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Rose Matafeo on her new romcom, Starstruck
As an unabashed fan of romcoms, it was perhaps inevitable that Rose Matafeo would write her own.
But while her breakout 2017 stand-up show, Sassy Best Friend, lamented the fact that she was probably too unconventional to be anything but a kooky sidekick in a Hollywood tale, in the BBC’s new Starstruck, she puts herself (or rather her alter ego) front and centre of the faltering love story between a flighty twentysomething and an major movie star.
Given the trend for autobiographical comedies, especially from stand-ups known for their no-filter honesty like Matafeo, the London-based New Zealander has to admit the plot is entirely fictional.
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Baby Done comedy explores reluctance at motherhood
Too many mothers are feeling pressure from social media to portray themselves as perfect, according to the actress starring as an ambivalent mum-to-be in Baby Done, a hit New Zealand comedy film.
Comedian Rose Matafeo, a London-based New Zealander who s also written BBC Three s millennial sitcom Starstruck, plays Zoe in the movie, produced by Jojo Rabbit s Taika Waititi.
Both Zoe and her partner Tim, played by Harry Potter star Matthew Lewis, are taken aback to find she is pregnant.
But while Tim s eager to be a dad, Zoe frets that her adventurous life has come to an end. So she draws up a bucket list to achieve before the baby arrives.