
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Luke Bracey: You know it's one of those moments, you
838
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Luke Bracey: know it's, it's quite a surreal.
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Marc Preston: I think that a surreal would be the word I
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Marc Preston: would use as well.
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Marc Preston: Which did you shoot first?
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Marc Preston: This or did you shoot Interceptor?
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Marc Preston: Or were they like just butt to butt, Are
844
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Marc Preston: they?
845
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Luke Bracey: butting up against each other.
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Luke Bracey: Yeah, so we, we finished this end of
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Luke Bracey: February, start of March 2021.
848
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Luke Bracey: And then I went down to Sydney and I think
849
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Luke Bracey: I must have started Interceptor in April
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Luke Bracey: sometime and, yeah, that was that was
851
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Luke Bracey: really great, or something Obviously,
852
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Luke Bracey: completely, completely different.
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Luke Bracey: I hadn't ever played a bad guy before, so
854
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Luke Bracey: that was really really fun.
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Marc Preston: And I got to work with him Well, Chris.
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Marc Preston: Semsworth, he's an Aussie as well, correct?
857
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Marc Preston: And didn't he produce this?
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Luke Bracey: Yeah, he produced it and Elsa obviously his
859
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Luke Bracey: wife is is the main star and Chris has a
860
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Luke Bracey: little cameo in it.
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Luke Bracey: This is really funny and really nice and,
862
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Luke Bracey: yeah, they're great people and it was a
863
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Luke Bracey: really, really fun job.
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Luke Bracey: Actually Got to work with Stuart Beatty,
865
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Luke Bracey: who I'd worked with before on Danger Close
866
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Luke Bracey: and he's a such a talented writer and such
867
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Luke Bracey: a great guy.
868
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Luke Bracey: And then Matthew Riley, the director first
869
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Luke Bracey: time director and you know the success of
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Luke Bracey: Interceptor.
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Luke Bracey: You know there's been, is getting some
872
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Luke Bracey: really good numbers and I couldn't happen
873
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Luke Bracey: to a better bloke.
874
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Luke Bracey: You know I'm so happy for that.
875
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Luke Bracey: All he's ever wanted to do is direct a
876
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Luke Bracey: movie.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I think.
878
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Marc Preston: I think on Netflix it's like number three
879
Netflix Rankings and Filming in Sydney
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Marc Preston: or number seven.
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Marc Preston: I forgot where it was landing last last
881
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Marc Preston: night, last few nights, I forgot when I
882
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Marc Preston: checked it out.
883
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Marc Preston: But I mean, you definitely a bad guy.
884
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Marc Preston: When you got blood splattered on a window
885
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Marc Preston: and you're drawing, drawing a frowny face
886
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Marc Preston: in the blood, I'm like, yeah, he's a bad
887
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Marc Preston: dude, you know.
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Luke Bracey: Yeah, exactly.
889
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Luke Bracey: But, no, it was really great fun.
890
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Marc Preston: Now, where did y'all shoot Interceptor?
891
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Luke Bracey: That was in Sydney.
892
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Luke Bracey: So I got to be home and weirdly have kind
893
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Luke Bracey: of a quote unquote normal life for a couple
894
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Luke Bracey: of months, which was strange.
895
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Luke Bracey: You know, I'd go to work Monday to Friday
896
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Luke Bracey: and then on the weekends I'd go to the pub
897
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Luke Bracey: and watch the, the footy with my mates at
898
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Luke Bracey: the at the pub and go to my sisters for a
899
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Luke Bracey: barbecue on Sundays and it was this weird
900
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Luke Bracey: kind of normal life that was just so
901
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Luke Bracey: enjoyable to, to to do your job.
902
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Luke Bracey: Normally, you know, we have to work in
903
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Luke Bracey: strange places We've never been before and
904
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Luke Bracey: kind of create your own little environment.
905
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Luke Bracey: But to be able to do it at home, you know,
906
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Luke Bracey: such a blessing.
907
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Luke Bracey: I love working in Australia.
908
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Luke Bracey: I think it's one of the best places to make
909
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Luke Bracey: movies.
910
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Luke Bracey: The crews are best in the world and, and,
911
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Luke Bracey: and and.
