"___" "I don't even know where to begin!" "The shoot was amazing." "I kind of knew, coming into a job with three other guys, I thought," ""it's gonna be a ball." "It's gonna be fun." And it was exactly that." "Since day one, I think we all clicked." "And it's just been..." "It's been so much fun." "I mean, they all bring something so different to the group." "A lot of fun to work with." "Sometimes too much fun." "Jake, Sam, you will orienteer a 7km walk with Andy and Felix." "Brains and brawn - excellent choice, sir." "There's a short cut." "Maybe it's not a good idea to leave the path." "Let's go." "The show is about four boys who get lost in a forest and when they come back to their own world, they've come to an alternate reality where they were never born." "So the idea is what would happen if you didn't exist anymore'?" "What would the world be like without you, and how would your family have changed, how would your relationships have changed if you hadn't been there?" "Run!" "Run, run!" "___" "My name's Joel Lok." "I play Andy." "Andy Lau." "My name's Rahart Sadiqzai and I play Sam." "My name's Matt Testro." "I play Jake Riles." "Dougie Baldwin." "I play Felix Ferne, who's the goth." "He begins the start of the series as your stereotypical nerd." "Then you come to realise as the series progresses that he's actually got a lot of qualities of a leader, in a sense." "His family have always been really protective and haven't really given him the opportunity to go and explore and be independent and do all those things that he's always aspired to do." "Sam's journey is a big one." "He goes from being the one that everybody loves, everyone wants to be with, everybody wants to be him, to being the outcast." "He finally gets to see what it's like to be the other person, on the other side of popularity." "Jake is very grounded." "He is very mature, but to some he comes off as the bully at school." "You know, he's the sporty jock, he's the footy captain." "He's insecure about his home life." "It's broken." "You know, he doesn't seem to have anything that he's proud of at home." "When they get lost, at first, he's the man of the group and he makes sure that they survive." "And he's very practical and logical." "He's cynical." "He's had the bad side of life." "He's only had people ridiculing him, he's had people constantly disputing everything he does." "He realises what everyone else is going through - that he's not the only one that might have problems." "Some things that are really similar between Sam, the character, and me myself, Rahart, is our love for food." "I..." "I love food." "There's just no two ways about it." "And that's a big part of Sam in the series." "It's just always on his mind." "He's always hungry." "Jake's probably a lot more..." "grounded than I am." "I'm quite an outgoing type." "I'm the kind of kid Jake would probably wanna hit at school." "And what I don't have in common is his cynicism." "I don't like to think myself as a cynical person." "I like to think positively, think the best of the world." "You know, don't be prejudiced, don't judge people." "___" "The shoot was 13 weeks, I believe." "I remember at the start of the shoot, I used to be able to go to work with, like, three hours sleep." "And then towards the end of it, you know, eight hours wasn't even enough." "I got here at 5:22am." "I'm gonna get some breakfast." "Deep breaths." "This is Matt and my pre-scene workout." "Yeah, it's, um..." "To get into character." "It's like acting is a muscle, like any other muscle you would use." "Sorry, Kristan, but we're doing behind the scenes." "I might just have to move you over somewhere else." "We're gonna have to move." "Come with us!" "Come." "This is one of our walks." "Yeah, we, um..." "We do certain..." "You have to stretch the muscle, work it, warm it up." "Every single muscle of the body." "I'm ready." "As you can see, I voluntarily get in." "I stay here during lunch and I sleep here overnight." " That's right." "Ready for tomorrow." " Yeah." "You are all about saving time." "How do I stay warm'?" "I've got this top, this top, this jacket, this jacket and a hot water bottle." "And then, if I want to, I can get a hot chocolate." "Matt Testro took the last hot chocolate." "Look at him." "Look at his stupid face." " What?" " You took the last hot chocolate." "No, I didn't." "There's still one left." "I took the second-last one." "Great." "Then I'll have one." "Yeah, you will." "What are you saying my face is stupid for, Dougie'?" "You shouldn't