Baz Luhrmann
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Sep 11, 2026
Nicole KidmanGUEST
Yeah
Jimmy FallonHOST
... was it Baz who, Baz Luhrmann?
Nicole KidmanGUEST
Baz Luhrmann actually saw me on a, up in the play The Blue Room.
Nicole KidmanGUEST
Um, shows you you never know where your next job's gonna come from.
Jimmy FallonHOST
Yeah.
Herb LawrenceHOST
Okay.
Sean AndersonHOST
Uh, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet.
Herb LawrenceHOST
Okay.
Sean AndersonHOST
Uh, the 1959 Romeo and Juliet, uh, TV movie where, uh, Juliet's boobs are out.
speaker_3HOST
Think about how a director actually applies that code.
speaker_3HOST
Baz Luhrmann downloaded the Romeo and Juliet code, and he applied it to a Verona Beach gang war in the 1990s.
speaker_2HOST
Oh, man, with the Hawaiian shirt?
speaker_3HOST
Yes.
Sinead ManganHOST
And there's so many examples of that in regional Australia because there's so much on offer.
Sinead ManganHOST
If you think of the vast landscapes of Baz Luhrmann's Australia or the lost flowers of Alice Hart.
Sinead ManganHOST
But also the Australian landscape can be quite menacing.
Sinead ManganHOST
Why is this the resurgence of this horror genre creeping in lately in Australian cinema?
RyanHOST
But the idea of money coming into play with love and how that can complicate things.
RyanHOST
And I actually went with the 2008 Baz Luhrmann film, Australia.
RyanHOST
Okay.
RyanHOST
Did you ever see this? Nope.
RyanHOST
I saw it in theaters, and it definitely sells itself as an epic, and it's Baz Luhrmann just trying to show you what's so great about Australia.
RyanHOST
It's a period piece, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman.
RyanHOST
The Australians? Yeah, exactly.
RyanHOST
I enjoyed Australia more than I enjoyed this.
Alex ShawHOST
Not many movies do this.
Alex ShawHOST
But it feels like Baz Luhrmann, who had always felt a little like Shakespeare was stuffy and difficult to get hold of, finally saw a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and was like, I get it now, and wanted to bring that to the screen.
Alex ShawHOST
This was only, like I say, his second film.
Alex ShawHOST
Strictly Ballroom, it was an indie Australian hit, but it didn't exactly set the world on fire.
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Alex ShawHOST
A knackered, haggard old teacher trying to get you into Romeo and Juliet may only be able to muster this kind of delivery.
Sharon ShawHOST
Bingo.
Alex ShawHOST
And then Baz Luhrmann grabs you by the throat, yanks you into the screen, surrounds you in this world in a way that makes 3D blush and goes, right, Pete Postlethwaite's now growling in your ear telling you this information again as flashing strobing images of Verona Beach blast in your face and...
Alex ShawHOST
it almost bullies you I think they said this on one of the making of things it almost like slaps you around and drags you in and sits you in the brightly coloured cars and goes this is how the world is now and you either accept it and deal with the language or this is not for you
John DondertmanGUEST
I don't know if there's anything.
John DondertmanGUEST
Well, I was up for Romeo and Juliet as the art director way back, Baz Luhrmann.
John DondertmanGUEST
So that was a really cool job, which I didn't end up getting.
John DondertmanGUEST
But, you know, that would have been really great to work on.
Dylan FaganPANELIST
I gotta take a tiny diversion real quick just to bring up, uh, a lovely piece of pop culture surrounding sunscreen.
Dylan FaganPANELIST
I don't know if you guys remember the, uh, song, the Baz Luhrmann song, um, Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen, um, which was actually featured in the opening sequence of season th- two or three of The Sopranos.
Dylan FaganPANELIST
Uh, but it's taken from a column by Mary Schmich, uh, from the Chicago Tribune, uh, on June 1st of 1997, titled Advice Like Youth Probably Just Wasted on the Young.
Dylan FaganPANELIST
And it, you know, gives all these pieces of advice.
Juju GreenGUEST
So I was surprised that it wasn't one of those ones that people got immediately obsessed with.
Juju GreenGUEST
That one was created by Baz Luhrmann, of all people.
Juju GreenGUEST
And it definitely has the Baz Luhrmann feel to it.
Juju GreenGUEST
Shameik Moore is in that.
Juju GreenGUEST
Justice Smith is in that.
Juju GreenGUEST
Please watch that one.
Juju GreenGUEST
It's on Netflix both parts.
Elvis DuranHOST
Actually, Baz Luhrmann came in to promote that on our show.
Juju GreenGUEST
So I was surprised that it wasn't one of those ones that people got immediately obsessed with.
Juju GreenGUEST
That one was created by Baz Luhrmann, of all people.
Juju GreenGUEST
And it definitely has the Baz Luhrmann feel to it.
Juju GreenGUEST
Shameik Moore is in that.
Juju GreenGUEST
Justice Smith is in that.
Juju GreenGUEST
Please watch that one.
Juju GreenGUEST
It's on Netflix both parts.
GandhiHOST
Actually, Baz Luhrmann came in to promote that on our show.
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