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00:00ORIGINALS

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00:07BETASERIES, Media Partner of the Montecarlo TV Festival 2024

00:12BETASERIES, Media Partner of the Montecarlo TV Festival 2024

00:15We are at the 63rd Montecarlo TV Festival,

00:18of which BETASERIES is a partner,

00:20and we welcome today Rachel Griffiths,

00:22the heroine of MADAME, in competition this year.

00:25Hello Rachel.

00:26Hello.

00:27So, how did the project of MADAME come to you,

00:30and have you read the book, the memoirs,

00:33before you accepted this project?

00:36It came the usual way, via agents,

00:40but it did kind of come with a tag, you know,

00:43it came with the tag,

00:45we really think you'd be great for this.

00:48So, they don't always say that,

00:50when they say, they're like, oh, there's this offer,

00:52but my agents unanimously were like,

00:55we love this for you.

00:59So, then I read the underlying material,

01:01and I did think that it, you know,

01:04every narrative is just a coat hanger

01:06to hang interesting other themes,

01:08ideas, and conversations around,

01:11and I thought that, you know,

01:12the story engine of it definitely had opportunities

01:16to explore some really great territory,

01:18both funny and serious,

01:20around women's lives, around sex work,

01:23and then, of course, I met the team,

01:25and just fell in love.

01:27So, in the end, at my age,

01:30you don't want to leave your family,

01:32and go overseas and make a show with a bunch of assholes,

01:36and I didn't,

01:36because they were just one of the most beautiful,

01:40it was one of the most satisfying collaborations,

01:43I think I've ever had.

01:44Tell us a little bit about your character,

01:47Mac, her situation,

01:48when we start the show,

01:49and how it will go.

01:51Mac's that kind of woman in pre-menopausal rage,

01:54where she's just kind of had enough

01:56of carrying the whole load,

01:58you know, the mental load we talk about with women,

02:01the figuring out the school,

02:02where do we live?

02:03How do we do this?

02:04Are we going to have a holiday?

02:05You know, just everything for the,

02:08finding the matching socks,

02:09and she's just so tired,

02:13and I think when she,

02:14and I think she's kind of lost herself a little bit,

02:17like many women do,

02:18who have been putting most of their energies

02:21into raising a family,

02:23and making sure they're secure.

02:27She just has kind of lost the young girl,

02:29that, you know, had bigger dreams,

02:31and thought she was going to,

02:33you know, achieve more in her life.

02:35So this idea for a brothel,

02:40and, you know, she's a California girl,

02:41so she's a little woke,

02:43a little, you know, crunchy,

02:45a little crunchy muesli.

02:48She really is,

02:49it's so important to her that this is successful,

02:51because it's going to make her feel like

02:55she is someone again,

02:57and also economically means that,

03:03you know, she gets a payoff for the hours,

03:06not doing minimum wage in some supermarket, you know.

03:10So of course, when I realized the whole idea of the show,

03:14I Google searched if it was true,

03:16that, you know, sex work was legal.

03:20And decriminalized.

03:21Yes, and it is since 2003,

03:24so that's quite surprising.

03:27But the same with the bank, you know,

03:28when you ask for a credit,

03:29and the bank is quite reluctant.

03:33So I guess it's true that it's not illegal.

03:36However, the, you know, the bias,

03:39the discrimination still exists.

03:43Look, it's inspired by true events.

03:46Not everything in the show is real,

03:48and we really have taken liberties with quite a few characters

03:52that didn't exist in Antonia's life.

03:54The girls who are working in the brothel

03:56are not based on girls that worked with Antonia.

04:01It's really the fish out of water kind of logline of the story.

04:05An American woman realizes that her child

04:07has profound disabilities,

04:09and returns with her husband to rural New Zealand,

04:13and discovers that sex work is legal.

04:15So she sets up a woke feminist brothel.

04:18Kind of everything beyond that is not really true.

04:21But to answer your question on discrimination,

04:24you know, New Zealand had the first country in the world

04:27to give women the vote.

04:29The first female prime minister in Western democracy.

04:31In fact, I think they've had three.

04:33We had one in Australia,

04:35and America's yet to have a madam president.

04:38So women have been respected

04:42at the kind of heart of New Zealand's economic engine

04:48from the ground zero.

04:50It wasn't a penal colony.

04:52So there weren't impoverished Irish women

04:55put on ships and sent there.

04:57And Australia still has a little legacy of, you know,

05:01damned whores and God's police,

05:03is what they called the women of the colony.

05:05And the first 10 years,

05:06but New Zealand was settled by free settlers.

05:10The Maori women are so strong

05:12within their own communities and cultures

05:16that I just think that country has,

05:18you know, been decades ahead

05:21of many other Western democracies for respect for women.

