Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

This is the improbable story of The Wiggles, four friends who recorded a one-off album of children's music in the early  | dG1fX09WdnVyNHdqNzQ

Transcript

00:00 Interview take one.

00:01 Hi, where are the Wiggles?

00:08 They're like the Beatles for toddlers.

00:11 These tickets were harder than the stones and spring.

00:14 There's a reason for the colours.

00:17 There needs to be a psychology of why this hits.

00:20 We met at university doing a course in early childhood.

00:25 This connection with music and teaching is what became the Wiggles.

00:30 Booking agents said, "What am I going to do with four men and a dinosaur?"

00:33 Producers said, "Your videos make us cringe."

00:36 Oh, no! He's asleep!

00:38 I remember saying, "Let's just try it anyway."

00:41 All of a sudden, we were doing 10,000-seat arenas.

00:44 It was just...

00:45 Three more tomorrow.

00:48 We'll get there.

00:50 People didn't really talk about mental health much in the '90s.

00:54 If you're successful, what have you got to be sad about?

00:56 But it was as bad as it could be.

00:59 It's horrible to see your mates get affected like that.

01:02 Greg Page is suffering a mystery illness.

01:04 It means that my body doesn't pump enough blood around.

01:07 Now I'm going to hand over the yellow skivvy

01:10 to the new yellow Wiggle, Sam Moran.

01:12 It doesn't matter who's wearing the skivvy,

01:16 as long as we reflect our audience

01:18 and they're communicating with children.

01:20 We might be responsible for their first experience of music.

01:25 Can you sing and do the actions with us?

01:27 Yes.

01:28 -Love from here. -Love from here.

01:35 I so love you guys.

01:37 If you can't bring any sort of happy memory,

01:40 I'm really privileged to be able to do that.

01:42 This is my childhood computer.

01:44 Get ready to wiggle!

01:45 Come on!

01:47 Childhood is never history. Childhood is always with us.

01:50 CHILDHOOD IS ALWAYS WITH US

01:53 CHILDHOOD IS ALWAYS WITH US

01:56 (upbeat music)

01:59 [BLANK_AUDIO]