Kian Cleary

My first job in film was the Moby Dick one, or do you want me to talk about the cat training one?

We had...

I think eight or nine of us working in the cat department and we had 110 cats.

So it was a lot.

I mean, I just kept then getting roles on big films as, you know, a production runner or art director's assistant.

All quite sort of, I guess the word is menial, right?

Like non-creative roles on big films.

At that point, I wanted to, I thought I wanted to make films, feature films, you know.

I'm actually a very self-critical person.

And if you want to make a feature, you need to write a script.

Whenever I try and it started, I would just hate myself so much I had to stop, which is kind of sad.

But that's the kind of truth of it.

I was Baz Luhrmann's driver.

So again, I'm not doing anything creative, but, you know, I'm sort of at the hub of things, you know.

Baz used to say to me,

It's like you're invisible, which I thought was actually a really nice thing.

And he meant it as a compliment that, you know, I was able to get really close in on, you know, him working with the actors on these sets with a camera filming and kind of people wouldn't really even notice me.

And so I was able to capture this really great, intimate footage.

So I was working on, I don't know what season it was, A Farmer Wants a Wife.

And we had our farmer and we had three ladies who liked him.