SAMARA WEAVING Is From "Radelaide"

Hi, Bashe. Hey, Sufi. How's it going, buddy? Good. I've Mackenzie's away and I'm, I got a lot, but I'm trying to do a bunch of stuff around the house. Just running into roadblocks, man. That's just- Oh, stuff's getting in the way. Life's getting in the way. Not life's getting in the way. Like, I think that I'm good at like being a Mr. Fix It. And I'm not. Oh, right. Yeah. Because like some jobs I'm like, all right. So I got to, I'm putting up these new curtains. That'll be easy enough. But then you look and the old curtain rods like ripping out of the wall. So it's like, oh, that has to be replaced. Yeah. So then you got to take the old rod down. You got to patch and spackle and fill those holes. Then you got to repaint and you got to redrill. And like the repainting, the old white paint is much brighter than the white on the wall. So now it's like, do I have to paint everything? Like I just wanted to put up new curtains. And it's a series of things like that. So a couple of things. Obviously, you know, I would never even attempt any of this. No, yeah, absolutely. No one. Mostly because I am in constant, to me, the modern day David Copperfields are any craftspeople who can come to your home and do anything, right? Yeah. Like I have put no time in my life into understanding, for example, how electricity works and how you can change a lamp fixture. I think you know that if given my druthers, nothing would change in my home due to the fact that I cannot perceive that there's a better version of anything. Yeah. So I'm amazed when people come over, people who have built these skills. It's not that I think that I'm like too good for them or anything. It's more that I just feel like I'm incapable of them. And there's a little bit, I catch a little bit of grief every now and then for being the kind of man who doesn't know how to do shit. Yeah. But I don't. And I don't want to learn. Yeah, no. You shouldn't. You shouldn't learn. And, but I feel like I'm sort of right on the cusp of being good. And then I get deep into something and it's like, oh, I'm not that good. And I've spent all this time and someone else could have done it probably for not that much money. And I could have had all that time to go, who knows? Live your life. Live my life. Yeah. Also, we've established on this podcast, one, my father-in-law, incredibly handy. My brother-in-law, incredibly handy. And again, I walk in sometimes. The man has a tool belt on. He's on one of them little ladders. I wouldn't even know where that. If you told me to go buy a little ladder, I'd look for a smaller, like a little ladder store. Like it would be a tiny little parking lot. You'd have to have a mini Cooper or smaller and he's going about his business and I'm just in awe of it. And what I mean, like, what am I supposed to do? Stand there and ask him questions so the next time I can attempt and fail and then have to go get him. Yeah. But again, I'm just, I'm so jealous of it while also realizing that that time has passed. And again, not to burn him because he's probably, although, you know, mom and dad, they're very social right now. I feel like they're very behind on our podcast so it can be months until he hears this. Well, what do you want to say? What's your burn? Well, I think a lot of my hesitance to becoming a handyman was how dad reacted to his own efforts to be a handyman. Yeah. I never, while we were watching dad, for example, you know, hang a curtain rod, I never thought there's a man who's finding peace by working with his hands. Yeah. My father-in-law as well, also like incredibly handy. So, yeah, I don't know. I just, I see it working in other situations and I'm like, I want this to happen. Also, I don't think they're ever gonna try to be a sponsor, especially now, but I live so close to a Home Depot and I'll be like, I just need these like wall anchors or something and I go down there. And in the commercials, there's always someone in that little orange, you know, apron, super helpful. It's got their name written on the front. Yeah. You, to find one of those people who actually knows anything is not real. It's not a real thing. The apron people are maybe playing a little bit of hide and seek with Pashi. Is that where we're getting at? Inevitably when I'm in Home Depot, I just like stand in the middle of an aisle and start yelling. So that's, yeah, it doesn't sound like sponsorship is a fit. I mean, it would be if they were there for me. It would be if they were to show up, but they got to do their part. We're not just hanging it out. Yeah. Also, I feel like me being handy would, I don't know, would run in direct conflict with the persona that I've worked so hard to craft in my home, which is off brain, that I'm a worthless piece of shit. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I feel like that's the one thing my wife and kids kind of, you know, that's what they rally around. And so if I were to actually add value, I feel like they'd be like, who's this guy? Who's this interloper? Right. Soft brand. Yeah, soft brand. But again, it's not like, you know, again, somebody comes over the other day, because like a water issue, then just some, I mean, we're Aquaman himself to walk in the door. I'd be less impressed. Then these guys who come in and just like, then they're like, the water's back. And I'm like, God bless you, one and all. Yeah. You didn't even know that those people are called plumbers. No, he's a water guy. See, what a man. I got by the time, well, I don't know, by the time it's air is very likely that I'll have a 10 year old. Oh yeah. And cannot believe it. Yeah. Cannot believe it. I also, when Ash was born, so weirdly again, I was driving the boys the other day and I was like, what do you want to listen to? An axle of all people said the Hamilton soundtrack. I wasn't even aware that axle knew that Hamilton was a thing or an existing soundtrack. And Ash has done enough colony work and his school is a fourth grader that he, he had a lot of thoughts after each song, talking about who it was fun. Has done enough colony work? Like learning about the colonies, like the 13 original colonies. Yeah, sorry. Ash colonized, Ash has colonized a very small corner of Soho. So, we're listening to Hamilton. And when Hamilton, I'm sorry, when Ash was born, Pete Hamilton, obviously we're talking about like, whatever, 2016, maybe even a little bit late for Pete Hamilton, but I told him, I was like, oh, the Skyler sister song, look