Interview with Neighbours Actor Ben Turland | Hendrix Greyson

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bvGGdxFess"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][Music] hey guys it's lauren yates from rave it up here today we're going to be having a chat over zoom with australian actor ben turland who you may know playing hendrix grayson in the tv show neighbours we have a talk about neighbors and about ben's audition process for the show as well as hear about some funny stories behind the scenes but we also go back and talk about his dancing career and about what it was like being on young talent time and australia's got talent about being in saturday night fever and also about some of the amazing artists he has performed with we also get personal and talk about mental health he's a mental health advocate and he loves meditation so we have a talk about all of that and he also gives some advice that also might help some of you that might be struggling there's so much to cover so let's get into it now before we get into today's interview we would like to give a shout out to our patreons irene bev and michael if you haven't heard of patreon before it is a great way to support us and keep us running and improving you pick a membership tier that suits you and your budget per month and in return for supporting us we'll give you behind the scenes content and free stuff you don't have to give much either you can be a part of our patreons for as little as four dollars a month just visit patreon.com forward slash rave it up you can even donate through paypal if you don't trust other sites you can do so just through our email raveduptv gmail.com if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us we appreciate anything you can do to support us now let's get into this interview ben welcome to rave it up it's a pleasure to finally have you on our show how you going today hello i'm going amazing thank you how are you i am amazing as well it's great to as we said it's been kind of in the pipeline for a while so it's good to finally get a date in and do it and do that in between hey exactly yeah no no it's good thank you for having me you're welcome so we all know you as hendrix grayson in neighbours at the moment but before we do talk about that part of your life i'd love to start from the beginning if that's okay to get a good idea of how you've made it to where you are today so your passion for acting started in high school and you studied performing arts back home in midigong but were the on were there any other careers that you wanted to pursue with your life or you know did you have another one to pursue well i was i originally started as a dancer so um i grew up dancing yeah right so that's pure that was really kind of what i was pushing towards it was either being a dancer or doing something with sport i i used to love running a lot i was a i used to do a lot of running so i did uh i wanted to pursue that um so it was either dancing or really kind of athletics or something like that but then i don't know i i was pretty lucky that i found kind of what i wanted to do pretty early so i could you know um yeah i was pretty lucky in that department so yeah so how did acting come about just drama in school is that where you found yeah well i um i when i was 12 or 13 i was part of a little crew a dance group called um little bandits crew and we went on young talent time and which was a television on a television show on channel 10 or something um and from that i got an agent and uh or a manager and the manager kind of said to me like hey you should you know try your hand at acting and i was like oh i've never really thought about it i've done a bit of like theater and stuff like this back at home and in in school and stuff you know theatre sports and stuff like that um i was like oh yeah i could try this i'd like to be in movies and stuff like this and so then from that from then from probably like 13 i was doing classes and and stuff like that and auditions and i think i did my first acting role when i was 14. so yeah i kind of just fell into it because i was pursuing other performing kind of you know art things and and then it just kind of went got handed to me like hey do this and i went wow and then all of a sudden i was like okay i love this you know what i mean so i just kept doing it it's kind of all in the entertainment field isn't it so it all kind of just gels together all of them you could do a little bit of everything that's it yeah and then yeah you can do a little bit of everything and yeah it all kind of works together so it's good yeah you mentioned little bandits crew that was with lockheed deering wasn't it yes yes right there oh no yes lucky is one of my uh i have not seen him in so long it's been forever because he's in sydney and oh my god long hair now he's really really i know he's such a i know he's uh yeah no i love lovies he's a legend that's a trip down memory lane i was like wait a minute i know that band name yeah yeah yeah no we did that together and when we he was he's a year older than me so i think i was yeah at 12 he was 13 and then i lived with his family actually because i um i in barrel barrels probably two hours an hour and a half away from sydney the city and i was in the city a lot as a kid and so i just my parents couldn't do it with work they couldn't just keep driving me back and forth or paying for accommodation so i just ended up living with lockheed for a lot of the time there so a lot of my teenage years were with lockheed which was an epic time i would never even thought of that coming up in the interview but there you go how funny right yeah how funny conversations go off on tangents when i was researching you two and just hearing you talk about all the stuff you did when you were young to even find acting i was like what can't this guy do you know he can sing he can dance he can act and you are also the nephew of a