The Big Show With Jackie Van Beek & Jonny Brugh!

0:00Mike Minogue:The Hauraki Beek Show with Jace, Mike and Keyzie. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.

0:07Keyzie:What a treat fellas, what an absolute treat. Two comedy legends in the studio with us. The one and only Jonny Brough and Jackie Van Beek. G'day team, how's life? That's two. G'day Jace. Yeah, two legends man, two legends. Two and only Jon Brough, Jackie Van Beek. Yes. How are you guys? Are you good?

0:30Mike Minogue:Good, thank you. Hang on, don't you know these guys? Why is the chemistry so off? What have you done? Nothing at all. Lots of heavy stuff in the past. Yeah, that's right. A lot of bridges burnt. Going to dredge it all up. Yeah, yeah. We're not going to get into all that. Do you know what's interesting is four out of the five people in this room have been in what we do in the shadows. Hands up. That's true, yes. Okay, oh, Keezy's just a radio guy, not an actor. Who's been in educators? Hands up. Who is supposed to be in educators? Three out of five. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

1:00Keyzie:Well, I was asked to be an educator. You'd be fabulous. But it was literally, I was shopping with my daughter, and it was like, can you come in now? And I was like, well. That's how we cast. I can't come in now because I'm with my daughter shopping. So I missed out on my opportunity. What part did we want you for? A pastor or something? Just background. Do I give those sort of vibes? A little bit, yeah. Priest-y vibes? Maris brother. Yeah. Maris brother. Yeah. Oh, man. I've always thought you and I'd be great Maris brothers comedy duet. Funnily enough, Johnny, I've always felt like I'd be a very good priest.

1:30Okay. You know, two words, season five.

1:33Keyzie:Season five, okay. Your time to shine, Jess. Sounds good. Now we've got you legends in here because we want to talk about your new film, Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant, which is going to be released tomorrow night, I believe. Yes. Can I just correct you on that? It's help, Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant. No, it's not. No, it's not. Johnny. Has it changed? No, it's always just been Mum. I told you. I've got the information. No, you don't. There's nothing.

1:59Mike Minogue:I've got the press release here. Yes, read it, please. Can you give us the facts, please, Keezy? Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant, a new sci-fi comedy from Kiwi writing directing duo Thunderlips. Yeah. Sean Wallace and Jordan Mark Windsor. Correct. Okay, well, I'll be going into litigation because I thought it was Help Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant. They changed it after I signed the contract.

2:19Keyzie:Well, I heard you talking to Jackie before you came in, and maybe she should deal with the admin because she said she's got all the details. Well, Johnny said, to be honest, Johnny said, have you got all the details? I said no. Not really. Well, talk to us about the film because Mogi and I were just watching a little clip of it just before. It looks very confronting. Ah, okay. But brilliant. Let's break that down. Let's drill into that. Yes. Let's drill into that. Okay, I'm going to start with a long anecdote, okay? Okay. No, no, no. I'm going to make it short. Confronting, no, no, no. I don't want people to think like that.

2:50It is a, I would say, hilarious comedy first and foremost. Yes. Yes, it has a little bit of alien penis stuff in it. Yes, it's a little bit sci-fi. Don't be put off, though. Oh, I wasn't. No, no, no, no. I know you love your confronting stuff. But, okay, long anecdote. My parents, mid-70s, they went to this film. Beforehand, I called them. I said, hey, thanks for going to the film. They said, yeah, it doesn't really look like our thing, sci-fi and stuff, but we'll go because you're in it, Jackie. I called them afterwards. They loved it.

3:19Keyzie:Yes. They loved it because they found it really funny, a great kind of family thing. Then my daughter, 19 years old, went with her boyfriend in Wellington at the embassy. They loved it. So I'm pitching this as not confronting. I'm pitching this as a warm, hilarious, kind of sci-fi, but kind of not really family comedy. That's what I'm hearing. From grandkids to grandparents across the divide of ages, everybody loves Mum, I'm Aileen Pregnant. And we were just, I watched the first half an hour. I sort of forgot you were coming in. I was meant to watch it before you came. so I got through half an hour of it it's a hell of a cold open 20 minutes and what you're dealing with in different scenes is a young lady who lives with her mother played by Yvette Parsons they hate each other and then there's you Jackie and you've got a son who may or may not be the result no they're very against each other they're combative it's a combative relationship I would say they are combative and then Jackie you've had a son who may or may not be as a result of a dalliance and a fear that you have had with an alien.

