Heather Duplessy-Allen

Bring it on.

And I'm coming for Gen X. They're just like creeping in the background getting away with anything.

Gen X. No one talks about Gen X. My favourite thing that I've seen you do was David Hall's in Hudson and Hall's.

Oh, yes.

And what I loved about it, Chris, was not only that it was you guys just doing an excellent job as a couple of young Kiwi actors...

But the fact that you were actually telling us our own history, right?

So you weren't doing Romeo and Juliet or some other international thing.

You were doing our history back at us.

And I worry that we are losing a little bit of that.

What do you think?

a hundred percent i mean and that comes from we don't tell our own stories as much as we should anymore i think it's a very interesting like i think it's globalization happens right like and and when shows get made now like even if like for tv it's like we can't really tell our own stories as much as we need to tell a big broad story that can have like international appeal because we need the international buy-in to like make stuff here

So we do lose a sense of locality in terms of our own storytelling.

This comes back to the economy of scale that you were talking about, right?

If you don't have economy of scale in New Zealand... I have one coffee.

Economy of scale, what do you mean?

We don't have enough people.

Normal people works.

So we don't have enough people to justify all of the effort that you would put into making Hudson and Halls again...

Which emphasizes the, I guess, value of kind of investing in our own stories.

Because we might not get the payoff in terms of the economy of scale.