hurt my feelings like that." " Alright." " Come on." " I'm a bit of a show-off on camera." " Come on." "Come on." "Don't... don't tou..." "No, come on." "Actually, no, there was no hot chocolates left, so I had to settle for a water." " That's the same thing." " Yes." "Why were there no hot chocolates left?" " I don't know, Matt." " OK, no worries." "He's filming at lunch-time!" "Look at this." "Spaghetti, chicken, pasta." "No sauces." "Yeah, so people think that we don't go to school 'cause we're on set." " They go to school." " We go to school." "I've been doing Year 12." "I'm in my final year this year." "So I've been balancing my Year 12 studies with my onscreen work and my work lifestyle." "Every 1O minutes that I get free on set would be time spent doing essays and time spent researching." "This is the tutoring room." "It was a green room but it's been transformed into a tutoring room." " Joel doesn't spend any time here." " No time for school." "No time at all." "I spend a lot of time in here, writing." "I usually have the green room all to myself." "Where he sleeps and listens to music and parties." "I think everyone knows me as the one that sleeps all the time." "I mean, on shoot you can definitely see me sleeping in the deckchairs at every opportunity." "So today on set we are introducing the tea trolley." "This is where we keep Assorted biscuits." " Assorted biscuits for the day." " And Shapes." "So you've got your sweets over here and your savouries over here." "Variety of teas." "There's English breakfast, Irish breakfast, peppermint, Ceylon orange pekoe." "So it's actually afternoon right now, and I'm about to make my afternoon tea." "Here, do you want some cordial in it?" " Do it!" " No." "No!" "Do you want some tea in yours?" "No, I don't." "I don't, I don't." "Oh, that's it!" " Ohh!" "Dude!" " Dude!" "Oh, man!" "By the time everything was done in the day on set, it would probably be about 6:00 by the time everything was done." "And then I'd get home and rehearse for the next day." "By the time that was done, I'd probably get to bed by 10:00, 10:30." "And then be up at 4:00 the next morning." "So we're shooting the..." "the gym trashing scene right now." "And I've got a couple of toilet rolls here." "Dougie's smacking me in the head." "Having a mad time." "___" "I feel like..." "I am the most masculine." "We're just gonna keep throwing balls." "That was just basically myself, Joel and Dougie running round a gym beating each other up and it getting videoed." "So that was fun!" "Dougie." "Day four of shooting, and it's been crazy." "We just TP'ed an entire gym." "It was awesome." "We had lacrosse with..." "Yeah, we put him in a wheelie bin." "It was great." "I was just sitting there, watching." "I didn't get to do it." "Yeah." "Ohhh, the horror." "That's how the real lost boys roll." "This is Behind the Scenes with Matt." "I'm your host." "Um..." "I'm your host!" "And... ___" "There's a demon..." " There's a demon chasing us." " Chasing us." " And Dougie and I..." " And Dougie and I..." "There's a demon chasing us and Dougie and I can't get in." "And then these two are at the door, trying to help us." "And then I rip my shirt off." "When we finally get the door open, the demon comes out and haunts us, you know'?" "He's trying to get in and trying to haunt us." "He, she." "He, she... 'Cloaked figure' is what the script says." "Yeah." "And we're just pretty much really, really, really scared." "Action!" "Get out of the way." "Jake!" "And it shuts." "Instead of putting the hand out..." " Run like Forrest." " Push!" "Let's ask you where this place is." " Where are we'?" " Where are we, huh?" "That's right - the hide-out." " How's that feel?" " Yeah, good." "Oh, that was so fun!" "Whoo!" "That was fun." " That was intense." " A lot of yelling." " One of my favourite scenes." " Crazy." " Crazy." " I mean, it's difficult..." "Yeah, with that fan, it made it easy, 'cause it was, like, blowing the thing in your face." "No, no, it was great." "There was a lot of dust." "I've got a lot in my mouth still." "In my nose, my mouth." "MY EYES, my ears." "There's still a bit of grass in your hair." "Let me get that for you." " Yeah." " You got it?" "You got it?" " Just... just get it." " I've got it." " You got it?" "You got it?" " No, I haven't got it." "This has been Behind the Scenes with Matt and Joel who are much cooler than Dougie and Rahart." "Clearly." "Well, I mean, we're more handsome." "We're more handsome, and that's basically..." "I'm more handsome