Aunty Donna Podcast - Acting Advice feat. Michelle Brasier

Episode Date: March 5, 2024

Our friend Michelle Brasier is going on tour so we brought in a couple of local experts from Los Angeles, London & Ireland to give her some advice.  LINKS  Get tickets to Michelle’s shows at the Canberra Comedy Festival (March 14), New York (March 26), Los Angeles (April 3) and the UK & Ireland (May - June): https://www.michellebrasier.com/tour   Follow @theauntydonnagallery on Instagram https://bit.ly/auntydonna-ig   Become a Patreon supporter at http://auntydonnaclub.com/    CREDITS   Hosts: Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane, & Mark Bonanno   Guest: Michelle Brasier Producer: Lindsey Green Digital Producers: Nick Barrett, Jim Cruse & Tanya ZerekAudio Imager: Mitch Calladine  Supervising Producer: Elise Cooper   Managing Producer: Sam Cavanagh   Join The Aunty Donna Club: https://www.patreon.com/auntydonnaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Lysna Production Hello and welcome to another wacky wallaby woo episode of the Aunty Donna podcast. This week we're joined by everyone's favourite guest, Michelle Brazier, who is going on tour to the UK and US. Go to her social, she's organized a great link tree here that has everything you need. Pre-autob... Anyway, this episode as well, if you like this,

why don't you go check out the visual and lots of other cool stuff at the Auntie Donna Club powered by Patreon. That's on our socials. But more importantly, let's hang out with Michelle. One, two, three, four. Do you believe they put a man on the moon? A man on the moon. Do you believe they put a man on the moon? A man on the moon.

Do you believe they put a man on the moon? A man on the moon. Alright, and welcome to the Aunty Donna podcast. I hope you enjoyed our new theme song there. I'm hoping we don't run out of steam for that by next week. I don't think we will. We've been really enjoying it. But we have some very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,

very special guests on the podcast today. Of course, I'm Mark Samuel Bonanno, your host as usual. And we have the delightful, the lovely, the smiley, the hair has hair. I do. Has hair. Brows.

So do the teeth. Great brows. So the teeth. Has all the teeth. Do you have all of them? I actually, I only have two adult teeth, the rest of baby teeth. That's a true thing.

Is that a true thing? Yeah. Do you know I have no eye teeth or wisdom teeth? What are eye teeth? Eye teeth are the ones next to your main teeth. Oh, vampire teeth. Uh, uh, no, I think I have the vampire teeth. This is good stuff.

And I don't have the eye teeth. I think we've gotten on to a good start. Michelle. And I'm going to interrupt. Did you know you didn't interrupt me? No, you didn't interrupt. We're doing together. Michelle Brasier. And we love Michelle on that.

And Michelle, congratulations on making it into the top 10 best of the year for 2023. Of course, it's the year 2024. Next year is 2025. And that's so true. Isn't it? Isn't that brilliant? Isn't that so beautiful? It's I mean, it's yeah, it's I think it's incredible. It's pretty sequential.

Yeah. Thanks. I'm just just so for those that is at home. Groton and Zach are both giving me thumbs up, just saying I'm doing a good job. Yeah, just doing a great job. I'm really proud of you, honey. Thank you. Do you feel good? I feel like a good job. Yeah, just doing a great job. I'm really proud of you honey. Thank you. Do you feel good? I feel like a bee after you calling me honey. Oh yeah, okay. Buzzing about. Honey to the bee? No good. This is not good. You don't like this? And are you jealous? Are you jealous honey? Well, he's making a sound like he's jealous.

Now Michelle, you have big trip, big trip, big trip coming up. The way you gest it, gest it, it felt like you were talking about my tits. No, no, no. Although big tits, big tits. You've got big, we've all got big tits. And that's what we're doing here today. Big tits from birth from what I've heard. You don't like this, you're saying, you guys are giving the cut off, so you think this is bad. But I think this is good stuff. and we'll only reflect well on Mark. Big trip need extra leg room, but for the tits.

Yeah, yeah. Michelle is going. Because they're really low. Because I was, I thought, you know, just large, just large. No, I need them because they're on the ground. Yeah. Right. Yeah, they came from my knees when I was a youth and that's just where they are. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. They came from my knees when I was a youth. And that's just where they are. Yeah. Yeah. Michelle, big trip coming up, going overseas. Where are you going? Tell me about it.

I'm going overseas. I'm doing a tour of the UK and Ireland. Yes. And I'm doing visa pending a show in New York City and Los Angeles. Wow. The big two. The big two. The big Apple and the other one. And the big one. And the big one. And the big one. Now, we've brought in, because I imagine you've never been overseas before, right? I've never been and I'm scared. It's great over there. It's like here, but it's different in the way that people talk.

They got paddle pops? They don't have paddle pops. They have paddle pop sticks. But I think over there they're just called sticks. What? Yes. So when they're saying, when their dogs collect sticks, they're just getting paddle pop sticks. What?

Their dogs are just getting paddle pop sticks. They got dogs over there, yeah? Yeah, they have dogs over there. Yeah? Yeah. Same dogs? Not exactly the same dogs, but same breeds. Okay, okay.