around, look around. How lucky we are to be alive right now. New York, greatest city in the world. I held Ash up, he was a day old, and I sang that to him, looking out the window. Yeah. I told Ash, I tried to tell this to Ash in the car and I could not stop crying. To the part that was like disturbing, disturbing for the kids, they didn't enjoy it. Yeah. And then when the song- You almost see it in your eyes right now. Yeah. Well, I think I'm actually doing it. And then when the song was actually playing, I was like just wheezing, like I'm like trying to keep it from them because they're not like, oh, Dad, look at you, feeling your feelings. But then I'm really just excited realizing, oh, soon the day will come where I'll take them to see that show. Yeah, yeah. I mean, such an enduring show of it. Such an enduring show. You were a little anti, because I feel like I played it too much. Yeah. We went and saw it and then I overplayed it. I love that. I mean, I loved seeing it. Just, we're a little over soundtracked out. Yeah. It was just a little- I was listening to a podcast about a Vita. Uh-huh. Like a Vita Perrone, like a history podcast. The Rest is History. And- Love it. That was a, we listen to that soundtrack all the time. Mom and Dad really did like blow out Broadway soundtracks. That was a big part of our upbringing. Yeah. So. Yeah, we did, I mean cats, cats was big. Cats was big. We listened to a lot of cats. Yeah. Didn't care to get them. That's nuts. No, yeah, no. Can we say something real quick about our, Samara Weaving is our guest today. Oh yeah. Sure. Who tells us at some point during the podcast interview that she's very pregnant and she's like, I won't stand up because it's like, her words, she was obscenely pregnant. Yeah. She was on a red carpet this week with like, wearing a dress with like a cut out belly. Oh wow. And she was not lying. No, by the way, she's still like, it's like a stunning portrait of motherhood. Yeah. And because she's like beaming and glowing, but it is like, I was like, oh my God, thank God, this podcast did not require standing for an hour. Yeah. I did, since speaking to her, I went, her movie came out, Ready or Not, Here I Come, and went to go see it with our friend Jill and her kids. Really fun theater going experience. Also, it's a movie that, it's a movie about a game, like games that this family makes you play. And there's so much stuff that happens in the movie that's so like, wait, what? But it's all rules based. Like there are rules and you and I feel like we're so, we like rules. A game with rules is kind of essential. Yeah, otherwise, what are you doing? What's up, Link? And I really enjoyed the sort of, the rules based nature of Ready or Not, Here I Come. We had Sean Hattacy on our show from the pit, he's also in that movie. He's a Sarah Michelle Gellar's brother. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Who also worked with our buddy, your buddy more than mine, but speedman. Yeah. On the show, In the Kingdom. Yeah. And it was really funny to talk to him about speedman backstage. Oh, I bet. Cause like a lot of people, he is both a love speedman and think he's one of the craziest people. Same. Yeah. Same here. It's like how I know a person's a normal person. When they let me work with my buddy speedman, he's like, oh man, speedman. He's like, great. RJ Decker. RJ Decker is what, his name? And that's, that's a speedman's new show on ABC. Oh, that's right. Yeah. I didn't know it was called RJ Decker. And I see a big old billboard of it. He plays a private detective on ABC, right? Yeah. I think it's an ABC show. I think so, yeah. So this is a wonderful conversation with Samar Weaving who is about to add to her family, as you will hear over the course of this podcast. And she's just a great chat. Yeah, she really is. I feel like that's how an Australian would say it. She's a great chat. Just a good chat. Ah, good talk. All right. Let's take a listen. Family chips with the mice brothers. Family chips with the mice brothers. Family chips with the mice brothers. Here we go. Hello. Hello. Hi. How are you? Oh, better now that I'm seeing two angels. Well, take it. Tomorrow, I have a, this is, I have two podcasts and you get talked about a lot on my other podcast because I do it with Yorma Takone. Oh, that's why you guys have a little pod. Yeah. Most of my friendships are via pod. It's a good way to just have a gas bag with your friends, isn't it? It really is a good way to connect with your friends, but I'm very excited. I know ready or not to here I come is, it will be in theaters a lot sooner, but the trailer for Over Your Dead Body is fantastic. And I can't wait to see that. So fun. How's Yorma doing? He's doing well. Oh, Samar was referring to the fact that my friend Yorma fell off a ladder. He's actually doing great. He's doing, okay. His like attitude is like inspiring. All we talk about is how of the four of us, I mean, I know this is a terrible thing to say, the right guy fell off the ladder. As far as like, as far as like how he bounced back, like none of us, I mean, Andy would have just fallen into his own grave. Yeah. Well, he didn't exactly bounce today. He's probably about. That was the issue. That was the issue. But Yorma, like he was sending me videos from the hospital being like, they'll never take my mind. Like, do you fuck? He's good vibes. Just being able to joke and giggle about it is amazing. He's like mother in the corner crying. I'm going, why are you doing? He was immediately good vibes. He was just immediately good vibes. First of all, I'm very excited. You are from Adelaide? Yeah, I was born there, yeah, for sure. Which is also my daughter's name. So let's just get that right. Radelaide? Yeah, Radelaide. Oh my God, I never even thought to call her that. And first, it was our grandmother's name. And then, do you guys call it Radelaide? Yeah. Oh my God, that makes a lot of sense now that I hear it, but I'm so excited to call her that. Yeah. Wow. We're from right near Manchester, New Hampshire and people call it Manch Vegas, which is not as easy. Yeah, a natural. That seems a bit forced. Is it like Vegas? Yeah, does it? Yeah. Is it Vegas or no? Nope, not at all. I mean, but that's kind of a joke. Yeah, I think it's a very ironic name. They're not fun at all. Is Adelaide Rad at all? It can be. I actually, you know what? I was born there and then whisked away pretty quick. Where'd you get whisked to? Oh, just all over the planet. I will say your bio makes