than him." " He's more handsome than me." " I'm more handsome than him." "Anyway, uh..." "That's all." "Thank you." "___" "This is Billy, my stunt double." " Hello!" " We look alike, don't we'?" "Yeah." "But no, when the helmet's on, we look exactly the same." "Pretty much whenever I have to do any skating, he's here right with me." "And action!" "In the scene we had to do today, Billy had to do some..." "Well, "Sam" had to do some aerial tricks." "He did..." "Did you do a kick flip today'?" " Yeah." " A couple of kick flips and whatnot." "And we did some fake skating as well." "So just a bit of these." "Pretending, without a skateboard." "I think it was for sound." "I don't know what it was for." "Yeah, 'cause the skating echoes." "Yeah, it was the sound of the skateboard echoing." "This is the part where he saves my life." "This is the part where he actually does the trick." "Am I nervous for him?" "Hell, yeah." "Yeah, he did well!" "I was hoping they'd give me a shot." "There was the mat there and everything for the first time." "It's, like, "Yeah, I could do this." But then he made it look easy." "___" "Hi, I'm Darci McDonald and I play Ellen." "I'm Tamala Shelton and I play Mia." "This is..." "What's your last name?" " Uh..." " Just 'Jesse Jesse'." "Is it Jesse Williams?" " Jesse Williams." " This is Jesse..." " Is it actually?" " Yeah, it is." "OK!" "This is Jesse Williams and he plays Sammy." "It's so testosterone-filled it's ridiculous." "Yes." "They're constantly giving us put-downs, and, yeah." " They're just jealous, really." " And Joel is always sleeping." " Just never stops." " Always!" "The best part was when I got to do awesome stunts with Joel." "He got to save me from a bus." "That was pretty fun." "That was pretty beautiful." "Um, what else?" "I don't know, I've just enjoyed everything, really." "How's Andy as a boyfriend?" "I've heard good things about him." " I wouldn't know, obviously." " He's not a very good kisser." " Um..." " I've heard otherwise." "This is the lovely Michala Banas who plays Phoebe in the show." "She's our creepy aunty." "I thought that coming onto a show with four teenage boys was gonna be hard work." "'Cause sometimes teenage boys are hard work." ""And I was exactly right."" "No!" "You know what?" "They've been great." "They've been like mates and they've formed a really nice bond together, the four of them, and then as someone who comes in and out of the show," "I've just felt really comfortable and..." "They're all really good, decent guys." "Michala, as professional as she is, she laughed out of place one time because she heard a motorbike and she thought it sounded like a fart." " I remember that!" " It totally did, though!" "That was in the hide-out back there, yeah." " It totally..." "It sounded like a fart." " It did." "This is Damien." "Um... he's just awesome." " Thanks." " Yeah." "Let's cut that, then." "We're done here, I think." "Damien, well, he's just been fantastic." "He's absolutely hilarious off set and just such a great actor to work with on set." "And to have him opposite you just helps so much." "I think it boosts the performance in the scene in general." "Being possessed." "Well, the terminator chicken, as they've been calling it." "Yeah, I've heard about that." "I'm not sure I had any control in that or I even meant to do that, to be a chicken." "I just saw Nick Coghlan, who's playing the schoolteacher, being possessed, and I thought it was fantastic - I thought he did a really good job." "So I tried to do my version of him." "But apparently it looks more like a chicken." "At one point, Damo hissed." "I did." "Well, the take had been going on for a while." "It'd been rolling for quite a while." "So I thought, "Well, the editor's got enough here to cut in,"" ""so why not give 'em a hiss?" "Chuck in a..."" "___" " That dog looks like a Pokémon." " Like Pikachu." "I'm Sarah from Film Livestock and this is Caroline from Film Livestock." "Hi!" "We've got these fine gentlemen chasing us." "They're pretty placid right now, but..." "You know, when you see them, their inner demons come out." "Fred, Deacon, Taya, come!" "So we've got Fred over here." "Stay." "What?" "Yeah." "Fred's actually mine in the TV show." "This is Taya." "Her real name's Taya." "We got Duffy over here." "She's 12 weeks old." "And this is Deacon." "Is it Deacon'?" "Deacon." "How do you get them to attack us'?" "OK, so we've had about three weeks prep on these dogs." "So it's a process we use." "We've had some volunteers at home that have