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Speaker 1: This here's a fitz Whipper in Hay podcast.
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Speaker 2: Well, when I first saw the title of this movie, I thought it might have been about Michael Whipley at a breakfast buffet, but it's not. This is a fighting movie and this man, well he's forties. Our whole career in front of the camera. Daniel McPherson, welcome, welcome to be here.
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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey. The first thing I said is, Michael Whiffley does look like a beast. Whatever you've been doing that has been working.
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Speaker 3: I met a lot.
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Speaker 4: Of people throwing around the word Monjarro was like, it was like months ago.
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Speaker 1: Yes, by chemist Warehouse.
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Speaker 4: Guys, it's not been training hard for Beasts two.
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Speaker 1: As my body double.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, okay, Hey, can we go back a couple of years because I think Russell Crowe was on the show and he was talking about reading scripts and he may have said that you and him had been going back and forth for a long time on the script that you both really love. Yes, is that what we're now?
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Speaker 1: That would have been yest, Yeah, it would have been Beast. So the film came to us and that script came to us in twenty twenty two. So I started training basically the day I got the script because one, you know, I'd never fought before, so and then I was playing not only a professional MMA fighter, but a lifetime world champion, retired EXITMA fighter. So I had to have this lifetime worth of experience. So I started training straight away. But that was that was the end of twenty twenty two started twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 2: People freak out with fighting, and obviously, like you know, and I always say my dad's joke. I always won my fights by one hundred meters. But Dan, when you go into a ring and we saw how intention training was and you're gonna you're going into the octagon and you're like fighting, what do they teach you if someone is coming at you and you're threatened? Is this something that we can do the everyday punters.
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Speaker 1: I think just I think distance management seems to be your strength. When I think you're spot on, one hundred meters is a pretty good, pretty good distance. But I'll never figured. I took myself up to Thailand to go and when I was starting to get the hang of it, and a couple of years in and I went up to fight camp in Thailand. I took myself down to Kosomui and I jumped in with his professional MMA sparring groups. I'm kind of not telling them when I was I was an actor and and I'll never forget the first time I got properly choked out and I sort of had this panic attack. I was like, what am I doing? I'm like this forty three year old thespian breathe. And I had this moment of going, do I walk away? Do I go off and go that's just too much, I'll get the stunt double to do it, yeah, or do I kind of knuckle down and going, no, this is this is what you signed up for. And after a couple of laps of the matsright, we're going back in where.
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Speaker 3: We see the film. Then what we see of you fighting is that all you.
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Speaker 1: Up until the very last round.
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Speaker 2: So you didn't do the last round week.
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Speaker 4: You been in a true fight on the bill.
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Speaker 1: And I got Kim kat Chan ye nine Sydney boys punch up, and then I stole his pencil case and I threw it through the window because I thought the window was open. It was closed, And I understand it. And that's not in the film, as it's never.
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Speaker 2: Just brought up the bill before. You don't understand how much she was before you walked in today. She was going, I wonder if can get me on the bill, makes.
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Speaker 3: The bill anymore? But when I saw that you had got this is I mean, what year was two thousand and two?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I remember I was going to one day when I grew up, I was going to move to the UK, and I just wanted to be on no way really yeah never happened.
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Speaker 4: How many years?
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Speaker 1: So I did two years, but I was I finished Neighbors. I moved over there to do pantomime and their musical theater, and I toured God Spelled the Musical around the UK. I was twenty one years old and Jonathan Wilkes, who I was my co lead, was Robbie Williams's best mate. So we didn't have anywhere to stay. We got back to London and st that Robbie's place in Chelsea go back up.
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Speaker 2: So was that loose Robbie?
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Speaker 1: It was a transitional phase.
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Speaker 3: I believe I'm going to ask an actuary question. Okay, working with Russell Crow amazing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the.
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Speaker 3: Greatest thing kind of on and off set that he's taught you?
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Speaker 1: We had a moment in a scene where he'd actually written the monologue, had done a past of the script with David Jerio, he'd written the monologue. He turns up on set one day and he goes, you got that? You got that speech ready? I was like, oh yeah, yeah. So I did one take of the speech has written and it was almost pretty pretty crap, didn't I said, can I just do another version where just add lib everything, did that and connected the emotions, and then the third take put those together. Fantastic director comes into this, fantastic happy to use your happy said, yeah, I'm happy, Russell. You need one more? And he said, what do you do with your hands? I said, my hands in my pockets. Just take your hands out of your pockets, put rest them, super relaxed, you in your lap. Put all that energy and all that angst just through your eyes and your face and that howiny little adjustments. It took us from good to where the bandwidth that he lives in. Yeah, for I got to see maximum. I got.
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Speaker 4: Ray used to do that for you on Home and Away.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just quickly you.
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Speaker 3: Take your hands kind of flooded. It wasn't your favorite character? Who is your favorite character? On the Hope Wall.
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Speaker 2: Of course. It's amazing, beast. It's in cinemas from tomorrow. Make sure you check it out. We're proud of you. Damn me first and thanks for coming on.
00:05:42
Speaker 1: This. Here's the Fitzy Whipper and Cay podcast.
Speaker 1: This here's a fitz Whipper in Hay podcast.
00:00:03
Speaker 2: Well, when I first saw the title of this movie, I thought it might have been about Michael Whipley at a breakfast buffet, but it's not. This is a fighting movie and this man, well he's forties. Our whole career in front of the camera. Daniel McPherson, welcome, welcome to be here.