commonwealth games gold medalist that's pretty cool so that kind of brings in the whole running track as well and you ended up reaching state level that's incredible congratulations yeah no thanks yes well yeah so that's that was kind of like my motivation i got really inspired by my auntie and i was like you know what i want to do that um so yeah she kind of trained me a little bit back in the day and which was tough but yeah yeah actually do it as a career you know i think it's kind of nerve-wracking in case you ever get an injury or something it's like oh my god i'm out of a job that's dude acting you can do it forever if you wanted to yeah that's it same thing same thing with dancing i kind of thought okay dancing is like a there's a lot of things that go into that like if i hurt myself then maybe i'm not going to be able to work and stuff so yeah it's yeah it's tough but um yeah i love that you knew that that my auntie won a gold medal at commonwealth games i love that i am known for doing my research very good no very good i always find you know i've watched so many i've done this for like 11 years now but before i got into it something that just really annoyed me was watching interviews where they haven't done research and i'm like yeah i could find out that on google come on let's get a deep dive and learn a bit more yeah get into it yeah no i love that that's good and this show is also you know very positive and all about you know working hard and there's so many people that look up to you know actors and singers and they might want to do what you want to do but you know i think a lot of people don't know how hard how hard of a work it is to actually even just get your big break so to kind of give people an idea about that how long do you think you actually kind of worked for before getting say your big break you know obviously people will know your neighbours now but how long has it been how how hard that's a tough one yeah that's well i mean like i said i've been working since i was probably 14 um in acting and so since then really um after i kind of got my first little gig then it just kind of the hustling kind of started like i just would go to as many classes after classes like a week um just just learn as much but there is so much to go into it and it's so hard because especially some would say that you know this this could be like a big break and and then you have maybe a year off where you kind of can't book any other work there's no other work going on and then so it is tough you know what i mean um but um i think i was quite i i was uh when i was doing dancing and stuff i was quite lucky in that because i was working professionally as a dancer and doing tours around australia and meeting some incredible people and stuff like that and so then yeah i guess it just you just have to work so hard and and it's like it's like a just be a jack-of-all-trades kind of thing like you just have to be able to be able to be to mold into whatever fit you want like people want you to be and like in the role of what it is so you just kind of have to take in as much knowledge as you can um because who knows what's going to come at you you know what i mean like next month they might someone might come up and be like oh my god you'd be perfect for this but i need you to do this and you're like oh i don't really have that knowledge or that skill set so um i mean i yeah i was very determined as a kid and in high school as well i was quite like i went to a barrel high school in um back in barrel and it was i was the only kind of male dancer i was only performing the person in my year that was dancing acting doing anything to do with really performing performances um or performing and um so i just had a lot of motivation just to keep going and not stop until i get there because if you really want it you're gonna get it you know what i mean if you really want it um you're gonna you're gonna make it work um so were you a little bit of the outside kid then for being the only one in school wanting to do that yeah a little bit i was like i was quite lucky as well because i did a lot of sport and uh i played a fair bit of football as well and touched football and all that kind of stuff and my siblings my brother he um he played a lot of football as well and um and my sister was i don't know i had a good support system around me so i didn't feel too much like an outside i mean i did feel like an outsider because no one really did what i was doing so like a lot of recesses and lunches i was by myself kind of like in the drama room or like dance room just working on my thing or um actually a lot of the time i was on the field just practicing backflips and footsteps and stuff like that and so but you're incorporating dancing that's it yeah but i kind of loved it it kind of gave me more motivation just to just to do whatever i can to get around people that were like me to inspire me more so yeah i mean i wasn't a massive fan of school because of that reason and i didn't i didn't think it was like you know really for me and but um i i am grateful for it though because i found different things within schooling and like you know the people around me and this you know the kids and stuff like that i found those little things to motivate me to kind of go for it you know what i mean because you can like if you feel like an outsider you can it's really easy just to sit there and be like you know why me or you know i feel so alone or whatever like that but then to use that to kind of motivate you and push you further is yeah that's that's the key to me so was there any bullying as well how did you get through a little bit yeah i had a little bit of bullying um like i said before i was quite like oh i was lucky because when i first started year 37 i started year eight well i was on television by then and so that was kind of a bit of a hype around it so yeah i mean i was still i was still the male dancer you know