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The Nude Tuesday Podcast

Comedy Actors: Karen O'Leary and Chris Parker

Season 1, Ep. 4

Nude Tuesday is a brand new 5-star comedy from Armagan Ballantyne and Jackie van Beek about a suburban couple who go to a new-age retreat as a last ditch attempt to save their marriage. Their path to reconnection is riddled with hilarity and humiliation as they seek to find themselves and each other.


 In this episode, we hear from comedy actors Karen O’Leary and Chris Parker. Chris is an award-winning stand up comedian, improviser, actor and writer. You might know him from his viral Instagram channel, his recent comedy special called Back to School or a ton of acting roles on kiwi comedies. Karen O’Leary is another brilliant actor who worked for many years in early childhood education. She’s Officer O’Leary in Wellington Paranormal, the spinoff series from the film she’s also a real scene stealer in - What We Do In The Shadows.


The Nude Tuesday podcast was brought to you by Film Queenstown Lakes, and New Zealand and Australian distributors, Madman Entertainment. It was produced, hosted and edited by me - Tim Batt and co-produced by Courtney Mayhew and Tyler Hislop. This series is also supported by Flicks - download the Flicks app to find Nude Tuesday session times near you and get tickets.

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  • 6. Musician: Luke Buda

    23:20
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  • Welcome to The Nude Tuesday Podcast

    01:29
    Nude Tuesday is a brilliant new film from Armagan Ballantyne and Jackie van Beek about a suburban couple who go to a new-age retreat as a last ditch attempt to save their marriage. Their path to reconnection is riddled with hilarity and humiliation as they seek to find themselves and each other. Plus there's nudity, Jemaine Clement is a sex guru and oh yeah, everyone is speaking in a gibberish.Tim Batt hosts a series of interviews of a range of people who contributed to Nude Tuesday, from director Armagan Ballantyne to screenwriter Jackie van Beek to actors Jemaine Clement, Damon Herriman, Karen O'Leary and Chris Parker to musician Luke Buda and even the person who created and trained everyone on the 'gibberish', dialect coach Perry Piercy.The Nude Tuesday podcast was brought to you by Film Queenstown Lakes, and New Zealand and Australian distributors, Madman Entertainment. It was produced, hosted and edited by me - Tim Batt and co-produced by Courtney Mayhew and Tyler Hislop. This series is also supported by Flicks - download the Flicks app to find Nude Tuesday session times near you and get tickets.
  • 5. Preparation: Tandi Wright and Perry Piercy

    38:33
    Nude Tuesday is a brand new 5-star comedy from Armagan Ballantyne and Jackie van Beek about a suburban couple who go to a new-age retreat as a last ditch attempt to save their marriage. Their path to reconnection is riddled with hilarity and humiliation as they seek to find themselves and each other.In this episode of the podcast, we’re diving a little deeper on the behind the scenes part of the movie and talking to two people who were crucial to setting up the made up language and the nudity. Dialect coach Perry Piercy is an award-winning actor and director who has travelled the world instructing actors and presenters operating at the highest level on how they can use their voice most effectively. Perry constructed the rules for the made up language in Nude Tuesday and trained the actors on how to improvise within a dialect that doesn’t actually exist. Tandi Wright is a kiwi screen icon known for her appearances on Shortland Street, Nothing Trivial, 800 Words and recently, the black comedy sci-fi Creamerie. Tandi was Nude Tuesday’s intimacy co-ordinator, getting everyone ready for the actors to bare all on the big screen.The Nude Tuesday podcast was brought to you by Film Queenstown Lakes, and New Zealand and Australian distributors, Madman Entertainment. It was produced, hosted and edited by me - Tim Batt and co-produced by Courtney Mayhew and Tyler Hislop. This series is also supported by Flicks - download the Flicks app to find Nude Tuesday session times near you and get tickets.
  • 3. Words and Music: Julia Davis and Karyn Rachtman

    41:27
    Nude Tuesday is a brand new 5-star comedy from Armagan Ballantyne and Jackie van Beek about a suburban couple who go to a new-age retreat as a last ditch attempt to save their marriage. Their path to reconnection is riddled with hilarity and humiliation as they seek to find themselves and each other.In this episode we’re joined by subtitler Julia Davis and Music Supervisor Karyn Rachtman. Karyn is considered the most sought-after music supervisor in the world today. She’s worked with Quentin Tarantino, Baz Luhrmann’s, Paul Thomas Anderson and many, many others bringing their films to life by getting the right music in.Nude Tuesday’s subtitler Julia Davis is a BAFTA-winning British comedian who you might know from Love Actually, Phantom Thread or her own TV shows Nighty Night, Hunderby and Camping.The Nude Tuesday podcast was brought to you by Film Queenstown Lakes, and New Zealand and Australian distributors, Madman Entertainment. It was produced, hosted and edited by me - Tim Batt and co-produced by Courtney Mayhew and Tyler Hislop. This series is also supported by Flicks - download the Flicks app to find Nude Tuesday session times near you and get tickets.
  • 2. Leading Men: Jemaine Clement and Damon Herriman

    49:01
    Nude Tuesday is a brand new 5-star comedy from Armagan Ballantyne and Jackie van Beek about a suburban couple who go to a new-age retreat as a last ditch attempt to save their marriage. Their path to reconnection is riddled with hilarity and humiliation as they seek to find themselves and each other.In this episode Tim chats to Jemaine Clement and Damon Herriman. Damon Herriman plays Bruno, who Damon describes as “a real mix of qualities. He's super optimistic, he has a very sunny demeanour and is very enthusiastic about life, but he also has a short fuse – people can press his buttons very easily.” Damon is known for playing Dewey on FX’s Justified and for portraying Charles Manson in the Netflix smash hit Mindhunter and then again in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.Jemaine Clement is, of course, one half of Flight of The Conchords, the co-creator and star of What We Do in The Shadows and has recently been shooting on James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar sequels. In Nude Tuesday he plays Bjorg, a self-styled sex therapist and relationship guru, who rules over an eager and doe-eyed support staff.The Nude Tuesday podcast was brought to you by Film Queenstown Lakes, and New Zealand and Australian distributors, Madman Entertainment. It was produced, hosted and edited by me - Tim Batt and co-produced by Courtney Mayhew and Tyler Hislop. This series is also supported by Flicks - download the Flicks app to find Nude Tuesday session times near you and get tickets.
  • 1. Filmmakers: Armagan Ballantyne & Jackie van Beek

    46:36
    Nude Tuesday is a brand new 5-star comedy from Armagan Ballantyne and Jackie van Beek about a suburban couple who go to a new-age retreat as a last ditch attempt to save their marriage. Their path to reconnection is riddled with hilarity and humiliation as they seek to find themselves and each other.In this episode we hear from Armagan Ballantyne and Jackie van Beek themselves - the pair who created this wonderful film. Jackie is the co-writer, screenwriter and co-star of the film. An actor, improviser, writer and director, she’s perhaps best known for her movie The Breaker Upperers which she made with Madeleine Sami.Armagan is the director and co-writer of Nude Tuesday. Her first feature, The Strength of Water (2009) won several awards which added to a pile of accolades she’s received for her work in TV and music videos. A Kiwi-German, she also was one of 22 filmmakers from around the globe invited to work on United Nations anthology film Stories on Human Rights in 2008.The Nude Tuesday podcast was brought to you by Film Queenstown Lakes, and New Zealand and Australian distributors, Madman Entertainment. It was produced, hosted and edited by me - Tim Batt and co-produced by Courtney Mayhew and Tyler Hislop. This series is also supported by Flicks - download the Flicks app to find Nude Tuesday session times near you and get tickets.