Kenneth Branagh on Working in Australia

Kenneth talks about working in Australia, the nickname he was given, and kangaroos.
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Kenneth Branagh on Working in Australia
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[@jauipop]

My nickname when I studied in Australia (high school & uni) was Jaui (from Jau). My Chinese surname was Zeng, so that evolved into Zenger, then Zinger, then Zinger Burger and then one guy ended up just calling me Burger - even 10 years on.

[@joechiricosta4004]

Marcus Chan That is fuckn hilarious 😂 Burger... ten years later.

[@hex1740]

Marcus Chan 😂😂😂

[@freelanceopportunist559]

Marcus Chan Burg-o

[@darrenknight443]

dude you are much loved !

[@Dev.85]

Yep, sounds like a very Aussie thing to do.

[@michealriseley6261]

Correction, Jimmy would be 'Jimbo' haha

[@abby2233]

Micheal Riseley that’s exactly what I was thinking

[@WarmLittleDiamond90]

It wouldn't be "Jimmo", it would be "Jimbo".

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

too true. I'd go for "Kimstah!" myself... but that's an established friendship over number of beers equation...

[@darrenknight443]

or james

[@theflaca]

tru blu cobba. And it'd be Kenny Doll

[@vespien2056]

Speaking as an Australian, we try and shorten everything as much as possible so most would just say "Jim".

[@liza2444]

nah I’d go Jimma

[@kVkV-sw5se]

Kenneth Branagh is very cool. He has done some amazing work and I love to hear about his impressions of Australia.

[@josephfischer3789]

As an aussie, impressed by Kenny's attempt an aussie accent. lol

[@jakartaman3365]

As an Aussie, I agree.

[@strider9184]

It was pretty good 🤣

[@2010Wilde]

He forgot to mention that he starred in the Aussie film "Rabbit Proof Fence", which is one of the most critically films down here in 'Strayla. Kenny played a government official trying to wipe out all Aborigines. Such a moving film.

[@skullsaintdead]

Philip Shehan The effect was to wipe them out, as (at the time, late 1800's, early to mid 1900s) we felt white culture was superior and would be beneficial to Aboriginals. How wrong we were. They were doing perfectly well til we came along.

[@inconvenienttruth1528]

didn't try hard enough ..clearly

[@sirsillybilly]

Rabbit Proof Fence is just Hollywood propaganda. There was no ‘Stolen Generation’ There were 10% of ALL kids in Foster care in Australia after the 1890s drought leading in to WW1 , the Depression and WW2. Half the kids ‘Stolen’ were given up by the parents If anyone is to blame it’s the Church. Yet having said that if it weren’t for them there would’ve been hundreds of thousands of kids on the streets or dead. Of course try explaining that to all the naive folk who are force fed revisionist narratives and they will turn around and call you a racist.

[@Mav_F]

@Morgan finally someone who speaks the almost truth what really happened. Love the BS stories I hear from certain races about their past and how the story stretchers and changes big time.

[@TheKazragore]

@@sirsillybilly Oh boy, folks, you might want to stand back. We've got a live one in here. Sir, I'm going to need you to sit down and hand me your tinfoil hat, please, it doesn't go with the straight jacket you're wearing.

[@SuperFrangipani]

From Australia - Jimbo and Kenny. 🇦🇺

[@72caperucita]

You can tell he loves Australia, he always talks about them in interviews

[@ritaa1359]

lets hope he doesn't come back

[@charliedawson4877]

He didn't see a drop bear. Know how I know that? He's sitting in that chair.

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

You never get bitten by the spider you see, you see the spider that bit you. Been in a fight with angry Maori? Answer yes? Reply with I know which side you were on.

[@livvow6717]

I giggle when people say "u saw kangaroos in the wild?" I think of the wild as a jungle. I nearly hit a damn kangaroo on the highway the other day😂

[@lilaclizard4504]

I had a fight with a vegan the other day, I explained that we needed to cull them because humans had been in the apex predator role here for 30,000 years & there's no large native predators & he told me we weren't the apex predator & go out into the wild & see if all the other predators think humans are the top of the food chain. I'm imagining a Quoll trying to eat me now! lol

[@drewzytran]

Professor Gilderoy Lockhart is that you?