that that one guy that danced but um i it did affect me a little bit there was a few like name callings but a lot of the time i had some good mates around me that would kind of stick up for me and and i was i was pretty determined i was pretty just like i didn't really care you know what i mean i was just so i just had tunnel vision i knew what i wanted and anything that anyone could say like i really just didn't take it in so great i guess uh i'm pretty grateful that i had that kind of mindset um yeah i don't know yeah by the time you're on tv it just kind of shut people up a bit like oh okay never mind he's serious all right yeah okay no he's he's actually taking this seriously okay all right take a step back like being on young talent time and then your australia's got talent as well matter to the finals um yeah you were even in saturday night fever and have performed now with incredible superstars like for our audience people like kelly rowland rita ora samantha jade that is incredible i know neighbours are such a big part of your life now it's probably one of your big career highlights but apart from neighbors what do you think has been such a big career highlight for you has there been a fake uh favorite person that you performed with or i mean i did a um i've done a few australian tours um with different artists and like at shows and stuff like that and that that's a that's a pretty amazing feeling because i mean i did my first australian tour when i was 14 with young talent time we did a live show and toured around with rob mills um and through the other castle the show yeah right so i've known milsie for ages as well but that was that was a pretty huge moment for me as a kid because i was 14 years old being flown all around the country staying in hotels and with lockheed and like you know that was that was pretty i'd say that that's that's a pretty incredible kind of thing at that age um and then since then i i choreographed a um a australian tour for an artist that was on x factor his name's aiden califiore he was he was amazing to work with and i got to do an australian tour with him and take a few of my friends with me and we did backup dancing for him and i did creative direction for his show and it was um that was a that was a another cool kind of moment where it was just creativity for me like i had a lot of creative freedom and i got to do that um just oh i just get thrown to the deep end and i just kind of wing it that's that's that's my key just wing it and fake it to make it yeah that's my favorite part you figure it out eventually yeah um and then i don't know maybe like i did a tour with uh maddie ziegler maddie and ken mackenzie zieger as well and that was that was a that that was crazy because i kind of got to see what like they're huge they were i didn't realize how big they were i didn't even know who they were until i was like like i was working with and i was like oh okay that's you guys um but i didn't realize how big they really were like they they the the magnitude of just that we were performing in stadiums and so that was another thing it was like wow this this industry this world is crazy so that was a cool experience um i don't know yeah there's there's a few things tripped down memory lane and also the um saturday night fever actually was another amazing experience for me because it was my first musical i've ever done and i've always wanted to do a musical it's my first musical i've ever done and i got a primary role kind of thing i had my i played joey in the show and which was one of the four main guys in the show and so i had dialogue and i was a featured dancer and stuff so that was that was like just that blew me away that i i got that opportunity as well because it was my first musical and that's not often that you get a speaking role in your first musical so yeah it's like a big like saturday night favor as well oh yeah yeah and with others that's it that's it i got to work some with some incredible people and um yeah and me me and lockheed played best friends in um saturday night fever so our characters played best friends and we were best mates and like best mates and then it's so easy and then even at the end of the we had a bow together um we had our own kind of bow and at the end of the show and it was that that was a special moment that i got to do my first musical with one of my best mates and we had our own vow that was that was a cool moment our parents absolutely loved it because us two coming out at the end doing the bounds like uh you could see our parents in the front rows that was nice that was a nice one yeah ah i hopefully get some more musicals in the future i'd love to see some more no that's the plan that's i want a little bit more theater so yeah let me know you never know yeah let's see well i think it's time to talk about neighbors now and your character hendrix how was your experience like for auditioning for that show was it nerve-wracking didn't know what to expect um well actually i have a really funny experience with the audition for this show i had like fun so i was doing stuff yes i i was um i was doing saturday night fever um and i think i was we were probably three weeks away from finishing uh the show and my agent uh he sent me a uh an audition for neighbours and he said hey here's your uh you've got an audition for neighbors can you put this tape down please and like send it back little little did i know that they didn't actually really want to see me i apparently i wasn't the right fit for the role and so the um so that's um i wasn't the right fit for the role let's come through that light there well sorry it's like that's worse oh well um i wasn't really quite yet fit for the role so they didn't even want to see tape for me they didn't even want to sing an audition but my manager didn't tell me that so he just sent me the audition and said hey just do this and i was like oh yeah cool audition so i filmed