it seem like you've lived an incredible upbringing of Singapore, Fiji, Indonesia. Are these all true? Yeah, many lives. So what was the purposes of this travel? Was it parental work? It was parental work. Listen, I don't know. I don't know. I think them, okay, I'll just tell you what my dad tells me. Great. And you decide. I think it's very true that a lot of our parents tell us lies and it's not our job to go check whether or not they were true or not. Me and my sister, as we get older, are going, what? Wait a minute. Okay. He says he was a business consultant. Yeah, we got one of those as a dad. Yeah. Okay. We're traveling to all these places that are like have had some history in the Commonwealth. He's British. Yeah. And then we end up in the capital of Australia. And then now they quickly had to rush to another country. They had to go to China really quick. When was that? When did they last rush? A year ago. Wow. So... Yeah. Okay. So they had to bounce. They had to bounce from Australia to China for some unspecified reasons. Well, now he's a lecturer. Oh, yeah, I know this one. This is every... These are all the cover jobs from like a John Le Carré novel. Okay, this is I'm sass. I'm real sass. But I think it's good that I'm talking about it publicly. I'm sure I love that. Because you're... Because you're a therapist. You won't even talk to your therapist about it. And they're like, Samara, it's time to talk about what your dad did. And you're like, I'll do it on a podcast with a couple guys I barely know. I think I'll just, yeah, out in here. Were you somebody... Do you have one sibling? I do. I have a younger sister. Are you guys close? Really close. I mean, we sort of, you know, two girls, you get to like teenage years and you're nemesis, aren't you? Yeah. Well, we were like stealing clothes. And yeah, the boys are fine. Yeah, we've never had a hiccup. Yeah, we've always been fine. You just bash each other and then you're... Right, you're right. It's physical assault, nothing mental. Yeah, we play mind games. Yeah. More dangerous, some would say. What's the age gap? Like nearly two years. Okay, so just like us. Yeah. And so where was the first place you were whisked to? Fiji, where my sister was born. Okay, gotcha. She was nearly called Southa, which is pretty cool. I would have been called Adelaide and she would have been called Suva. Oh yeah, if they were based on the places. So it seems like maybe, I don't know, I don't wanna say bullet dodged, but if you had one Adelaide and one Suva, you'd be like, what's going on here? No, who would win the Rattalade? Yeah. Yeah, Rattalade's a winner. Yeah, Rattalade's a winner. But it's a way, and then how long were you in Fiji? I think like two or three years, then we went over to Indonesia and then Singapore and then back to Indonesia. And then we went to Italy for a spell. Wow. And then Sydney and then Canberra. And then I could make my own decisions and laugh. And when you got to make your first decision, was it, was Sydney your destination? Is that where you got, yeah, okay, gotcha. Yeah. And that's where your career started was in Sydney. Yeah, but I was still living in Canberra when I was working. Got it. And how far away are those two? Like two hours on the bus. Oh, that's not bad. Would you take, were you an actor who was taking the bus to work? Yeah. Were you really? Well, yeah, I would get an audition. And my dad would obviously, like they were so supportive and sweet and he would drive me a lot, but sometimes I think as a 16 year old, I'm like, I'll do it. No. Yeah. And he's like, I have a lecture anyways. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And if I don't lecture these people, I'm going to be in a lot of trouble. Daddy owes these people a lot of lecture. The world depends on this lecture. Okay. So yeah, I'd get the Murray's bus from Canberra down to Sydney. Took two hours, would learn the lines on the bus. And then, yeah. Wow. And then I'd go to work. Yeah, it was fun. That's fantastic. When was your first full-time job held? Or your first job, not full-time. There's no full-time jobs in acting. No, there's no full-time jobs in Australia, I don't think. That's why you guys travel for months at a time. Yeah, no, truly. I'm my American agent being so annoyed at my Aussie agent because they'll just take 10 weeks off. You know? Like, why can't we get a hang of them? I'm like, yeah, they don't, they have holidays, man. They're like, it's a Saturday, we can't get them on the phone. I'm like, yeah, they're at each. I got bad news about Monday too, my friend. I started working, I think I was like 13 or 14. And was it a soap opera? Was that your first thing? My first one wasn't a soap. That came after this. The first one was like a crime. Crime show, and I played like essentially myself, just like a bratty teenager who was like, dad. Was there a dad, like, were you like the, was the dad the detective who had a big case and he had also juggled and he had a bratty kid in him? Yeah, he was an electro. To really play yourself. It's based off my life. No, the dad, it was like the dad, it was sort of a side storyline. Our dad was the boyfriend of one of the suspects. Oh, got it, got it. Very fun. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Ship, Tape Oshie. Hey, Sufi. 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It's just gonna be such a port and the storm for us. It's very nice. And it's a reminder that with Airbnb, you can find homes for the night owls and you can find homes for the early birds. Booking a trip on Airbnb makes for a better trip. You can be traveling with your family or looking to discover authentic and local experiences. Like where are your best childhood memories from? Are your richest childhood memories from? Yeah. I mean, there are just so many. And I think the older I get, the more grateful I am for having this like quite unique upbringing, just in terms of we were just surrounded by incredibly different cultures and just so immersed in it, but in a way with a child's brain. So there was no sort of, I didn't know any different. Does that make sense? So like going to all these multicultural schools and going to Angkor Wat in Vietnam and going to Nepal, it just all felt very normal. And now I'm realizing, no, that's not normal at all. That's actually incredible. But I like that they have a sort of nostalgia for that as an adult. Yeah, I love them. Well, it's like impossible to replicate. Like just even like out of financial level, you