Ewen Leslie

0:12He gave me down the streets as if he was showing me Australia for the first time. Is Papua living in outer space is good? A poor in heaven. Funny Jews and Muslims that got help. You've never been to Greece before. I came here to put my dad to rest. I suppose a lot of us in Australia feel like we come from somewhere else. So what is dead here for people who don't know? Yeah, it's the story of a Greek Australian guy who travels to Athens, a photographer, he has an exhibition on.

0:57And he starts to hear sort of whispers about a curse that his family has. And the more he sort of investigates it and goes into it, I suppose he kind of enters in sort of a downward spiral. But the film takes you to places in Europe that you don't normally see on screen. And it was wonderful to shoot in these places that you wouldn't normally go as a tourist. My dad apparently had some kind of curse. Basically, I'd worked with Tarni once before. And on a film called Juboy, and I really wanted to work with him again. And the script, it was really challenging, you know, and I read it and kind of thought, well this kind of terrifies me.

1:46And that's always kind of a good reason to do something I think. And yeah, yeah, it just, it seems, you know, it was a role that was so different for me as well. Sure. Which you kind of always looking for. And yeah, yeah, it was really excited by it. And how do you create the character? How did you... Look, a lot of it was just talking to Tarni and stuff that he wanted to do. I mean, Tarni kind of very early on, because we'd worked together before and because we were friends, he kind of said, look, there are certain things, you know, he kind of said, was able to very easily differentiate the character from me. Kind of said, look, you're like this, and you know, there are things about you that are like this, and this guy is not like that at all. So that was a really helpful conversation to have early on. And one of the first things he said was this guy doesn't say sorry, he just charges the subject.

2:31And that was kind of a good kind of clue into him, you know. Don't trust what I say now. Scares me. There's this guy. Everywhere I go, there he is. That's because he is everywhere now. Look, I love... I mean, theatre is great because it's immediate, and you're getting that instant sort of, you know, the energy that's kind of going between audience and the actors, but I also love the processor film. Like, I love being on a set, and I love shooting things, and doing it a whole bunch of different ways, and you try and give as many options as you can. And then, you know, people take it away and they work on it for a year or have along, and you kind of get to see the finished product down the track. Like, I really like that process. I'm actually happy to be here.

3:17Isaac, come on! You can't help the past now. It does, please.