the tape the self tape in the theater in uh when i was doing saturday night fever sent it off and then i went oh okay we want to see him and so then they throw me flew me to melbourne the next week i did a chemistry test with um tim roberts and gemma donovan and and then i think three days later they told me i booked the job but i was uh i was terrified but i remember in my oh i was excited i was really excited i was quite confident i kind of have a feeling i feel like when you feel like you're going to get something you can kind of know it i don't know and i remember in the taxi drive from to the to from the airport to the chemistry breed with the producers and team robots and gemma um i was in this taxi ride with this taxi and he the taxi driver spoke like talked to me the whole way he just kept conversation going and it took my nerves away because i was just chatting and so i was it was amazing and like i've still i think i've still got his um card and like he he he was uh that was really nice because you get quite nervous and you don't know what to expect you don't expect when you go in the room and stuff this and so i was that helped me out so much so i just got to chat and just chat about nothing and anything and then kind of shook his hand and then went into the audition and yeah and kind of got it so fancy drivers don't do that so that's really good no it was it was it was really nice it was um yeah i would say it took my nerves away it really helped me out so yeah obviously they really liked you after all that's it and then yeah i see anybody else playing it so i know i can't imagine um there was a few there was one other guy i knew that was going for it and i think that was five out of five guys and yeah so um but it was pretty cool that i never really had an audition for it but i ended up getting it so yeah good manager you have yeah yeah yeah and hendrix really started out as like a troubled teen and even at the beginning he was kind of annoying me just to be honest but then he's grown so much as a character now and i'm gonna say he's one of my faves what do you think has been the hardest part about playing him did you find it hard to be like that troubled teen at the beginning i mean it's a lot of fun to play the trouble team it is like playing the bad guy yeah and you get away with it really um but i feel like the main thing is like it was finding the kind of the balance between okay he's not actually just a he's not a bad kid he's just a kid that's been kind of starved of certain things and certain role models in his life so he's kind of just figuring out where he sits in this hierarchy or sits in this food chain of the world and and trying to get attention from the people that he loves and trying to get um affection and trying to just trying to add value to him and who he was and stuff like that so he was lashing out and doing all these things because he didn't have a good relationship with his parents he never really so from there forward kind of it was always you know talk about money for his parents and so that was kind of money gave people value and so he it's the struggle was making him a troubled teen but then also making him likeable to go oh no he's just a scared young boy yeah he doesn't know we find out eventually we're like oh yeah so yeah and then you go okay whack up i got to kind of sorry bad like bad for him like although you know it was a i missed i missed doing all the the the um the bad stuff yeah i'm just a good character it's really funny now a lot of the scenes um now with hendrix he's kind of like the wise guy yeah and some some scenes that people are talking about like hendrickson needs your advice and he's like well especially chloe all of a sudden chloe's like uh you know chloe why don't you do this and it's like it's like i'm i don't know just some kind of i don't know wise guy now so total 180 i gotta say but 180 but i guess it's a nice journey like i think i've been on the show now for two years so a bit over two years so the journey i feel like that journey is quite quite nice and um yeah yeah yeah yeah and how has it been filming with all the covert restrictions and filming schedules being changed is it annoying and you know you're like yeah are you in a rush now to remember your script oh i mean i mean we're always in a rush we we should so yeah we shoot so fast like i think the most scenes i've done in one day is like 15 or 14 scenes in one day so um it's yeah it there's it's it's a lot it's it's a it's a it's a machine i think is an animal that you know it just keeps rolling so with all the covert stuff it's uh i guess i guess it's kind of it it slowed it down slowed it down it's kind of kind of kind of slowed it down a bit but it's amazing how it just hasn't stopped and it's just kept going and yeah i'm surprised too yeah it's so it's so cool like being able to adjust it how they did it and how we just adjusted to the world that was going on and kept like kept being able to shoot and whilst also doing some crazy storylines like in the middle of in the middle of kind of lockdown last year i was doing the the gambling storyline and that was crazy because we had to touch cards and stuff and but but we couldn't because they covered and we had to wear masks other than the um rather than shooting but we had to hand out cards and stuff like this and we couldn't we i wasn't allowed to say like you know touch touch something and then some another character wasn't allowed to touch it so navigate through that and trying to make it work was just incredible like it was just like problem solving to the max you know what i mean and making it work and like yeah it's uh i mean i was just grateful that i was still doing you know shooting and working and stuff but um um yeah we were pretty lucky that we got to kind of navigate through all that um yeah it's good that you guys are so far in advance too like i've had barry conrad on the show and he was