can never take trips like that before. No, no, not at all. And we were just right there. So everything, you know, you could go to Bali for the weekend or you could, everything was just accessible and was within Asia. It was like so, so much fun. And did your, and it seems like your parents took advantage of where you were based to see everything around. Yeah, they travel so much and they're really, I just, their lives seem so exhausting. I'm like, why are you always running around? Like they just went to some Russian ice festival and I'm like, why though? And they're like, we just wanted to check it out. And they're like in minus 40 degrees and looking at these like ice artwork going, Mum nearly like froze her fingers off. I'm going, okay. It takes me a lot to get out the house, but sure. It's so funny because you, I think like, historically you think of like the actor who like leaves home as being the wild one, but it turns out like you just wanted to get into acting because it had some stability to it. Comparatively. You're like, the nice thing about acting is like if it's under 40, they don't work that day. It was the most stable job I could think of. What, and so where they always, they were just, they're just both wired that way. Are they, are they, are your parents the same kind of travelers or they just like, come on girls, we're going like adventure ahead? Yeah, they're very, they're both really curious and love adventure and would just, and I think incredible. They're not fearful or put off by the news or what like they don't have any preconceived notions of a certain place. They'll just go check it out and have a great time. My wife and I have never once traveled out of the country without her mom finding the most troubling news article to send us. Literally, you know, you're like, it's just like the mini you book a trip. It's like, no, she's going to find something about Zika. I know, it's quite funny isn't it? When you're like, yeah, but you live in America. That is crazy. That's what I should do. I should just, every time she does that, I'll email her back the front page of the New York Times. Yeah, right. I'll be like, be careful while we're gone. Seems like a real shit show. Exactly. Were you, when you would travel, would you do very sort of adventurous things? Would you be, you know, pushing the envelope of what was sort of maybe recommended for children of a certain age? Dude, I was thinking about this podcast going, which there's so many burns, so many injuries. What were we doing? What were we doing? Like not suitable for children, I don't think. I think I have, I don't have any memories of other kids being there. Do you know what I mean? Like we were in these places, like these huts in the wilderness of Laos. And we'd often have another family with us, with kids our age, so we would sort of have something to do because it was before Game Boys and that. But yeah, we just were like in the wild, we were in the wild, we were the wild thornberries. That's fantastic. And what were you, like what kind of things were you doing? Were you hiking? Were you zip lining? Were you rafting or? Spear fishing. Yeah, we would definitely some boats. I think we would just, my mum's an art curator for children's programs. So we'd go and she loves art. So we'd go to a lot of galleries and such and sort of then just like wander around the villages and go and see the temples and sort of do touristy things. But I think because it was the mid to late 90s, it's not as curated to tourists as it is now. And were you, I mean, again, it's all you knew it sounds like, but were you guys, were you and your sister like Gung Ho? Or do you think looking back that you were, you were the right kids for your parents to have for these trips? My sister was. Okay, gotcha. My sister's really adventurous, like way more extroverted and carefree. And so she would be taking full force and be putting herself into whatever it was we were doing. I was a big, scaredy cat shy kid and I didn't want to leave my little house. So it took a lot of like convincing for me to get out. But my dad, I think very cleverly, clove, clove, it was clever. And would sort of, cause he knew I liked to act and play make believe. So he'd interview me at a certain ruin or in a gallery and ask me what my sort of, we'd do like a pseudo David Adam Brough style. Would he shoot those? Would he be filming those? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He'd be filming them. We've got them. They're sweet. Yeah, like that. It is so funny when you, I mean, I think that says a lot about being a good parent when you see realize your kids need two different things. And you're like, one of them is adventurous and the other one is, I mean, don't take those wrong. Vane. I'm gonna interview you on vacation. And one of them makes it all about themselves. Okay. Your mother's from Malta? Yeah, she's, well, her dad was first generation Australian. So he immigrated over when he was like 14. And then. Gotcha. So did you have family in Malta or no? Not at that point. We did. We went to Malta when we were in Italy. And I had a great grandmother who was still alive there. And my mom- You're telling this like it's the beginning of a horror story. Yeah, your tone is completely shifted. No, because we're too young, we were cute, man. We were like little blonde, blue-eyed little cuties. My sister was so small. Short ass. Anyway, she, the grandmother didn't wanna meet us because we weren't baptized. She was like their devil, their devil children. Oh my God, really? Yeah. And so did you not meet her? My mom had to like convince her that we were not spawn of the devil. And was the grandmother, did your mother have a relationship with the grandmother from Malta? Like did she know her enough to be like, I can vouch for these kids? I don't know if she was like close. I don't think they, I don't think, no, I don't think so. Cause I, mom can't speak Maltese and the granny couldn't speak English. But I think somehow got across like, they're here and you should, they're children and it should be fine. And I don't know, maybe a passing none was like, you should see the children. I don't know. But yeah, I do, yeah, we did have, I do. I remember like being the thing where you're like, you could tell when you're little, like when old people are bad with kids, right? Like you're just like, oh, but this is seems way worse. Like I don't think I ever met an old person who was like, I think they might think I'm the