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00:00 Originals, Originals, discover our interviews on the series that are the news.
00:07 Beta Series, Media Partner of the Montecarlo TV Festival 2023
00:12 For this 62nd edition of the Montecarlo TV Festival in Beta Series Partner,
00:19 we welcome to the microphone Warren Brown and Faye Marseille,
00:22 who play the Roberts couple in Ten Pound Poms,
00:25 in official competition this year and who arrives on July 13th on OCS.
00:29 Hello to you two.
00:30 Hello.
00:31 So since both of you have been acting for a long time now in the UK,
00:34 did you know each other before? Never?
00:37 We'd never met until the read-through.
00:40 We were both very, very jet-lagged coming off the aeroplane and we said hello
00:43 and the rest is history. We get on very well, thank God.
00:46 Yes, thank God. She's a wonderful, wonderful human being
00:49 and a wonderful actor, lady actor, actress, I don't know what the correct term is.
00:54 But, yes, very grateful that we got on and had the best time working with this lady.
01:00 So can you pitch Ten Pound?
01:03 It's hard to say.
01:04 It's hard for us to say as well.
01:06 Ten Pound Poms.
01:07 Can we pitch it?
01:08 Yes, please.
01:09 Ten Pound Poms follows a group of Brits as they leave Great Britain in post-World War II.
01:18 Post-World War II.
01:19 And they embark on a new life in Australia, which costs them the wholesome sum of £10, I think.
01:27 Yes, and they encounter lots of issues along the way and it's that kind of thing of
01:32 wherever you go, there you are.
01:34 You can't run away from your problems, you have to face them.
01:37 So they go over to the other side of the world and have to deal with
01:40 everything that's been an issue back in the UK.
01:44 And what about your characters?
01:46 So you play a couple, Annie and Terry Roberts.
01:48 Yes.
01:49 How is their relationship right now?
01:52 I mean, at the start of the show, we see that it's not actually that great.
01:56 And then the opportunity to move to Australia is Annie's way of trying to fix the relationship.
02:02 And I think as you say, wherever you go, there you are.
02:05 They try to start afresh, but can you ever escape your problems?
02:13 They're going to have to be faced at some point.
02:15 In a different environment, in a different country, they still have to face the things
02:19 that they needed to face and hopefully they overcome and get through.
02:23 Yes.
02:24 How much did you know about this part of history before?
02:27 Is it something you learn at school?
02:29 No, and this is what is surprising to us and to everyone.
02:33 In history at school, you learn about World War II and the Tudors and all the kings and queens.
02:37 This is something that none of us have any clue about.
02:40 And we're from the north of England.
02:42 It is a huge part of British and Australian history that we didn't know until we got the job.
02:50 And then you start doing your research.
02:52 And then it was incredible how many people in Australia would say, "Oh, you're doing that?"
02:56 "Oh, my such and such was a £10 pom."
02:58 And since the show's been airing in the UK, so many people are getting in touch saying,
03:02 "My family or this family member were £10 poms and it's great to see."
03:06 And they've seen similarities in the story.
03:10 So, yeah, I think not a part of history that not a huge amount of people know about unless they had an involvement.
03:16 So, Oberyn, I think you're over busy, right?
03:19 Every year you have like four or five projects.
03:21 Do I?
03:22 It feels like it.
03:24 So, aren't you not too exhausted?
03:27 No, definitely not. I'm always available to work.
03:30 Oh, yes.
03:31 Yes, I'm very open to working right now.
03:33 Anybody who wants to give us a job, I'm unemployed next month.
03:38 But, yeah, I feel super, super lucky.
03:42 You work hard. We love this job.
03:44 Super grateful to get the opportunities and so fortunate to have worked on some brilliant projects around the world
03:51 and meet brilliant people.
03:53 This show, £10 Poms, is right up there on the jobs that I've done with great people, great script,
03:59 Danny Brockler's script, working with the BBC, working with Stan, the Australian co-production,
04:04 and just meeting wonderful people and making friends for life.
04:08 So, yeah, it's always great and you feel so lucky, but sometimes it's extra special and this is one of those jobs.
04:14 This is one of them for sure, yeah.
04:16 So, what about you, Faye, because you're back from Andorra, like larger than life Star Wars,
04:22 so now to a British-Australian period drama.
04:25 Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, I'm very lucky to be able to switch between them.
04:30 Some actors don't always have that luxury and I've been lucky that I can kind of sneak in and out of different genres.
04:38 Yeah, Andorra is a big old machine, you know, a beautiful machine and lovely people,
04:45 but this job, like Warren said, there's something about the people on this job that made it.
04:50 I don't know, there's just, they don't come around very often,
04:53 so you have to really hold on to them when you're doing them.
04:57 Can you get me a job in the Star Wars universe?
04:59 I'll try, I'll try. I'll put a word in.
05:03 Let's talk a little bit about the behind the scenes.
05:07 So, where did you shoot exactly, because there are a lot of outdoor scenes.
05:11 We were based predominantly in Sydney and shot mostly Sydney, but we travelled a little bit as well.
05:17 Went to a place called Karkor, which is about three and a half hours outside of Sydney.
05:21 In the Blue Mountains.
05:23 And yeah, it was a wonderful country and so often you're filming on sets, Karkor for example,
05:30 you're in that town and it feels like the 50s and the place where we shot the migrant hostel
05:36 was an old site that actually had migrant hostel on once upon a, you know, in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
05:42 And you walk onto those sets and it is as was, would have been in those days.
05:46 So that makes it, you know, it's helpful, really helpful because you believe that you're there,
05:51 you know, and then with the costumes and the set design and it just, you feel like you're stepping back in time.
05:57 Not too wild, I mean, the wildlife in Australia is kind of known for being...
06:02 Yes, terrifies me. I was constantly terrified for my life, actually.
06:07 Certainly when we were filming in the bush, that was, we did see a brown snake on set one day,
06:12 which was, you know, if it bites you, you need to go to hospital because you might die.
06:17 So yeah, pretty scary, but luckily none of us got...
06:22 No, nobody got bit.
06:23 Nobody got killed by...
06:24 We saw loads of kangaroos on set.
06:26 Loads of kangaroos. What was that weird, like, tree thing? It was like a squirrel, but it wasn't...
06:33 I put it out there and I got the name of it and now I've forgotten it.
06:35 Yeah, we don't know what it is. Anyway, there's some mad stuff over there, lizards and yeah.
06:39 And what would be the message or something that the audience, you'd like the audience to keep from the show after watching it?
06:47 I mean, you know, it's talking about a very particular period of history.
06:54 So I think, you know, certainly we didn't know about that.
06:56 So I think people are going to learn about that.
06:58 But, you know, ultimately it's still, I hope, entertaining.
07:02 And I think it's, you know, the characters certainly go on a journey and it's not all always...
07:08 sunshine and rainbows. But I think it's also, I think it's funny.
07:13 Yeah, it's funny. It is funny.
07:15 I think I would want them to just kind of take the message that you can get better and you can change
07:23 and you can deal with whatever's standing in your way.
07:27 With love.
07:28 And a bit of laughter.
07:30 Yeah.
07:31 Thank you very much.
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