So you can't, so your dog won't be over there. No. So Eva, if I live in Australia, I can go and grab another Eva from there and she'll know me and she'll have all the memories and stuff. You can get a yellow version of Eva named Wally. Okay. Over there. Now, we've brought in some very special guests.

Yeah, very, very special guests. Yeah, very, very special guests. Yeah, really excited. To help you with your journey, your journey, your odyssey. We're all on a journey and that's the odyssey of life, isn't it? And that's a legacy of light and truth. And do you know what? Top three journeys that you've been on in your life, number one. OK, I went to from my school.

I broke out of my I broke out of my high school. Keep it short, not too long. Got to get to the guests. I broke out of my school and I'd walked to Ziegler Avenue. Number two. Number two. When I walked back from the chip shop, I had two. You had two really?

Maximum chips. Number two is just a return journey. Yeah, it was a really good part of the trip. Can you give it a short? Number three. I went toilet. Went to the toilet. Went toilet.

Wow, that's you longer. Make that one a bit longer. And I sat down. I sat down. Got problems. I usually sit. I sit. Fishers.

Anything interesting. And so we're there are two guests that we have. And Michelle, no. No. We're getting to. There was a man with a gun. There was a man with a gun. There was a man with a gun. And that, what a journey.

What a journey. And what a top three. But we've brought in someone from each of these places that you're travelling to. Because I imagine you've got questions, you've got queries, you've got concerns for your big trip. Help me. So we've brought in, well, I'll let them introduce themselves. We've got one man who claims to be from a United States, I'm not going to say which one, I'll let him announce it, but from some states that have come together in unison.

Like a choir. No? No. What do you mean like a choir? Like a choir. When they sing in unison or harmonies sometimes different. No. Yeah. Are you an alto? You have alto vibes. No, I've got an innie. Let's bring them on. Welcome them to the stage. Their name is... their name is? Hi there, how are you going mate? How are you mate? Good, good thing about you. You're doing well champ. Doing very well. What is your name, where are you from, what do you do and why are you here? And when did that happen? When is it? I'm an actor and I heard you were coming to Los Angeles,

a year after as well. I lived in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Oh, great. I came over after I wrapped up a three-year stint on Home and Away. Oh, fantastic. Nice, nice, nice. Are you toady? No, no, no. Are you toady for Rebecca? I have met toady at the loggies.

I started when I was a teenager on Home Now Way and travelled over to here. Are you Margot Robbie? No, I do know Margot though. Let's just say I knew her very well. Did you fuck Margot Robbie? Nah mate, just I'm good friends with Margot. Margot Robbie fuck you? No mate, but I am good friends with Margot.

All your questions going to be about this guy's sexual escapades? No, I'm just trying to figure out how I can fuck Margot Robbie. That's just something I'm trying to look into. Aren't we all? We're talking about the journey. We're talking about the journey. So you're an expert on Los Angeles, on acting? Yeah, I live in West Hollywood

in a little old stinky moist apartment. Wow. And how much do you pay for that a month? I pay just, well, I pay a lot of money for that apartment. How many? How many? Just an astronomical amount of money. An astronomical amount of money. I, I, I, I, I, I make, I've got to do some, if we can wrap this up, I've got to do some self-tapes.

All right. Oh really? Oh, sure. Well, I've got 17 self-tapes to do. Well, that's a great way to segue into our next guest. And when I say segue, I don't mean getting on one of those things Job from the rest of development gets on. That's like classic. He gets on it. He just gets on it, you guys.

That's a great gag. So you're a bit of a movement shaker. Sorry, I'm... Hey, how you doing? Hey, how you doing? What is your name? I've decided not to go to any real name because I do know a lot of actors that live in the US Yeah, okay, that's probably fair enough. I don't want anyone to think that I'm doing them specifically I'm doing the art side. It's sort of an amalgamation. We can give him a name if you want but I don't think we need to

What about Chris? I feel like there'd be a Chris. Yeah, right, you know You feel like there'd be an Australian called Chris. He's talking about Hemsworth. I just, I just thought, I remember when he was a little fella on Home and Away, he was so little and I thought he's going to play Thor and but then he hit that gym, mate. He works harder than anyone else, mate. Really? I work really hard. I work harder than Chris. So you're going to LA, but you're also going to London, Tamar. I'm going to London.

Yeah, yeah. And anywhere else in the UK? There are, well, what I should say is our next guest is from a kingdom. Now, I'm not going to say which one, but one of the many kingdoms in this world. Wow. They're also here to answer your questions. Okay. So let's throw it over to them. They're best to introduce themselves.

How you going? Good to see you. Nice to meet you. Oh. They're best to introduce themselves. How you going? Good to see you. Nice to meet you. Oh wow! Wait, is this Margot Robbie? How you going? Wow! Nice to meet you. How'd it good to be? Good to be here. How are you?

Good to shake you out. Wow! I'm good to see you. I'm an actor. I actually grew up in Sydney on the North Shore. Right, Kudji? Yeah, Kudji. I'd run the clips every morning. And I actually moved to London to join to go to Rata. And I do a fair bit of acting up in the UK now.