saying like three months in advance before he gets aired or something it's great because in case something you know like covert happened you're you're good yeah we got some uh some backup yeah got some ammo in the in the tank yeah that's it it's it is good um and that helps that help but i think there was a time there we were kind of quite sure it wasn't about three months it was probably about i think nine or ten weeks that we were so we were kind of pushing it and i was so at one point we were just kind of smashing out the scenes and yeah just flat out flat out whilst the world is kind of and do you miss tim being your father on the show i love like the banter between you two it's sad yeah i missed him i got along with him really well like when i when i first moved to melbourne as well he kind of just looked after me yeah he kind of like it just kind of yeah he kind of looked after me he was um he was good and we're training a lot together and stuff and working with him on set was always fun we always joke around and um are you originally from sydney are you and then you just commute yeah yeah wait i was i was yeah yeah well no originally i just moved i think i had a weak gap in between saturday night fever and neighbours and have moved in that week and then um he was going back and forth because his wife was in sydney and then um i think actually for a lot of the time there i was doing the same i think weekends i was flying back to sydney and stuff like that but um um yeah i do miss working with tim he he he's a he's a beautiful man he's a beautiful man love that lovely guy in sydney now are you in melbourne now i'm in melbourne so you can't even see him no no right now but when it's finished yeah yeah i haven't seen him since probably christmas oh just before yeah so it's been it's been a while yeah and now he's got a little little bub so no oh actually no you're wrong i saw i saw uh on i think tim's instagram story you were at the easter show doing your meet and greet with uh richard yeah you guys saw each other i thought it was so funny that's right this is your little sister and you're like i know i think we missed each other by like one day because i think i went to the easter show the very next day and i'm like no oh no way but i was like that's all right i got an interview with him coming up so that's good organizing richie so we're good yeah yeah i get more one-on-one time with you that's great well you're doing a great job keep it up like neighbors i'm i'm so glad that they're brought in so many like i'm going to call new blood you know freshman you know yeah yeah yeah like we all love susan and carl you know they're just legends on the show and toady but yeah they have some some young blood in there too i know right and the dynamic it's i like i love that hendrix lives with um carl and susan because that dynamic that's and that is so much fun to play on on set like uh with uh alan and and jackie the the especially the comedy stuff and the kind of like sitcommy like uh jokes and it is it it is so much fun a lot of the time we're just just dying of laughter on set it's usually fletch is doing something silly and then i'd do something that it's and then jack you and we just kind of it's really fun it's a fun time we should just have a whole just behind the scenes episode i know it would be hilarious and they're the best people to learn from too because they've been acting oh yeah decades so yeah a lot ben that's it yeah now they're they are they're the legends they're the gods of it like this they're so yeah they're great so keep it up now we're going to play a game a little later on so i want to make sure i have some time for that which is awesome but i do want to quickly bring up as well because i think you're a perfect guest for this show because you're an advocate for mental health and it's something we love to talk about on this show to really help our audience you know overcome any challenge the challenges that they might be facing so how how what has your mental health journey been like have you ever dealt with anxiety depression yeah leading your haters contribute to your mental health being yeah no i've had a i've had a solid kind of journey with uh my kind of mental health and i've been uh in and out of depression and i've had a i've had anxiety and um anxiety from a young age and and i had a lot of injuries as well i had a injury in my leg which kind of caused a lot of anxiety then further caused depression and all that kind of stuff and uh i only kind of took it into my kind of uh my my life that i had to really look after it and and kind of monitor it and and just just uh yeah look after i only kind of really got into looking after it when i went okay no i was at a time in my life where i was like it's either you know there's two paths you can go here um and i had uh luckily i had a few good friends around me that were um kind of uh meditating and doing all that kind of stuff and um they they helped me out a lot and uh yeah i don't know yeah i had it's it's been it's been a journey it's been it's been a journey but um um has coded kind of affected it as well again uh yeah i'd say that i covered did because i didn't get to see my family for about seven months maybe wow um and that was huge i'm a huge mama's boy and um and so i couldn't see my mum for a long time and and i was also i was living alone for a bit and and um the world was kind of and social media as well that's a that really gets you can get really sucked into that and how yeah limit my use yeah and it's just like i feel like on social media it's a it's a it's an easy way to react to other people's opinions and it's like and you can easily get your emotions you feel kind of attached to it um and that i i found myself in that spot and i went oh you know like it was just it was just the time and i was it's just a weird energy you know what i mean um and then i kind of started going all right no i