"ABC's a complete..." "OSCAR REDDING:" "Let's turn over." "Over the following month. we took to see ex actly what it took" "Today, we're gonna be talking to Jay," "Um... and we'll be and seeing what he gets up to" "Hey." "How you going?" "How you going?" "Yeah, good." "Runner." "Beautiful." "What are we doing here?" "What are we doing right now?" "One of the first things I do when I turn up on set is grab all the paperwork that needs to" "Budgets and all that sort of stuff" "Yeah, basically, anything to, you know," "So you do the budget as well?" "I think I'm at" "You know, they always say the producer, the director, you know, the camera operators then the runner's" "I believe, though, is totally dictated" "So the runner's actually" "So you don't... you don't actually..." "Oh, this is it." "I'm at the peak" "It's a huge undertaking." "To put that in perspective. it's the" "Think TV's becoming, really, the big one, but I also understand why it's rarely" "So these risks cost a lot of money." "So next I've got to get some" "OSCAR REDDING:" "Well, next off, we'll be to drop all the paperwork then basically," "When you get home, do you get" "No, first thing I always do is, um..." "I" "Yeah, right." "Yeah?" "And then once then, yeah, doing all the important stuff" "So do you think seeing how people work on set helps with the writing process?" "I think if you want to write for TV, yes, definitely." "'Cause TV is such and there are so many and so many things" "There's all sorts of production limitations" "I think it does help to come from a 'cause then you can write rather than at the end of your script," "Yeah, you understand the beast" "Being a runner's, you know, the" "And it's really good, all the, you know," "So it's a great way to learn," "It's kind of nice to be on set and see" "And I do believe, you know, ...helps in the writing process" "Has your acting experience helped with the writing of 'Laid'?" "I don't know." "I don't know..." "It helps in rehearsals, when I get to act everything out, like, "This is how you should say it!" "And I act it out to Kirsty all the time." "Whenever I'm trying to" "I see her go like this, that I'm gonna put on" "I don't know that it helps - and I understand" "I write for the characters." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "You don't write going, "Is this gonna be or, "Is this gonna be" "You know, you just write" "Then afterwards, of course, you know, if the actors struggle with that and" "I understand that," ""I can't write a sex scene 'cause" "They have actually written a lot of nude scenes for me to do." "Notice that?" "A lot of nudity, in the first series," "Do you find them turning up" "At my house before, just to go," "What times of day or night" "All hours." "All hours of the night," ""Oh, we've got this." "I'm like, "What?" ""Yeah." "Well, we've just got some" ""In this scene, oh, Zach's clothes" "The first series sort of does lend itself to being a little bit self-contained, and we really... usually when you're writing series television, when you come up with a concept," ""And this is what's gonna happen" "And we didn't" "So it wasn't really until we were shooting" ""Well, we really should come up so in that time, ...like, I call it the kernel, or the seed, which was, what happens" "Because there is somebody" "You are opposite sides" "You're the platypus." "A lot of people have talked about... the" "What is it, for you," "On the front page?" "So it's, like, before the heading?" "It was... "Alison Bell as Roo"?" "Oh, the sticker" "So is it not true" "'Cause I think everyone," "I remember that it actually arrived in a really nice envelope, which I've..." "I kept the envelope, and I sort of have been using to put my receipts in for tax." "It wasn't in Courier, you know." "It was quite a funny..." "You know, you're like," "You get this is a comedy from the page." "Did you ever actually read the script?" "It's just... it's best to be surprised, I think," "OSCAR REDDING:" "Now, it's my understanding from the first series" "We shot the first series in Sydney, and we're shooting the second series in Melbourne." "So this is, basically, like, you were probably given the biggest job" "Re-create." "Um, we didn't know we were" "But because, story-wise, we are a" "Um..." "The girls haven't moved." "to series one" "So how did you go about..." "Yeah." "Which is, um, a suburb" "And we are in Glen Huntly," "So we decided to start looking for a location, and this one was the best of those, as far as matching which