You know those cool travel photos, though,
when they do a bird's eye view
and it's all, like, straight?
[Crewperson] There's a word used called knolling.
Knolling?
Well then I'm a knoller,
knolling is essential.
Hi, I'm Dacre Montgomery
and these are my essentials.
[mellow electronic music]
May I please have my first essential?
I feel like a total dick asking.
[crew laughing] I'm happy to get up,
I'm happy to get up and do it.
No, no. Thanks, buddy.
These are my blue pair.
They're so dirty I can hardly see,
it's just a haze.
And then these ones, they're kind of cool.
If you're wearing navy, beige.
And then these are like polarized,
but they have a little bit of a blue tint,
and I love the gold frame.
My girlfriend, she actually gave me these.
I literally will not spend money on sunglasses.
I just sit on them, I lose them,
I've lost so many pairs of sunnies.
I usually keep 'em in a case,
but in this instance they're just thrown in
'cause we had a late flight.
Like, this is really the essentials, I think, that you need.
A good comb.
I use the fine end on the sides,
'cause my hair's thicker on the sides,
so it gets it a bit more streamlined,
you know what I mean?
And then you use the wider ones on top
so you can get those nice parts through your hair.
These are really important, eye drops.
These keep your eyes hydrated.
After our late flight I had to put
a whole bucket of these in my eyes this morning to wake up.
I dare give away this secret,
this is the best cologne you will ever smell in your life.
It's Tom Ford Black Orchid.
It smells so woody and sweet,
it's kind of masculine and feminine at the same time,
it's the best unisex scent.
I've even got a little travel version
and then Aesop do really good, like unisex.
It just smells so, like, woody.
This one's far more, kind of, earthy,
than that one, that one's quite floral.
It's very hard to find something that you can match
that the oils of your skin don't kind of push out
and it rejects
and this is one of the few ones I find, for me, hangs.
So I can spray it on a jacket,
like a jacket that I'll never wash,
and it smells like that, you know what I mean?
I can tell you smelling good is essential.
I was given these as a gift a while ago,
these are the original ones
and I bough these ones,
which are like waterproof, sport kind of versions.
They're noise canceling.
They look like that, little green light,
then you just pop 'em in and they go do do do doo.
And then they say connected.
I already can't hear myself speaking,
they're so good.
We go surfing in Sydney
and these surfers wear out these earbuds,
like off the coast, out in the water
and they have like these earbuds in
and they have Apple Watches on.
And I'm like, are these guys listening to music?
I can't think of anything better.
I'm also not skilled enough of a surfer
to go surfing and not lose them yet.
Whereas these guys don't even get their hair wet,
I don't even know how they do it.
This is really good 'cause I travel a lot,
so I need to be able to, when I'm landing,
pop it open and pop open the SIM holder,
basically put in whatever country I'm in,
whatever SIM that that country equates to.
Surprisingly essential, my friend.
[Crewperson] Actually, I have some info for you.
Yeah?
[Crewperson] New iPhones have eSIM.
Soon this will not be essential, then.
Redundant.
[laughing]
So when I started traveling a few years ago
my sister, who is 12 years younger than me,
gave me two of these
and one was to keep beside her bed while I'm away traveling
and one was for me to take.
And I think it's hard to understand,
especially as a younger human,
why your brother is away,
so I think is just a nice, little token.
She actually only started
wanting to watch Stranger Things recently
and she's enjoying the show now.
When I was in drama school we had to do this animal week
where we had to be animals
and I did the most terrible impression of an owl,
I don't know why I was given an owl,
so there's probably a joke lying somewhere in this.
[Crewperson] Would you give us your owl impression
Mate, it's not gonna happen, sorry. [laughing]
I'm way too embarrassed.
I have, like, so many different caps.
I'm not a baseball fan,
so this is totally not representative of me,
I just love the beige.
I'm all about the beige.
I wear mostly, like the cheese kinda caps.
Do you know what I mean?
Like the old New York, newspaper boy style
with clips on the side.
And they're called cheese-cutter hats
because in Italy they used to put the knife down the side
and do the belt up over it.
I don't know why you'd put a knife that close to your head,
but that was what I heard.
So I usually wear those.
I would say a hat is essential.
So this is my passport holder.
My mum is Canadian, my dad's a Kiwi
and I was born in Australia,
so I keep my hefty collection in here.
[Crewperson] Which passport do you use the most?
It just depends.
I feel like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand,
you can pretty much go anywhere on the planet
and be welcomed with a smiling face.
I have this same necklace that I wear everywhere.
Actually ended up getting it into Stranger Things,
Billy wears it as well.
It's like a St. Christopher kind of necklace
that my girlfriend got me.
I don't know, do you guys know David Yurman?
They do the most amazing pieces.
This shipwreck collection,
it's like beautiful Aztec type jewelry.
A lot of his stuff has horses,
this is a horse.
I really like all the horse imagery on jewelry.
And kind of like in a tribute to mafiosos,
horse racing sort of stuff that you saw
going on in stuff like The Sopranos.
When we were shooting Stranger Things
we watched the whole, like all the seasons in Atlanta.
I heard they're remaking it.
[Crewperson] Would you be interested
in being part of the project?
Nah, man, there's just some things you shouldn't touch.
That's not essential.
Not essential.