have to you have to actually really want to to do something for yourself and for your mental health um and i feel like for me as many as as you get hundreds of people telling you you need to do that you need to do this and you're not going to do anything for yourself until you purely you really want to do it you know what i mean um and so um i think i got there was a point um i got i got to and i was just no that's that's do let's do something about this you know what i mean um and so i started researching it reading more books um talking to more people meditating um doing mindfulness activities doing uh practicing gratitude every day exercising um yeah i just because it was either you know either either or it was you could really go down the dark path and who knows where you'll end up and um and they're all or it was like kind of level up keep going you know maintain it even whether you like meditation or not because some people don't but i personally love it but even just as you said being finding things that you are grateful for even if life is with you at the moment there's always something to be grateful for that's it it's about like i think my key to my key to um mental awareness or mental well is mental kind of mental health or mental okay maintaining a good mental health is self-awareness yeah that's that's the key to it self-awareness i'd say you have to be aware of your thoughts you're aware of your feelings but then also not judge them because you feel what you need to feel yeah because once you judge them and you're judging yourself and that's when you don't you don't you shouldn't have to judge yourself you know what i mean like they may there may be an answer like you could be having thoughts and you go why am i having these thoughts and whatever that answer is you may not like the answer but it's the answer you know what i mean you can't judge that answer um and so i was i was kind of judging those answers i was going no that's not you that's not you no you know kind of kind of just plain just just playing with myself just going like what are you doing in your head you know what i mean just go and then overthinking and stuff this and um but once you become like once you try and be you know as as aware as you can of those thoughts like uh when they happen the triggers and and just not judging it going okay there it is again okay and then keep going and um yeah yeah it's it's always one of my favorite quotes is um mental health is not a destination it's about how you drive uh not where you're going yeah so the journey it's about the journey so it's about it's about how you're driving you know like it's how about how you you know you're um you're maintaining a straight path or you're maintaining a a um a clear path even um so meditation helps me a lot with that because i find myself going oh my god i have so many things to do there's so many things i want to do so many things the people i need to talk to yeah easy to stress out and then i end up just going i'm not going to do it any of it because then anxieties come and you go oh you know what people are people are needing things from me or people are wanting things from me and they're expecting things from me oh it's too much i'm just i'm just gonna back off and so then meditation helps me because then it goes okay uh it makes me calm and makes me kind of it for my for my own thoughts it kind of puts them in their own categories then okay so then you have to do this and how important is that and then this and how important is that and so then yeah and so it kind of just puts puts all those thoughts in their little they're little spots and then to them when they when you finish meditating you have a bit more clarity on where you are in the world where you are in your emotions right now where you are in the present right now and and then you can start to kind of pick and pull what you need to do i'd say like being all jumbled instead of being like that it's like you it's like this like you've got the chords it's like just meditating you know and then headphone calls yeah and uh um yeah so um i was gonna say but yeah it's it's it's i have another analogy with like you're and you imagine your your mind is like a your mind is a train station and every every thought that you have there's a train that goes along the train station it's like you want to acknowledge every train and then you want to decide have a decision which train to get onto yeah because if you if you don't decide and you just jump on the train you're going to end up at a destination that you don't want to be at and you're going to have to try and get all the way back so it's about monitoring and acknowledging every train that goes past or every thought that goes past and going okay this is a thought that i actually want to talk to today or this is a thought that i want to you know be in today whether it be whether it's to do with a feeling or you know emotional great analogy i love that yeah yeah so um that's yeah because you because you're not your thoughts you know i mean you're the train station that the thoughts run on so i love that i hope everyone else has taken some of that on board today and hopefully it's helped them yeah thank you yeah my favorite word is uh decide besides yes because everything is it because there's decision or reaction and like and often like i said with social media it social media is just a platform for reaction because you could easily have an opinion and write something and you're like you know something like i hate these i hate these and then someone goes no this this this and it's like a reaction and you're like oh and then all of a sudden there's arguing and it's like no we don't even know what we're arguing about um and so it's then going deciding to react and stuff like that so yeah yeah it's all decision definitely yeah that's probably a lot of that was oh that was a great way to like finish up the interview before we