Adelaide Clemens, "Kangaroo Island" Press Junket | The Latest WIth Maya

A conversation with Adelaide Clemens.❤️ "Kangaroo Island" is out now!


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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

It's the latest. Hi, Adelaide. Uh I'm Ryan from uh The Latest with Maya, and I'm so excited to be talking with you.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

Ah, I'm so excited. It's so wonderful to talk to you too.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Um so what drew you to uh the story of Kangaroo Island?

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Um I was very excited about the location. Um I was very excited about working with Tim, the director. I think I I had a meeting with him. I read the script and I definitely I totally understood Freya. Um I was like, I know people like her, and I think that's a really um I don't I don't think we see a lot of stories about people who uh who stay. Do you know what I mean? Who who who stay where they grew up and feel bound to um their family and the town they grew up in and the the sort of entrapment of um I don't know of this like feeling that you have to be loyal and then um and that you need to be there to support people and then anyway and all the things that come with that. So I think I was very interested in that. And then I met with Tim and I just loved him from the minute I met him and Sally, his wife, they were just so aligned in terms of you know, he's he's worked a lot in the States, so I think we we uh operated a at a similar um kind of wavelength. Um so we had a common sort of film vernacular and and that was really great. And then I love Beck um and have seen her work over the years, so things just felt aligned and and um yeah, and my brother was getting married literally the weekend before in Australia. So I was like, well, I'm gonna go for that, so I'll go shoot a movie after.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

Oh wow, I love that. Yeah, um, so can you relate uh your character in any way?

SPEAKER_00 2:23

Um I mean, yeah, I I relate to her in a lot of ways. I mean, you have to relate to your, you know, I I think you can always find something to relate to anyone. You know what I mean? We're all sort of humans. Um, and we're both women. And um, I was actually pregnant with twins at the time. So I when we shot the film, so I was starting to think about um motherhood for the first time um in a real way. Um so I think we had that in common. And um yeah, and you know, and I think I relate to her or all, you know, I have family members, as I've said, who have um many, and and most people stay in their community. And I and I think, but I have seen um some who I feel felt betrothed to the family home, especially the beach house. Like we have my family have a beach house in in Noosa in Australia. It's uh not as uh you know, not as um unbelievable and um and remote as the one in kangaroo island, but I know what I know what it is to have a home like that that the whole family uses and how special it is and the land is so to uh the land in Australia is so important to us. So it's not just the house, but it's you know, it's the beach, it's the walk, it's the paths, it's yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Wow. Um do you have a favorite scene from the movie?

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Um god, that's so it's hard. I don't have a favorite. I think I loved I loved working on all of it. I really loved working with Beck. I just felt like we totally got each other. We had so much fun in like the montage and the car, you know. Um we, you know, and then the more dramatic scenes, of course, are satisfying in a way where you're like, oh yeah, I I did something, but um, but often it's the subtler scenes that uh kind of sneak up on you. So I I don't I don't have a favorite. I I really loved the entire experience.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Um so what genre of movie would your life story be told as?

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Oh, I don't know. Um I'm gonna skip that question.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Okay. Um so if you had a warning label, what would yours say?

SPEAKER_00 5:09

A warning label? Um if I had a warning label, what oh um well I move at a very rapid pace, so uh beware of speed, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Um beware of what's ahead. I like that one. Um so were there um any scenes from uh Kangaroo Island that were particularly challenging uh for you to film I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

No, it all came very naturally to me. It didn't it felt very easy, as I said, I was pregnant at the time and there was something really interesting about that because I was I I didn't want to take on anything to you know, I used to kind of walk around in circles listening to movie music before I had to do some sort of dramatic scene. And um I didn't do that for this. I just sort of walked in and and became Freya. And I I actually learned so much in the process that you don't need all this kind of pent-up um energy. So yeah, it it just it came it came very naturally to me. It was uh I mean, I was very fortunate that that was the case.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Yeah, I love that. Um so my final question for you uh is today, what are you most grateful for?

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Oh, you're gonna make me cry. I'm grateful for my kids, my twins, yeah. Um they're the best. They just flew with me all the way from New York to Australia. Um, and we're having a lovely time with family, so that's what I'm grateful for.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

Oh, I love that. Well, thank you so much for uh taking the time to answer um my questions. I was so um grateful to get the screener for Kangaroo Island, and I just I love it and I'm so excited for everybody to see it.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Thank you so much. Thank you for your time. Thank you.