912
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Luke Bracey: As a place to live it's it's pretty
913
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Luke Bracey: unbeatable.
914
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Marc Preston: My youngest gets off to college in two
915
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Marc Preston: years and I the.
916
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Marc Preston: The idea is I've always wanted to, as I
917
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Marc Preston: mentioned, be an ex-pat, go somewhere.
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Marc Preston: To me, australia seems like a great place
919
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Marc Preston: to land for a couple of years.
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Marc Preston: You know to live in.
921
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Marc Preston: I'm a big food nerd man.
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Marc Preston: I've just loved to just be eating around
923
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Marc Preston: Australia.
924
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Marc Preston: You know some of the best food.
925
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Luke Bracey: we have some of the best food, best produce,
926
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Luke Bracey: great restaurants and, in terms of
927
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Luke Bracey: Australia, it's, it's it's just a lovely
928
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Luke Bracey: place to be a human being.
929
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Luke Bracey: It's a really nice place to exist.
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Luke Bracey: You know, it's, it's, it's, it's it's
931
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Luke Bracey: beautiful, lovely way of life, nice and
932
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Luke Bracey: carefree.
933
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Luke Bracey: And, yeah, I feel very fortunate that I,
934
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Luke Bracey: that I grew up there and get to go back
935
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Luke Bracey: there all the time.
936
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Marc Preston: Well, you, being able to shoot a film and
937
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Marc Preston: be able to go home, you know, every day or
938
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Marc Preston: be able to go back to your own place
939
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Marc Preston: instead of a hotel, that's gonna that's
940
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Marc Preston: gonna be really nice, you know.
941
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Luke Bracey: Yeah, yeah it is, it is.
942
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Luke Bracey: And then just having your mates around and
943
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Luke Bracey: having your family around and then getting
944
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Luke Bracey: to kind of experience it with you and and
945
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Luke Bracey: you know, I remember I I wrapped
946
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Luke Bracey: interceptor and my best mate was there and
947
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Luke Bracey: we went out and had a big beer and he'd
948
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Luke Bracey: never been able to be with me when I
949
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Luke Bracey: finished a job before.
950
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Luke Bracey: So that was really fun, you know, and just
951
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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
961
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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?
966
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Luke Bracey: Probably probably the most well known
967
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Luke Bracey: around the country.
968
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Luke Bracey: I mean, each state kind of has their
969
,295 --> 00:34:06,722
Luke Bracey: different ones, but I'd say VB Victoria
970
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Luke Bracey: Bitter, that's a pretty classic one.
971
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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.
975
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Luke Bracey: What was the tagline?
976
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Luke Bracey: A hard-earned first needs a big cold beer
977
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Luke Bracey: and the best cold beer is VB Victoria
978
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Luke Bracey: Bitter.
979
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Luke Bracey: That's a great classy tagline.
980
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Marc Preston: You know I'm not a big drinker, necessarily,
981
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Marc Preston: but I do like a good beer and to me that's
982
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Marc Preston: my cheap way of traveling the world is
983
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Marc Preston: having a beer.
984
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Announcer: You know some people do with wine.
985
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Announcer: I'm a beer guy.
986
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Marc Preston: Now, are you working on anything right now,
987
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Marc Preston: any projects, as you're in the UK?
988
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Luke Bracey: Right now?
989
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Luke Bracey: No, I'm not.
990
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Luke Bracey: I just as I said, I just finished one in
991
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Luke Bracey: New York called Maybe I Do.
992
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Luke Bracey: We finished that maybe in April and just
993
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Luke Bracey: I've kind of I kind of did Elvis and then
994
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Luke Bracey: Interceptor, and then another film, and
995
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Luke Bracey: then a film called One True Loves, and then
996
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Luke Bracey: Maybe I Do.
997
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Luke Bracey: So for me, I'm actually just kind of going
998
,658 --> 00:35:06,763
Luke Bracey: to sit down and take a breath for a moment
999
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Luke Bracey: for a month or two and just kind of
Speaker:1000
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Luke Bracey: reassess where I am and kind of what I want
Speaker:1001
,103 --> 00:35:19,521
Luke Bracey: to do next work-wise, because I don't quite
Speaker:1002
,561 --> 00:35:19,681
Luke Bracey: know.
