David Wenham reprises his iconic role as Johnny 'Spit' Spitieri in a long-awaited sequel, exploring the character's return to Australia after 20 years on the run.
David Wenham was walking in Brisbane recently when a bus driver pulled up beside him, opened the door and yelled “are you gunna pay your fare this time?”
It was a variation of the many comic lines called out over two decades that go back to a character, Johnny ‘Spit’ Spitieri, who has become an unlikely hero in Australian popular culture.He was a thong-wearing, not-too-bright junkie whose biggest concern when he was in court was who was going to pay his bus fare home.was so popular on VHS and DVD that lines like “Me bus driver’s not going to take a cheque” and “I’m on the bones of me arse, mate”, keep getting quoted back to Wenham.
“He almost gives people permission to be flawed because of his simple, unjudgemental walk through life,” he said. “He could be the dumbest or the smartest guy in the room, and you never quite know which it is.”, says her character, Marion Barrington, has gone from the wife of a gangster played by Timothy Spall, to a widow who runs “a funeral home and function centre”.
“None of us have ever had an experience in our careers where something we did has come back,” she said. “Because it was such a happy experience the first time, and because they were such great characters, we were all thrilled.Wenham found it easy to slip back into character when he put on a pair of thongs.
“I hadn’t worn them for twenty-something years, but as soon as I put them on, it gives a physicality which helps me get into the character,” he said., which opens in cinemas on March 6, is the latest long-delayed next instalment of a film that taps into fan nostalgia.
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