Taika Waititi

Sexy

He's featured on the GQ site this week, OP

he's too cute and funny to be 100% straight. AND TOO STYLISH.

Taika Waititi sounds like a cocktail at a kitschy Polynesian restaurant.

Looks like hr might have a nice, smooth anus

i'm in love with him.

Love him. He was in a very quirky movie kind of like a New Zealand version of Napaoleon Dynomite called The Eagle And The Shark. I think its on Netflix. He starred , wrote and directed a wonderful movie called boy that I He also was in a movie called Boy that I highly recommend. He some kind of odd mixed background which makes him even more endearing one of his parents is of Jewish descent. So he is like a Jewish Maori, talk about a Unicorn. Very talented guy. Love that you made a thread on him OP New Zealand is one of those countries I find fascinating.

is he married? kids?

At the end of Boy he and the cast did this totally cool Haka ,which is a traditional Maori dance ala Michael Jacksons Thriller.

He is very talented. "Boys in the trees"? I love how OP reduces him to nothing more than a joke and sex object. Talented director reduced to his "fuckability". Oh and OP you really cant tell by his eyes....thats something is a bit "off" with him?

I've never seen any movie by him, so i can't comment on his talent. I started this thread because i find him irresistible. If he's good at what he does even better! You should relax, r10

Adorable.

[quote]is he married? kids?

Married with a daughter

There is an interview where he downs like three drinks during it, it was pretty entertaining.

urgh R13! well, at least his wife is pretty too.

Adorable.

I drank two of those at Beni Hana the other night.

Here OP.

He’s great in personality, but I’m not finding him good looking. LOVED the latest Thor though, hope to see much more of his work coming up.

In some photos he's a Greg Louganis lookalike.

DILF!

And sexy accent too!!

Agree, R20.

The new Thor movie is a lot of fun. Waititi is the perfect person to direct a Marvel film. He's quirky and fun.

He is adorable.

I loved him in What We Do In The Shadows. His character was adorable.

He's hot (his humor/personality helps) and he knows it. That's why he did so many interviews/promo for Thor, more than a director usually does.

I look up to him (like so many other newfound fans) cos of his KWIRKYY public persona, but also seems like a good leader/boss, with clear direction and vision as a director. Seems to work well with the Thor actors and they love him.

I've seen Ruffalo, Goldblum and Hemsworth praise him loads. Wonder what hiddleston thinks of Taika's style.

I thought he was Greg Louganis.

[quote]He's hot (his humor/personality helps) and he knows it. That's why he did so many interviews/promo for Thor, more than a director usually does.

Yeah he definitely knows he is appealing and enjoys doing media, not that I blame the guy.

He's yumm, lucky bitch his wife.

Loved his crazy character in "Boy". His NZ accent (with that rising inflection which makes every sentence sound like a question) is so funny.

I have to say, cate's character in thor was very drag queen-esque from the posing to the deeeeep voice.

I don't think his wig is very good

Waititi's best films are those that showcase the beauty and culture of New Zealand, such as Boy, the excellent The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, with Sam Neill, and the way off the wall What We Do in the Shadows. Like many middling, frustrated actors, he found that he was wanted behind the camera rather than in front of it. And like many directors, he uses the same actors - Rachel House, Cohen Holloway, Jermaine Clement and Rhys Darby - in his films. I haven't seen his "Hollywood" film, but I do hope that he will return home and continue to make films there.

He hangs with that crowd of NZ comics like Jermaine Clement and Rhys Darby. I find their humor naive but hilarious. If anyone has ever watched Flight of the Conchords on HBO-- same type of humor.

The Thor movie is overrated. Too long and bloated and trying too hard to be funny. Its no deadpool. And Cate Blanchett was wasted

Yes

i've never been so in love with a star since forever. really, i'm obsessing.

Any nudes?

Op gurl. We need to find a good discussion board to prattle on about this movie's cast. Ruffalo is my #1.

Reddit.com/r/marvelstudios is not my scene. Takes themselves too seriously.

