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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. ....
news 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. ....