You can hear the difference in his voice. He's clearly a theatre-trained actor. I went straight to home and away. I'm a TV guy. But this guy's a theatre-trained actor. I'm a huge fan of his work. Oh yeah, I just did a bit of time at Rata in Australia. And then obviously I said, I need to be where the action is. So, you know, done the Globe, done a bit of a few crime shows up there. Did you do Shakespeare's at the Globe? Yeah, I did Richard III, did me Beth, you name it.

Can you do the monologue? Which one would you like? The third one. From which one? From Richard III. The third Richard. No worries, here we go. Okay, thank you. Wow. And it's time to be... Has it begun? Is this it? It's just gonna look it up. You know when we said,

and I do want to apologize, when I told you we were getting experts in from America and the United States. We are experts. To be able to answer your questions. I've actually lived in LA for 10 years now. Yeah, for 10 years. But on and off, I imagine. I feel a little bit embarrassed sitting across from an actor with theater try. No, no, no.

It's all the same. I just thought we'd get natives. I thought we'd get natives. Well, I think we'd do the same. We might live on the other side of the world from one another, but we're both from those North shores. We both live in the sun, you know, we both go up there. But at the same time, we're saying,

we're trying to find the same thing, which is that truth. Whether that's on stage, using big arms and legs. I just want to clarify, I'm not trying to get big arms, big legs, I'm trying to like, I'm just... Now is the winter of our discontent, my glorious summer by this Duke of York, and all that allured upon a house and so on and so it goes. Do you reckon you won't if I ever go?

Yeah please. How would you do it differently? Chakas the actor. So this would be completely different from a TV actor. The actor to a screen actor. Wow. Okay. Well my question is what lens are you doing this on?

What lens are you? What lens? Yeah, what lens? Yeah, how tight is the shot? How tight is the shot? How tight is the shot? How tight is the shot? Yeah, listen, I started out in soap operas, right? And we worked really fast.

Oh yeah, love the soap opera. So I come in, I deliver in a way that's really consistent and I do a close up shot for the wide, the mid, and the wide. Right. Wow, that must be really good to work with. Yeah. Now's the winner of our discontent. You swore at summer by the sunny hill and the clouds of lorropine in the deep.

I actually played Richard in a version of it set in Melbourne's gangland. Oh, cool. That sounds really cool. And you're the starter of Aussies in LA Facebook page. That was you, you did that? Yeah, you started that. And how does that take up a lot of your time managing that page?

Well, listen, I don't do it as much anymore. I've handed that over to some young guys who've just come over, maybe in the last six months. Because I like to guide them, show them how it's done, teach them how to do a self-tape. I'll read opposite them. You know, it was getting... That's who it is.... a self-tape. I'll read opposite them. You know, we'll get long flowing blonde hair. They've got blonde hair. I've got a tan and you've got...

You've got... Well, it's funny you mentioned you live in a small apartment. I actually, my family, threw some connections on to property just in Soho in London. So I've moved in there and it's fantastic. I route nine women a week. Wow. How do you find the time with all the acting? Oh well that's about finding the craft, getting into your body.

Right. It's sort of part of the storytelling. Yeah. Oh I should say. Part of your role as a storyteller. The reason I know how much my WeHo apartment cost is, I do have some, I did have some family members that own that place. Oh right. So my dad works in venture capital. Oh right. That's how we actually went to high school together. Yeah that's right. some family members that own that place. So my dad works in venture capital. We actually went to high school together. That's right. We know all the secrets and where the bodies

are buried from about 1998 to 2004. We saw UMI and fuck they were good. They were so great. I've actually just come back to Australia. I'm happy to do this promotion but I'm actually just come back to Australia, I'm happy to do this promotion, but I'm actually just shooting a low budget Australian thriller. Oh, that's amazing. They are, and I had to pay for my own flight home, but I just loved the script so much. What network is that for? What's that for? What network is that for? It's an independent feature.

Oh, great. Channel 10. No, it's an independent feature. It'll probably be on stand. The producer on stand. The producer on stand. He'll probably have a stand. The producer of stand. The producer of stand. He probably have a stand deal. Now, Michelle is...

Shot in Cooberpeedy, the deserts of Cooberpeedy. Yeah, it's a real Australian. I love it. We're heading out into the desert. It's one location, but that location is desert. Any girls in the movie or mom? Yeah, they have written in some women. That's amazing.

They weren't in the first draft, but now there's whole scenes... Screen Australia got involved in setting... ...that have nothing to do with the plot. But they go to the girlies. Yeah, yeah, and we'll cut that. I'm sure they'll cut that in the post-production process. Right. But there are a lot of scenes for women to watch. I'm sure that'll help get some funding.

Yeah. Now, Michelle... Can I be in the movie? You know, I'm actually not a part of that process. I am. Could you put, you know, just like, use your position I'd love to talk to him. I could even help you make the self tape. Oh, I'd love to read with you.