basically has our front door in the same position, leading into this dining room..." "living room and then going into the dining room." "Um, it's..." "As far as..." "I mean, we have one... you know, a couple of slight differences where the kitchen isn't further out of that room, which it was and a bit of our shoot off hallway 'cause that in this house is our kitchen," "so, you know, we just cheated a few things, but we looked at architecturally what stood out, which in the original location was the dark wood architraves." "Um, this, we built, this fireplace, and cupboards." "Um, to match our original location" "The production designer of series one, um, his approach to the design was to make it so, essentially, series two," "Sydney's interpretation" "Right." "Mmm." "So he's like me, but opposite." "Yeah." "I get it." "Yeah, I know." "I get it." "Amazing." "You don't sound very amazed." "So how does a runner throughout the... um, changes are, you know, and, you know, so most days, or... you know," "Um, obviously, I'm the last person" "before they get to" "Um, you know, ripping out pages," "Oh, all the time." "All the time." "Every day." "How many pages" "Just last night, 15 pages" "So this episode" "On other shows," "You know, you get things like, and things like," "They come from the network," "Like, this is not for Laid, but this is on" "So stuff that you go, "Well," "But, um, on this show," "There was..." "Marieke tends to write" "And she had quite a few and the ABC, um," "Is it difficult being" "There's actually a great line in series two" "I think he's directing a comment to me." "Looks as though we might have had" "That's terrific." "Thank you." "if we're gonna be to your taller and more attractive friend" "For the role of Marcus, I initially started by, um, uh, kind of going with my old faithful, which seems to work pretty well most of the time," "and I just look for nature" "I sort of speak to the birds." "And I did that with this role, and I... and, um, there was a piece of bark," "There was a... there was a note to me" "Yeah, that was the hard part." "But..." "Like, I could see that..." "And I could see that it was... it was" "In fact, when we came to to talk about the look, they were saying, "What do you want?" "And I just handed them the bark," "See, this is why I don't open doors." "Oh, my God." "What is this?" "Shouldn't you be off somewhere" "Listen, I'll save you the embarrassment" "Roo doesn't want to see you," "You could have..." "You let me..." "You let me watch that." "It was like a naked ferret," "No more semen stealing," "Just stay out of our lives" "Are you finished?" "Why would anyone" "The attraction to it is you can... it's..." "You're so your own boss." "Everything stops with you." "You think of the stuff," "If it goes well, you get... you get the..." "You know if something's funny while whereas on set," "So my mind's going," ""It's not funny, because no-one..." "But they're not allowed." "Sometimes silence," "Like, silent "Ha-ha"s," "You're friends with Celia offscreen." "It was one of those magic things" "People who... who work in... when you meet someone who you've got and I'm gonna get" "And... from the moment I met Ceels," "And as an egomaniac, she laughs, she's got the most amazing" "Which is wonderful, 'cause" "Um, but that's the danger, 'cause and you go, "Oh, no," "Coming from theatre," "as opposed to the way you would" "It's a lot faster, telly, and, um, you get..." "Theatre... you know, and just step into a rehearsal room ...get to plumb the depths of, you know," "Um, TV, you can" "Things can change really quickly," "I don't know." "There's a fluidity on a set" "So preparation is slightly different." "And it's really weird how your brain to absorb a lot of lines in a couple" "And if I was doing theatre, I'd be like," "It's more Abe's problem because he has to put up with me every one, going, "Abe, Abe." "And he's like, "That was fine." I'm like, which is something" "You... you do a scene and it's done, you're going back every night" "And so I had to try and get out" "You know, redoing the scene, going," "I had to learn to go, "It's done." "I can't" "You've just got to let go of the scenes" "That's how we end the craziness." "And I trust these guys, you know," "They know what they're doing, ...not gonna make us" "I'm Abe Forsythe." "I'm directing, and I'm also playing Charlie." "So Drew Forsythe is your father." "You were an actor" "What got you into" "I kind of just stumbled into it." "Like, there's a lot of crew members