The fact that I went back to New Zealand, a country where you are legally allowed to date, and I couldn’t manage to get one – I was like, I’m done with this country. Auckland is quite small, so you know everyone, and everyone in Auckland has a partner already, so there’s nobody to date. “I literally tried to get one date in five months in Auckland, and I couldn’t. “New Zealand is fantastic, but it’s fucking small. “London, and the opportunities for creating stuff, is exciting,” she says.
But she’s not done with the Big Smoke just yet. With New Zealand now COVID-free, and having elected a majority left-wing government (Matafeo is an ardent Green Party supporter), she says she is often tempted to return home. “And it’s also just fanfic, I guess, really?” And there was something really funny about it being New Zealanders, because we’re not sycophants,” she says. “They saw him drinking alone, and they said, ‘Oh my god, are you so-and-so?’ – and then hung out with him all night, took him to this bar in London. It was inspired in part by some of Matafeo’s Kiwi friends in London who bumped into a major Hollywood actor (who she doesn’t want to name) in a pub.
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That attitude is reflected in Starstruck, Matafeo’s upcoming BBC/HBO series, which follows a young woman in London who wakes up after a one night stand to discover she has slept with a movie star. “We are secretly impressed, but we never want to show it, so we’re not sycophantic about it.” “New Zealand has this funny attitude towards celebrities where we’re not so impressed,” she says. How do you understand my accent?” While her success has earned her the admiration and/or friendship of mainstream comedy figures like Nish Kumar and Ed Gamble – not to mention New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern – Matafeo remains unwaveringly humble, an instantly recognisable trait to anyone who’s ever known a Kiwi. She hears from Americans who have watched her HBO special and loved it, and her reaction is: “Wow, that’s so weird. Such a comment is trademark Rose Matafeo: she’s been performing comedy since she was 15, but it was only after her Edinburgh win that she felt she could call herself a comedian. Baby Done, however, marks her first leading role in a feature film. Following her historic Edinburgh win (Matafeo was the first woman of colour to take home the award), she went on to appear on the ninth season of popular panel show Taskmaster, release Horndog as an HBO special, and write and star in an upcoming scripted comedy for the BBC. A winner of the Edinburgh Fringe Award in 2018 for her comedy show Horndog, the New Zealand-Samoan comedian is better known for her witty, self-deprecating, pop-culture-obsessed stand-up than dramatic acting roles. If 2020 was a bad year for Matafeo, then it balances out the several very good ones that came before. I’m still me, and the world has just changed’. “It’s like when you go through a bad breakup, and you think, ‘I cannot live through that, I will not be alive at the end of this process.’ But then you’re like, ‘Oh, no, I am, after a year of it. “It’s not necessarily a bad thing,” she continues. “That is particularly relatable in the context that we’re in right now – we did have to kind of grieve a certain way of life.Īt the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
“Before the global pandemic, what I think a lot of people connected to with this character, particularly if they’re considering starting a family, is that it’s like the death of a certain life, and you do grieve it,” says Matafeo, speaking over Zoom from her London flat. In a now all-too-relatable spiral, Zoe feels as though she hasn’t been taking advantage of her freedom while she has it. Produced by Taika Waititi, the movie follows Zoe – a young woman who attempts to rush through her dreams upon discovering she is pregnant. Credit: Vertigo Releasingįor now, though, fans of the rising New Zealand-born comic will have to make do with Baby Done, the two actors’ charming indie film that hits UK screens today. Rose Matafeo and Matthew Lewis play partners who discover they are about to become parents. But I also got the autograph of the voice of Jimmy Neutron that year as well, so hopefully I’ll be working with them in a couple years time.” “I remember going to that and being like: ‘Oh my god, let’s go get his autograph.’ It was a very funny, surreal experience to actually work with him. Read more: Baby Done review: Taika Waititi-produced Kiwi comedy about parenthood.In 2004, Lewis travelled to New Zealand for a pop culture convention, and Matafeo, then a “nerdy 15-year-old girl,” queued for hours to meet him. When comedian Rose Matafeo met Matthew Lewis on the set of Baby Done, she had to explain to the former Harry Potter star that they’d actually met before, in slightly more awkward circumstances.
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