Yeah. Should we do it? We'll have a look and we'll do a scene later. We'll I'll have a look over the scene and we'll do a read. Do you have the setup for it or anything? I've got the setup. Yeah, great. Yeah, I've got the blue screen. My only connection to home is every four years I'll go to the consulate and vote for the set up. Yeah. Yeah. I've got the blue screen. My only connection to home is I'll, every four years I'll go to the consulate and vote

for the Liberal Party and then I'll go back to doing theatre. Because my dad, you know, it's just the tradition over there. Well, I'm not really across what's happening back in Australia as far as politics. Yeah. No, I don't actually talk about politics. So I just think that's like, I guess my dad was more old fashioned like that. So I'm not going to say who I live a life. I live a life of immense luxury and leisure. I just float around.

I do one play, but I consider myself an actor. Well, well, it's funny that you mentioned that. Have you done anything in LA for seven years? Yeah, well, self tape for everything. That's great. I think I'm thinking changing agents, though. I think it's. Yeah. Now Now Michelle is heading over to both the UK and the USA for her first time also going to Ireland. And I imagine she has some questions about, well, Michelle, like what are you sort of expecting when you go over there? Yeah, like, okay, so like different time of day to over here

So when I'm sleepy, what should I would I go to bed at Australian time? Or would I would you recommend I go to bed? Which time do you reckon here's my interests right as a person? Yeah going out to bars See in movies, okay, And then imagining myself in movies. That's everything that interests me. I am impossible to talk to. Wow. No points of interest, no redeeming qualities. And did you hear the question that Michelle asked?

Just wondering when to go to snooze. That's so interesting that both of you were talking about whatever it was you were talking about. So what I like to do with my days, I wake up around 11 midday and I'll just go out for a surf for a couple hours. Oh yeah. Then I will just do a few hours at the cafe. Okay. Working at the cafe doing sort of, you know.

Oh, you have a job. You have a barista? You know, it's not so much a job. I'll just help them out, do some, make some coffee. But they'll pay you. I made a mind who came actually from Sydney, you might know him, he was in year nine when we were in year eight. He said there's no great Australian coffee up here. So he started a chain of coffee,

and coffee that was financially completely held up by his father who owns an oil company. And he, and we started to make, I bought in as well, we make fresh, delicious Australian coffee for the people of London and it is popping off. Wow The place I'm at I'll just help him out here and there that they're um, that sounds like a job. No, I'll just help him out I'll give me some cash for what happened to your dad's money. What's that now? Just just I have never gotten money from my dad. All right, I just want to make that really clear.

I can't. He has never given me money. Right, but the property you're living in, you'd say that was financed by your family. Yeah, and I'll do jobs for him from time to time. I'll look over his spreadsheets and stuff like that, and I'll get paid for that. Right.

I'm paid out of a trust. Right. So that's sort of like getting money from you out there. I didn't know it's a trust. Yeah. So that's sort of your dad set that up and you just pop a hand in. I got a lot of money when my granddad passed. Yeah. Right. I do have but that is inheritance that was owed to me because he died and they tried to tax that. Right. They tried to tax that. And that's why you're like, I'm sorry. I don't talk about who I vote for.

The Greens and Labor I've been told will try and tax that money that I got from Granddad. Okay, right, right. Well, did the Pantos for a while got around sort of loading and doing the Pantos? Right, because I'm hearing a lot of like, I don't have, my dad's dead, and he was a school teacher.

You know what I do use that and that's why I'm coming. I'm on the stage. Yeah, yeah. Go back to that and think of that for moments. Yeah, I cry. I cry. There's a bit in the show. I cry for 20 minutes.

I just cry and then they pay. Did you shoot that for your reel? Yeah. I went to a place in New York a few years back and I did a course where they made me say, like they had us not hold a cup. Basically I had to pretend I was holding a cup. Yep, but they didn't give you a cup though.

No, I had to pretend I was holding a cup. So Strasburg, Strasburg or something? No, it was Meisner. Meisner, so the going for Blader. So the going for Strasburg. Yeah, it's alright mate. Is that Strasburg? That was Strasburg? Strasbourg is a cold cut.

Yeah, I'm just a little joke. I'm trying to cut out some of the meat and that. I still eat a bit of lean chicken, but I'm trying to do less of the meat. Well, Michelle is coming over to the US and the UK. Yeah, but you do much film. She has some questions. I'm just worried. coming over to the US and the UK. Yeah. When you do much film, it's a lot better. She has some questions. I'm just worried.

She's touring. You're touring there, right? Coming to do shows and I'm just, I mean, because I don't have, I've never been overseas. I don't have an oil dad. So I'm just sort of figuring out what exactly this... So my dad doesn't work in oil, he works in finance. Finance. He's dad works in oil.

Yeah. I'm an actor. He works in finance finance. Yeah, dad works in oil. Yeah, I'm an actor Yeah, trade. Yeah, and that's really beautiful. I live in London. I'm an actor. Okay, so I will do I should have said earlier I do a few shorties. I do a few guesties on crime shows get much film work in in London Cuz I've got a little made sort of thing gonna go on London, mate It's dried up in Australia's cooked mate. You can't get a geek there. Yeah. So I did have... I'm just wondering if we should get an Irish person in maybe for an up... Just for a... We've already got two fresh perspectives. I have a mate from Ireland if you want to meet him.