devil. Was it then, I mean, did you know this before you met her? Was it like, hey, we're on the fence, whether or not you're gonna be your good friend? No, I think dad was probably interviewing us. We probably weren't, probably weren't aware. Yeah, the granny, I mean, she probably would really hate my movies considering this. Yeah, yeah. I mean, by the way, if she saw your movies, I think she'd be like knew it. Called it. Called it. Told ya. I can't imagine when you finally did meet that it was a highlight for anyone. Yeah, I think we were both forcibly saying, being polite. And I was just a bit afraid. Sure. Like, what are we doing here? Yeah. Yeah, it was a great grandmother or just a grandmother? Great, so my mom's granny. So that much older. Scary old lady in a bed, I remember. Yeah, I was gonna say. So for whatever reason, and I know I'm stereotyping, when I heard a great grandmother in Malta, I wasn't thinking Smoke Show. Yeah, no. And then we met her and she was so beautiful. And now she's my stepmom. I feel like we met, cause our grandmother remarried and our step-grandfather was like our grandfather. We only met our maternal grandfather once. Do you remember anything about it, Posh? No. Yeah, I mean, we went down to Florida. Like, I think our mom felt it was important. They did not have a good relationship, but she thought it was important that we met. I felt like it was a little bit like just bringing you to Malta to meet an old lady in a bed. But that was my memory is like, I don't remember what he looks like or anything, but I do remember like the vibe was like, he wasn't that psyched, we were there. Yeah. Yeah, we were checking a box. And we were pretty cute too, back in the day. I mean, come on. We had a lot going for us. Yeah, we had real bowl cuts that were- Bowl cuts. Crushin' bowl cuts. Just teeth going everywhere, big old teeth, ziggin' and zaggin'. People bein' like, are these girls or boys? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what she want. That's what she want for the ladies. Little tweed coats. And then did you have grandparents in, I mean, I guess you traveled around so much. Did you actually see your regular grandparents ever? Yeah, they would come to us. They would come to us for holidays. So not that often, you know, we didn't have a childhood where it's like you see your grandparents every weekend, but it was like once or twice a year, they would stay for a while. And it was really exciting. And they would come to the exotic locations you were currently living in? Yeah, yeah, my parents would like force them to be like, you wanna go trek Nepal with us? But I mean, that is that thing about Australians, right? Like you were, I don't feel like anyone in Australia is hesitant to travel because if you don't, you never see anything. Absolutely, yeah. So even like, I mean, I would imagine even grandparents in Australia are like, yeah, we'll get on a plane for nine hours. Mm-hmm, yeah. Absolutely, because anywhere is so far away. Did you have a family in England that you would ever go visit? Yeah, we still have a lot of family over there, lots of cousins and second cousins. And we would go, we had like a Scottish family reunion. We have like a tartan, a weaving. My grandpa's name was Wallace. And so there was, I remember being in Scotland and a lot of drunk people dancing around. Yeah. So you were little for that? Little for that, yeah. But I went back, I go back to, I go to the UK a lot for like work and stuff and it's always fun to see. I know you shot your Yorma movie in Finland. That was wild, yeah. And it's so funny to me because it takes place in upstate New York. But it was actually cheaper to shoot in Finland, which is so funny to me. Although I will say because it's your Yorma, I'm like, are you sure? I agree. I think he just wanted to go to Finland. Yeah, did you enjoy Finland? I did, I really did. But do you know what? I've been to Estonia and Finland and all these places in like Eastern Europe. Wait, is that right? Yeah, I mean Northern Eastern, but Estonia is Eastern. Yes. Yeah. Estonia, I would say. I would, I would Finland, Scandinavia, Estonia would be the Balkans? No, right now. Yeah, Balkans, but Old School Eastern Bloc, I feel like. But I've only been in winter where it's quite miserable. Summer's around for four hours and then you have to go inside because you'll die. That's right, it was winter that you were in Finland. I want to go back in summer because it just looks stunning. We were in Helsinki in the summer, Josh and I once and it was outstanding. But you really booze because like the sun stays up so late. Yeah, what do you do? Like you can like day drink till midnight. Yeah, yeah. So it's a real, like I would say like my Finland hangover was like one of the worst hangovers I'd ever had. Did you sauna? That'll be good for it. We didn't sauna, Seth ran a marathon. That's why we were there. You boozed and then ran a marathon? No, I boozed after the marathon. And then that's maybe I woke up like super hungover and also my legs were on fire. Do you know what? My husband did the Paris marathon. Yes. He boozed the day before. It's hard, I mean, I will. Why would you do that? You trained, you ran from running to Beverly Hills and back every day and then you just drink French wine until they go tell you you're stuck around. But he also wrote cocaine bear, didn't he? So, I mean. Who are we gonna do? Why are we gonna do it? Tell this guy how to live. You want cocaine bear in theaters? Just don't tell this guy to live. Absolutely right. I will, but even Josh and I like we made a trip of it and like I remember the front of the trip was most of our travels. So we were in Copenhagen and they were in Stockholm and then it was, you know, we ended in Finland. And if I had just, if I had run a marathon in the States I wouldn't have had a drink for seven days, but like you're all of a sudden you're in a cafe in Copenhagen, you're not gonna have like a beer outside. You gotta. It's hard. Yeah. So I mean, that's why I think it was, not I didn't hit my target time. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna pin it on that. Yeah, yeah, that's why. Yeah. Any standout trips that you can recall from growing up, either weekends away or sort of big trips that you guys took as a family? I mean, really I was thinking like, what will we do? It was just the amount of injuries we would get. Yeah, you said burns. How did you burn yourself? And it was always my sister. Oh, Josh was always the one I got hurt. Like once we were jumping off a pool at some resort in Bali and my sister whacked her chin on the side of the, the edge of the pool. Yeah. Yeah, that's awful. Yeah. And the thing is, we're in these countries that, you're not thinking where the hospital, they don't really have hospitals. They're just, we're sort of winging it. Like, you know, we're in the wild. And I think that's the thing. And mom's trying to find any sort of doctor, like her child is full of gushing blood everywhere. And she's running, finally we find this dentist, I think. And the dentist is like, oh, okay, I'll numb the chin and then put stitches. It's not that bad. And mom, so he's got, he gets the needle ready to numb the chin. He's like, I am gonna stitch it up with floss. Yeah, you, by the way. And this is all, yeah, this is all trying to be translated through someone. It's all really confusing and strange. But he's got this needle and this screaming child in his hand and then mom faints on him and he injects his own hand. So then he can't stitch her up. He can't feel his fingers. Oh my God. It's an absolute disaster. Just things like that. Yeah, we were doing a, bar-ticking in Indonesia, which is this art form they use where they put hot wax on fabric and then dye it and then they take the wax off and it's got this cool effect. And mom was like, let's get all the kids to do it. Kids love hot wax. We've got this like vat of hot wax and it just goes all over my sister and we're in this little village and we don't know what to do. So all these like old ladies start putting toothpaste on to try it. They think that's what's gonna help. The burn, I don't know. I like that everything, the amount of oral care that came to your rescue. Yeah, everyone has really great teeth over there. By the way, I had a lot of, I was like, oh my God, your parents are so great and so adventurous, but like I'm not okay with your mom fainting. I know. Because I'm like, look, you gotta be, have a stronger resolve. You're bringing your kids into the wild. You gotta be made of a sterner stuff. Come on, look shop. Yeah, our mom would have been the same. Our mom wouldn't have done well. But mom would never have, like she, you know, she wouldn't have gotten off the plane. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think traveling around to all these amazing places is, I realized Santa Claus wasn't real. Oh, interesting. All our Christmas gifts were from the place. Oh. We would go. That's a very funny way to put it together. I would be like, wait, but if Santa like is in the North Pole and knows what I want, he could get them from everywhere. Why are they from such a specific? Yeah, that's for a Barbie and I got a woven doll. Yeah. Why is everything Cambodian when I'm in Cambodian? Why is everything, you know? Yeah. It's like Amazon warehouses. Like Santa has stuff like, he can't bring it. He like, he flies in and he grabs stuff locally. He shops locally. Yeah. Yeah. He has his constituents that find everything. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. 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No. She's actually strangely in San Francisco. She's the smart one and she went to be a researcher at Stanford. Wow, that's some very divergent paths. I know, yeah. Did you know, at what age did you know your words, she was the smart one? Yeah. Yeah. Do you know what, I think it wasn't that she, I knew she was the smart one. I knew that I would be the like one that didn't go to university. You were like, I'm lazy. I'm gonna go be on a soap opera. Do you think that's what it is? Do you think on your first day on a soap opera, you're like, oh, I'm not the smart one. Yeah, that's when it dawned on me. You were looking around and like, I don't think any of us. I'll be the rich one. You can be the smart one. You know what, in the end, and in the end, that's when you realized you were the smart one. How many years did you do on a soap opera? Like three years. Is it like the one all of us, what was your, I feel like I've heard of it, but it's not neighbors. There's neighbors and then there's home and away. And I was like, home and away. And home and away is cooler, okay, because it's on the beach, neighbors is just on the street. Yeah. How many years, and it's home and away though, that show's been around forever, right? I think like 30 years now. Still going? Still going, yeah. Ray Ma who plays Alf, I think he's still on it. He was on day dot. We, Josh and I lived abroad. We both worked for a theater in Amsterdam, right out of college. And so like the only English language channel was the BBC. The BBC had neighbors on probably home and away at the time, maybe not, but it was very- It was very- EastEnders as well was a big one, but not Australia. We spent a lot of time doing derisive impressions of people and neighbors. Can you do one for us? Josh probably can. Oh yeah, there's something out in the back, yeah, and I don't even know what it is. I think Graham probably dropped it off about five hours ago. Disgusting. It's such a funny way to get a look into a culture. It's so real, it's so real. No, it's really correct. What is with our voices though? We sound so silly. Like have you ever watched an Australian like dramatic movie? It's quite hard to get past. I just saw a great one. Yeah, that's what that was. You know what I just saw? Cause I just, I literally then just ran into it and I never met him. I saw this movie called Limbo with Simon Baker. Sure. And it's great. Yeah. I highly recommend it. Josh, Graham. Did it take you a minute to adjust when they're like, hey, how are we found the body? And you're like, okay. Maybe don't check cause you all sound crazy. It might not be a body. Check to see if it's dead cause you guys all sound crazy. Turns out it's a surfboard. Who dumb it? I will say my, I can't, every time I even do a joking Australian accent on my show, the YouTube comments are littered with Australian people begging me to stop. We have a dear friend, Josie O'Reilly, who has left us and a lot of other people that we worked with in Amsterdam, a long voicemail imploring us to never do an Australian accent again because they're not good and we think they're good and we sort of get it together. Here's what I think she sounds like. Oh, hey guys, it's Josie here. Can you please stop doing your Australian accents on television? It's just, it's unbearable. They're all so bad. Like everyone's just so bad at it. It is the hardest accent to get. But