The show follows Jessie, a 28-year-old New Zealander down and out in London who, one New Year's Eve, goes home with a man she later realises is a famous actor, played by Nikesh Patel. The premise of Starstruck occurred to Matafeo during a flight from London to New Zealand. Unlike her characters, who are constantly on the brink of coming undone, Matafeo is self-assuredly in control.
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(In July, NZ On Air announced that Matafeo had been granted $472,010 to create a documentary series about Bob Marley’s 1979 concert in New Zealand “through the lens of her Rastafarian upbringing”, but in October, the project was in flux, and she preferred not to comment on its status.) So I turned into a nerd because my parents were not nerds.” adult contemporary middle-of-the-road stuff from the 60s and 70s. The way in which I rebelled against that was to listen to c. She stopped attending in her early teens, but feels the church gave her community and reinforced her natural tendency towards good behaviour.Īlso: “It actually made me not like reggae for so long. We were the goody-good kids because our dad was in an administrative role, so we had to sit at the front and pretend not to sleep,” says Matafeo. On the first Sunday of each month, her family attended a long service at the Twelve Tribes of Israel’s New Lynn headquarters in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, after which there was dancing and food. this is the most new-age thing” – here, she puts on a woo-woo voice – “I just want to figure out how much I want to be perceived, you know? Such a stoner,” she laughed, “but it’s true.” “There’s so much stuff about you in the ether, out there on the internet, and the most formative years of your life are just completely out there to be trawled through or examined,” she says. Understandable, then, that the newfound attention has prompted considerable reflection on how much of herself Matafeo feels comfortable presenting to the world. New Zealand audiences have long known Matafeo’s high-energy, high-anxiety comedy from her standup routines, or her television stints on Jono and Ben and Funny Girls.
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