Speaker:1003
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Luke Bracey: I think I've just been a bit run around
Speaker:1004
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Luke Bracey: with all this work, which is such an
Speaker:1005
,825 --> 00:35:25,113
Luke Bracey: amazing place to be and I feel so fortunate.
Speaker:1006
,173 --> 00:35:27,559
Luke Bracey: But I think I just need to stop and have a
Speaker:1007
,599 --> 00:35:32,515
Luke Bracey: breath and kind of try and try and
Speaker:1008
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Luke Bracey: understand what I've done the past couple
Speaker:1009
,260 --> 00:35:36,076
Luke Bracey: of years, because it's been bang, bang,
Speaker:1010
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Luke Bracey: bang, bang bang and a number of different
Speaker:1011
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Luke Bracey: types of films.
Speaker:1012
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Luke Bracey: So for me I'm like, ok, I just maybe need
Speaker:1013
,518 --> 00:35:44,649
Luke Bracey: to sit and try and figure out what I've
Speaker:1014
,689 --> 00:35:48,059
Luke Bracey: done and therefore what I want to do next,
Speaker:1015
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Luke Bracey: and try and, as I say, just keep doing
Speaker:1016
,048 --> 00:35:52,915
Luke Bracey: something different, doing something a next
Speaker:1017
,975 --> 00:35:56,670
Luke Bracey: step above, and just keep plowing forward
Speaker:1018
,770 --> 00:35:59,781
Luke Bracey: and yes, so maybe just go sit down in the
Speaker:1019
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Luke Bracey: patio with a Victoria bitter sit back
Speaker:1020
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Luke Bracey: contemplate.
Speaker:1021
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Luke Bracey: You know what it sounds like a great idea.
Speaker:1022
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Marc Preston: Well, as we wrap up here, what I always
Speaker:1023
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Marc Preston: like to do is I always like to kind of
Speaker:1024
,659 --> 00:36:10,475
Marc Preston: throw out what I call my seven questions is
Speaker:1025
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Marc Preston: to kind of a little fun.
Speaker:1026
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Marc Preston: Get to know you, and the first question I
Speaker:1027
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Marc Preston: always like to ask folks is what's your
Speaker:1028
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Marc Preston: favorite comfort food?
Speaker:1029
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Marc Preston: You know, the thing that just kind of
Speaker:1030
,654 --> 00:36:19,512
Marc Preston: brings you back home.
Speaker:1031
,565 --> 00:36:21,093
Marc Preston: You're having a rough day, or even a great
Speaker:1032
,134 --> 00:36:22,226
Marc Preston: day, you just want to sit down and have a
Speaker:1033
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Marc Preston: bite of it.
Speaker:1034
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Luke Bracey: There is just a really simple pasta dish
Speaker:1035
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Luke Bracey: that my mom made.
Speaker:1036
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Luke Bracey: It's just smoked salmon and cream pasta
Speaker:1037
,660 --> 00:36:40,131
Luke Bracey: with some like onion in it, and it is the
Speaker:1038
,171 --> 00:36:46,681
Luke Bracey: most warm, lovely meal, and I love cooking
Speaker:1039
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Luke Bracey: that.
Speaker:1040
,022 --> 00:36:50,694
Luke Bracey: It always reminds me of home and it's,
Speaker:1041
,754 --> 00:36:52,017
Luke Bracey: that's, a great comfort meal.
Speaker:1042
Seven Questions
,057 --> 00:36:53,942
Luke Bracey: Nice, nice bit of bread and butter with a,
Speaker:1043
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Luke Bracey: you know, creamy smoked salmon pasta, a
Speaker:1044
,897 --> 00:36:58,381
Luke Bracey: little bit of lemon juice.
Speaker:1045
,696 --> 00:37:00,862
Marc Preston: And yeah, that's actually something like
Speaker:1046
,902 --> 00:37:02,249
Marc Preston: that I make for my kids and my daughter
Speaker:1047
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Marc Preston: Lily.
Speaker:1048
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Marc Preston: My oldest likes to throw in a bunch of
Speaker:1049
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Marc Preston: capers on top of that.
Speaker:1050
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Marc Preston: That's how we almost have something
Speaker:1051
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Marc Preston: identical.
