Joel Creasey lifts lid on ‘icky’ interview with Hollywood star

The Aussie comedian and radio host has named and shamed the A-list movie actor who left him wildly unimpressed.

Joel Creasey. (AAP Image/David Crosling)

Joel Creasey has lifted the lid on one of his least favourite celebrity interactions of all time, naming and shaming a well-known Hollywood actor.

In a new episode of news.com.au’s podcast I’ve Got News For You, the comedian and Nova radio host revealed that his interview with Christoph Waltz during an LA press junket for Horrible Bosses 2 was downright “icky”.

Creasey explained that it had gotten off to an ominous start when he saw people coming out of the Christoph Waltz room looking “a bit shaken” before his own allocated slot.

“To be fair, I’m sure he was tired, he’d probably spoken to like 100 (members of the) world press in a row, and he did not like me,” he said.

“I said: ‘In Horrible Bosses 2, it must have been so much fun going to work, you’ve got Jen Aniston and that whole crew’, and he goes, like, ‘How dare you? … This is work. It’s not like arts and crafts class’.

“Which I was like, that doesn’t really make sense. And also I love arts and crafts so it was a really icky interaction.”

Joel Creasey. Picture: AAP Image/David Crosling

Creasey, whose comedy special Joel Creasey: Queen of the Outback just launched on Prime Video, also told IGNFY host Andrew about being on the set of Neighbours the day the cast found out the show was being cancelled last year.

The Aussie star was appearing as Mick Allsopp on the long-running soap in March last year when the news came through that its production company Fremantle Media had failed to find a new broadcast partner following a UK network’s decision to withdraw its involvement.

“When we found out the show had been axed, I was there on set filming one of my scenes, and (the cast and crew) were crying, and I felt like I was at someone’s funeral,” Creasey told IGNFY.

“But they’re so professional, they’re pulling it together during their scenes.”

Waltz with Chris Pine in a scene from Horrible Bosses 2.

However, that wasn’t the only significant – and unfortunate – event from the set that day.

Creasey admitted that he’d still been suffering from a “funny tummy” in the wake of his bout of Covid-19, and “ran to the bathroom” during a 15-minute break in filming.

“We all know how mics work, right, I’m fully mic’d up – and we know that when you want to go to the bathroom or b*tch about a colleague, you pull the plug out of the pack.

“I don’t know what happened that day – I go to the bathroom, I walk out, and the whole crew and cast are staring at me, and the sound guy came over to me and goes, ‘Oh mate, if you want to go to the dunny, let me know next time and I’ll turn your mic off’.

“So yeah, on the day these people lost their livelihoods, I took a big Covid **** in their ears. Like, could I have made it any worse for them?”

At least one portion of the cast and crew’s memories from that terrible day was soon made better: just a few months later, Neighbours was revived by Amazon Freevee.