Post by Maybe Oneday on May 13, 2003 8:31:20 GMT -5
I did my best to make it accurate, but it took me quite awhile to type up and it’s close to midnight, so yes 
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(Rove Introduces Simon- I actually didn’t tape that part, but it was a brief rundown about him)
Rove: Please welcome to Rove Live, Simon Baker
*Audience Applause* Simon enters through the door in and raises his eyebrows to the camera, in a acknowledgment and walks over to Rove, he shakes his hand and sits down.
Rove: How you doing?
Simon is staring at the coffee table, which holds a dish full of a huge pile of Smarties (M and M’s)
Simon: Points and says,“You need a snorkel for those”<br>
*Rove, audience laughs*
Rove: “Their very deep”<br>
Simon: “They are”<br>
Rove: “Now, how was your night Sunday by the way, how was the logies for you?”<br>
Simon: “It was really good, I was actually a little bit nervous, because, uh, it had been a long time since I’d been there, er ten years or something so-”<br>
Rove: “Was that the first time you attended since you won best new talent?”<br>
Simon: “Yeah, that’s right yeah” *nods head*
Rove: “And er, were you happy with your performance on the night?”<br>
Simon: “Oh, my performance or the current-” *points to himself surprised*
Rove: “The current one, yeah!”<br>
Simon: “Well, I’ll, I’ll tell you something, if you have to present an award present it early, because otherwise your sitting- where I was sitting was right up the very front (proceeds to shape with his hands) and I was looking up like this the whole night (rolls his head right back on his shoulders and to the left side) drinking, I drank about fifteen glasses of water, and I had to go to the bathroom to wee about twenty times. (Laughs) And because of Don Lanes speech, because of his speech, you know it was basically his autobiography (laughs) I uh, the guy, the guy the warm up guy, what’s his name?”<br>
Rove: “Michael Pope is the warm up guys name”<br>
Simon: “Michael Pope, yeah, he wouldn’t let people leave at certain times-”<br>
Rove: “For fear of the room being empty”<br>
Simon: “Right, but at the side of the room there’s these great, uh, mirrors (shapes with his hands) and at one point he said ‘This is just a fifteen second break, you can’t leave’, and I was like ‘pfft crap, I’m leaving mate, I’m going now, otherwise I’m going to..you know’ (laughs) So, I saw the mirror, and I thought that was the door open (pauses and gives a big smile) And I did the old, I almost did, almost did the old, you know, very cool, like, walking past all the people, you know, (swings hands and pretends to be looking cool in front of people) out the door when I wasn’t meant to be. And I almost did the bird caught in the house and the window (pretends to smack himself in the head)…broken nose…that sort of thing”<br>
Rove: “Now how does a night like Sunday night, the logies, compare to some of the ceremonies you’ve been to in the states, like the golden globes or I guess the Emmys, is the closer equivalent in the states..”<br>
Simon: “Uh, well for me, a lot more, a lot more fun, because uh, everyone has a good time, and it’s not so work orientated. In America there tends to be, a lot of those award shows, people take it very seriously, and it’s very, there’s a lot of fists pumping, and a lot of high fives-“<br>
Rove: “A lot of handshakes..”<br>
Simon: “Well there’s a lot, psh, no no there not big on the handshakes..”<br>
Rove: “Oh really?”<br>
Simon: (switches to an American accent and raises his hand to be high fived)
“Oh man there like this all the time..”<br>
Rove: “Oh yeah!”<br>
(high fives)
Simon: “Alright, and that’s a little bit hard- that’s probably one of the first times I’ve done it (laughs) It’s a little hard for me to come to terms with, but uh, people relax and its, I was sitting there with my wife and we lent over a few times and it was comforting to see how parochial it was. How small and intimate and everyone knew each other and everyone actually…drank!”<br>
Rove: “Ohhhh Yeah!” (Laughs)
Simon: “Yeah, and you didn’t have to, if you want to have a cigarette, you didn’t have to walk two miles west and take a left, and make sure no one can see you!”<br>Rove: “Now are you happy with the success of The Guardian? Especially back home?”<br>
Simon: “Oh absolutely, yeah, no it’s good”<br>
Rove: “And how’d you think, when they announced it was going to air here, were you a little bit more nervous to how Australians would take to it?”<br>
Simon: “I was worried that, that uh, they wouldn’t embrace the fact I speak with an American accent on the show. (Looks at rove and smiles) I was a little nervous about that”<br>
Rove: “How did the Americans take to, like if you were to do an interview in the states, I saw you on Letterman and you did a wonderful job there..
