The Beezal Mop Podcast - Ep05 / Greta Nash

had you written both of those like was the so what was the second one

The second one is Two Piece.

So that's about like a 13-year-old girl who is going to the beach with her mum and her younger brother but her bathers don't fit her so she's shopping for a bikini, her first one,

with her

mum.

And had you written that prior to Locker Room? As in like, I imagine Locker Room does really well and then you sort of, does that skew the way you write? Do you have to try and be like, no, try and just think of something different and like,

I think after Two Piece that's when I started to freak out when I would write.

But at that time, no.

I actually think like Locker Room was a funny one because I redrafted it so many times and it was a different genre and a different tone each time.

Because, again, I was really young and I was still trying to figure out if I was capable of making something serious and earnest.

Everything that I had done at film school had been kind of a little bit quirky, maybe slightly twee, a little bit embarrassing to look back on now.

But I had this idea that like, oh, I don't know that I like took my, I didn't know if I could take myself seriously enough to make something that was serious.

So

there was like other versions of Locker Room that were weirdly farcical or satirical or like kind of fantastical in ways or comic, like, yeah.

And then a friend of mine, Alex Wu, shout out to Alex Wu, incredible, incredible writer, director who, He read a draft and was like, what are you doing? I was like, what is it? Like I feel like you want to make something else.

And so I just wrote what I had been too scared to write.

Anyway, but it was actually after Two Piece that I started kind of writing differently maybe with more awareness of how stuff can be perceived.

But Two Piece was inspired by a shopping trip I took with my mum when Locker Room got into MIF and then I had to wear something to opening night.

And

so I, I, I just, I went shopping with mom at like David Jones or something.

And I just reverted back to being like a teenager or like even pre teenager, but I just reverted back to this really bratty and like unpleasant version of myself.

Um, and it was because I was just like self-conscious essentially.

I was like, ah, everything I'm putting on makes me feel like a weird trust up ham.

So anyway, it was actually from that.

So I hadn't written it before locker room, but it was in a way inspired by something that happened because of that film.