[@Atlas226]

No it's Benedick of Padua

[@thomasbernecky2078]

Still love Sir Kenneth doing Shakespeare.

[@TheAshmah]

It would still be Jimmy. We don't always add e or o. We do shorten names a lot though. And anyone who has hit a roo and had to check the pouch could tell you it aint all sunshine and blanket in there

[@peterfromgw4615]

TheAshmah Could be Jumbo!!!!!!

[@williamaperrow636]

I loved the Wallander series.

[@alandavis3715]

outstanding actor

[@darkmustang13]

Lol the wallaroo thing surprises me. We just called them Wallabies. (I’m Aussie)

[@andrewdods2236]

Ha ! I went to school at Wallaroo ... South Australia ;-)

[@karlaluhrs6039]

Lol. Kenny’s accent sounds kiwi. And Jimmy would be jimmy or Jimbo

[@emilydiveley9661]

my Kenneth branagh

[@lilaclizard4504]

Jimbo Mate, the roo punches aren't what you need to watch for! It's the kicks that really hurt! Just stay away from those Emus! Only war the Aussie Army ever lost was against those buggers! 1 machine gun v a whole flock of bulletproof emus just isn't a fair fight!

[@stevec3982]

Lest we forget

[@rachrex]

Ah yes. The great emu war

[@lutfidandy]

i love you keny

[@WiFiWombat]

On the matter of wallaroos, it pains me that so many Australians know so little about Australian wildlife they consider wallaroos to be mistaken wallabies. The Europeans even names their currency after one species of wallaroo, the euro. They could have called it the European Monetary Unit, or EMU.

[@mrtensed]

Wallaroo is a smaller kangaroo but larger than a wallaby, a mid point between the two basically and is also the national women's rugby team of Australia's team name.

[@rachrex]

So many of my mates didn’t even know what a cassowary was 🤯

[@Marlabella]

So true though😂😂😂😂😂 Aussies’s where ya at?

[@peterfromgw4615]

Marla Bellamy Right f...... here, numbnuts!!!!!!! Don’t come the uncooked crustacia with me, you drongo!!!!!

[@buddhastaxi666]

Wallaroo were shot into extinction by Aussie bogans

[@howdareyouhowdareyou7970]

Common shorten names in Australia: Abigail: Abby Benjamine: Ben Caitlyn: Katy David: Davo Elijah: Eli Fredison: Freddy Gabriella: Gabby Harrison: Harry Izzabella: Izzy Jacqueline: Jacky Kendrick: Kenny Louis: Louy Madison: mady I’m not gonna finish because my phone is on 3% and the charger is 20 feet away. Also typically names shortened to end in ‘O’ are only applied to male names but names ending in ‘E(Y)’ are both male and female.

[@MrVikingsandra]

I like this guy

[@aperson2730]

Vikingsandra I LIKE your direct, matter-of-fact comment :-)

[@NewMessage]

Yeah Roo's have a bit of a Trumpasau.. sorry, - Tyrannosaurus - complex...

[@Efemral]

Castle Hill RSL (a club) in Sydney gets called Caso-Arso (kha-so ah-so)

[@3ADWOLF]

SIR Kenneth Branagh.

[@cacticrisis]

I'm 32, and saw my first dingo in the wild today.

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

Never. Only in cages or owned.

[@scottbrown8934]

One doesn't simply walk into the Australian bush jimmo kimmelo

[@theflaca]

It's "Kenny Doll Brazza" and as for the american, it's "WANKA"!

[@johnphaceas7434]

Or Seppo if we're being polite.

[@paulpowell7424]

I thought wanker was being polite.

[@Kordozer]

Aussie here..."Jimmy" is Aussie as you Pom! (because of Aussie Legend Jimmy Barnes) It's so Aussie that we'd even call a James or a Jim...Jimmy!

[@lushcat6142]

Kangaroos are nothing to worry about except for the Reds maybe. It’s our crocs, snakes and spiders you have to worry about. And our prime minister.

