He’s in Australia and he’s doing all manner of things: wandering Perth incognito, finding his doppelgänger in Melbourne and doing us the delightful favour of giving a whole dang bunch of interviews.
Rather a good lookalike at tonight’s show in Melbourne I reckon. Wish we’d swapped glasses. pic.twitter.com/qhIMbU2oGI
— Louis Theroux (@louistheroux) September 25, 2016
“I have thought about it quite a bit over the years.“I’d like to get into the outback. I’m curious about the relationship between the races here and especially conditions the Indigenous community is living in.”
It would definitely be interesting to see Theroux’s objective and immersive documentary style shed some light on a subject that gets disappointingly literal coverage in Australian media.
“I’ve always been interested in the landscape of Australia, he idea of the outback is hugely appealing. I’ve got a romantic association both with the American West and the Australian interior which seems to strike [an] emotional tone of austerity and size and remoteness, people carving out their destinies in this vast wilderness.“I don’t know exactly what the story is but I’ve loved the idea of being in that frontier … the town at the end of line, this one-horse town with lives that combine dignity and a sense of desperation.”
“I think a lot of people feel let down by the whole Republican and Democrats political system and see Trump as, for all his flaws, a breath of fresh air.“I think he could win, absolutely. I think he could win because there’s Trump supporters out there who aren’t even revealing themselves as such. For me that’s a scary prospect because I think he’d be a disastrous president.”
He links the sentiment behind Trump supporters to the same one that managed to get the Brexit to happen in the UK:
“I didn’t really see it coming, no, but I always think there is a silent majority — there’s a phenomenon called the Shy Tory, the right-leaning voter who is a bit bashful about expressing candidly his or her opinions. So it didn’t massively surprise me.“I think there’s a feeling of, a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way, that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom.”
Fingers crossed being an award-winning documentarian doesn’t give you any special insight into people and he’s completely wrong and everything will be fine.