FIENNES, WEAVING DREAM OF WALKABOUTS

If they weren't so busy making movies, Hugo Weaving and Joseph Fiennes would like nothing more than to go for a good long walk.

"I walk a lot. And I love it. And I love nature. One of my great loves of my childhood was to go walking with my dad," said Weaving. "But I've never actually, you know, I've never gone walkabout, like just walked out and disappeared for weeks, no."

Their new film, "Strangerland," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Nicole Kidman and Fiennes play the central couple, whose two children disappear into the Australian desert.

Weaving is the detective on the case.

"Something about the journey, too. It's not the destination," said Weaving about the appeal of the Australian tradition of walkabouts.

"Because often we go, well, I've got to get to this place, I've got to do this, I've got to, and we try and get there as little as we can, with as little fuss as we can, the idea of a walkabout is actually you're celebrating the journey itself in a way. Because it's an internal thing. You're dealing with something spiritual."

"There's also these great pilgrimages, you think of Lourdes through Europe. There's a big sense going right the way back to Chaucer there's this need to get out, to walk, to question yourself, your spirituality, just to be free of everything kind of material," added Fiennes.

Earlier in his career, Fiennes did take some time to explore other countries, but he dreams of doing much more in the years ahead.

"I went to India for a few months on my own. Been through Spain. I'm always thinking about... there's these great routes through various mountainous regions of Europe which are mapped, where you stay in lodges, I've always threatened to do that."

"There are great walks in England. South coast and Norfolk walks. Walk through Wessex," said Weaving, referencing a popular route highlighting locales featured in Thomas Hardy's novels.

"Strangerland" was seeking a distributor at Sundance.

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Park City, Utah, 24 Jan. 2015

1. SOUNDBITES (English) Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving, actors - on walking:

Weaving: "I walk a lot and I love it. And I love nature. One of my great loves of my childhood was to go walking with my dad. But I've never actually, you know, I've never gone walkabout, like just walked out and disappeared for weeks to find myself, no."

2. SOUNDBITES (English) Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving, actors - on the tradition of walkabouts:

Weaving: "There's a great history of writing about that sort of thing. Philosopher who walks and sorts through his and the world's problems, you know?"

Fiennes: "There's also these great pilgrimages, you think of Lourdes through Europe. There's a big sense going right the way back to Chaucer there's this need to get out, to walk, to question yourself, your spirituality, just to be free of everything kind of material."

Weaving: "Something about the journey, too. It's not the destination. Because often we go, well, I've got to get to this place, I've got to do this, I've got to, and we try and get there as quickly as we can, with as little fuss as we can. The idea of a walkabout is actually that you're celebrating the journey itself in a way because it's an internal thing. You're dealing with something spiritual."

Fiennes: "There's also a different clock, isn't there? We manifest this particular clock. We've got to go - this interview's got to be done now - and everything's sped up. There's kind of this need for speed, and I think to sort of dislocate yourself from that as you enter a sort of timelessness... Time is this man-made thing, but when you're out there you're subject to nature's time - that can be a really enhancing feeling."

3. SOUNDBITES (English) Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving, actors - on walks they'd like to take:

Fiennes: "I went to India for a few months on my own. Been through Spain. I'm always thinking about... there's these great routes through various mountainous regions of Europe which are mapped, where you stay in lodges, I've always threatened to do that."

Weaving: "There are great walks in England too you know? South coast and Norfolk walks."

Fiennes: "Yeah, really. And also connected a lot to literacy. So in the south, I mean Thomas Hardy... so you can really begin to kind of..."

Weaving: "Walk through Wessex."

Fiennes: "Exactly, walk through Wessex. And if you have books attributed to that landscape, it really imbues the theme. But my mom wrote a book on pilgrimage and I want to follow her route that started from Calais and ended up in Santiago de Compostela, which is sort of the pilgrimage final destination through Europe and it went through Lourdes and that's something I'd love to do. But it takes six months. So you've got to have energy and time!"

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4. Zoom in Fiennes and Weaving posing for portraits at the AP Sundance Lodge before the interview begins

5. Wide shot "Strangerland" cast, including Weaving, far left and Fiennes, second from left, posing for photographs at Sundance premiere

6. Tilt up Fiennes standing next to Weaving

7. Medium shot Weaving talking to reporter