Louis Theroux Drops More Hints On Long-Awaited Indigenous Australia Doco

He’s in Australia and he’s doing all manner of things: wandering Perth incognitofinding his doppelgänger in Melbourne and doing us the delightful favour of giving a whole dang bunch of interviews.

Louis Theroux took the time to talk to ‘7.30‘ to talk Trump, Brexit and the once again teased the possibility of doing one of his incredible, amazing, wonderful documentaries in Australia (that’s the country that we live in!!!):
“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.

This isn’t the first time he’s spoken about the idea, telling the ABC:
“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.”
In the complete opposite spectrum of things to look forward to, Theroux said he reckons that there’s a fair chance Trump might win in the fraught and overwhelmingly batshit US presidential election:
“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.


Source: ABC.
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