you, so what was the first time, cause again, everybody from Australia, England, we've established great as an American accents. Do you just write that off as that was what you guys watched growing up, you had a lot of American culture? Yeah, I think that. And then also when you know you're gonna be the dumb one and you're gonna have to act, you, when you realize that, you know, oh, if I'm gonna be success for all, like that's the wrong word. But if you want to work in the States, you should maybe learn an American accent. Yeah. So it was the first time you had to do one. I think for an audition, I came out here, I think when I was like 19 and for when pilot season was still. Oh yeah, that whole, yeah, that whole regular role. Yeah. And I would go and do these auditions and do an American accent. I thought it was good. It probably wasn't very good. Did you ever think like I'm gonna pretend, like I've assumed you walk into the audition and you are using your regular voice. Would you ever pretend to be American the whole way to just kind of hope they thought? I did once, but and I, people do that on sets and I really, I admire that when I work with actors who just stay in the accent the whole time. Yeah. I get so self-conscious. I just feel like a dick. Now I get it. You feel like you're acting in a regular. Or like you're lying to the people that you're working with because if you're just talking as yourself and it's like, but this isn't me unless you preface it with I'm doing this because it'll help me stay in it. Yeah, it's something, it makes me feel like I'm attention seeking and being weird, but you're not. Like if that's how you need to get your job done, then go for it. I just, it like makes it worse for me. Not me, every time I see Daniel Day-Lewis, which is often, I'll be like, you're not Abraham Lincoln. Stop acting like it. Can you tell, someone should tell him. Does your, how often has your husband gone to Australia? When we first started dating, he had to pretend that he liked it. We would go a lot and- What's a lot? Like, so you're dating now and you're like, hey, you should come. Cause again, that's like, I've never been and I love traveling and- Yeah. You've never been to Australia? No, and I would love to go, but I, you know, like it's where does it fit in when you're busy, you know? Right. Yeah. I reckon go for Christmas. Okay. Cause it's so hot and so nice. Yeah. There's surfing Santas. It's the best. You have a barbecue on the beach. It's excellent. So we'd go for Christmases and then maybe once more that you would go like twice a year. We haven't gone in a long time actually, but yeah, he's like allergic to the outside. Oh, wow. Hmm. But I guess that is you are, you're sort of, I guess a bit of a outsider Australian in that you like to be inside. We love, no, I like to be outside. Okay. I want to be in the sun and with, like I open all the windows in our house and Jimmy's like, but I'm so allergic to the wind. He's like truly allergic? I think like just, Paul and he's so pale to get, he'll burn in an instant. And I was like, he, we'd go to Australia and he'd be like, what are we doing today? And I'd be like, you're looking at it. We're sitting on the beach. Friends will come through, get a good book sunscreen. And he's like, I hate that. Like we had to lie. He was trying to convince me he was cool. And so he'd be like, no, this is totally chill. He's sand everywhere and everything he hates. When, I love that the entire courtship was a lie. When did he own up? Like, or could you sense it at all? Were you like, I don't think he really, cause there is something sweet about like, he done like this, but he likes me. And that's kind of cool that he's doing this. Yeah. I think by like hour six on the beach of the first day and he's red. And he just started going like, is there anything else we should be doing? You know, like in this really sweet way being like, can we please do anything other than this? And yeah, that's when I clocked on. He's an air conditioned boy. It's all right. They're loud. I'm one of those two. He's an inside boy. Yeah. I have a lot of inside boys like me, meet beautiful outdoor ladies and we're living a very full life. It's wild though, because there was like a trend in, I think in the States, there's a lot of inside boys and inside girls because there was this trend that was happening in the States of people saying, oh, you've got a, they called it burping the house, which essentially meant just open your windows. Right. And all the European countries and Australians and everyone else was like, this is just how we live every, what do you mean? We just have our windows open. It's not, people don't, I don't have an open window here, no? It's true. I mean, I like to. Okay. We've got one. Yeah. But, yeah. I mean, as in New York City, I think opening windows just like turning on the loudest speaker in your house. You're not wrong. You said you lived in Italy? Yeah. We spent six sweet months over there. Where were you in Italy? In Florence. Is that a grave? Never been to Florence. Is it amazing? It's so good. You should go quickly now. I think. Yeah. It's on our sort of honeymoon list. I've gotten married about a year and a half ago and we still haven't gone on our honeymoon. Congratulations. Thank you. My wife studied abroad in Florence and hasn't been back since then. And so that's one of the places we're hoping to hit when we get our act together. But for your experience, what's Florence like? It's so nostalgic now because it was such a, it was, I was like 12 and a half, like nearly, I was like looking down the barrel at puberty, you know? So it was like, I still had this like whimsical childish wonder and we hadn't started high school yet. And it was, my parents thought, oh, let's just homeschool them for six months in Florence. So it was interesting me and my sister talk about this. There was no influence from other kids or sort of like high school culture or school culture if you've got to be this and fit like that and fit in. And so we could just sort of be whoever we wanted to and wear what we wanted to and do whatever we want. And there was no social media yet. So it just felt like really freeing in a sense. And we would just run around Florence looking at all these sick things and eating the best food ever. And it just was such a dream. And then, cause then you go to Australia and it's like, we only wear skirts that like don't touch our knees actually, you know? You're going, oh