Netflix stars reveal the 'hardest part' about shooting Territory in the NT

Netflix stars reveal the 'hardest part' about shooting Territory in the NT.

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Congratulations on the show, guys.

I loved it.

It's like nothing that I've really seen in Aussie TV before.

What do you think, though?

About the comparisons, obviously between Yellowstone and Territory.

Do you agree?

Do you disagree?

I haven't seen too much of, uh, Yellowstone, I obviously it's had such a profound impact on culture over there and here.

Um, I suppose it's an honour to be, but what I know is that this is so unapologetically Australian that I don't see it being anything like anything that has ever been on screen.

Yeah, and our cattle industry in Australia is so different to the industry over in America, and we wholeheartedly in in detail go into it.

Um, so I think, Yeah, it it doesn't really have a comparison.

In that sense, you mentioned cultural significance, Philippa, what do you think is harder being in a cult and having, um, you know, a curse of all this, You know, death that follows your character in way or shooting something like this in the outback.

Harder.

Was that the question?

OK, then, um I think, um I mean, they're both equally as challenging as each other.

Uh, and I can't compare them.

To be honest, though, with such such different experiences.

But, uh, yes, Su Susie knows what she wants in territory and is probably able to pursue that more than being stuck in a cult.

Um, obviously, she comes up against challenges with her family and generational clashes and, uh, challenges about being a female in the in the industry.

But, um, yeah, she's a lot more gung ho than my cult days.

Yeah, fair enough.

Fair enough.

Did you guys have to do much training for this?

I'm not sure if you already did, like, horse riding and stuff for Vikings and stuff.

Was there much training for this?

Yeah, I did a little bit for Vikings, but coming here working with Graham where he was such a diligent teacher, and, um uh, that was really awesome to feel a sense of progression alongside while we were shooting and then being able to use it.

And and, uh, we shot some incredible sequences that were, you know, inter cut with some incredible work by our stunt team as well.

But, um no, that that was really cool along with the motorbike, along with, you know, the cars and even the guns.

Like working with Steve our our armourer.

You know, obviously they they're very profesh with all that stuff, But, um, that was really interesting learning the difference between country and and army and all that stuff.

Yeah, that was even the same with the horse riding What was a a country way to mount your horse And what was a more western way to mount your horse or a classic way to mount your horse and just being really trying to trying to be very specific about that.

But then, true to the character as well, um, And then half the time, so much was happening in the series that we were just flinging ourselves on or, um, you know, picking up a gun really fast.

It was Yeah, it was good.

So no real helicopter flying.

Uh, I got to get up there, I. I wanted to Oh, I imagine that.

I wish I got my licence.

Tom Cruise.

You didn't have it, but, uh, I got, um I got to go out with the, um the the helicopter muster up up in the NT and got to fly over.

You know, our our beautiful country and and see a lot of it.

Um, that was pretty cool.

Yeah.

The Lawson family, um, learned how to together which I think was really special for us because it set up as well as learning how to muster it.

Set up a lot of the dynamics in the family, and you know who took charge upfront and who hung back and who got to do the wings.

And so that was a pretty incredible experience.

And it looked stunning.

What was?

Because I can imagine that shooting in, um, the Northern Territory and South Australia and things like that would be quite difficult.

Um, what was the best and what was the worst part about shooting there?

The best part was like, uh, you know, we always associate the hardness and the harshness of the country.

But there was such such beauty up there and, like the people there have such a beautiful relationship to the land.

And that was really beautiful to soak up.

The hardest part was definitely towards the end when we were shooting up north.

Um, when the wet season came in like it was like, 45 degrees plus and we were we had some people fainting on set.

We had hydra light on tap and trying to keep, um, yeah, on top of it so we could deliver something in between action and cut.

Yeah.

And in a unfortunate way, some of those challenges actually helped the character realisation The story realisation.

So it was a challenge, but it was also a bit of a blessing.

Well, congratulations again.

I still have 15 minutes to watch it cut out.

So you have to the last episode.

Oh, that's a big 15.

I know stuff about to go down.

I actually read some spoilers.

Thank you guys so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.