[@vanessahanns3211]

My experience is Jimmy is the nickname for James- so I’d just stick with that. But we do have lots of possible variations to mix it up for fun!!

[@kobedunn465]

Imma just gonna call him Gilderoy

[@Jackferrett6781]

Any Aussies here

[@OzBloke]

Jack Rox yep

[@ngdukic]

G'day, why do you ask?

[@jakartaman3365]

Yeah, cobber. Too right.

[@hawkesworth1712]

I had to slow down to let a koala cross the road this morning. I was lucky it didn't stop in the middle of the road to pick its toenails because they're so high they just don't see the world around them like other animals.

[@alpinealpine2793]

You'd be either Jimmy or Jimbo.

[@HM-rf7yh]

Did ya hear about the "Kangawallafox"?

[@Ian-rj6fq]

I’m pretty sure here in Australia we would pronounce ‘Jimmy’ as ‘dickhead’.

[@RealFarknMcCoy]

Kenny's talking shite. The inside of a kangaroo's pouch isn't wet - it's just skin, with a little bit of hair. It's nice and warm and cozy for the joeys.

[@roygfs]

What was he filming?

[@alternateendingsandedits6854]

Wtf I’m an Australian and I think that would be disrespectful. The proper way to address a knight is sir and then their first name. So I was address him as sir Kenneth if I ever met him and for example Ian McKellen as sir Ian or Anthony Hopkins as sir Phillip (Anthony is is middle name/stage name but his actual name is Philip) also FYI my grandmother said that since knights and Dates are a higher social status when meeting them you must bow or curtesy

[@shivachandra6704]

The begining of this interview wouldve been great while promoting for tenet !!!

[@brasschick4214]

Sir Kenneth needs to visit Morisset psych hospital. On the spacious grounds there are abandoned boarded up buildings and kangaroos- lots of kangaroos and wallabies. Great place for a zombie kangaroo movie.

[@Veralidainai]

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE

[@jauipop]

OI OI OI

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

up there Cazaly?

[@TheOfficialIndustrialStatic69]

OI OI OI

[@Bobbacuda]

OI OI OI

[@letseatgrandpa2905]

OI OI OI

[@FillH2os]

It’d be Jimbo.

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

Was he in Australia? New Zealand? Or...South Africa? Don't ask Branagh to do accents...

[@rubberducky4074]

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey It was actually pretty spot on strong bogan accent.

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

Mate, I dunno where you live, but in 40+ years I have only heard friends with NZ or South African backgrounds here have that particular relationship with vowels. I mean I hang with bogans... I can pull a broad Strine with the best of them - I'm a fifth-generation Queenslander, for heaven's sake. I have to dispute you on "spot on"'...

[@rubberducky4074]

Well I live down here in Vic so maybe it's a thing here.

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

well when I lived in Melbourne I lived next to a Broadie boy and one of my mates up here is from Broadmeadows too. And proud. Neither of them talk like that but they're both self-confessed bogans. I'm confused - is it a Melbourne bogan thing or what? Cause most of my mates down there talked way more proper than most people up here lol...no, actually, that was really a thing. It's hard to tell now, maybe, sometimes? People move round a lot... Side note: we used to call it 'bevan" up here - "bogan" seems to be a Southern import. Cheers - Maude

[@lilaclizard4504]

it was definitely a kiwi accent!

[@adayinthelife5772]

You know we have more than kangaroos and adding an o or e on the end of your name. We even have telephones and colour TVs. Oh and this thing called the interweb.

[@kenlawton1531]

What the hell is a Jimo😂 he means Jimbo.

[@joanannewallace]

I take photos close up of Kangaroos and they are not that scary as they usual hop away. I once had a Family of Kangaroos jump out of the bushes right in front of me and they just hopped away. Ives had snakes slither past me.

[@carriebizz]

Wrong! We don't say that! Kenneth! I've never seen a kangaroo in the wild. Only at the zoo.

[@warrenjensen4670]

You need to get out more. We see grey kangaroos every day taking the kids to school (Qld's Sunshine Coast) and there's even a giant male who hangs out at the school, lying on the oval or under a tree near the buildings, and all the kids know to respect him but never approach him. So cool, get out there and look around cos they really are everywhere.