00:00:26
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey. The first thing I said is, Michael Whiffley does look like a beast. Whatever you've been doing that has been working.
00:00:31
Speaker 3: I met a lot.
00:00:35
Speaker 4: Of people throwing around the word Monjarro was like, it was like months ago.
00:00:45
Speaker 1: Yes, by chemist Warehouse.
00:00:46
Speaker 4: Guys, it's not been training hard for Beasts two.
00:00:50
Speaker 1: As my body double.
00:00:51
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, okay, Hey, can we go back a couple of years because I think Russell Crowe was on the show and he was talking about reading scripts and he may have said that you and him had been going back and forth for a long time on the script that you both really love. Yes, is that what we're now?
00:01:07
Speaker 1: That would have been yest, Yeah, it would have been Beast. So the film came to us and that script came to us in twenty twenty two. So I started training basically the day I got the script because one, you know, I'd never fought before, so and then I was playing not only a professional MMA fighter, but a lifetime world champion, retired EXITMA fighter. So I had to have this lifetime worth of experience. So I started training straight away. But that was that was the end of twenty twenty two started twenty twenty three.
00:01:34
Speaker 2: People freak out with fighting, and obviously, like you know, and I always say my dad's joke. I always won my fights by one hundred meters. But Dan, when you go into a ring and we saw how intention training was and you're gonna you're going into the octagon and you're like fighting, what do they teach you if someone is coming at you and you're threatened? Is this something that we can do the everyday punters.
00:02:00
Speaker 1: I think just I think distance management seems to be your strength. When I think you're spot on, one hundred meters is a pretty good, pretty good distance. But I'll never figured. I took myself up to Thailand to go and when I was starting to get the hang of it, and a couple of years in and I went up to fight camp in Thailand. I took myself down to Kosomui and I jumped in with his professional MMA sparring groups. I'm kind of not telling them when I was I was an actor and and I'll never forget the first time I got properly choked out and I sort of had this panic attack. I was like, what am I doing? I'm like this forty three year old thespian breathe. And I had this moment of going, do I walk away? Do I go off and go that's just too much, I'll get the stunt double to do it, yeah, or do I kind of knuckle down and going, no, this is this is what you signed up for. And after a couple of laps of the matsright, we're going back in where.
00:02:47
Speaker 3: We see the film. Then what we see of you fighting is that all you.
00:02:52
Speaker 1: Up until the very last round.
00:02:54
Speaker 2: So you didn't do the last round week.
00:02:59
Speaker 4: You been in a true fight on the bill.
00:03:03
Speaker 1: And I got Kim kat Chan ye nine Sydney boys punch up, and then I stole his pencil case and I threw it through the window because I thought the window was open. It was closed, And I understand it. And that's not in the film, as it's never.
00:03:18
Speaker 2: Just brought up the bill before. You don't understand how much she was before you walked in today. She was going, I wonder if can get me on the bill, makes.
00:03:27
Speaker 3: The bill anymore? But when I saw that you had got this is I mean, what year was two thousand and two?
00:03:32
Speaker 2: Yeah?
00:03:32
Speaker 3: I remember I was going to one day when I grew up, I was going to move to the UK, and I just wanted to be on no way really yeah never happened.
00:03:42
Speaker 4: How many years?
00:03:43
Speaker 1: So I did two years, but I was I finished Neighbors. I moved over there to do pantomime and their musical theater, and I toured God Spelled the Musical around the UK. I was twenty one years old and Jonathan Wilkes, who I was my co lead, was Robbie Williams's best mate. So we didn't have anywhere to stay. We got back to London and st that Robbie's place in Chelsea go back up.
00:04:00
Speaker 2: So was that loose Robbie?
00:04:03
Speaker 1: It was a transitional phase.
00:04:05
Speaker 3: I believe I'm going to ask an actuary question. Okay, working with Russell Crow amazing.
00:04:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the.
00:04:12
Speaker 3: Greatest thing kind of on and off set that he's taught you?
00:04:16
Speaker 1: We had a moment in a scene where he'd actually written the monologue, had done a past of the script with David Jerio, he'd written the monologue. He turns up on set one day and he goes, you got that? You got that speech ready? I was like, oh yeah, yeah. So I did one take of the speech has written and it was almost pretty pretty crap, didn't I said, can I just do another version where just add lib everything, did that and connected the emotions, and then the third take put those together. Fantastic director comes into this, fantastic happy to use your happy said, yeah, I'm happy, Russell. You need one more? And he said, what do you do with your hands? I said, my hands in my pockets. Just take your hands out of your pockets, put rest them, super relaxed, you in your lap. Put all that energy and all that angst just through your eyes and your face and that howiny little adjustments. It took us from good to where the bandwidth that he lives in. Yeah, for I got to see maximum. I got.
00:05:13
Speaker 4: Ray used to do that for you on Home and Away.
00:05:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, just quickly you.
00:05:19
Speaker 3: Take your hands kind of flooded. It wasn't your favorite character? Who is your favorite character? On the Hope Wall.
00:05:33
Speaker 2: Of course. It's amazing, beast. It's in cinemas from tomorrow. Make sure you check it out. We're proud of you. Damn me first and thanks for coming on.
00:05:42
Speaker 1: This. Here's the Fitzy Whipper and Cay podcast.