(Simon raises his eyebrows and looks towards the floor then looks up and smiles) Audience laughs.
Rove: “Now when you, but when they hear you open your mouth and a Australian accent comes out, are they expecting it?”<br>
Simon: “Uh, yeah they are now, just because there’s so much hype, there’s so much hype surrounding Australians over there..”<br>
Rove: “What about the first couple of times-”<br>
Simon: “First couple of times it’s a massive shock. In fact I get a lot of people that do come up to me and say ‘You know you look a lot like that guy from the guardian’ (laughs) and I literally do say (frowns) ‘err..what’s that?’ (more laughs) Just to play around with it, you know. Cos’ I don’t often- I wore a tie tonight, because, you know- you’re a gold logie winner (laughs)
Rove: “I appreciate that”<br>
Simon: “I made an effort, I made an effort. But I noticed you didn’t so-“<br>
Rove: “I never wear a tie, I don’t even friggin’ tuck myself in” (laughs)
Simon: “Well that’s a little passé’, I gotta tell you”<br>
Rove: “Oh it is?”<br>
Simon: “Yeah. And in fact you actually made a comment about my collar”<br>
Rove: “I did”<br>
Simon: “And you know, I want you to know something, that was 1992- or 3 or something, that’s a long time ago alright, And Brad Pitt actually tried to pull that off about a year ago”<br>
Rove: “Actually, in hindsight-”<br>
Simon: “I think I was maybe a little bit ahead of the curve”<br>
Rove: “I think you were, in hindsight, the footage of Peter O ‘Brian, now White Collar Blue star and logie award winner
Simon: right
Rove: “He had big shoulder pads in the footage with him”<br>
Simon: “You’ll never catch that, that’s a shocker”<br>
Rove: “And the great look with the suit with the sleeves not rolled up-“<br>
Simon: “(big smile) Yeah I know, that’s the Jason Donovan do, used to do that-”<br>
Rove: “Yeah it was great”<br>
Simon: “- Back in the day”<br>
Rove: “Do you have any fond memories of the eighties? Like do you have any fashion foe fars(?)?”<br>
(Simon sighs and looks around shaking his head grinning and everyone laughs)
Rove: “Not to put you on the spot, Cos’ I was a bandit(?) for the novelty waist coat”(laughs)
Simon: “Yeah I know yeah (grins and shakes his head) With or without shirt? Because without shirt was a shocker”<br>
Rove: “Oh with shirt, but it had to have cartoon characters on it!”<br>
Simon: “Oh no”<br>
Rove: “So embarrassing”<br>
Simon: “I think for my year ten formal, at the, I went to Ballina high school, for my year ten formal, it was at the Hoi Sing(sp?) Restaurant, which I think in fact is still there, the token Chinese restaurant in Ballina, I think, actually there’s two, The Oriental Pearl, incase your…”
(Rove laughs)
Rove: “We don’t want people ringing up, going, Excuse me!”<br>
Simon: “Yeah”<br>
Simon: “But I wore uh, which I thought was very revolutionary, I wore pastel, pink pastel pants and a gray, a gray leather tie” (audience laughs and groans)
Rove: “Nice!”<br>
Simon: “With! With..matching uh, gray leather Dunlop vollies with the Velcro!”(huge laughs)
Rove: “Velcro, how good was Velcro”<br>
Simon: “It was very sharp, that was something straight out of Dolly Magazine” (teen girls magazine in Australia)(laughs)
Rove: “Well I’ll tell you what, it’s been very great having you on-”<br>
Simon: “Thanks mate”<br>
Rove: “And uh, thanks very much for coming in, and uh congratulations and all the best for continuing success with the guardian, ladies and- which of course8:30 Wednesday nights on ten”<br>
Rove: “Simon Baker ladies and gentleman!”<br>
(Simon gets up to leave, and he isn’t supposed to until they cut to an add, so Rove pulls him back down)
Rove: “Ahhh, sit, wait wait”
(Simon does a little ‘oh’ and smiles and sits back down as Rove cuts to add break)
My little notes-
-Simon likes to touch his face, and man fuzz a lot
-He was smiling the whole time, and happy, he looked to be very comfortable
-His American accent flooded me with nostalgia of The Guardian
-He wore a lot of blue LOL!