[@aronwilling]

It takes me 30 mins to drive to the city (Adelaide) centre - but first I have to move the makeshift fence that keeps the roos out of my garden. They still lounge around the front. My cat sits with them occasionally

[@finalmasquerade]

strayaaaaaa! Great interview

[@kingwillbisthebest]

It'd actually be "Jimbo" nackers.

[@darwinschulze]

For once someone who can do an Australian accent

[@lilaclizard4504]

um, it was a a Kiwi accent mate!

[@bellabana]

Darwin Schulze no, not even close!

[@darrenknight443]

worst ever, sounded fuckin irish !

[@Dragonfly-0010]

Lilac Lizard No it wasn't. Pay attention and listen carefully

[@ZebsiHD]

it was scottish accent i think idk didnt sound australian

[@darrenscrivener6020]

I get called Daz or Dazza never Dazzo.

[@jjm2874]

KENNY

[@bearman5260]

wallaby not wallaroo

[@chriswatson7965]

There is an animal called a wallaroo. It's very common in the drier areas, but not near the big cities where kangaroos and wallabies are seen.

[@musicmanstudios3645]

Bear man wallaroos are a thing. They are much smaller and prefer dryer grass to green grass

[@musicmanstudios3645]

Dave Smith oh lol didn't see your comment

[@6226superhurricane]

wallabies are small, wallaroos are big not quite as tall as greys and reds but much heavier built. and wallaroos prefer forested areas.

[@bakejunior]

Yea, where I'm from we call them euro's

[@EulersDisc]

We’d call him Jimbo 😹👍 🇦🇺

[@EulersDisc]

Man punches kangaroo to save his dog kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHq1hWqim52Vr9k

[@EulersDisc]

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[@EulersDisc]

You don’t need a gun when you have a “donk” kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHSZdmagbcmXiZo

[@EulersDisc]

“Can we eat these men?” kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnmmqKB5gNmCh80

[@EulersDisc]

“Initiation” Tommy Emanuel - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKbLaIqQap2egtU

[@captaingamebreaker5152]

Hello Jimmy , Well I live in the wild ,remote outback Australia, with the kangaroos ... And am a genuine bushman . I am living the ".recluse's dream " in the land of contentment.

[@carmelhudson9811]

A smaller version of the kangaroo is a wallaby, just as cute, the males look like they've been to the gym for a work out.

[@dbdavis7748]

Its Jimbo!

[@6226superhurricane]

we would call him jim,jimmy or jimbo. a kangaroos pouch is nothing like a mouth not wet inside at all.

[@trinaholman4083]

Male roos do not have a pouch. They do have huge balls that hang in front of their willy, not behind and below like mammals.

[@Magooch86]

Jimbo*

[@ritaa1359]

u dont need to know a certain someone to travel to a country u just go there and experience the culture without the person u dont need to have a friend from there to go there just go so if I wanted to go to the uk but I dont know anyone there should that stop me from going

[@nelltrotter4554]

doesn't he mean wallaby

[@Andy-dz7us]

A kangaroos pouch is not a very nice place, its clamy, warm and smelly. Don't put your hand in one.

[@colconn57]

Sorry Jimmy. You would be Jimbo!!!

[@levelone1942]

Ummmm, I think you mean a wallaby

[@garystrahan4601]

Jimmy is alredy quite Aussiefide so it would be Jim Jimbo James or with the surname of Kimmel he could get Kimmy Kimbo we have a dry dog food brand that rhymes with Kimmel called Kibble so Kibble or Kibbie might be an option.

[@brainbaskerville3341]

dont come back who needs him rada joke

[@davesunderland1026]

I killed a hampster

[@TheNakedWombat]

Ken/Kenny. Jim/Jimmy

[@Cairns74]

Lots of Wallaroos west of us in Cairns. Chillagoe I see heaps. Kangaroos having sex with Wallabies., happens a lot.

[@Liminal.Tensions]

what? walleroo? you mean a wallaby?