Speaker:1052
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Luke Bracey: Yeah, I don't mind a caper here and there.
Speaker:1053
,642 --> 00:37:09,948
Luke Bracey: Yeah, exactly that's.
Speaker:1054
,988 --> 00:37:11,332
Luke Bracey: That's a really great comfort food.
Speaker:1055
,813 --> 00:37:13,878
Luke Bracey: Also, just veggie might on toast, like I
Speaker:1056
,918 --> 00:37:14,659
Luke Bracey: never go wrong.
Speaker:1057
,942 --> 00:37:17,854
Luke Bracey: And that's like not even trying to be not
Speaker:1058
,894 --> 00:37:19,639
Luke Bracey: even trying to be stereotypical here.
Speaker:1059
,799 --> 00:37:21,873
Luke Bracey: It's just great Veggie might on toast, you
Speaker:1060
,893 --> 00:37:23,378
Luke Bracey: can put a bit of cheese on it, you can have
Speaker:1061
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Luke Bracey: it with some avocado, whatever.
Speaker:1062
,593 --> 00:37:28,122
Marc Preston: But that's just my friend and Brisbane
Speaker:1063
,162 --> 00:37:30,430
Marc Preston: brought a jar of my son actually likes it.
Speaker:1064
,450 --> 00:37:32,595
Marc Preston: And I met my friend in LA and he brought me
Speaker:1065
,716 --> 00:37:34,200
Marc Preston: a, brought me a jar, so you got to put
Speaker:1066
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Marc Preston: butter on it first.
Speaker:1067
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Luke Bracey: Yeah, so that's kind of like that's that.
Speaker:1068
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Marc Preston: That would be good with a Victoria.
Speaker:1069
,940 --> 00:37:40,332
Marc Preston: Better once again, absolutely.
Speaker:1070
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Marc Preston: Now, if you're going to sit down, three
Speaker:1071
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Marc Preston: people have a coffee and just kind of talk
Speaker:1072
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Marc Preston: story for a few hours, what?
Speaker:1073
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Marc Preston: Who would those three people be?
Speaker:1074
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Marc Preston: It would love to sit down and just talk
Speaker:1075
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Marc Preston: with them, get to know them, get to you
Speaker:1076
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Marc Preston: know, hear stories.
Speaker:1077
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Luke Bracey: Yeah, I always think of this question and
Speaker:1078
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Luke Bracey: my because I'm away, a lot might might be
Speaker:1079
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Luke Bracey: sort of answers always like, just like,
Speaker:1080
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Luke Bracey: have a barbecue with my family.
Speaker:1081
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Luke Bracey: But if it comes to like different people
Speaker:1082
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Luke Bracey: around the world that way, I'm not sure
Speaker:1083
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Luke Bracey: there's a part of me that's always a little
Speaker:1084
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Luke Bracey: nervous.
Speaker:1085
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Luke Bracey: Like what would I say to Winston Churchill?
Speaker:1086
,820 --> 00:38:16,511
Luke Bracey: What would I ever say to him that's going
Speaker:1087
,531 --> 00:38:18,636
Luke Bracey: to like get him to stick around for like
Speaker:1088
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Luke Bracey: the entire coffee?
Speaker:1089
,021 --> 00:38:22,083
Luke Bracey: I don't know, I don't know.
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Luke Bracey: I'm always drawn to sports people, I think.
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Luke Bracey: I think someone like I love to.
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Luke Bracey: I love to sit down and have a yarn with
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Luke Bracey: Kelly Slater.
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Luke Bracey: He seems like such an interesting guy.
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Marc Preston: Oh, and guy absolutely yeah, at his age to
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Marc Preston: maintain and do what he does.
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Luke Bracey: Unbelievable, like no one else like it.
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Luke Bracey: There was, tragically, one of our great
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Luke Bracey: sportsmen passed away a couple of months
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Luke Bracey: ago, a cricketer named Shane Warn, and I
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Luke Bracey: would have loved to have sat down and had a
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Luke Bracey: beer with Shane.
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Luke Bracey: He just seemed like, from everything you
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Luke Bracey: ever heard of him, that he was the best guy
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Luke Bracey: in the world and and that was a really sad
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Luke Bracey: day when he passed away.
