For the last few weeks, we've been quietly filming a doco about 3 incredibly resilient kids around Australia. I cried making it, you'll probably cry watching it. A huge thankyou to the wonderful kids, families and schools for helping us make it. And massive shout-out to director/editor Simon Cunich.
Khalid: How anxiety and panic attacks really feel; and surviving Trump's America
Asgeir: An introvert in a world of extroverts
Why Kenneth Branagh called Judi Dench a limping bitch
Sex, spinal cords and representation with gay, disabled actor Daniel Monks
God, Money & Same Sex Marriage: My week with Hillsong
Mark Ruffalo: On the role that changed him and life after a brain tumour
The Smith Street Band’s Wil Wagner: Depression, anxiety, grief, fandom
Willem Dafoe: The 'blank canvas' approach, haunting roles, and the strain of acting
The Preatures: Making Yanada
Darren Aronofsky: Making Mother!, why there's no music and more
Jennifer Lawrence: Living With Rats, Mother! and the Hollywood Pay Gap
Jennifer Lawrence’s latest film Mother! is intense. Filming it was so traumatising that between taping scenes, Lawrence retreated to a tent where Keeping up with the Kardashians was playing on loop.
Jada Pinkett-Smith on racism, sex trafficking and death metal
“Asking for acknowledgement diminishes dignity and it diminishes power.”
The Turning Point: Lana Sandas
“I was on an $800-a-day heroin habit” and no one knew. Think you know what a ‘junkie’ looks like?
Motez: From war torn Iraq to the biggest dance stages in the world
Tom Cruise one-on-one with Marc Fennell
There is no bigger, no more iconic movie star than Tom Cruise. Whether you like him or not, his filmography is a library of iconic, culturally defining big screen moments. He is legendary. So where did it all start? I sat down with Tom to talk through his movie career. He volunteers some pretty incredible never-before-heard insights on a bunch of his films both old and new: Magnolia, Edge of Tomorrow, Taps and his latest: American Made.
Luc Besson on Hollywood, the 20th Anniversary of the Fifth Element and making Valerian
Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon: Life, Near-Death and The Big Sick
Dan Sultan on on changing the date of Australia Day
“It’s like getting spat in the face when they wave that f*cking flag around.”
Dan Sultan fires up about Australia Day, the songs he wont sing anymore, the craft behind his new album Killer and why his high school certificate may not be totally legit.
Going deep with Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg at Video Junkee 2017
Creator and Showrunner, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, of the hit Netflix Original animation series Bojack Horseman in a Q&A with me. We go deep into the creation of his wildly acclaimed dark comedy and how an animation about a humanoid horse became a global hit.