played you guys for us over the time that we've been training." "So we've just taught the dogs to run after the people." "And they've also been trained to show aggression behaviours." "Whatever you do, don't look him in the eye." " How do you do that'?" " It's a lot of positive reinforcement." "So what we do is we shape the behaviour of the dogs." "So they'll offer us maybe just a little bit of something that we like, maybe just a lip lift, and we reward that and we build on it." "Can you get one of them to growl now?" "Yes." "Good girl!" "Are you guys OK'?" "Come on, we better get out of here!" "Cheers, guys." "Thank you!" "This has been Dogs." "Dogs!" "Thank you!" "___" "This is Sean, and he's being Dougie for today because Dougie's preoccupied." " I'm Dougie!" " And I'm Matt." "And we're filming the climax of the series." "So if you haven't seen all the episodes yet, spoiler alert." "Action!" "Hold him, Andy!" "Here it goes again, they're doing another take." "Joel just can't get it right, can he?" "Look at him." " It's classic Joel." " Classic Joel." "I was kidding, by the way." "We love Joel." "Joel's fantastic." "He's great, isn't he, Dougie'?" "Yes." "I am Dougie." "And I agree." "Dougie." "Dougie." "I can't, I've gotta work." "I've gotta work." "Later, then." "Later, then." "There's a scene rolling." "And he's doing acting and stuff." "Doesn't matter." "Yeah, it'll be fine." "Don't worry about him." "We might throw a fall into it." ""He needs a harness!" Nah, don't worry." "He's a big guy." "This is Russell." "He teaches us how to do all our stunts." " Ah!" "Oh, you're too strong, man." " Sorry, man." "That broke a rib?" "From the last time you threw me into a tree." "Me and Russell have the same weights program." "As you can tell." "I'm actually Matty's double." "Yeah." "Well, I'm the only one that has the same sort of physique as Russell." "Yeah." "You know." "This here is Mark." "He is one of our stunt men." "Mark will be fitting me with this jerk harness here which will throw me back into that tree." "So that will be terrifying, but Mark's a very safe guy and he's gonna take care of me and..." "We're gonna be alright, aren't we'?" "We are going to look after the tree, yeah." "This stuff is called skydeck." "It was insulation on spaceships first, wasn't it?" "Has been used, and also in the US military." "Yeah, there you go." "And it's great for holding eggs." "As you can see, you can fit one, two..." "You can fit a lot of eggs in here." "We're gonna put it on the tree and I'm gonna launch back into it." "It's kinda hard, but... you know, I'm tough." "So we'll be right." "And I do a stunt where I'll be getting sucked up into the tornado in the sky." "And I have to hold onto that rope." "And I'm gonna go upside down." "With a woman's harness, because I'm too small for a man's one." "Doing his own stunts!" "We did our own stunts yesterday, and as you can see, I've got some battle wounds." "Do you see those..." "Can you see that'?" "There's a couple of scratches, and..." "I've actually got a leech bite over here." "As actors, we go through a lot, and I hope you appreciate the amount of stuff we go through..." " Shut up, Joel." " ...to bring you a brilliant story." " Not really." " Shut up, Joel." "___" "You're at Millipede." "I'm Wil." "I'm the founder of the studio and the creative director on this project." "I'm Jason Rawlings." "I'm..." "I guess the technical lead or lead programmer for Nowhere Boys." "So we've developed a story that runs completely parallel to the TV series." "So it basically augments the adventure of what's going on." "So it's focused on a boy who's lost in this..." "What is it?" "In between dimensions, called 'negative space'." "And pretty much trying to find a way home." "And along the way, he's realised that the boys in the TV series are in the same predicament and they're actually working to help each other." "So they actually do things that influence each other and aid each other's quests." "So, yeah, it's an interesting premise." "An episode will play, and that will trigger a game chapter to unlock." "So hopefully at the end of the episode, there's a call to action to encourage people to go on and continue the story online." "And they can go on and the game will be ready to play." "And, yeah, they'll see a lot of familiar things that they've just witnessed in the TV series actually creep through into the game." "And then do some tasks, and then they'll see the results actually occur in the next episode when that airs." "What I