Danny Philippou

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203 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard May 2025

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Last Podcast On The Left · Bring Her Back: An Interview with Danny & Michael Philippou · 29 May 2025 podcast

She does. Well, she loves Shape of Water. She loved this. It was the only reason she was drawn to it. No, she was like, she wasn't drawn to it.

She was like, she didn't connect to it on like a genre level because she always reads it from a character's point of view. It's just connected with Laura as a character and she was just like going so in depth with Laura and like picking up on the smallest nuances of the script and she was, it's the best collaboration.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And especially with that, there's like a scene with Wendy and she's like, okay, I can't stop her physically. I have to convince her, like, please listen to me. Listen. We have a history together. We know each other. Please listen. Listen. Listen. And, like, she's so desperate. Like, please, let me explain this to you. I know it seems impossible. It seems psychotic.

But I'm telling you, like, a miracle is happening here.

She's beautiful. Of course. But she is terrifying when she's fully in character.

Well, look, I'm the director, so... Can I ask, though?

Who said that?

Mysterious.

Well, there's this thing where it's like you're writing stuff and you're always putting things together. And there was parts in the script writing when characters in Bring Her Back were in Talk To Me. Characters that were in Talk To Me were in Bring Her Back because they were written at the same time.

You find your footing and you find the structure and you find the bones. The more that you go over a script, the more you iron over it. You're like, oh, okay, this is that. This makes sense. Sometimes it's like scribbles. It's just like rough drawings everywhere when you're first starting off with something. And then eventually you color it in and the full picture is there.

Every movie is going to be set in the same neighborhood.

Someone's going to be driving along, they don't look over. Laura's kidnapping Oliver.

No, I love it. No, I love it. I love it. Does it feel uncinematic at all to people? No. Do you really think that? No, no, no. People in Australia think that. No, I do as well.

In an American accent, it sounds scary, but an Australian, oh, what's that over there, mate?

Yeah, that's amazing. And in Australia, and some of the stuff that we'd worked on, just as crew members, they're like, you have to... Australians are not going to stand that. Really, really pronunciate it. So if you're like, oh, what's that over there? They're like, oh, no, that's mumbly. Oh, what's that over there? And it becomes awkward Australian or too Australian where it feels really false.

And then Australians have this cultural cringe about it where they're like, oh, that feels weird. And then Americans are like, that sounds weird. And there was something about it, especially when we went into making Talk To Me. The producers are the people that we originally gave the script to were like, can we film it somewhere else? What about with American accents?

That could be more accessible. What about in America? You do it in America. That's very interesting.

I love it as well. And I love that there's certain words or phrases that are from Australia that audience members would be like, what's that mean?

And I think it's something that's... Because we had one chance, it was like, Talk To Me was it. It was our only movie we were probably going to make because it probably wouldn't work or whatever. So to us, it felt right to do it authentically. And Australian is authentic. That's where we knew, that's the people we know and how we grew up. So it felt right doing that.

So the fact that it resonated, you know, kind of internationally, and I think it does because it doesn't matter who the people are, where they're from. It's a human to human story.

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