I'd love to meet your mate from Ireland. Yeah, if that... If they... You think they might help? I'll get a there, mate. Hi, how are you going? Nice to meet you. Lovely to meet you too. Hi, I'm Michelle. Hi. I'm Michelle. I'm coming over to Ireland. You're from Ireland or Irish?

Yeah, yeah, now well, my family is heritage-wise. Okay. Australian, mate. Have you seen that new one with that Northern Irish film? Some of the most brilliant acting, obviously. The Belfast. Yeah, the Belfast one. That's what you've got to do, because that's directed by Kenneth Brown.

You've got to make your own work. Have you seen once? I love once so once was just shot on just got a handy cam cam quarter out shot They filmed in themselves. Did they film the musical? Yeah, no no mate. This is pre the music Oh, yeah music was involved in the film and then they've turned that into a stunning Stunning musical that you can see on stage. I was actually in it on Broadway because I play a double cello. Do you? You play a double cello?

No, on stage yet and I am. A lemon cello. And so I toured with that around the UK. Yeah, that's really beautiful. Yeah, that's really beautiful. You're doing on that NCIS Sydney, mate. Well, yeah, no, it's good because you did a guest spot on NCIS Sydney. Yeah, I don't know why I got sort of invited to this.

My family is from Ireland. I've been there once or twice. Oh, so you don't live in Ireland or work in Ireland? You live in Sydney? Yeah, just up on Koojee Beach. Just on Koojee. You're all from Koojee? We're all from that sort of north. I didn't go to high school with these boys, but I did go down around the corner down the road. We used to catch up, but just after school. We met at the train station in sort of the Northern Sydney.

Yeah, well, if I could try to get into a fight the first time we met, but then now I got over that. I can't. I've never moved my shoulders down to my elbow separately. Yeah. Is that like a sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I just move like this. Yeah, yeah. No, that makes sense. I love boys like that.

This is the kind of boy that I'm a king. So Michelle, I do six days on one day off, but I'm hitting other, it's different areas and I do push ball. You do a push ball. Right. So push ball one day you're pushing. So you're doing things like benchies, you're doing things like I'm working the back lat pull. Yeah. Then you do your pull. Next day you're pulling it. You're doing things like benches, you're doing things like I'm working the back lat pull out. Next day you're pulling it. We go and move to legs. You go in the gym and you pull it. You pull it. See I'm only doing four days at the moment but I am working as a trainer or sort of

help out at a gym as a trainer from time to time. And I'm doing three days there so I'm at the gym every day and I just found I couldn't come in when I'm doing a lot when I'm demonstrating for the just gonna ask again because again it seems like that's sort of another another job that is a job so I'm just wondering what's happened to your dad's money not saying he's been to prison I'm just saying what's happened because you see my dad worked what I'm sorry my great-granddad worked for every dollar he made okay he. He worked his ass off. So that he could supply for generations after.

Yeah, I mean, I'm coming over, I'm doing a tour, I'm trying to supply for my generations and get some, yep, no worries. My dad believes in hard work. So he's basically, I'll have to make it enough and then he'll top that up. So I'll make, sort of, I'll make $30 an hour at the cafe. You make $30 an hour in Los Angeles? Yeah, cash. It's a matter of mine.

He owns the cafe. Right. So he'll pay me $30 an hour. And then my dad will top that up with $3,000 per 30. $3,000 per, okay. So you're making $3,000 per hour. But I only made it. Got to earn only matter as much as he will not. But it's not just working at the bar.

You're going, who are these people coming in? What are these stories? Well, how does that person walk, maybe? Yeah, because I'm coming over to tell my story. Yeah, yeah. It's like personal stories. Are you right? Yeah, if you need any advice about Ireland, I've spent like a good couple of weekends

there. Yeah, I mean, I was hoping for a local but that's really helpful. Do you write stuff other than for yourself? Do you write like plays and film and television? You know I do, I do write for film and television. Yeah what's with it? Okay sure. Yeah. Like Chinese food. Sorry how you going mate? Hi we did meet and we met previous. So you're a writer? Wait, you switched on me? Yeah! So you're a writer, you're a writer? So what he's doing now, the shell is he's networking.

He's heard that you're a writer, you've got an opportunity. He's all about it. See the way you changed, see the way he started facing you with his whole body. Yeah, wow! That's brilliant. You learned that at NIDA. Okay, so I should be doing that. I had to learn that on my own, because I'm self-taught.

I went to home and away. You went to home and away? That's what we call it, yeah. Did you? You're like Chinese food. Yeah Get yourself a spice bag a spice bag Yeah, that's number one thing. I should get a spice bag straight to a Chinese shop I've been over there as well for a hot chick. I'm in over there and I'll move there for a girl. Yeah, I love it with my whole heart. Same girl do you reckon?