really want, and I think what we all really wanted from the start is to create something that was unique to what's out there now and also something that can really get the player into the mythology, into the big world, of the Nowhere Boys" "and then give them that kind of satisfaction of knowing that what they're doing in the game is affecting what's happening in the show and vice versa, so they're not stand-alone things." "You really want that connection to be emphasised." "___" "What we wanted to do was take an idea, like, take the concept of magic, and make it very real." "I've got Felix's book of shadows." "Book of shadows." "Um, this is where he puts all his spells." "Show him the research that he's done on us." "So this page is Andy." "Oh, that's just his personal diary." "He just likes us a lot." "And pretty much, Felix has written down elements of the individual that I don't know, can relate to the magic somehow." "I'm water." "Andy's water because he's a logical thinker." "And I'm earth because I'm grounded and that sort of thing." " Stubborn." " Yeah." "Sam's air because he's an airhead, which gets mentioned in the script." "So he's quite flowing." "Just kind of flows around life." "Yep." "I think I'm fire because I'm just angry at life." "Because you're hot." "I'm kind ofjust angry at how my life has turned out, angry at everyone around it." "So over here it's got our zodiac signs." "Apparently I'm a Libra." " I'm a Taurus." " I'm a Leo." "So the magic's loosely based on zodiac signs and runes and elements." "The whole idea of the series was that we were gonna slowly build this sense of threat throughout the series, and there's this kind of dark magical force which is trying to eliminate the boys from the alternate reality that they've entered." "At one point, one of the characters says," ""Maybe magic is just science that you don't understand."" "Or "science that you haven't discovered."" "And I think that was the central idea that we're playing with - that there are all of these really interesting theories about the multiverse, about alternate universes, about the ripple effect, the butterfly effect." "And we're playing with that, and playing with the idea that a magical event can trigger that." "___" "Run!" "Run!" "The big thing that we have was a big tornado that chases the boys." "And the tricky thing about that is again, we've got a limited time to do it and we're in, you know, the forest of the Dandenongs, which, you know, is not green-screen-able, really, in the time." "So that was quite a challenge of how to cover that in such a way that we didn't have to erect green screens." "Of course, technology has advanced so much that you have options to do that." "It's just time-consuming." "So it was about finding a part of the forest that was kind of open enough to give us space for a tornado and removing the boys to one side so the tornado gets its part of the frame and the boys get their part of the frame." "And, you know, the tornado gets its own shot." "Faster, nerd!" "Faster!" "This way!" "The other highlight for me is I've never worked with visual effects before." "And that's been fantastic." "It's just been a really fun kind of experience." "The visual effects bees are really cool and the crows are great." "And then, you know, visual effects helps enhance the kind of dog threat that we're trying to create." "So all of that is, I think, terribly exciting." "And within the boundaries of the world that we're in, it kinda gives it another element, it really makes the magic come to life." "___" "Yesterday consisted of very mixed emotions." "I mean, I was excited, like, "No more 3:45 starts!" "Yeah!"" "But also..." "I knew I was gonna miss everyone like crazy." "I don't think it'll hit me till Monday morning when I wake up and I'm, like, "Don't have any lines to learn."" ""Not going to work." "What am I gonna do?"" "I just finished my last scene!" " It's so weird." " Oh, yeah." "How'd that feel?" "I don't know." "It's always, like..." "You have so much fun, and you forget that it's gonna end." "And then it ends, and you're, like, "Ohh."" "It's kinda bittersweet." "It's, like, throw-your-hat-in-the-air accomplished, but a bit upset." "And everyone's really tired, especially the crew." "They work all day, every day." "It's relentless." "And you guys have been studying." "Like, when I get time off, I get to go and have a little quiet read, a little chill-out, and they're going straight into tutoring." "It's not fair!" "But we've had a ball." "I'm really