- He is very witty, very humorous, and I found his use of words to be really fresh. I guess I mean that in the way that many celebs repeat the same words over and over in interviews.
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(Rove Introduces Simon- I actually didn’t tape that part, but it was a brief rundown about him)
Rove: Please welcome to Rove Live, Simon Baker
*Audience Applause* Simon enters through the door in and raises his eyebrows to the camera, in a acknowledgment and walks over to Rove, he shakes his hand and sits down.
Rove: How you doing?
Simon is staring at the coffee table, which holds a dish full of a huge pile of Smarties (M and M’s)
Simon: Points and says,“You need a snorkel for those”<br>
*Rove, audience laughs*
Rove: “Their very deep”<br>
Simon: “They are”<br>
Rove: “Now, how was your night Sunday by the way, how was the logies for you?”<br>
Simon: “It was really good, I was actually a little bit nervous, because, uh, it had been a long time since I’d been there, er ten years or something so-”<br>
Rove: “Was that the first time you attended since you won best new talent?”<br>
Simon: “Yeah, that’s right yeah” *nods head*
Rove: “And er, were you happy with your performance on the night?”<br>
Simon: “Oh, my performance or the current-” *points to himself surprised*
Rove: “The current one, yeah!”<br>
Simon: “Well, I’ll, I’ll tell you something, if you have to present an award present it early, because otherwise your sitting- where I was sitting was right up the very front (proceeds to shape with his hands) and I was looking up like this the whole night (rolls his head right back on his shoulders and to the left side) drinking, I drank about fifteen glasses of water, and I had to go to the bathroom to wee about twenty times. (Laughs) And because of Don Lanes speech, because of his speech, you know it was basically his autobiography (laughs) I uh, the guy, the guy the warm up guy, what’s his name?”<br>
Rove: “Michael Pope is the warm up guys name”<br>
Simon: “Michael Pope, yeah, he wouldn’t let people leave at certain times-”<br>
Rove: “For fear of the room being empty”<br>
Simon: “Right, but at the side of the room there’s these great, uh, mirrors (shapes with his hands) and at one point he said ‘This is just a fifteen second break, you can’t leave’, and I was like ‘pfft crap, I’m leaving mate, I’m going now, otherwise I’m going to..you know’ (laughs) So, I saw the mirror, and I thought that was the door open (pauses and gives a big smile) And I did the old, I almost did, almost did the old, you know, very cool, like, walking past all the people, you know, (swings hands and pretends to be looking cool in front of people) out the door when I wasn’t meant to be. And I almost did the bird caught in the house and the window (pretends to smack himself in the head)…broken nose…that sort of thing”<br>
Rove: “Now how does a night like Sunday night, the logies, compare to some of the ceremonies you’ve been to in the states, like the golden globes or I guess the Emmys, is the closer equivalent in the states..”<br>
Simon: “Uh, well for me, a lot more, a lot more fun, because uh, everyone has a good time, and it’s not so work orientated. In America there tends to be, a lot of those award shows, people take it very seriously, and it’s very, there’s a lot of fists pumping, and a lot of high fives-“<br>
Rove: “A lot of handshakes..”<br>
Simon: “Well there’s a lot, psh, no no there not big on the handshakes..”<br>
Rove: “Oh really?”<br>
Simon: (switches to an American accent and raises his hand to be high fived)
“Oh man there like this all the time..”<br>
Rove: “Oh yeah!”<br>
(high fives)
Simon: “Alright, and that’s a little bit hard- that’s probably one of the first times I’ve done it (laughs) It’s a little hard for me to come to terms with, but uh, people relax and its, I was sitting there with my wife and we lent over a few times and it was comforting to see how parochial it was. How small and intimate and everyone knew each other and everyone actually…drank!”<br>
Rove: “Ohhhh Yeah!” (Laughs)
Simon: “Yeah, and you didn’t have to, if you want to have a cigarette, you didn’t have to walk two miles west and take a left, and make sure no one can see you!”<br>Rove: “Now are you happy with the success of The Guardian? Especially back home?”<br>
Simon: “Oh absolutely, yeah, no it’s good”<br>
Rove: “And how’d you think, when they announced it was going to air here, were you a little bit more nervous to how Australians would take to it?”<br>
Simon: “I was worried that, that uh, they wouldn’t embrace the fact I speak with an American accent on the show. (Looks at rove and smiles) I was a little nervous about that”<br>
Rove: “How did the Americans take to, like if you were to do an interview in the states, I saw you on Letterman and you did a wonderful job there..
