-My next guest is a very talented actor
starring in the new movie, "The Dry,"
which opens in theaters and on demand May 21st.
Here he is, Eric Bana.
[ Cheers and applause ]
That's what I'm talking about, bud.
Hey! -Hi, Jimmy.
-It's great to see you, bud. I like your room.
This is the kind of fun thing about Zooms.
I get to see the room. I like --
-Well, I got to say, it's pretty unique,
just coming down a flight of stairs
instead of flying 24 hours to be on the show,
so this is pretty cool. [ Laughter ]
-You are -- What time is it now in Australia?
-It's about 7:30 in the morning. -Wow.
Thank you for doing our morning show, "The Tonight Show."
I appreciate that. -It's a pleasure.
-Is it 7:30 in the morning tomorrow for me, or is it today?
Who's living in the -- -No, it's tomorrow, mate.
You're time-traveling. It's tomorrow.
What day is it here? I've lost track.
But, yeah, we're ahead, mate. We're ahead on everything.
We're ahead on everything. Okay?
So just -- you have to remember we're ahead.
-What's the future like?
What do I have to look forward to?
-Well, I can tell you that right now, even though,
you know, we're still in the pandemic,
I'm able to go to the football every week and watch my team
play with 30,000 or 40,000 other people.
So I guess that is what the future looks like for you, also.
-Wow, that's fantastic. Can you also --
Just six random lottery numbers, just to give to us.
[ Laughter ] -Oh, no.
-All right, you don't want to do that.
What have you -- How is quarantine treating you?
Did you go a little crazy, or were you good at home?
-Do you know what? I'd like to think
that I represent a little bit of a balance for your audience.
And I'd like to make them feel better about themselves,
if I can share this, Jimmy.
I did nothing. [ Laughter ]
I did not bake any sourdough. [ Laughter ]
I did not paint. I did not start a podcast.
I did not plant a veggie garden. I did not upload a yoga video.
I did not do a yoga video. I did nothing.
-That's exactly right. [ Cheers and applause ]
That's what I -- See?
Wow. And now --
Now that you can do something, what are you doing?
-Well, besides going to the football,
I think the first thing I did was,
I was just dying to get out on one of my bikes.
So I went mountain biking with a buddy of mine.
And we had such a strict lockdown here where you couldn't
travel more than 2 or 3 miles from your home,
and we had a curfew, so when it broke,
and you could get out, it was kind of like crazy.
It was like a scene out of "Mad Max."
It was like, "I just need to burn some gasoline.
I just need to just burn --" It was crazy out there.
It was just like "Mad Max 2," you know?
-Just piles of bonfires.
-Whipping across the desert, yeah.
-I want to talk about your new movie, "The Dry."
Congrats. It's got amazing reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
I think it's like 95%.
It's a hit already in Australia. [ Applause ]
It is based off of the best-selling book.
-Yeah, so I read the book by Jane Harper and loved it.
And we just desperately wanted to turn this into, like,
a big cinematic version of the story, which we did.
And it was a huge hit here in Australia,
and we hope that American audiences enjoy it.
I tell you want, you can't fly to Australia right now,
but at the end of this film, you're gonna feel like
you spent a couple hours in Australia
in a little country town. That's a promise.
-So is it almost also like a travel movie,
is what you're saying?
-Well, our depiction of this fictitious town of Kiewarra
is so accurate, you are gonna feel like you were here.
It is a whodunnit, and I play a detective
who's returning home because of the funeral of his best friend.
And we get the impression straightaway
that he's not welcome.
And we find out that he's linked to a crime in the past.
So there's kind of like two crimes, one in the present,
one in the past that need to be solved.
And the audience will have some fun
trying to work out what happened.
-Yeah, and who sent you the note and all this stuff.
It's -- It's just insane.
I love stuff like this. I'm going to freak out.
And we got a trailer sent to us, so it's like you get a card
that says, like, "You've got to come to the funeral.
You lied, Luke lied." That's it.
-Yeah, and it's got this sense of --
-I'm in, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in! If I get that, I go,
"What? What, what?!" Wow, I'm in.
-Yeah, it has that sense of, like, having been forced
to go to a school reunion you don't want to.
'Cause I'm having to return to the country town
that I grew up in like 20 years ago
and try and uncover the truth of what occurred.
And Genevieve O'Reilly is in the film with me,
and she's incredible, as well, in this amazing cast.
But you will feel like you've spent a couple of hours
in Australia by the time you finish with this film.
-Well, congrats on the great reviews, buddy.
And I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Eric Bana in "The Dry."
Take a look at this.
-I was just closing up, dude. Do you want something?
-No, I'm okay. I'll just, um...
My dad used to work here when I was a kid,
so I was just reminiscing, you know?
-Falk. -Yeah -- Aaron.
-Dr. Leigh, Chris Leigh.
-Right.
-So you knew the Hadlers?
-Yeah, you know everyone in this job.
-Yeah, sometimes too well, I bet.
-[ Chuckles ]
-Hey, I was wondering, with, um --
with Luke, any obvious signs of distress?
With Karen? Bruising or anything?
-You know I can't tell you that.
Welcome home. -Thanks.
-Yeah! [ Cheers and applause ]
Come on!
Eric Bana, everybody! Check out "The Dry,"
in theaters and on demand this Friday.
Have the best day, bud! Thanks you so much
for coming on our show. -Thank you, mate.