Karl Puschmann: Will you fall in love with Rose Matafeo s new romcom Starstruck?
29 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Starstruck official trailer. Video / BBC
OPINION:
Romcoms don t get a lot of love. A few have captured our collective heart, sure, but more often than not they re cloy, cheesy and mind-numbingly predictable. Two attractive people meet and don t get on. A short time later they get it on. An avoidable misunderstanding usually leads to a falling out before someone inevitably ends up running teary-eyed through the rain to a train station or an airport to profess their love thereby enabling our made-for-each-other soul mates to live happily every after.
Starstruck: Rose Matafeo s new sitcom hits New Zealand screens
28 Apr, 2021 01:30 AM
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Starstruck official trailer. Video / BBC
NZ Herald
Starstruck, an HBO Max and BBC co-production, will air on TV2 tonight at 9.30pm.
A first-look was released from the six-episode series, which will screen on TVNZ in New Zealand as well as HBO Max in America and BBC Three in the UK.
Starstruck, produced by Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and Avalon Television (Catastrophe), will follow 20-something Jessie (played by Matafeo), a millennial living in London, juggling two jobs and navigating the fallout from accidentally sleeping with a movie star.
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Starstruck with Rose Matafeo as Jessie, Emma Sidi as Kate
Picture: BBC/Avalon UK/Mark Johnson Fan of rom-coms? You ll love Starstruck from Rose Matafeo. She chats to Georgia Humphreys about fame, kissing scenes and Strictly Come Dancing. Rose Matafeo suddenly comes to what she calls a horrible realisation during our video call about her new sitcom. In Starstruck - which the Kiwi comedian wrote with Alice Snedden - she plays millennial Jessie, who finds herself in an awkward situation after accidentally sleeping with a film star called Tom (Nikesh Patel).
Fan of rom-coms? You’ll love Starstruck from Rose Matafeo. She chats to Georgia Humphreys about fame, kissing scenes and Strictly Come Dancing. Rose Matafeo suddenly comes to what she calls a “horrible” realisation during our video call about her new sitcom. In Starstruck – which the Kiwi comedian wrote with Alice Snedden – she plays millennial Jessie, who finds herself in an awkward situation after accidentally sleeping with a film star called Tom (Nikesh Patel). Discussing what it was like filming romantic scenes in the six-part series, the 29-year-old quips: “I was like, ‘I’m sorry Nikesh, I literally don’t know how to kiss’. We have been in a pandemic for a year, I am single, I have not kissed anyone.”