play our game thank you very much yeah let's finish off with some more fun yeah yeah absolutely let's do it so we have a legendary game here on raven up called the two minute hot seat so what i do is i ask you various questions and you just have to pick your preference so it's like dogs or cats singing or dancing that might be a hug okay yeah yeah right we have to answer as many questions in two minutes as possible and then when we finish we'll see where you sit on the leaderboard up against everyone else i was like trying to find lucky daring on here i'm like i'm sure he's played it but as i said i'm organizing an interview with them with the guy that plays levi and the girl that plays nicolette so maybe you could set the bar nice and high for them okay yeah yeah yeah alright let's go i'll see if i can find lockheed later on too i don't want to spend too much time staring at it all right let me get my stopwatch are you ready oh okay i'm ready all right here we go three two one facebook or instagram instagram iphone or samsung iphone apple or android apple rap or rock music rap rock rock pop-up country pop country um oh beach beetroot pool beach skiing or snowboarding snowboarding comedy or action comedy blondes brunettes oh brunettes salty sunglasses or hat suv or convertible suv mac or pc mac playstation or wii playstation singing or dancing dancing dogs or cats italian or chinese food oh italian summer or winter summer kim kardashian or scarlett johansson scar joe hansen johnny depp or will smith oh that's hard will smith smaller online shopping um more cinema home movie cinema ice cream or gelato gelato cake or cookies cake cookies or cookie dough cookie dough family or friends oh they're the same but uh [Music] family football or soccer football christmas or your birthday christmas night all day night bustle train train straight or curly hair curly i color blue or brown brown vampire or werewolf oh wealth texting or calling calling sydney or melbourne oh don't make me decide um i'm gonna say melbourne friday or saturday friday yeah we're out of time i gave you an extra 15 seconds because it's over zoom and you know there's a bit of a delay but okay how many questions do you think you answered in that time i don't know how many was that probably like 20 25 i don't know oh close you've answered 38 questions oh so all right that was so more than you thought yeah wow you are sitting number 49 on the rave it up leaderboards wow that's horrible but as a good thing you actually beat rob mills yes oh that's all right he only answered 34. so you're answering four more questions than him that makes you feel good yeah there's a few hard ones today maybe decide between sydney and melbourne i still haven't decided that i'm still i'm stuck on that i said melbourne but johnny depp and will smith you're like oh no yeah that's it now i'm like oh no but you're going to tip but will smith's like ever he's like everyone's dad like yeah you know what i mean like and friends and family and friends you're like well but they're both family yeah well that was a lot of fun next time when you're in sydney next let me know we'll do it in person all right absolutely done sounds good and you can really get to the top of the leaderboard yeah i'm getting 110. but richie and charlotte let's just hope they i don't know answer less i don't know charlotte will charles will be good she's quick richie i don't know about you know i'll keep richie updated i'll post it on social media and i'll tag you in it yeah yeah okay yeah we're winning we're unfortunately getting to the end of the interview ben it's gone so quickly i cannot get over it but as a closing statement and was probably the most important question knowing what you know now what would you tell your 14 year old self oh probably get just you're going to be all right i think it's i think it's just you stressed out a lot back then yeah i just was i feel like back then it was like that's what i had a lot of kind of mental stuff i think back then uh probably like just trust yourself um and believe in the future yeah i love that it could be an emotional question i know yeah that's tough because that's like yeah i don't know that that would be that would be just wow yeah i know i was like really shy at 14 so i always get you know the goosebumps and a bit emotional about what i would tell her yeah i think i was like i was very confident very confident kid but i um i was kind of faking it you know what i mean i was just i have no idea who no idea who i was no idea what i was meant to do where i fit you know i mean like most kind of teenagers yeah so it's it's just going yeah trust in the trust in the future that the future is going to happen yeah yeah i love that yeah we released a book last year and that has like all the quotes in it and i just love the question because everybody has a different answer and it really overlaps to talk about their childhood yeah that's that's epic i love that question yeah i forgot what logging said in it but i could find out for you and if our audience want to contact you or find out what you're up to in the future where should they go where should we go follow you just uh instagram at benjamin turland um that's kind of the only really thing i use the main hub yeah i don't really use any anything else so yeah and check him out on neighbours channel 10. you know watch it live you've got 10 play as well or my five if you're in the uk so oh i'm in the uk i love that let's reach everybody around the world everybody yeah thank you so much for coming on our show today ben i really appreciate your time and if you as i said if you're ever in sydney just let me know i'd love to meet you in person and have it on chat absolutely no thank you so much and uh thank you for the wonderful questions and the wonderful chat it's been nice welcome well i hope you all enjoyed today's interview if you 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