Issues from Adelaide. And bag of hot chips. They put all the Chinese sort of seasonings on it. That's a double in delicacy. I used to love those sort of chips and potato cakes, but they go straight to the gut now. So I've really got to be careful with that. I actually own a share in a cafe in London,

because we noticed that what would happen would be all these blokes walking around with these disgusting coffees and we do it better in Melbourne. So we started up a whole chain and it goes off because Australian coffee... You started that, did you? You passed that. I bought a share in the O'Hare, my mate.

Nice. I went to uni with him. So I own a share of O'Hare's in London. My dad bought it for me. So if I was going to go for a coffee in London, I should check out one of your It up so you want to go down to Red Lane and it's cheap there in so far in so hope. Right. You can get a coffee since Brexit.

London is one of the most livable cities in the world. OK, I'm looking forward to this. It's beautiful. You can get a coffee for eight pounds. Wow. Go see theater for no less than 350 pounds. I saw an actor. It's an international city. That's amazing.

Yeah. I saw an actor, you might know him. I saw an actor in London just standing in the street, Jason Momoa. Yeah. Yeah, Jason Momoa. So you guys know him. You know him? Well, I don't know him, but I saw him and he was drinking a Guinness

and he was standing next to a classic car and he was posting on the internet. Cause he's been on it. Are you in contact? We're not in contact, but I did go on his Instagram and see what he's posting about. He's got a production company now.

Yes, he does. Right. Yeah, we're talking to them. Feels like networking's really important to you guys. You all are talking to them. What I'll say that, what I love about him is to build his brand in an effective way. Okay yeah. I think Mamara I think getting it done. Yeah. That's something you can take into account. Listen I've definitely taped for a couple of action films in the past and

which ones? Most I did I did tape for the Marvels. Fast five. Fast five and? That's one of my favourites. I was in the running for it and then that's when the rock became available. But then they didn't get you in for 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or Hobbs or something. So the casting agent, she's the most amazing person and she loves me. She's taught, so she'll always reach out. I don't know if this is relatable at all for anyone listening, but you know, I'm really enjoying it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is this feels niche. It feels nice. I've never worked. But I think of myself as more of a

dramatic actor. Yeah. Yeah. That's your question. I've never worked, but taping is a full time job. Do you know? Do you know how I am taping? Tap not a thinker, but as a job. Tape it up. Tape it up. Do you know the Slice Loan story? Michelle, do you know the Slice Loan story? I know the Slice story. So what happened to him? He was actually just a job actor.

I've said that I know it. He's a jobbing actor in New York City. I do know it. I have heard it. I'm going into York. I look forward to doing a show there. And he actually started to go, hang on, if I'm right for me. Hopefully meet some people.

If I'm right for me, then I'll be right back. He goes into a bar, he's on his last five bucks. He's probably been there before. No, this story. He sees the underdog on the boxing and he goes, oh, everyone's cheering for him. Then he started to develop this character, Rocky. Oh yeah, Rocky.

And what's that? What's that in That's Home and Away? No, I'm not. I write that one himself. He wrote that one himself. That's what you really need to do. You need to write your own work. Yeah. Okay.

And you guys are writing your own work at the moment? Yeah, develop and develop. I've developed a lot of things. I've developed a lot of things. You have done a comedy web series. Oh, you did? Yeah, I did a comedy web series about, um, just, uh, about, like, uh, the goings on at a local...

I wrote a play about my arseholex and, uh, Kajira in a sharehouse and she just didn't get it. And so I wrote a play about that. Well, I've got about four ideas and then I've got a mate wants to be a writer, paid him 500 bucks, he's developing them into treatments. I just get a... Oh, yeah, nice. Oh, yeah, nice.

You can do that. I like the human touch. Okay. So I just did and I like to help my mate Eddie struggling. So I just chucked him 500 bucks. I say get me a 40 page treatment up, you know, in a couple weeks. For $500. Yeah, you know, because I've got thoughts, I've got ideas for great things. What are some of your ideas? You know, like a guy, right? I like to use. You know, like a guy, right? A guy's coming out as a different gender. Right?

And, uh... Which one? Well, just, uh, just, you know, just a different one. I don't know, these are the things that's for the writer to figure out, you know? But I think that'll do well in the market at the moment. I could play any of those parts. I don't know if you could. It sort of depends on your gender, wouldn't it?

But it depends on you, maybe. Maybe. I'll get a lot the writer figure that out. Yeah, yeah. it? That it depend on you, maybe. Maybe. I'll get a lot the right to figure that out. Yeah, yeah. I just have thoughts. Can I ask you a question? Because you write your own stuff. What sort of stuff do you do?

I do sort of comedy stuff, but sometimes sad. I actually taped for the office. Did you? Which one? The Australian one? The Australian one? No, we're both actually. So I taped for the office. And then I was ready to go.

Did you know there's a UK one? Which character I went for for this one. Oh, OK, here we go. I still remember it. Yeah. Oh, he's always leaving his pens everywhere. Oh, is that Jim? Yeah, that's Jim. Oh, yeah. Oh, gosh. He's always leaving his pens everywhere.

