Clip Bananas In Pajamas: Clip 1. Trailer Bananas In Pajamas: Pajama Party. Bananas In Pajamas: Treasure Hunt. Photos Top cast Edit. Karina Kelly Narrator as Narrator. Nicholas Opolski B2 as B2. Taylor Owyns Lulu as Lulu. Jeremy Scrivener Morgan as Morgan. Kenneth Radley B1 as B1. Mary-Ann Henshaw Amy as Amy. Emma De Vries Tolstoy as Tolstoy …. Michael James B1 as B1.
Benjamin Blaylock B2 as B2. Duncan Wass B1 as B1. Sandie Lillingston Amy as Amy. David Collins Thomasina as Thomasina. More like this. That was Fast-forward to today and the show is celebrating its 25th birthday and has become a cultural phenomenon. The way Ms Harris tells the story, the team behind the original series was like one big family.
In fact, two of the bears in the show — Amy and Morgan — were named after her own children, and the third, Lulu, was the name of Amy's best friend at the time. Meanwhile, Rat-in-a-Hat, who was introduced in series two, was an idea one of the cameramen came up with one day.
Once that basic philosophy was settled it was then a matter of bringing the story to life. The song by Carey Blyton about bananas in pyjamas was already being played on Playschool and his storybook also offered inspiration — although with more sinister-looking bananas. Then it was time to bring that vision to a TV audience, and that meant one thing: finding B1 and B2.
Australians Kenneth Radley and Nicholas Opolski are classically trained actors who went to the prestigious NIDA together in the s, and they didn't need a great deal of convincing to become the original B1 and B2.
I said, OK I'd love to do it," Radley recalls. Radley B1 looks back on his 10 years in the suit with great fondness and said it was a privilege to be able to work alongside Opolski B2 , calling him a "gentleman and a fine human being". Opolski echoed those sentiments, telling ABC Radio: "It was a wonderful journey to share with my friend here. Being in those original suits, on the other hand, wasn't always such a pleasure.
Still, Ms Harris credits a large part of the show's appeal to the chemistry between the two bananas and their acting ability, even from within the suits. After nearly two decades of having actors in suits, the show was revamped as an animation series in However, one element of the show posed an even bigger problem: the fact that two seemingly male bananas shared a bedroom.
They were both boys and they slept in the same room," she says. People were a bit more concerned about that than they are now. I had to actually justify it, which I could quite easily because they were twin boys.
Bananas in Pajamas was eventually sold to over countries and dubbed into dozens of languages. Harris knew the characters had transcended mere curiosity the first time they made a live appearance outside the studio at an event with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Battling heavy rain at a park, around , people, mostly parents and children, showered the Bananas with their excitement as soon as they took the stage.
Both he and Opolski knew each other years before taking on the roles as students at The National Institute of Dramatic Arts, the premier acting school in Australia.
To ripen into their roles, both Bananas had to learn about the physicality required to make the suits live. Bear, who taught us how to cry in a suit. The suits had a tiny microphone inside the head to record their dialogue, but since the quality was very low, they would rerecord their lines in a studio later. With no lip-synching issues it was an easy fix. The poor crew members were the real heroes. Today he finds ironic beauty in the fact that his face is not visible on his most recognizable credit as an actor.
When you're dressed as a large piece of fruit, you can't take yourself too seriously, and that means you have a lot more fun in life. Being a Banana was an opportunity to entertain and share happiness far and wide, even with children fighting terminal illnesses whose only dream was to meet B1 and B2.
Their impact was palpable in the tiny faces of young fans. Radley holds back tears when discussing those meetings, which he considers an honor. At their most outrageous popularity peak, the Bananas were invited to the White House Easter Egg Roll under Bill Clinton, they visited London, inspired fashion designers, got their portrait painted by artist Evert Ploeg, and in a giant inflatable Banana float sailed Sydney Harbor as a part of the Australia Day celebrations.
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