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Luke Bracey: Who else, I don't know, I'd like to maybe
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Luke Bracey: sit down with, I don't know, maybe maybe a
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Luke Bracey: musician of some sort, I don't know, maybe
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Luke Bracey: like a, maybe like a.
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Luke Bracey: I would have been really interesting.
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Luke Bracey: After I watched recently the movie
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Luke Bracey: Armadayas, I think it would just be pretty
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Luke Bracey: interesting to sit down with Mozart and see
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Luke Bracey: what craziness he'd bring to a table.
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Marc Preston: The next question who is your celebrity
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Marc Preston: crush?
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Marc Preston: As a kid, that first crush, you're like oh
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Marc Preston: my god, this is, oh god.
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Marc Preston: This is who I'm following now.
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Luke Bracey: I remember watching Wayne's World when I
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Luke Bracey: was a kid with my sisters who are a bit
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Luke Bracey: older than me and T-Career in that I was
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Luke Bracey: like what's that on the screen?
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Luke Bracey: And it's just one of my favorite movies as
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Luke Bracey: well.
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Luke Bracey: So maybe that one.
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Marc Preston: Oh god, I interviewed her for something
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Marc Preston: back when I was like 22-23.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I'm there with you.
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Marc Preston: That's all I'm saying.
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Marc Preston: Now, the next question I got for you is
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Marc Preston: you're gonna be on an island no streaming
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Marc Preston: or nothing beautiful exotic island for one
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Marc Preston: year.
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Marc Preston: You can only bring one DVD with you for a
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Marc Preston: movie, and a CD, an album.
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Marc Preston: What would you bring with you?
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Luke Bracey: For a movie.
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Luke Bracey: I love the movie.
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Luke Bracey: I love the movie Gladiator.
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Luke Bracey: I love that movie.
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Luke Bracey: I saw it on my 10th birthday at the cinemas
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Luke Bracey: and it was kind of mind-blowing.
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Luke Bracey: And that's the first one that comes in my
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Luke Bracey: head.
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Luke Bracey: And for one album.
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Luke Bracey: If I could take one album, maybe something
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Luke Bracey: like, maybe something like one of the
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Luke Bracey: Beatles ones, maybe.
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Luke Bracey: Which one?
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Luke Bracey: Is it?
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Luke Bracey: Abby Road?
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Luke Bracey: Yeah, abby Road.
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Luke Bracey: She came in through the bathroom window and
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Luke Bracey: come together and yeah, I love that album.
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Luke Bracey: Yeah, yeah, you always gonna find something
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Luke Bracey: there.
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Luke Bracey: Maybe those two.
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Luke Bracey: If they're too cliche, I don't care.
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Marc Preston: No, no, it works, it works now.
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Marc Preston: Now the next question got if you're safe
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Marc Preston: from the time you get up to the time you
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Marc Preston: put your head down on the pillow at night,
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Marc Preston: what's the definite or the component parts
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Marc Preston: for you of a perfect day?
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Luke Bracey: Sunshine, warm weather, the ocean, family
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Luke Bracey: and friends, couple of beers and some nice
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Luke Bracey: food.
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Marc Preston: Simplicity.
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Marc Preston: I like it, that's.
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Marc Preston: That's actually where I am as well, and he
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Marc Preston: put me next to the beach.
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Marc Preston: I think I'm in good shape.
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Marc Preston: And now, if you were not doing what you're
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Marc Preston: doing now, acting some total different
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Marc Preston: vocation what would you be doing?
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Marc Preston: What would be the other thing that would
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Marc Preston: light your fire?
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Luke Bracey: Apart from, you know my desire and like
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Luke Bracey: long held dreams of being a rugby player
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Luke Bracey: when I was a kid, I think being a
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Luke Bracey: professional surfer would have to be right
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Luke Bracey: up there with one of the greatest things
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Luke Bracey: you could do with your life.
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Marc Preston: Oh.
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Luke Bracey: Ditto yeah.
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Marc Preston: I've got a poster over here with the movie
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Marc Preston: Writing Giants and it was signed by Laird
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Marc Preston: Hamilton and amazing I get to work with
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Marc Preston: Laird on point break.
