Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Is Lucy Lawless In The Top 50 Most Beautiful People In The World?

Episode Date: September 4, 2022

We chat to Kiwi acting royalty Lucy Lawless about her last ever role as an actress!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits, Jono and Ben on your Monday morning. Now, Lucy Lawless, I mean, she's done so many incredible things. She was Xena, Warrior, Princess, now starring in My Life is Murder. The TV One show is a private investigator solving mysteries. That's on again tonight. And she joins us right now. Lucy, good morning.

How are you, Lucy? I'm good. Thank you very much. Hey, thanks. You know what I'm doing? What are you doing? You know what I'm doing? This is, what is this? What, Lucy? I'm good. Thank you very much. Hey, thanks. You know what I'm doing? What are you doing? You know what I'm doing? This is, what is this? What is it?

I'm trying to clean my husband's keyboard because it's gross. I just sat down to do this interview with you, and I'm looking at this really ghastly, grungy keyboard. Turn it upside down. That's confronting, though. Turn it upside down and knock it on the desk, and all the debris will fall out. You do that on the work computers computers and you're like, ugh.

What are you eating? Just cereal. Yeah, no, it's not pretty, is it? Well, apparently they're filthier than toilet seats keyboards. Really? Oh, okay. My toilet seat's much filthier than that. Now, My Life as Murder is back again.

I think I read you said it in an article I was reading, but Auckland has never looked better than it does on this show. I know, and I love it. You know, all the tourists come through Auckland and they want to get out ASAP, which is just such a shame because nobody knows that it's beautiful and it's a lovely place to be. You need to get inside the community like you do in any town, but Kiwis are friendly and good-looking too.

Did you say Kiwis are friendly and good-looking looking too did you say kiwis are friendly and good looking have you can you see me can you see me on the zoom yeah i see you you're particularly i was reading you say you're saying this is gonna be your last role ever yeah i'm sure i meant it at the time um no no i mean i've been saying this for a long time to be honest and it is my bread and butter and I'm a very lucky duck to be allowed to do it you know I've had this awesome career so yes never say never but it's just as you get older other things become more important you know and I've got other projects that really really interest me and that's also really encouraging that in your 50s,

suddenly your head gets really turned. You get super excited again about a completely new direction. And I'm enjoying it. Yeah, what, are you getting into Bitcoin? What are you going to put into? Crypto? No, I never got sucked into that. It is.

We were just talking about a TV one show about, you know, a private investigator. Now we're talking about... About Moida. I actually did some about a TV One show about, you know, a private investigator. Now we're talking about. About my dad. I actually did some private investigating on my own. Did you? Because my daughter, I don't know if you know this, acted in a scene in the series with you.

Sienna's her name. And she acted in a scene. Oh, lovely little Sienna. Yes, down on the beach. She was hocking off some stuff in the scene. Oh, she was so good. That's your baby? Yeah.

And I was like, all right, dish me the dirt. What's Lucy Lawless like on set? And she was like, she is lovely. She had nothing but glowing things to say about you. She apparently spent a lot of time talking to her and hanging out with her, which was awesome. It's fair to say she and his career is going a lot better than her dad's at the moment.

I put all my chips in on her. Yeah, yeah. That's who we're back again. Lucy Lawless with us this morning. Now, you've had such an illustrious career, her. Yeah, yeah. That's who we're backing in. Lucy Lawless with us this morning. Now, you've had such an illustrious career, Lucy. Illustrious. That is illustrious. It's been incredible.

Yeah, and I don't use illustrious lightly. I don't even hardly know what it means, but I thought I'd chuck it out there for you. Me neither. What has been the one standout moment for you? Oh, yes, yes. Definitely The Simpsons. Oh, yeah.

Parts and Rec, Nick Offerman. Definitely The Simpsons. Oh, yeah. Parks and Rec, Nick Offerman, playing his wife. It doesn't feel like you've let the industry tarnish you or change you in any way. Well, you know what? I think probably early in my career, there was a time when I know the first holiday I had from Xeno that I went away on a boat with my then boyfriend, who is now my husband,

a bunch of other grown-ups, and I was really astonished because nobody was laughing at my jokes. Nobody was, like, holding an umbrella over me. Nobody was, like, doing up my shoes or whatever. It took me a few days going, oh, I'm really uncomfortable in this company. And then I realized, oh, this is the normal amount of attention that any human being gets. And I made that adjustment and never looked back and just went.

And from then on, I always did up my own costume. I always folded my clothes. I didn't leave a mess for people to... That was the turning, defining moment for me, I think. Yeah, it was the subtraction. Yeah, because i imagine you could get used and swept up in that lifestyle oh yeah you think you start thinking that the wardrobe lady's holding an umbrella over you because you're special it's like no she's protecting

the costume we've got lucy lawless with us my life is murder is back on one uh a show obviously about a private investigator i wanted to see if our private investigation of you online is true or not. Some facts about you Lucy. So someone else was originally cast as Xena but got sick and couldn't come to New Zealand. Is that true or not? We heard all kinds of rumours.

Anyway, I think she just couldn't be bothered coming to New Zealand for some reason. I was this lucky local kid on the spot, and it was New Year's Eve, and they found me. I was off camping somewhere in the South Island. Wow. And through an amazing series of coincidences, they found me,

and like three days later, I was back in Auckland. My hair died dark, and I was playing Xena. What? So you were just camping, and you got a call that would change your life. And 50 of the most beautiful people in the world, were you named one of them? Oh, I was one. Yeah, yeah. That's right.

Fell off, fell off that tree. What happens when that happens? What happens? Do you get a heads up? You're like, hey, you're close to the top 50 here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Try harder. A bit more moisturizer in your regime.

You might make top 40. Oh, Lucy Lawless, this has been fun catching up with you. Thank you very much for your time. It's my pleasure, Jeremy. It's always nice to see you. Thank you very much for yours. You've been listening to a podcast from The Hits. For more audio, search up Megan Pappas on the 3pm pickup

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