![]() ![]() “This is a Queensland film through and through and its spectacular drama and storytelling will take Queensland to international audiences. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk congratulated the Queensland creative team behind the mystery thriller, director Mairi Cameron, writer and producer Stephen Lance, and producer Leanne Tonkes. Mind Blowing World is handling the theatrical distribution. Shot last year on location in Jimbour, north west of Brisbane, THE SECOND, from first time feature film director Mairi Cameron, is written and produced by Stephen Lance with Leanne Tonkes as producer. Jason Davis stars in Housos and reviews films for Seven’s Weekend Sunrise.Starring Rachael Blake ( Lantana, Sleeping Beauty), Susie Porter ( The Monkey’s Mask, Better Than Sex, Two Hands), Vince Colosimo ( Chopper, Stingers, The Secret Life Of Us, Underbelly), Martin Sacks ( A Place To Call Home, The Cup, Love in Limbo) and Susan Prior ( The Rover, Puberty Blues, Muriel’s Wedding), THE SECOND follows the author of a celebrated erotic memoir, whose newfound success is threatened when her best friend and muse reveals the truth behind the memoir’s provenance, igniting an incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal. In parts dirty and stained, but tough and resilient and folding for no-one. ![]() With his passing, Australia loses a piece of our identity. A rule breaker who took the law into his own hands, who got caught and did his time, and despite a shocking life, rehabilitated himself and turned his notorious deeds into a career many would envy or mock. Adored by some and hated by others, he shall remain an enduring icon of Australiana. I know also that there can’t be many people walking this Earth to have had his fingers around their throat and lived to tell the tale.Ī man revered and reviled, in much the same way as Ned Kelly. I know without a shadow of a doubt that no other man ever pressed his lips to Read’s butt cheeks. I credit Chopper with two of the most surreal experiences of my life and two episodes I know are unique for him. ![]() If I’d been scared to meet the man in 2003, no fear compares to how I felt with his murdering hands around my throat, closing tighter and tighter even after Paul yelled “CUT”! He called me a wombat and put a choke-hold on me that came within millimeters of crushing my windpipe, all the while whispering menacing threats into my ear for the camera. Shuffling in wearing a pair of house slippers and his trademark blue singlet, Chopper, accompanied by his manager Andrew Parisi, switched it on for the cameras, filmed his bit, posed for photos and was on his way, clearly unwell, but still a powerful bull of a man and one for whom the showbiz must have given him a reason to live.įenech directed Chopper to abuse me in whatever way he felt would be appropriate if ‘Dazza” was his son. It was not until Paul Fenech invited Chopper to play the role of “Dazza’s Father” in the feature film “Housos vs Authority” in 2012 that we crossed paths again.Ī very different creature arrived on set, nine years later, deep in the bowels of the Athenaeum Theatre on June 30 last year. The interview wrapped up and we shook hands and went our separate ways. “You tongued my arse – you dirty dirty bugger!” he exclaimed, “You have made television history. ![]() It was when I asked him if it was true that he had a tattoo – at this point Chopper interrupted with “…of ‘I love Ita Buttrose’ on me arse? Yes it’s true but you can’t see it.” Somehow I convinced him to drop his dacks and for whatever reason I still to this day don’t know I leaned forward and kissed Chopper’s bum. He’d answered almost every line of enquiry under the sun by that stage of his life, so it was proving a challenge to reach new ground. I took along a copy of his book “Chopper From The Inside” (more than 120,000 copies in print) to get signed in the hope of breaking the ice and the interview progressed well enough. It transpired that I was fortunate he wasn’t similarly inclined to soil his trousers. I’d never met a self confessed murderer before, and although Chopper’s crimes have always seemed difficult to pin down, I’m not ashamed to say beneath my fan-boy excitement I was shitting myself. ![]()
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