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Marc Preston: Oh god, I'm still trying to get him on the
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Marc Preston: show here.
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Marc Preston: He's a good he's like Kelly Slater.
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Marc Preston: It's like how your age are you still doing
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Marc Preston: this?
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Marc Preston: Yeah, now last question I got for you you
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Marc Preston: could jump into DeLorean, head back to when
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Marc Preston: you're 16 years old.
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Marc Preston: You got a piece of advice, a little drop of
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Marc Preston: wisdom for young you.
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Marc Preston: That's just gonna be right at that, the
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Marc Preston: what you need to hear at that moment.
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Marc Preston: What would that piece of advice be?
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Luke Bracey: Um, keep, I don't know.
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Luke Bracey: I feel like keep, keep learning, be
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Luke Bracey: interested.
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Luke Bracey: That would be my advice.
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Marc Preston: Well, my friend, I appreciate your time
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Marc Preston: again and best of luck to you.
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Marc Preston: I hope you have a nice little uh little
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Marc Preston: break from work and looking forward to
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Marc Preston: seeing Elvis man enjoy the rest of your day,
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Marc Preston: enjoy the new digs, the new home and
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Marc Preston: hopefully we'll have a chance to catch up
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Marc Preston: down the line.
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Luke Bracey: Oh, that's great.
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Luke Bracey: Thank you very much, man.
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Luke Bracey: Have a good one.
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Marc Preston: Well, there you go.
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Marc Preston: Uh, luke Bracey, the man from Down Under.
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Marc Preston: Uh, what a what a great chat.
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Marc Preston: Really, enjoy the opportunity to sit down
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Marc Preston: with him and talk about what he's got going
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Marc Preston: on.
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Marc Preston: Don't forget Interceptor, the new movie on
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Marc Preston: Netflix, and, of course, baz Lerman's Elvis
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Marc Preston: in theaters right now.
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Luke Bracey
Actor
LUKE BRACEY is establishing himself as a leading man defined by his versatile performances, innate curiosity, and personal charisma, exemplified by the success of his lead role in last year's Netflix's original feature film HOLIDATE – which hit #1 for the streamer in 78 countries, was seen by over 68 million households, and ranks among their most-watched films of all time.
Bracey plays real-life character 'Jerry Schilling,’ alongside an all-star cast led by Tom Hanks, in Baz Luhrmann’s highly-anticipated Warner Bros. feature centering on the life of Elvis Presley, which was released on June 24, 2022. He also leads Netflix’s #1 action-drama INTERCEPTOR, a two-hander between Bracey and Elsa Pataky and produced by Chris Hemsworth, which released on June 5, 2022. Up next, Bracey will star in the film adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestseller ONE TRUE LOVES with Phillipa Soo & Simu Liu.
Previously, Bracey starred alongside Olivia Munn and Justin Theroux in Justine Bateman’s independent feature VIOLET, which received acclaim when it first premiered at SXSW, and he appeared in Hulu’s Emmy-nominated limited series LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE opposite Reese Witherspoon. He also led Roger Avary’s LUCKY DAY alongside Nina Dobrev, as well as the Australian indie DANGER CLOSE about the Battle of Long Tan.
Bracey impressed audiences with a standout performance as the hard-nosed and aggressive soldier 'Smitty' in the Academy Award-nominated World War II drama HACKSAW RIDGE, alongside Andrew Garfield, for director Mel Gibson. He combined his passions for surfing and acting by taking on the iconic role of ‘Johnny Utah’ in the big-budget Warner Bros. remake of the cult classic POINT BREAK, which saw lots of success internationally, with notable numbers in China's box-office. Bracey also starred in the film adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling novel THE BEST OF ME and went up against Pierce Brosnan in THE NOVEMBER MAN, both for Relativity. Bracey first gained attention for playing the heartthrob in Fox 2000’s MONTE CARLO opposite Selena Gomez and Leighton Meester, as well as the coveted role of ‘Cobra Commander’ in Paramount’s mega-franchise GI JOE: RETALIATION.
Born in Sydney, Australia, Bracey grew up an avid surfer and sportsman. He studied at The Scots College in Bellevue Hill where he fell in love with entertaining and performance.