sad and I'll probably cry." "I've just had such a blast." "Rahart is such a gentleman." " Oh, thank you." " I'm a gentleman too." " Are we gonna keep in touch?" " Yeah." " Be great." "Be great." " Be great." "Be great." "It'd be awesome." "What am I gonna miss the most?" "Probably doing what I do - the scenes and the four boys." "Except I'll see them, so I won't miss them." "It's like..." "I explain it as a really, really, really awesome school excursion every day." "You know those ones at school to the zoo or something?" "And you go 'Whoa'?" "Yeah, and you just have the best time." "And it has to end." "But it doesn't." "Well, it does, 'cause it's ending now." "Yeah." "Today's ending is kind of like when your mum comes over to your friend's house," ""Alright, honey, we have to go."" ""Mum, can't I just stay for..."" "Yeah, no, we'll definitely keep in contact." "We can't not - we've spent so much time together, we're all brothers now, so it's good." "I hope you enjoyed the Behind the Scenes." " Hope you loved it." " Yep." "And, uh..." "Rada rada rada, etc, etc." " See ya later." " Anyway, 'bye." "___" "___" "It was weird!" "Like, I saw my face on a screen this big." "You know, my head was massive." "No, no, it was awesome." "It was awesome." "The crowd response was exactly what we hoped for." "And just to have my beautiful family here and all my friends, it was just something." "I was ecstatic at the way it turned out." "It was amazing." "My face was so big it was really scary." "And I didn't like it." "But it was amazing." "And the beginning credits were really nice." "And everyone loved it." "And it was funny." "Andy was really funny." "I loved it." "It was amazing." "And the crowd loved it." "There was so much clapping." "It was amazing." "Surreal." "I can't..." "Hopefully me being speechless can show you how much I'm thrilled." "I can't think of words!" "I can't do it." "I was nervous, I was excited, I was worried." "I was a little bit hungry." "I needed to go to the toilet." "Not a good mix." "But no, I've never been so excited." "I've never been so excited." "I loved it." "They kind of laughed in the right places." "I heard a lot of 'ooh's and 'oh!" "'" "So I suppose that was good, to get a bit of a noise." "We're hearing that your character, Felix, is a bit of a favourite with the girls." "Is that a surprise?" "Really?" "Well, you know... ___" "Yeah, it was really good!" "I liked it." "It was really original." "It was really good." "It's a different type of film." "I haven't seen one like that." "Yeah, I thought it had a lot of adventure to it." "I thought it was really good and it was really interesting." "When my mum told me about this, I thought it was gonna be a really old movie from, like, the '90s or something or, like, five people were gonna be there." "But there was, like, so many people." "It was, like, really new." "I can't believe it's gonna be on ABC3." "I completely loved it." "I thought it was just gonna be some different thing, like I'm not really sure, but a totally different thing." "And then when I watched it, I'm like," ""Oh, my God, I so wanna watch this when it's on ABC3."" "I loved it 'cause it was really funny." "And I got a bit scared when..." "'Cause there was, like, this evil spirit thing." "And then I got scared." "I really loved it." "I really like all the characters." "And... yeah, I'm really interested and I wanna know what happens next." "It was awesome." "I'm really, really excited about it." "___" "I don't know, just some of the dumb lines." "Like the blonde lines that some of the characters had." "Like eating pawpaw - it was really funny." "Probably all the..." "like, spirits and stuff." "Probably when the spiral came and the storm and all those people... that person was looking at them." "It was pretty scary." "When Felix was outside and he was going all "Yah!" "Yah!"" "Doing all his dances and stuff." "Yeah, that was really funny." "I'm not sure." "I liked it all." "Maybe when Felix was going..." "Right?" "Probably when they got back and when they started realising no-one's..." "no-one recognises them." "That was pretty cool." "And I also liked when they found the tracks and Felix was doing all his mystical, magical stuff." "___" "Sam." "Probably Felix." "I really liked him." "Hmm, maybe they all were." "Probably Felix." "___" "Yes, I'm definitely gonna be watching." "Really excited!" "Finding out what happens and exploring the characters more." "It was thoroughly entertaining and I can't wait to see what happens next."