Ross Daniels - Ferret
Making GURU WAYNE has been an experience unlike any other. When creating comedy you get to spend lots of time saying stupid stuff, rolling around laughing and then you get to call it work. With GURU WAYNE, we "worked" harder than ever. Late night scripting sessions with Letitia would often end up in hysterical tears of laughter,… sometimes related to the writing, sometimes not. One night we were writing a scene with Spud and Ferret, (the two "unconventional" bikies who share a very special relationship), while working we'd often improvise dialogue, in particular me slipping into a piercing "Ferret" voice. On this occasion I must have done "Ferret" a little too well. Letita, (also the film's director), turned to me and said "You know you have to be Ferret." To create a character on the page and follow their journey to the big screen is nothing short of thrilling, especially when you end up playing one of the characters yourself…..even one like Ferret! My tip: be careful when creating a character, you may end up having to play him.

Kevin Harrington -Detective Johnson
The best thing about GURU WAYNE was working with one of the funniest casts I've seen assembled on an Aussie movie. And not just the main cast, the number of cameo performances by really good actors & comedians is a real coup. We were luck enough to have people like Tony Martin & Mathew Quatermain lend their talents. What Matt does in his one scene with a cigarette & a rubber glove will make your sides split… if not your eyes bulge. There was fabulous freedom given to us during the shoot to toss ideas in. In one scene I had the idea to throw the radio call "over" on the end of my line, to which Bob Franklin replied "You don't have to say over Johnson, I'm sitting right here". I finished up my next line with "over & out". It's stupid really, but the director liked it & it made the cut…. & it gets a big laugh every time! The shoot was full of such inspired silly ideas…. It was an incredibly jocular set. We literally had a ball making this film, & we gave it our all… even when directed to "give it a bit more cock" I did my best! (Letitia, the director, can have an unusual turn of phrase). In spite of the madness & mayhem I think it's the accidental spiritual discovery of the main character that gives this film the edge over it's "Dumb & Dumber" type counterparts. It has an unsentimental meaningfulness which most comedies don't even attempt, let alone get away with. I hope Todd MacDonald gets due credit for his part in that.