Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Cliff Curtis' Cliffhanger Call

Episode Date: August 31, 2022

New Zealand acting royalty Cliff Curtis joins us on the release day of his new movie 'MURU', so we thought it would only be fair to play a game of Cliff-hanger calls with him...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on The Hits. What's the story guys? What's with the tinted windows? One of your people assaulted my office If anything happens to any one of my people I'll make sure no one in Tuhoy ever forgets it Yeah, stars Cliff Curtis you know him, he's gone from Uncle Bully to starring in hundreds of Hollywood movies alongside

Dwayne Johnson, Denzel Washington and Hugh Jackman to name just a couple and Kiwi actor Jay Ryan has gone from Go Girls in New Zealand to huge American success as well. Played The Beast at the sitcom Beauty and the Beast as well, and they join us in the studio. So Cliff, what we do is we

get a wonderful story and you take us up to a certain point, you leave us hanging off the cliff, and then we come back and we get the ender, the polisher, the finisher. What have we got there? No pressure. Yeah, so set the scene.

Where do we go? Because you've got, obviously, you know, a lustrous career in New Zealand and Hollywood. You've probably got plenty of stories circling around your head right now. God, there's so many. Yeah, I mean, I suppose I'll go back a couple of decades, a few decades when I was first sort of like traveling overseas. You know, I'm a small town boy and, you know, getting on a plane and traveling is so exciting.

But I could never afford to really go for too long, you know, and I'd save up and I'd get an airfare. I'd get the cheapest one I could find, economy class, and I'd sort of end up in the back of the plane. The plane's unloading and I just sort of sit there because i don't you know i don't like lines i'm waiting for everybody to go off the plane i'm sitting back there relaxing when the plane's empty then i get up gather my belongings so you're not one of those people that stand straight up as soon for some reason people do that when the plane lands they stand straight up i am now but back then no yeah are you a huncher now you end up sort of hunched under the uh the overhead compartment i just want to get i just want to get out and get on with the day.

But back then, I was like, you know, I didn't have that many responsibilities. It doesn't matter if I left the plane or not. But I'm at the back of the plane. I'm waiting for everybody to get off the plane. And the plane's empty. And so I like a mosey on up to the front of the plane. You go from, you know, coach, way out the back of the plane, 300 people getting off. You come up, empty plane, walking my way up. There's the plane, 300 people getting off. You come up, empty plane, walking my way up.

There's business class. There's a curtain. You come through business class. And then I get to business class, and then across there's another curtain, which curtain's off first class. And the curtain opens. Oh, is this the cliff? Oh, this is a good cliffhanger.

All right, stop there. Let me get the music here. Who was at the curtain? I don't know. I don't know who your listeners are, but I'm telling you, for me, it was earth-moving stuff. We'll find out next with Cliff Curtis and Jay Ryan from Muru, new film in cinemas today.

A-grade celebrity chat with C-grade celebrity hosts. Jono and Ben on the hits. New movie Muru in cinemas right now today. Action drama. And we've got a couple of stars with us in the studio. Cliff Curtis and Jay Ryan. And we've got Cliff Curtis. Well, we're in the middle of his cliffhanger call.

Yeah, now, Cliff, we left the story. He was exiting a plane. I'm waiting for everybody to get off the plane and the plane's empty and so I mosey on up to the front of the plane. You go from coach way out the back of the plane, 300 people getting off. You come up, empty plane, walking my way up. There's business class, there's a curtain.

You come through business class and then I get to business class and then across there's another curtain, which curtain's off first class. And the curtain opens. Oh. And that's where we left it with Cliff Curtis on the cliffhanger calls. Cliff, who was at the curtain? One tall gentleman walks out, checks, looks at me,

doesn't matter, and then behind him is Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder? Stevie Wonder. Legendary Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder. And I'm like in shock and awe. I'm like frozen. So he'd been on the same plane as you? Yes. In first class. I'm at the back. Opposite ends of the plane. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then he comes out, and I'm so, I don't know what to say. I'm like, Stevie Wonder. And I'm such an idiot. You know what I do? I can't speak, so I wave. So anyway, I can't wait to come home and tell the story. Tell the story to the bros.

They're like, oh, I'm on the plane. I come to the front of the curtain. Stevie Wonder. And I wave to Stevie. my my bro's so excited he goes oh bro did he wave back i know it's a silly story but it's a true one you've rubbed shoulders with so many of hollywood's so many yeah so many but pretty crazy before you actually you know made it big in hollywood that is yeah yeah no yeah it's been an incredible ride hey you know do you still feel like when someone comes over like you you film with something like gentle washington or dwayne the rock johnson and they know who you are they're aware of your

work is that kind of still a cool feeling yeah it was weird it's weird you know i think i still live at home you know people have this idea that i live here in hollywood i don't i commute to work it's a big commute it's a big it's a hell of a carbon footprint you know but but um but i would that's what all you big a-listers are doing nowadays i just wouldn't i just wouldn't know where else to live you know i don't yeah yeah it's awesome and make these amazing stories like you're making for new zealand right now so thank you Yeah, I'm very blessed that I get to make a movie like Muru. And then at the other end of the spectrum, you can't get bigger than Avatar, the Avatar sequel.

So I'm in that as well, you know, which is shooting here in Wellington, yeah. That releases in December. Yeah, that's a very exciting movie. Now, Rotorua, have you been to the Cobb & Co? Yeah. Yeah, have you seen the robot wages? Oh yeah, they've got robot weight stuff there now. Cobb & Co? Yeah. Have you seen the robot waiters? Oh, yeah, they've got robot wait staff there now.

Cobb & Co, Rotorua. Two robots that go around and bring your food to you. When did that start? A couple of months ago. We were down there for work. We went there along. No, it's just in London, and they have that in Selfridges. The only place in New Zealand we have it is Cobb & Co, Rotorua.

Yeah. I love that. I love that. We were buzzing out by that. That was awesome. You know, leading technology at the Cobb & Co. The guy said every now and again they'll crash into each other. One of my first paid jobs was working at Cobb & Co in Potaparoma, actually.

Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, they're trying to do you out of a job now. Robot waiters. Yeah, I used to clean up glasses and all that sort of stuff, yeah. Thank you so much for coming in today. Was that a plug for Cobb & Co? Sorry, mate, you've been in an ad for Cobb & Co. What's going on? Yeah, I used to clean up glasses and all that sort of stuff. Thank you so much for coming in today. Was that a plug for Cobb & Co?

Sorry, mate, you've been in an ad for Cobb & Co. That was a long play from us. We got him, guys. We sealed the deal. Get the marketing department onto that. Cliff Curtis, Jay Ryan. Muru, it's in cinemas. It looks like a fantastic film.

Congratulations on it. Hope it goes well. It's going well. And then Jay and I are meeting up in Toronto. We were in the Toronto Film Festival. Are you going to talk to him this time? Yeah. Are you going to wear shoes this time?

Yeah, I will. I've got some new shoes on right now. Well, thank you very much, boys. Kia ora. Kia ora. Thank you. It's a simbos right now. It looks really awesome.

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