(Simon raises his eyebrows and looks towards the floor then looks up and smiles) Audience laughs.
Rove: “Now when you, but when they hear you open your mouth and a Australian accent comes out, are they expecting it?”<br>
Simon: “Uh, yeah they are now, just because there’s so much hype, there’s so much hype surrounding Australians over there..”<br>
Rove: “What about the first couple of times-”<br>
Simon: “First couple of times it’s a massive shock. In fact I get a lot of people that do come up to me and say ‘You know you look a lot like that guy from the guardian’ (laughs) and I literally do say (frowns) ‘err..what’s that?’ (more laughs) Just to play around with it, you know. Cos’ I don’t often- I wore a tie tonight, because, you know- you’re a gold logie winner (laughs)
Rove: “I appreciate that”<br>
Simon: “I made an effort, I made an effort. But I noticed you didn’t so-“<br>
Rove: “I never wear a tie, I don’t even friggin’ tuck myself in” (laughs)
Simon: “Well that’s a little passé’, I gotta tell you”<br>
Rove: “Oh it is?”<br>
Simon: “Yeah. And in fact you actually made a comment about my collar”<br>
Rove: “I did”<br>
Simon: “And you know, I want you to know something, that was 1992- or 3 or something, that’s a long time ago alright, And Brad Pitt actually tried to pull that off about a year ago”<br>
Rove: “Actually, in hindsight-”<br>
Simon: “I think I was maybe a little bit ahead of the curve”<br>
Rove: “I think you were, in hindsight, the footage of Peter O ‘Brian, now White Collar Blue star and logie award winner
Simon: right
Rove: “He had big shoulder pads in the footage with him”<br>
Simon: “You’ll never catch that, that’s a shocker”<br>
Rove: “And the great look with the suit with the sleeves not rolled up-“<br>
Simon: “(big smile) Yeah I know, that’s the Jason Donovan do, used to do that-”<br>
Rove: “Yeah it was great”<br>
Simon: “- Back in the day”<br>
Rove: “Do you have any fond memories of the eighties? Like do you have any fashion foe fars(?)?”<br>
(Simon sighs and looks around shaking his head grinning and everyone laughs)
Rove: “Not to put you on the spot, Cos’ I was a bandit(?) for the novelty waist coat”(laughs)
Simon: “Yeah I know yeah (grins and shakes his head) With or without shirt? Because without shirt was a shocker”<br>
Rove: “Oh with shirt, but it had to have cartoon characters on it!”<br>
Simon: “Oh no”<br>
Rove: “So embarrassing”<br>
Simon: “I think for my year ten formal, at the, I went to Ballina high school, for my year ten formal, it was at the Hoi Sing(sp?) Restaurant, which I think in fact is still there, the token Chinese restaurant in Ballina, I think, actually there’s two, The Oriental Pearl, incase your…”
(Rove laughs)
Rove: “We don’t want people ringing up, going, Excuse me!”<br>
Simon: “Yeah”<br>
Simon: “But I wore uh, which I thought was very revolutionary, I wore pastel, pink pastel pants and a gray, a gray leather tie” (audience laughs and groans)
Rove: “Nice!”<br>
Simon: “With! With..matching uh, gray leather Dunlop vollies with the Velcro!”(huge laughs)
Rove: “Velcro, how good was Velcro”<br>
Simon: “It was very sharp, that was something straight out of Dolly Magazine” (teen girls magazine in Australia)(laughs)
Rove: “Well I’ll tell you what, it’s been very great having you on-”<br>
Simon: “Thanks mate”<br>
Rove: “And uh, thanks very much for coming in, and uh congratulations and all the best for continuing success with the guardian, ladies and- which of course8:30 Wednesday nights on ten”<br>
Rove: “Simon Baker ladies and gentleman!”<br>
(Simon gets up to leave, and he isn’t supposed to until they cut to an add, so Rove pulls him back down)
Rove: “Ahhh, sit, wait wait”
(Simon does a little ‘oh’ and smiles and sits back down as Rove cuts to add break)
My little notes-
-Simon likes to touch his face, and man fuzz a lot
-He was smiling the whole time, and happy, he looked to be very comfortable
-His American accent flooded me with nostalgia of The Guardian
-He wore a lot of blue LOL!
- He is very witty, very humorous, and I found his use of words to be really fresh. I guess I mean that in the way that many celebs repeat the same words over and over in interviews.
