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This is Later with Lee Matthews The
Lee Matthews Podcast more what you hear weekday

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afternoons on the Drive. You know
Eric Banner from Ridley Scott's Blackhawk down at

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Troy, Munich with Daniel Craig and
Jeffrey Russian, my favorite time Traveler's wife.

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His new force is called Force of
Nature, The Dry Too. It's

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in theaters now. Eric Banner agreed
to have you along today. It's great

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to be here. Thanks for having
me. So tell us about The Dry

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Too. Force of Nature. It's
a it's a follow up to our first

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film, The Dry and it's based
on a novel by Jane Harper call Force

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of Nature. It's about a group
of women who go on a corporate retreat

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team building exercise and get lost in
the bush and we discover that one of

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the women who's missing is my informant. I'm a I'm a federal cop Aaron

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Fork. So you are are with
the CIA your character. I'm a federal

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policeman in Australia who works for financial
services and I'm trying to bring down the

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owner of a of a of this
particular company. Is this a gritty role

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for you where you have to do
a lot of action. I'm not a

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ton of action. Is a little
bit, there's a little bit there in

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the end, but no, it's
it's we're stuck in a forest. So

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we shot in the middle of winter
in a subtropical rainforest outside of Melbourne.

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So it was it was pretty It
was pretty intense in terms of you know,

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weather and exposure, but you get
to see some incredible Australian landscape,

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incredible Australian creatures that are trying to
eat you. Just leeches in this case,

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Okay, let too much. Yeah, that's always one puzzled me.

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When you're in a tropical situation like
that, in a place that is known

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to have dangerous preachers. On the
set, do you come across them by

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accident? I'd say people got leached
every single day on the production, without

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a doubt. Yeah, sos.
We became experts at leech removal and some

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had some had it worse than others. Some had them, some had them

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in worse places than others. But
they were just a constant reminder force of

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nature. The dry to its in
theaters everywhere. Eric Banner is with us.

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You're always very good at getting into
the character and the accents. What

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is it with you? Do you
have an ear for other accents? Well,

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it also just comes. Yeah,
I guess I do, and I

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sort of used to do it when
when I was growing up. But it's

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just necessity, right because you know, as Australians, we're just always having

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to do accents because you know,
there are no Australians who ever appear on

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cinema anywhere in the world. That's
a funny thing, you know, discriminatory,

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it's no Australians. So yeah,
it's just it's just part of the

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deal. When you're growing up in
Australia, you know that if you want

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to be an actor, you're going
to have to be able to do American

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and British accents. And I imagine
you're inundated with enough American and British content

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that okay, just watch enough TV
and you'll get it. Yeah, well,

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I guess it's you know, one
of the benefits of growing up with

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so much American and British television as
a kid is you are exposed to it.

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That's why it's always much harder for
American actors to do Australian accents because

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you know, you guys don't grow
up on our on our TV shows.

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Yeah, yeah. What is it
about the Australian accent that is that is

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different. I've heard a lot of
different theories that it developed as a result

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of the blowfly infestation, uh,
or just being away from Britain for so

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long that things kind of take off
on their own. What do you think.

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It's a very good question. I've
never thought about how how we ended

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up or how New Zealand has ended
up with their accent. It's it's I

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don't know, it's any very unique. Obviously it's very different to others,

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but I'm not sure, not sure. Maybe it's you know, because we

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perceive ourselves as being a bit more
light back, maybe went it up with

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this sound that kind of reflects how
chilled we think we are. I grew

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up around My grandparents were from the
Deep South, United States, and they

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had that old characteristic Oh a,
do declare magnolia's on the lawn, The

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batteries must be run down in your
torch, you know, that kind of

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thing. And I think that it
evolved out of so many British settlers in

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Colonial America settling in the South with
God forbid, I say it slavery,

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integrating that kind of the African dialect
into that English dialect. I really think

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that's where that all Southern accent came
from. But I'm not an a linguished

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expert. You can tell I have
a bit interest in it because I've I've

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seen and heard so many of them. But you get to see force of

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nature, the dry too with Eric
Banna. Uh is it easier to play

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a tough guy or a sensitive nineties
guy like the Time the time Traveler's wife,

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her husband, time Travelers. They
were all really different, aren't I.

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It's like that's a that's the beauty
of beauty of the job. And

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in a movie like a Tom Travis
Lofe. What makes it easier is having

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great co stars, you know,
so having Rachel McAdams on them, and

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that film was amazing, you know, she's so fantastic, it was.

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It was an amazing film to Mike. Actually, well, I was a

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big fan of the book. My
wife was one who turned me on to

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it. Hey, you'd enjoy this
book and it's kind of a chicks book,

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and she goes, yeah, but
you'll like it. And I read

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it and I did. I fell
in love with it. And was delighted

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at the casting in this movie.
You and she were perfect for the roles.

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Thanks mat. Yeah, and I
was I was a it was,

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it was. It was a great
book and it was. It was a

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tough adaptation rot because there's a lot
of jumping backwards forwards, you know,

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the timelines and armander. Even on
the set, you know there some days

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we're outside of the director, Robert. I'm like, okay, just remind

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me again where I've come from.
What year is it? Why am I

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dressed like this again? And just
tell me just yeah, I've got gray

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hair, but she's a child.
This is weird Cose Force of Nature,

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The Dry Too featuring Eric Manna.
It's out now everywhere you get your movies.

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I thank you for joining us and
we look forward to seeing your next

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project. Thank you very much.
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