I can't believe it. I've got a fucking bee stick away from being in that tiger. You tiger shark. I'm talking about this fucking bee stick. He's a fucking bee stick. They reckon I was this fucking close. Yeah, I'll make a tiger. I'm talking about this fucking bee stick.

I'm talking about this fucking bee stick. I'm talking about this fucking bee stick. I'm talking about this fucking bee stick. I'm talking about this fucking bee stick. I'm talking about this fucking bee stick. I'm talking about this fucking bee stick. I'm talking about this fucking bee stick. I'm talking about this fucking bee stick. I'm talking about this fucking bee stick. tiger show. He's fucking bees dig. They reckon I was this fucking close. Yeah, I met Tiker at that.

Oh, you met him? Yeah. Yeah, I met him a couple of times. Oh, wow. So I met him when I was on Home and Away. And he was just a comedian. Yeah, he was friends with a girl I was seeing at the time. Margot Robbie?

Mate, I wish. She's stunning. She is stunning. I know. I was seeing at the time. Yeah. Margot Robbie? Made a wish. She's stunning. She's stunning. She is the right. I know. I've met her in person. She's stunning. I even said that when I knew her when she was on Neighbours.

I was like, she is stunning. Yeah, wow. She's going to be a star. Yeah. She's going to go to Hollywood. I said, I said. She's going to be a heartbreaker, I said. I said, you know, she's going to go to Hollywood.

She's going to get in on a sort of an art house film. Maybe you said this much. Yeah, I saw it from from the moment I saw it. Art house film. You're talking about Wolf of Wall Street. Yeah, mate, I love Wolf of Wall Street. An art house film. I actually did a scene from that for a self tape. Yeah, well, for my real.

Wow, for your real. Yeah, just because I hadn't done enough to really fill out the real. So I did the scene from it What were the drugs they took they took? Cocaine I took like the one that the cute quail eggs quail eggs. Yeah, so I went below this. Yeah, give me some of those quail ludes Yeah, some of those quail ludes. Yeah. Oh, yeah, okay You're gonna give me some of those quweeloods. Yeah, okay.

I mean, I would have given it to you. I would have given you the Kweeloods. Yeah, yeah. Got another idea for a movie about a guy who's got guns for hands. That's been done. That gun's a Kimbo. No, but it's not about. It's got Harry Potter.

No, no, no, it's different. No, no, no, that's the same as... That's like saying you can't do a sci-fi because Star Wars has been done. I would do a sci-fi though. I don't really know anything about sci-fi, but I would do one. The female opposite of me. Yeah? We all just float around London, rooting occasionally, and then just sort of going on with our lives. That's really nice. Yeah. So you're not going to settle down with her?

No, mate. No, she's a good sort. Do you mind if we sing you a song? Oh, I would love... I would love if you would sing me a song. You've got to be able to sing you've got to be able to do the pipes and everything. I actually went for... Can you guys can sing? Can I dream girls?

Can I give you a test, right? Yeah. You've got to be able to sing at any moment and prove it because you might walk into a room and fucking something produces there. Show us a bit of your pipes Hey Yeah, that's great

That's starting I actually went for um a part that eventually went to Jennifer Hudson in dream girls Oh, and I'm telling you I'm not going. Yes, so they can I hear a couple of bios me to self-tape for it? I'd love to hear a couple of bars? They asked me to self-tape for it. I'd love to hear a couple of bars if I'm telling you I'm not going. Well, I just, I am. Who did they ask you to talk? I love it, come on. Who did they ask you to talk?

They didn't ask me to self-tape for it. I just sent it in on you, they were working on a new musical. Should I do that as well? When I get over there, I should be really pushing dress in full costume. And should I just turn it should I just turn up I just show up I'm here I'm here to be a star yeah yeah

you're going on to a certain tickets are available on your website or something yeah jump on the website all right well we'd like to also write a book and that'll be announced now yeah it that announced? What's it about? It's called My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag and it's about how everyone's dead. Fuck, that's fucking lovely, man. Do you use that? Do you use that? Yeah, I use that in my craft.

I use that in my craft. It's happening to it. You use it in my craft, yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. I'm so sorry I'm going to run. Do you have to go? I'm just going to read for a dead evil just in case he just

He's got the part and there's no chance he's gonna lose the part. Yeah in case he passes I'm making me. Yeah, they have asked me they are making a thousand people to self-tape So dead devil just in case he changes his mind even though he's played dead evil for half the season so far Yeah, wow. So there's no chance that goes through. No, and it does seem a little exploitative to just ask a thousand actors to read with their devil even though he's already got the past. But that's the stories, you know, if you heard Slice the Lion, you heard about Slice the Lion. We're a couple of actors around the world from Australia, yes we are.

Yeah. I live in Sydney, have a good time, don't do much, don't audition sometimes. The music's very loud in my ears. Yeah. I'm an actor, how do you do? Work sometimes at a coffee shop too? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're actors. And I don't want to be here.

Why not? I'm sorry, I'm hot. I didn't mean to get myself into this. Oh, nice to meet you. Hi, nice to meet you. You're good. If you've got any questions about Ireland, though. I do. I do have questions. I've got questions about Ireland. I've got questions about the UK and the US and I've been asking them. I have...