[@shanebadger115]

It would be Jimbo

[@paulpowell7424]

It would be fuckstick

[@samanthapeters2972]

Wallaroo? I think he meant to say wallaby. It's like a smaller kangaroo.

[@youtubezone7074]

Help

[@brasschick4214]

Jimmy would most likely be Jaymo.

[@mr.popodopolis5688]

nah jimmo

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

nah I reckon he'd have to known as a James for that. Anyway, Jimmy's already a nickname, right? Voila.

[@rofalmatt]

Rabbit proof fence!!

[@suemark6934]

When are people going to realise that Australians are more than Kangaroos and Tim Tams. That's all I ever hear.

[@rods6405]

That is correct we also have Mint Slickers!

[@leahmckinlay4519]

Jimbo

[@Dan_Ben_Michael]

Just gotta call bullshit on the “jimmo” never heard that or said it in my life.

[@eversun77]

No, no, no, no, no Kenny. Jimmy would be Jimbo not Jimmo...and more than likely you would be Ken.

[@elizabethpalfi3977]

Youd be jimbo not jimmo!

[@mattm9741]

Apparently Kenneth Branagh has never been to Australia

[@Mayfrancisxavier]

Could be Jimbo, too!

[@graemesydney38]

This is humour? This is funny? Witty conversation? Spare me please.

[@ML-oz2gr]

Talk shows suck these days. Like 40 plus year old children talking nothing about nothing.

[@lilomanner]

Jimmy would max be Jim and it's Wallaby not Wallaroo. But still love you Kenneth

[@Dragonfly-0010]

animals.mom.me/difference-between-wallaby-wallaroo-7336.html

[@chambo1010]

There is an animal called a wallaroo. Its smaller than a Kangaroo but bigger than a Wallaby

[@hudsonoliver5437]

Stop stereotyping Australians...they are far more sophisticated than what "celebrities" portray...and it's boring.

[@SonjaDawn]

Wallaby and Jimbo, not wallaroo and Jimmo...

[@darrenknight443]

no, you are in Aussie jail for not knowing the Wallaroo ! lol

[@darrenknight443]

ps Sonja, i think your cool, love Darren.

[@SonjaDawn]

Darren Knight I think my Aussie card needs to be revoked haha

[@SonjaDawn]

Darren Knight I think my Aussie card needs to be revoked haha

[@aronwilling]

It's amazing how many Aussies are unaware of wallaroos in this comment section. Wallaroos are what the Aussie women's rugby union team are called

[@Bobbacuda]

But my first name already has an "o" at the end

[@TheRICKY85]

You would be Robbo.

[@lilaclizard4504]

Robbieeeeeeee :)

[@Bobbacuda]

I honestly wouldn't mind being called these names :D

[@christinakav5029]

Roberto Manuel you would be Robbo

[@allenjenkins7947]

Nah! Most likely Robbo (could be Bobby, although it's not as common as it used to be). Might even be Berto.

[@universal7564]

please guests. don't look to the audience. Keep looking to the host. so godamn annoying.

[@darrenknight443]

car salesmen.

[@seanlynch1185]

All wrong

[@ramonecricket5183]

Hearing non-Australians talk about Australia is akin to watching a dog try to put on socks.

[@imantisocial3179]

have you ever tried to put on socks while taking a dump? its really difficult.

[@TommyLellan]

Yeah until they criticise something we do and then we are super bad sports

[@JONNY_RICO69]

I was about to say the same thing haha

[@michael1345]

imantisocial mate only someone from Queensland would try that.

[@KJs581]

I cringe at Aussie accents in movies. Make a 200 million movie; if there is a token Aussie, always sounds like a Brit or a South African. Send me the script; and I'll dub it - for free! We just don't sound like that........ :-)

[@shaniblack9697]

incorrect- we also end names in 'azza'

[@darrenknight443]

and upya,

[@footyfan101ful]

@@darrenknight443 hi Dazza!

[@sharaharper2253]

Hi I’m Shazza

[@MissGigglesdotcom]

I'm jessicazza......

[@whateveritis3103]

Ya bloody right Shaz !