4:27I would say, not that I did not get a backstory printed out, but I would say I was definitely abducted by aliens. And I would definitely say prequel. I'm thinking prequel. Do you know what I mean? Because I want to see that movie. And they're very horny, both of these youngsters. Yes. And by the time you get to the sex scene, and the sex scene is explicit, hilarious and magnificent. It's kind of in the style of your old school splattery horror things. I'm assuming the obvious comparisons have been made to Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, that sort of thing. This is not dealing with a horror film.

5:03It's got a bit of splatter and a bit of sexy goo. Blue goo. Sexy goo. Sexy goo. Sexy goo is a gooey.

5:09Keyzie:Well, that is the part I saw was the sexy goo. It's the sexy goo. Yes. I mean, it is a sex scene and it is explicit, it, but they don't touch each other. No, they don't. So it's not one of the, I don't want people sitting in their cars listening to this thinking, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, it's naturalism and stuff. It's goofy as hell. Yeah, yeah. And also, if you are into sex scenes, absolutely still go. Even though Jackie's talking it down, it's still worth going. That's for the admission price alone. Unbelievable.

5:36Mike Minogue:Because you don't want people sitting in their cars that love sex scenes being like, oh, it sounds like a sex scene. It's magnificent. It's one of the greats. One of the greats. It's actually about, the whole film's about going to the hospital to get some answers and trying to get people to listen to you and the system not listening. They don't listen to the actress. The patients. Yes, the patients, yeah. That is true, especially your character, Johnny. Yes, I play the classic sort of doctor who doesn't listen and humour's her and, yeah, deeply annoying. Yes. I'm good at that. But it is. It is about, you know, under all of the kind of the crazy comedy and the sexy goo, it is about a woman, I think.

6:20It's about a woman who's trying to, you know, have agency over her own, you know, pregnancy.

6:25Keyzie:Yeah. There we go. Yeah.

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6:55Keyzie:We've got the stars of the movie Mum, I'm Alien, Pregnant in the studio with us. Jackie Van Beek and Johnny Brough. Some of the stars, can I put it that way? Jackie Van Beek, definitely a star. Evette Parsons, the wonderful genius. She's brilliant. She's a star. Yes. Hannah Lynch, superstar. Yeah, she's incredible. So, team, when did you guys actually, when was this actually filmed? Because I understand it's being released tomorrow night. It is in cinemas tomorrow. Yes. That is right. When it was filmed, I would say recent past. I'm not good with timelines. You've got a PSM break. I've been there a year ago, a year and a half.

7:29We were in Sundance in January, and it was finished by then because I saw it on screen. Yes. That was a blast. Oh, what are you going to say? Should we say 18 months ago? We don't know. It takes a while to get it to air, doesn't it? What's the difference? Yeah, it doesn't really matter. What's the difference? It takes a long time to make a film.

7:44Keyzie:And when you watched it, how are you, Jackie, for watching yourself on the screen? Absolutely love it. You love it? I love, I just love watching myself thinking, what would I do different next? Especially the first one through. No, first one through. Yeah. There's wonderful mystery with Jackie. Wow, wow, wow. I'm so good. I'm yelling out from the audience. Wow. No, to be honest, look, I don't mind it. Yeah. I'm so used to it now because I direct so much as well and I write and direct my own stuff and I'm in the edit suite looking at myself all day. I mean, it's a very small, insular life. Yeah.

8:21Keyzie:Well, you kind of do, though. You kind of get over yourself after a while, you know what I mean? I remember when I first started filming stuff, I was like, oh, my God, that's horrendously bad. And then it was like, oh, it's fine, it'll do. How do you find looking at yourself, Johnny? I hate it. Yeah. Yeah, it's like I think I'm 26, then I look at the screen and go, oh, no. Is that what I look like? Yeah, I thought they put makeup on me. Why didn't they put makeup on me? We did. This is as good as it gets. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give yourself a year. Make something, give it a year, look at it again, and then you see all the nice things that you did.

