Shane Jacobson

You're going to have to stop being nice.

I'm not going to be able to do this for very long.

What a pity you didn't come up to me.

You know, the reason I find that strange is my agents have said this to me and my manager who's worked with many people.

that they think I'm so approachable.

Because Kenny was, and I'm speaking on behalf of my brother as well, I can't talk about Kenny without pretending he's standing beside me because we did it together.

But it is a riff on decency.

Like if everyone goes, try and describe the whole film quickly, you've got seconds.

It's a riff on decency.

And we held up a mirror to Australia and said, you know, this is who we are, like at the core.

The way it happened –

I actually, as an event manager, I used to use a company which was Splashdown Toilets at events.

And the guys that worked in that event company used their sense of humour as a suit of armour.

And I'm from the western suburbs of Melbourne.

We didn't come from a lot of money, et cetera, et cetera.

And my uncles and my dad was born and raised in a tent until he was 22 years of age, and they were known as the tent family, and that wasn't a term of endearment.

So my uncles and my dad were bigger-shaped characters that used their humour to protect themselves from people having a go at them, right?

Mm-hmm.

So the splashdown work is imagine that every party you go to, every function you go to, every wedding when you sit beside strangers and introduce yourselves, that we all get to go where in entertainment.

That goes pretty well for us, doesn't it?