05:26And I think at the heart of that,

05:29of legalizing sex work is

05:34these women are making very often thought through decisions

05:40that this is the best way for them to provide

05:44for their dependence.

05:46Little time for more money,

05:48for greater control of your hours,

05:50flexibility, work from home, whatever it is.

05:54And I think the New Zealand attitude

05:56is like you're supporting your kids.

05:59Go you, go you single mom.

06:01Why would I like judge you

06:04for actually doing the thing we all say

06:06that women, you know, should do?

06:09So, yeah.

06:10You've mentioned one of her sons before.

06:13And I was wondering,

06:15was Toby written as autistic since the beginning?

06:18He's not autistic.

06:19Oh, pardon.

06:20No.

06:21No, he has cerebral palsy.

06:24He's incredibly intelligent.

06:26His brain is, you know, probably smarter than mine.

06:30But with his cerebral palsy,

06:33he, you know, it's harder to communicate.

06:37What his, yeah, what he's thinking and feeling.

06:39But her son was, did have a disability

06:44and sadly passed away.

06:46But we made the decision in our show

06:49that it would be so groundbreaking

06:51for representation to have an actor

06:55with that kind of challenges

06:57to communicate their heart and mind,

07:00you know, for the camera

07:01that to then make him die

07:04would be just kind of actually a little,

07:09almost old-fashioned in the storytelling

07:11or using his disability to manipulate the audience,

07:15which is not what we were trying to do.

07:18But I think everyone on the show,

07:20Australia and New Zealand particularly,

07:22we're so strong on inclusion.

07:24We think our screen should look like the streets.

07:26So if your streets have, you know, disability,

07:30one in four Australians has a disability,

07:33but probably one in 300 characters has a disability.

07:38So just as, you know,

07:39we've got a very Southeast Asian population in Australia,

07:42our screens need to reflect that.

07:44Otherwise, you know,

07:46and our younger and new Australians put on the screen,

07:49all they see is like white people.

07:51Like, but this is not the Australia I see.

07:54So whether it's First Nations or women's roles

08:00and including people of all abilities.

08:02And the other thing is that the characters are so compelling.

08:07So we've just got a new show in Australia called Austin

08:10and he is autistic and he actually is autistic.

08:12Okay.

08:13And you no longer get, you know,

08:15your Oscar winning actor to play that.

08:17You find the person who can really authentically do it.

08:23And this guy, it's his first role

08:26and he's just so funny.

08:29He's so compelling.

08:31His delivery is so like unique.

08:34And I think that's what the world is waking up to,

08:37that to watch people of all abilities on screen

08:40is just makes our stories better.

08:42And to follow up on that,

08:43the representation,

08:45because you're credited as producer on the show as well.

08:48Exactly.

08:50I did not do a lot of heavy lifting.

08:52Okay.

08:52But were you part of the casting process for the women?

08:57No, no.

08:59I was only really part of the casting process for my son.

09:05And we met with a few different actors

09:08and we met with a younger actor

09:11and he was really, really wonderful

09:14and incredibly handsome and good looking.

09:17And he communicates through a board.

09:20He's got a little role in it actually.

09:22And then we just kind of made the decision that

09:25to have an 18-year-old who has a disability

09:29and they age out of one system

09:31and they're on the brink of what is,

09:33where do you go once your 18-year-old

09:36is no longer able to fit into that system

09:39was just a really great way to put pressure on my character

09:42because she's facing a less certain future.

09:45And just to wrap this up,

09:47it would be a crime not to mention your previous roles,

09:50the ones probably we know you best for,

09:53Brothers and Sisters and Six Feet Under, of course.

09:56And there have been lots of talks about reboots and revivals.

10:01Is it something that you've put in the past

10:03or would you be in crime?

10:06I think Six Feet Under is probably dead.

10:09And I think Alan would probably want to do that.

10:13I was hearing things,

10:14but I do know that if Alan did that again,

10:17it would probably be not following the White family.

10:20He was so groundbreaking on diversity, inclusion,

10:24gay representation, queer storytelling.

10:27It just was like nothing that had come before.

10:31And it was so perfect

10:32and it has the best ending in television history.

10:35So maybe it's a generational,

10:37does he break out the world and it's the young mom and dad.

10:42I have been trying to get Brothers and Sisters

10:45Christmas special, Homecoming,

10:47trying to get Brothers and Sisters Christmas special,

10:50Home for the Holidays.

10:51I think it would be huge and get the cast back

10:54for a single like double episode.

10:58I think it would be massive

11:01and I would love to see all those actors again.

11:03So we're going to push that, push that for me.

11:06Thank you very much and good luck with Madame.

11:08Thank you.

11:17Beta Série, Media Partner of the Montecarlo Television Festival 2024.

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