8:58Yes.

8:58Mike Minogue:Jase, do you ever watch Broken Wood back and think, shit, yeah, nailed that?

9:06Keyzie:Yeah, sometimes I do, Coop. Yeah, sure you do. Sometimes I do.

9:10Mike Minogue:Jackie Van Beek and Johnny Brough, you guys are in one of my favourite sitcoms, Educators, made right here in New Zealand. You've made four seasons of it. Is there a chance of another season? There is a chance. Oh, really?

9:21Keyzie:There is a chance. Because you've heard the Keezy story. Oh, yeah. Desperately, he thought he was on it, and then it didn't happen. We had it lined up that you two, I think, were going to be dog handlers, if I remember. And then, as is often the case with educators, there was a late change to the schedule, which ruled them out. We need diversity, you know. Yes.

9:41Mike Minogue:Because I think what happened was it was the night before I was supposed – it was two nights before I was supposed to shoot, and then they texted me that night saying, hey, you ready for tomorrow? 6 a.m., and I couldn't come in a day early. And so I missed out, which I was gutted about. Well, you know, as I've said, season five. Yes. You know, there's nothing confirmed, but there's a lot of people asking me down at the local Woolworths. I do get asked about the show a lot. Yeah, so there's an appetite for it. I get all my ideas standing in the line at a cafe and someone will tap me on the shoulder and go, love educators, and I've got any ideas, and they tell me stuff.

10:16We rip off a lot of people's stories.

10:18Keyzie:Just in regards to that show, there's a lot of improvisation going on, isn't there, really? The whole thing is improvised. So we all, as actors, we all, as the core cast, we all pitch our own storylines for our own characters to Jesse. Great. And then Jesse kind of filters through them, throws away the ones that aren't going to work so well, and then we just turn up on the day and we improvise our way through the scenes. Jesse kind of maps it all out. He spends like a month mapping it all out.

10:44Mike Minogue:Is it a nightmare to cut afterwards? It's not a nightmare, but it's a long edit. Yeah. It's a long, long edit. Because every take would be different, wouldn't it? Get a lot of cameras in there. We definitely, yeah, there's a lot of cameras, but we definitely hone in on a scene. Like, it'll start super loose. Yeah. And, you know, and off in a bit shit. Yes. And then Jessie will kind of go, oh, don't worry about saying all that other stuff, but just start from this bit, because that bit's quite interesting, and talk more about, like, talk more about the dog taking that piss behind the park bench.

11:13And so then we'll, like, do that. And then once we've got something fun, then we'll just cover off all the different angles. Yeah, right, okay.

11:19Keyzie:Because sometimes it takes a little while to find what it is. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Was there any, in terms of this movie, was there much improvisation for that? Were you able to improvise? We had a bit of rehearsal before we shot. Did you? And you get a few obvious lines kind of jump to mind and you use them and they're sort of going to stick. Yeah, we got to have a rehearsal process, which was really fun just to get everything up on its feet. But there wasn't a huge amount of improv. Like, they had a really solid script. Yeah. And we said the lines, didn't we, Johnny? Yeah, like, well, educators, sometimes there's four cameras in the room.

11:54And with this, you've really got to line it up and light it. And it's getting everyone in the same spot and lit and ready to roll is a lot. So you can't muck about, you know. Yes.

12:07Mike Minogue:Yeah, Jase. Yeah. Yeah, Jase.

12:09Keyzie:Yeah, sorry. That's shocking from you, Jase. Jeez, man. I apologise, everyone. Hey, well, go and get to see it. Mum, I'm alien pregnant. No, it's help, Mum. No, it's not. It's mum. It's hello, Mum. Look, Mum, I'm alien pregnant. Look, I'm alien pregnant in all local cinemas, I'm imagining. Yes, nationwide.

12:28Mike Minogue:The Hauraki Big Show with Jace, Mike and Keezy. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.