that have come" "The gaffers and the grips ...of, um, other people and I was talking about that with" "It's kind of odd." "I just kind of" "I don't know." "I kind of grew up" "I just started doing it" "So it wasn't like I ever really" "I've kind of always made but the acting thing just kind of..." "How important is that, having at least to sort of work out" "Yeah, it's been..." "It's made it" "And, you know, that's not..." "When you're an actor, that sometimes has been going for it can be" "You have to, you know," "And the most important thing and that you trust that the person is gonna look out ...and when they say, you can actually trust them" "Abe Forsythe, um, uh," "Does that seem like a stupid decision" "How much of your own money to seal the sort of directing role" "Why?" "It just seems... it's, like..." ""Gonna do a second series" ""We'll get that guy" ""We'll get him back in the role." "You" ""He hasn't got enough to worry about," ""No, we're gonna give him... we're" "He's gonna be getting directing notes" "Abe was, obviously, chosen" "How do you" "Well, it's a bit hard," "Sorry." "I guess a lot of the stuff I've done ...you know, two, three days" "You know, a guest role in something ...you know," "where there's an established, you know," "And this is a lot easier" "It's so much rewarding" "It's a really great experience," "It's been really important, I think," "But you're in and out and you walk into a very established" "And I know," "The actors are all mates and the crew, we're all friends, and..." "And you walk in as the new kid 'cause generally," "That's me setting fire to a corpse which most tourists" "So I..." "I just..." "I just..." "I love and it's like..." "You know, I get to go on" "And I know a lot more about it than" "So you're a method actor?" "Um..." "Yeah, I am." "Yeah." "I mean, I..." "I..." "looked up gynaecology on Wikipedia." "I don't go to the extent" "Like Geoffrey Rush, for example, actually went to Orlando, Florida, in preparation for his role" "Far as I'm aware, or a theme park" "...the production of I suppose, the performances" "Basically, like, as in, like, place, gather their thoughts, so, you know, I have CDs with," "...get them to" "Um, you know, I have two CDs, actually." "Both, I think, you know, emit, like," "So the seagull one's, obviously, sometimes a little bit fighting, you know, and they all go in there and start, and then the rain," "And you can also 'cause I'm pretty fast so I can go from, you know," "There's so many different combinations which changes the fate" "Totally." "Without me, it'd just be, like, you" "How aware are you" "Oh, yeah, very aware of the next step." "'Cause we've got" "This week, about just making sure we're not wanting anything else" "That's only sort of started up..." "The" "It's only just popped up" "So, yeah, you've really got to be..." "You've got to be thinking" "Otherwise something will slip there's nothing" "we took a few moments" "What are you looking for, as an editor, in what you're putting together?" "The main thing is the performance." "If the performance is right for the scene, if it says the right thing for the mood that we're trying to evoke," "Then the second priority is making sure and isn't distracting" "But, you know, if... if... if you're a viewer can forgive" "OK, um, so the stuff comes in" "Mm-hm." "What are we seeing on the screen?" "At the moment, we're cutting..." "It's a nonlinear editing system, so this of what they've shot on..." "Here you've got your video track." "And, um, then your audio tracks, are basically keyboard shortcuts that I" "'Cause if I... if I came in ...got rid of all the colours," "Yeah, well, that's probably why" "The... the first series" "How... how do you think" "Well, I know..." "I know how it..." "The young Toby Truslove, had a... had a very..." "Yep." "It's kind of... above his station," "He's an actor, but he has been... he's" "The people who are making the EPK" "Yeah, right." "Fair enough." "Does he?" "Yep." "Um, moments like right now." "Over the credits, so after it's finished, over the credits of the last thing, ...crappy thing come up in a police station which is a dude at a computer going," ""Do you think we should maybe look into that?"" "and the police just went, "Oh," were not... not paying attention." "Oh!" "The only problem with that - in fact, the biggest problem with that - is that it would require me writing police dialogue." "I can't do it." "You can't give me a copper," "Otherwise, Toby should just" "It's really relaxing."