shit, okay, quick, I've got to grow up. So it was this like really nice time, you know, before mean girls happened. Yeah, could you run around, like when you were running around Florence with your sister, was it just you or would you always have a parent with you or you could do it just as young girls running around? We'd have a parent with us. But yeah, it was just awesome. Who was the better teacher between your mother and father? Would they hand off? Oh, both of them would be useless. They tried and then... Well, one's a lecturer and one's, what does your mother do again? She's an artist. She's an art curator. But they were both in, they were also in Florence. They didn't want to sit around looking at a science book. They wanted to go out. And see stuff. So mum then got to the point where she was like, just if you do, just do me a painting a day and we'll say that's good. Now a painting a day, that seems like she's running like a sweatshop. Yeah, she sort of is. She's still to this day is like, where's my painting? Every time. Do you still, do you guys have art skills? You and your sister? Somewhat. My sister's really good. I do like cartoons really. All right. Thank you for your honesty. Yeah. Very excited for your movie. Congratulations. It's been a while since the first one. When did you know you were gonna do a second one? There was sort of conversations that had been starting for the, I want to say the past like four years, but nothing set in stone. Then it was just like a series of conversations and then one day we're all in Toronto filming it and I still don't quite know how it happened. Congratulations. It's very cool. I don't want to call it a mistake, but I made the less good choice of seeing Ready or Not One just at home and it feels to me like it's a good movie for the theater. Good movie to see that opening weekend with a packed house. Yeah, cause I could certainly sense where all the, all the big laughs would have been the sort of theater wide laughs and that. Yeah, some good, some good spooks. Some good old spooks. This one's a bit more laughy, less spooky. Okay. Yeah, but that's also great for an audience. I feel like if my memory serves from when you were on my show, you were also, you scare pretty easily. I'm terrified, yeah. Yeah. Like it's really great that you're making the sort of movies that would torment someone like you. I had to really try and myself because it doesn't come naturally. Is it, are you having fun when you're shooting those movies? Cause it like, there are certainly, okay. Cause there are days where you have to go there. Yeah. I say this though, it's not like I haven't read the script. Do you know what I mean? Like it's not like I get there and I'm like, what? It's cold and I'm covered in goo. What do you mean? You know, like I know what I'm getting into. So there's a level of acceptance. I sort of practice or try to practice before and then just really try and have a good, silly time. Yeah. Cause otherwise. Well, I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. Thank you so much for joining us. Before you go though, Josh is going to ask you our speed round questions. Okay, hit me. All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous or educational? Relaxing. What is your favorite means of transportation? A car. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with? Oh, the devil granny. Yeah. Give her a second crack at it. Yeah. Yeah. I was wrong about you kid. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Oh, my sister, Morgan. Yeah, the smart one. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? Oh, fuck. Florence. Yeah, let's do that again. All right. What is your hometown? Los Angeles. Los Angeles. If you had to recommend Los Angeles to get more families to come visit, how would you pitch the city as a family destination? It's not one. It's not one. I live here too. I think it's very much a family destination. OK, talk to Josh then. All right, that would be your advice. And Seth has our final questions. Have you been to the Grand Canyon? No. Do you want to go? Sure. OK, you want to go? Yeah. Now, I will say, Seth always asks these questions. And when he poses that, do you want to go? It does seem like an invitation. OK, gotcha. Yeah. Well, all right. But you know what? I said it the wrong way, and now we got to go. I'll own that. I went to Niagara Falls there. Yeah. But I went in between scenes, shooting ready or not. And I got there. Got there, realized I'm covered in blood. Wow. And I got out of the car and Tim, the driver, just left me there and said, you'll be right. And I was running around in a hood, trying not to scare the sweet people at Niagara Falls because I must have looked. I have a selfie of me at Niagara Falls, just head to toe in fake blood. I mean, I feel like that would have been very good for the Niagara Falls tourism if a couple of like, those like big foot type photos got out of like that. Just like that. There was a woman who was washed away years ago, and now she's back. It was just such a weird feeling of, I'm scared of scaring someone else. Yeah. Anyway. So it's no. I had a place that's also a little scary. There's a lot going on. No Grand Canyon. No Grand Canyon. Pretty good. Thanks so much for being here. It's lovely to see you again. Thank you, you too. And nice to meet you, Josh. Absolutely. We'll see you soon, I hope. I think so, yeah. Great. All right, come on. You're the Grand Canyon. Family chips with the my brothers. Family chips with the my brothers. Here we go. Samaraa Weave. Baby Samaraa Born in Radley. So she's Australian, but that's not where she stayed. She's from Santa Indonesia and Fiji. Six months didn't live in Italy. Florence, Italy. Lust to wander, wander, wander. Had a great grandmother practically fossilized. Afraid of these children who were not baptized. Mom said, Granny, we came to Malta. The night's born of Satan, I can promise you. Brought inside, got to see. The figure on the bed, it was the devil, Granny. Cannot hide, lose some sleep. Chahacha dreams forever, it's the devil, Granny. Creepy. One time in Bali, sister cut her chin. No hospital, so where to begin? Found a dentist shop to numb the pain. Injected himself when her mom had a faint. Just had a faint. But taking his kids on to fabrics. Sister got burned by the hot hot wax. Her sister would get bumped and bruised. While Samaraa was taping fake interviews. That's what she'd do, just out in front of a temple. Also Cambodian santa didn't fool no one.