Robin & Kip With Corey OatesHi.
Yeah.
Now for those that don't know Matt's voice.
Instantly, you would have seen him on Little Britain where he was one of the funniest people on the planet. Also come Fly with Me and so many other shows. But you're coming to Brisbane for les miserables.
When it comes to big thing prices, there are lots of tricks. He knows how it all increases all the pieces. Jesus. Yes, we're doing this show around the world and it's forty years of Lamor's Arab and so they're doing this international arena tour of les miserables in concert and I'm really excited because I haven't performed in Brisbane, I think since we did the Little Britain tour there nearly twenty years ago. But it's the Lamer's Arena spectacular is amazing. It's so many people in it. And what they do is they did this quite neat thing. I think they don't play the whole arena. They sort of play one end of it so that it's epic. There'll be five, six, seven thousand people there hopefully each night, but it's not so it's big and an event, but it's not so big that you feel like you're miles away, because we could come in and do just two or three nights, but instead.
We go everywhere.
We do a week or two weeks, and it's a more intimate experience than you expect, while still being really spectacular. And of course we have the screens and the cameras, so even if you're sad at the back, it feels like you're in the fifth row.
You have the great comedy role that was played by Sasha Baron Cohen in the film that everyone knows and loves. I mean, how fun.
Yeah, it's amazing, and you need a bit of comedy in this show because like everyone dies all the time.
Stop. I'll love some comedy, sir.
So you need thank you me too, So you need you need the Thenardiers to come on. So the Tardi and me and Marina Pryor, who I rehearse with briefly in London, but we're going to rehearse some more when we get to Australia. And I know she's like the Queen of Australian theater, so honored, honored to be sharing the stage with her. And she's funny as well, she's really funny. We did a bit of rehearsing and we were really making each other crack up, which is all you really can hope for.
And it's great. I've been in.
I was first in Leme misrab in twenty ten, and it's one of those shows that so every five or six seven years they let me come back for a few months just to swim back in that water again. And so I'm very honored to be part of it. And the cast.
Is so good.
There's such incredible singers, so people who come are really in for a treat.
Man, I didn't know you could sing.
I'm so sorry, but you're great.
You're amazing. Oh, thank you.
Well, it's you know, there's a lot of things I can't do. I can't drive, you know, really, do you have your license?
No? No.
I lived in LA for seven years and people kept saying to me, it's so easy to drive in l A. And I failed my test twice on consecutive days, and that's not good. No, it's not the first test. I was coming out of the driving school at the beginning of the test and I reversed up a curb, and then the second test, I forgot how you turn left.
That seems important, that's important.
Yeah, so I think I have a better passenger than drive excellent. I'm terrible with the opposite sex romantically, I've had to resort to being gay.
But that's how bad you are headed.
Yeah, that's how that's mind's call for deaf measures, my friends.
I loved you and Gladiator I got to say as well, the new Gladiador that the Taddy race can come out.
Yeah.
Was that a fun role to play?
It was right.
It was really hot and really humid, But I kept telling myself, you know, however hot I am, it's nothing compared to Paul mescal and Pedro Pascal and everyone down below me who were actually doing all the battling.
Because they're in armor and.
They were in the the heat of the sun and it was so hot, and you know, so I didn't complain. I just internalized it because but also amazing to work with Ridley Scott.
I mean, he's a legend and.
He's eighty plus season he he's getting on now.
Yeah, And I've been so lucky, like I've worked with Tim Burton and Ridley Scott.
I've worked with like some real auteurs.
And yeah, Ridley Scott, I think is eighty seven or eighty eight or something. And he's sharp though, he's sharp, and yeah, he's a bit like a kind of army general or a corporal, you know. But he's very direct and to the point, you know. But I, for me personally, I like that, you know, I I don't you know what, Sometimes people direct you in an abstract a way and I never really know what they mean. Whereas with Ridley, you know, he tells you exactly what he needs from you, and I, personally, I really appreciate that. So for me, I I'd work with him anytime. Of course, well who wouldn't, But I loved, I love working with him.
Yeah. And you've got some really good friends in Australia, don't you.
Aren't you are great maid of Magda Sabanski.
Yeah, Magda, Yeah, Gina and Jane and obviously I lived with Rebel.
For three years. And then you know.
Who I love. A couple of guys really cracked me. I'm a massive Lena and Woodley fan. I absolutely love them.
Corey was just showing me one of their clips yesterday on Instagram, like just an old clip.
Mark Trevarro who does Bob Down, and also Sean mckayleeff I think is a genius and you have you have such great people over there, So I'm really looking forward to reconnecting with people because I don't think I've been to Australia in about a decade. Wow, I'm very justous with David Williams. Is there all the time?
Yes, you know what.
He was literally like across the road from me filming thing. He was at the school across the road from me just just last week. So so yes, it's about time you came here. And hopefully if you've got time, I'd love for you to drop in and see you.
I would love to as long as can.
I say, if I have a show that day or the next day, it will be hard. But if I get a day off then of course because that would be lovely. Yeah, but it's I'm really excited to be to be back in Australia. It's it's been far too long and I've got lots of friends there and I love Australia.
Also, I love your candy.
I love your candyips, your crisps, You're everything.
Yeah, you have the place, yeah, all of that, and I'm coming.
I'm coming for the you know those honey soy chicken things crisp.
Also, you know what we don't you know what we don't really have in the UK. We don't have salt. We don't have chicken salt in the UK chips without chicken salt. Yeah. And also in the UK we don't have a golden gay time.
Have you tried cheese melted on fresh cook chips?
No, because I don't my favorite. It is my least favorite thing in the world. I'll have the chicken, but not that. No, so I don't.
But no cheese, I know.
But can you imagine how how chubby I would be just as well.
Love it?
Yeah, but no, I'm really excited that. The only thing I'm a bit worried about is I'm a massive English football fan and I'm going to have like watch the matches at like three in the morning.
That's true.
Who do you support?
So I'm from north West London, so I support Arsenal.
The Gunners.
Then that's right, gunners? And how they going? Are they? Okay?
They're all right, They've been there second. They're probably going to finish second for the third year in a row. So you know, but yeah, I'll take that exactly what.
There's plenty of sport on during the day in Brisain. Yeah, it's always sport on so great.
You bring something to get some of them. Well, I can't wait to see this. This was the very first school musical I ever did back in the year ten Lamies and now I'm going to say I was like Soldier number seven.
Live or did you die in the chorus? I died of course. Thank you so much Matt for having me.
Thank you, thank you, and I can't wait to come out and see you all. So thank you, and please everyone come and see lame Is the Arena Spectacular