I'm an actor from London, from Australia first. Wow! I'm an actor, I love to surf. I'm gonna kill myself. I went to Ireland for a trip to meet a girl and it didn't work out now I'm back doing a short course very soon I like to do short courses and just live off all the money that I've got in my bank account It's got heaps, mate Hey Michelle good luck with your tour and whatnot

Thank you boys. Yeah. Good luck. Sorry. My it's a bit crazy. My new friends from around the world. I don't know why, because this is my natural voice. I've done every short course available. Wow. I've not worked twice. I'm 42. Okay. I'm 42.

And it's going well. I look like I'm like 34. Okay. Yeah, I look great from my age. Same. Yeah, I'm 47. I look 31. Yeah, wow. Yeah, I I look great I'm in my life

I'm in my life 70s. It's fun. It's just fun. Yeah here we go and trying to get advice from the boys and to be really annoying and I don't know what to do so I keep singing cuz singing's what I do and that's how it's cuz the stories we tell stories we tell that's how it's cause the stories we tell Stories we tell, that's how we live And we get through the life and we get through the work And my car parking's gonna run out soon An old man actor and I work in London

But I'm gonna mince wealth That my sisters and me have in it Sometimes I just go to bar and for fun Go to bar and for fun I'm gonna go take for June 3. Do a take for June 3. Are they doing June 3? Yeah, they are thinking of it.

Wow. So they're getting me to do a tape, but I'm sure it'll go to a celebrity. How long's the song? Well, it just started again. Yeah, it looped. Oh, good. So I have to stay for the whole thing now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I gotta run. I gotta run, lad, man. I gotta I gotta run, I gotta run, not man. I gotta go shoot a, I gotta go shoot that thriller. Okay, oh yeah we didn't do the scene, we didn't, we, you said I could read for the Coupapete? Yeah we'll do it after. We'll do it after, yeah we'll do it after.

Catch up for a year, yeah this is rough. I don't know how they do it for their whole lives. I guess it's just what,'s just what happens when you grow up with immense wealth and you've got, you've just got this sort of time and space around you to become an artist. And that's the song. And that is what we do.

Let's get a beer, do the self tape and I'd love to pick your brain about your writing and maybe if you ever come to LA we can catch you. I am gonna come. I'm gonna come to LA. I've been saying I will come I'm come I've got a show on sale. If you go into Dublin. I'm coming to Dublin I'll give you the place of the best spice bag. I don't I don't want to spy I don't want to spy thing Come along and you can tell me about your writing. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want spice bag

I would love to hear about your writing. No, I am I Do a lot of shoeless bag. I would love to hear about your writing. No. I do a lot of shoelace theatre. I've won awards. I do a lot of shoes. Ice. No shoes on stage, sort of just sort of dancing. Yeah, sick. Movement stuff. You can meet my girlfriend when we're in LA.

Oh, that sounds really good. She's pretty much same age as me. 21? Pretty much. Yeah, pretty much. She's 21. Aspiring actress. She looks like Monica from Friends. Alright, um, well, I'm gonna turn into a sausage roll now and go in the oven and get cooked up. What? What? That's my, that's my journey. I'm gonna turn into a vegetable pasty,

pop right into the oven. Wow. All right, mate. I'm going to turn into a chocky milk. OK. Just get in the fridge, cool up. Yeah, I'm going to roll. I'm going to roll, get turning the meat,

and then get wrapped up in pastry, and then come out in golden brown. Yeah. I'm going to have to put myself down, I think. Oh, no. Hey, Michelle, thanks so much for coming. It's great to meet you. I think it's great to put myself down. I think. Oh no. Hey Michelle, thanks so much for coming. It's great to meet you.

I think it's great to meet you too. My favourite. If you're ever in the UK, Ireland, America. I am coming. Oh yeah, if you have any questions about those places, just let us know. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I love that.

Thank you. Thank you guys. I'd love to hear about your writing. Thank you guys. I'm asking nothing in return. I'm happy to help you out, but yeah, love to hear about you. Where should we meet? Well, if notes, he's not, he's trying to network. That's what I'm when I heard you were a writer.

I thought that's an opportunity for me. Yeah. And that's when I started to engage in who you were. What you're up to. I'm loving that. That email from that Jason Mamoa company. You said you'd give me as well. I'll get that.

Yeah, absolutely. That email. Yeah. And I'd like said you'd give me as well. Oh, I'll get that email. Yeah, I'd love to get your maybe connect on Instagram. And if you're ever putting on any films or television screenings or anything like that of your work, I'd love to change it. And if you hear of any work going around, anything you're on, just shoot us a message. Yeah, well, these are all your help and advice. And on back in Australia now, I just moved back last year actually. So we're going to catch up. Yeah, split my time between LA London and Australia.

Yeah, because I'm going over. So I'm, I'll wait. Where are you going? You've been listening to the Aunty Donna podcast. Thanks for joining us for another rip episode brought to you by Aunidonaclub.com. See you next week!