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Ben O'Shea- Moana : He Had To Wear A Prosthetic Suit With Muscles On It. · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Great the flick with Ben out a.
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  Speaker 2: Shame just in time for these school holidays. We're reviewing
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  Speaker 2: Disney's Moulwana. And then before we talk about the movie,
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  Speaker 2: you got to meet The Rock in Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: I sure did, Smiley. A couple of weeks ago. They
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  Speaker 1: had an event for the media to come and interview
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson and the star of Moana, Catherine lunger Aya,
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  Speaker 1: and so I got to meet the Rock. I got
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  Speaker 1: to interview him, sit down with him. What a lovely
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  Speaker 1: bloke he is? Did you call him Dwayne or the Rocky? Actually,
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  Speaker 1: they actually said to me beforehand, don't call him the Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you do, don't call him. And look, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: dead to. I was no way I was going to
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  Speaker 1: call him the Rock if they told me not to.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what was going to happen. He might
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  Speaker 1: soon flex me. But no, Dwayne was lovely. He was
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  Speaker 1: weird calling him Dwayne, but he was lovely. And then
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the interview, He's like, appreciate you, brother,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, that could be the highlight of
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  Speaker 1: my whole career.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're used to seeing Dwayne or The Rock in
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  Speaker 2: action movies and wrestling rings. But how does he go wow?
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  Speaker 1: Because in the first two animated films he plays Maui,
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  Speaker 1: the demi god, and he sings, right, He sings and dances,
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  Speaker 1: and which is not really something we've seen The Rock
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  Speaker 1: do in real life in live action. I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 1: he's awesome. Like he's a full triple threat. He can
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  Speaker 1: do it all. And the classic song from the original film,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is Maui singing You're Welcome. That's his signature song,
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  Speaker 1: and that comes up pretty early in the film. He
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  Speaker 1: does such a good job. He knocks it out of
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  Speaker 1: the park. He looks like he's having the time of
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  Speaker 1: his life. Interestingly enough, you'd think, you know, who better
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  Speaker 1: to play a demi god than The Rock, Like he
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  Speaker 1: already is built like a demi god. Right, But funnily enough,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have the physique for it, and he had
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  Speaker 1: to wear and I'm not even joking, he had to
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  Speaker 1: wear like a prosthetic suit with fake muscles on it.
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  Speaker 1: She wasn't big enough because he'd just come from doing
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  Speaker 1: the Smashing Machine and it was a bit too lean.
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  Speaker 1: And in an ideal world, he probably would have spent
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  Speaker 1: you know, six to nine months just bulking up, didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to do it, went straight into making
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  Speaker 1: this movie. So he had to hold on this suit
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  Speaker 1: that weighed that weighed about fifty kilos or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: dragged that around for the whole movie. He looks huge.
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  Speaker 1: And he's also wearing this wig, this crazy, crazy wig
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  Speaker 1: that he kept as a prop, and he's worn it
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  Speaker 1: to a couple of parties in his house afterwards. So
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  Speaker 1: the Rock is fantastic. But the star of the film,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, is Catherine Lungerya who people will know.
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  Speaker 1: Her dad Jayla Guia from Water Rats. He was in
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  Speaker 1: some of the star Wars in the Schools play school,
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  Speaker 1: so he can sing as well, but he can't hold
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  Speaker 1: a chune like his daughter Catherine. So she was cast
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  Speaker 1: in this film when she was only seventeen years old,
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  Speaker 1: beat out thousands of other hopefuls to get the role.
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  Speaker 1: And she is incredible. She has got such a bright
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  Speaker 1: future ahead of her. Her singing is just amazing, her performance,
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  Speaker 1: her chemistry with the Rock in this film, because they
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  Speaker 1: have this sort of love hate relationship as they form
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  Speaker 1: this unlikely alliance as they voyage across the ocean to
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  Speaker 1: save her people, save the Village. She is just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: She's fantastic itself. You know what, of all of the
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  Speaker 1: Disney live action films, I would put this in my
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  Speaker 1: top five, which some people might say that's a low
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  Speaker 1: bar to clear because many of the other live action
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  Speaker 1: adaptations have actually been terrible. Did you see snow White
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  Speaker 1: last year? Ye oh my gosh, well, I'm sorry, I
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  Speaker 1: can't give you the two hours of your life back
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  Speaker 1: it was a stinker. And a lot of the others,
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  Speaker 1: even The Beauty and the Beast was pretty disappointing. Aladdin
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  Speaker 1: was pretty disappointing. A lot of them have been duds.
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  Speaker 1: But Moana, I think is very authentic to the originals.
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  Speaker 1: It's really for kids. Yeah, they love it.
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  Speaker 2: If your kids can only see one movie during the
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  Speaker 2: school holidays, oh.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably Toy Story five. If you can only see one. Look,
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  Speaker 1: in this economy, you probably can't afford to go see
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  Speaker 1: two movies. If you only see one, look, honestly, it
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  Speaker 1: probably is Toy Story five. That is incredible. But if
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  Speaker 1: you can afford to see two or it, certainly if
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  Speaker 1: your kids, if you've got little girls who were big
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  Speaker 1: fans of the animated films. The second animated film made
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  Speaker 1: a billion dollars of the bottom by the way, so
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  Speaker 1: definitely Moana. They will love. It's a lot of fun,
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  Speaker 1: it's good value for the school holidays.
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  Speaker 2: Already been the question everyone waits for. Out of five coconuts,
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  Speaker 2: what's your rating for Mowata.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it three and a half, three and
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  Speaker 1: a half. It's a solid bree solid, very solid.
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  Speaker 2: Ben, Hey Ben, thanks for joining us and we'll catch
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  Speaker 2: you next week with another movie review on gold Money
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  Speaker 2: six am.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Maley,