I found 2 message boards, but content/activity is lacking: Themoviedb.org/movie/284053-thor-ragnarok/discuss

movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=37617&page=6

Wtf, you have Cate The Great and you fucking waste her like that? Especially when it was a one off thing you make sure to get as much as possible of an actor of such caliber. She had at most 15 minutes of screen time.

r41 yeah, that was odd. She shows up and then they put her on Asgard for her to walk around for 15 minutes while Thor and Loki are an another planet for 75% of the movie.

Is he an actor or a director? Is he white a Jasoned?

He's a Maori.

[quote]He's a Maori.

Half Maori (father), half Jewish (mum).

Maoris have fat uncut cocks. Don't know about Jews.

Half naked in 1990's, Waititi and Clement in the back.

[quote]Waititi and Clement in the back.

And in the foreground between them is Oscar-winner Bret McKenzie, the other half of Flight of the Conchords with Clement.

Anyway, Taika's a beautiful man and talented in a singular way. Honestly, I can't imagine how excited he was to infuse his cultural background with Thor: Ragnarok. From voicing Korg to casting the hilarious Rachel House as Jeff Goldblum's right hand woman. Those touches alone made Ragnarok one of Marvel's best.

What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople are already hailed as cult classics, and Thor's success can only help Waititi's career. Really excited for him. Couldn't have happened to a better artist.

[quote]Is he an actor or a director?

Both, and a writer as well.

Waititi also wrote the inital screenplay for Moana, which included Clement as the voice of Tamatoa the coconut crab and Rachel House as Moana's grandmother Tala.

Maori Men are kind of unusual and interesting.

Big brown eyes. Self-possessed. NOT intellectual or grasping. Soft, endearingly childlike and gentle but sometimes fly into rages. Lots of them became very fat in middle aged like most Polynesians.

The porn performer called "Rogan Richards" is so.

But what about their sizemeat Bob Lou R50? Also big, brown, soft, very fat, and a porn performer?

R50

I didn't touch their sizemeat

Dear lord R50, I googled Rogan Richards and found this.

He's hot as fuck!!!!!

I thought Rogan Richards was Indian (or part Indian).

^ No, he's Maori. He's got that endearingly innocent/dumb nature that I mentioned.

Attuned gaydar.

That is great r56, he is right, that movie was homoerotic as hell.

....

🤢 🤮 🤢

OP = Illiterate looser.

He is handsome, adorable in What We Do In The Shadows.

He's incredibly talented, incredibly sexy, and is probably going to be single handedly responsible for reviving the popularity of comedy films. He's also, most importantly, a VERY vocal gay ally. He's currently fighting with Disney to make multiple gay Marvel characters, and I don't mean like that bullshit in Endgame. Thor, Valkyrie, and Korg were all supposed to be bisexual and gay respectively in Thor Ragnarok but Disney shut it down and made them cut scenes showing this.

Maori guys are just hot in general. They got the soulful eyes and tan skin, they've got the firm jawline. They just look good. So the most attractive Pacific Islanders, and probably the most attractive Asians, possibly accepting Koreans, but there's something very raw and physical about Maori guys that just is so hot.

He's very hot, though it was unsettling to see him as Hitler in Jojo Rabbit, but in a weird sort of way he had a commanding presence which almost made you like him in that role for the first scene or two. (It's odd to say that, yes, it's Hitler, but you'd have to see the movie.)

I'm sick of his incessant mugging and "Aren't I so adorable???" posturing. He needs a punch in the face and a kick in the nads.

R64 Well, he's half Jew so he can make fun of Hitler all he wants.

Taika David Cohen

Holy shit, I thought R67 was joking.

He's almost too perfect--handsome, intelligent, funny, capable of making both serious art films and popular hits. Any day I expect to hear something horrible about him that will break my heart. For now though, I'm a fan.

R60 “Illiterate looser”? That’s a spectacular “oh dear”!

Guillermo del Toro giving Taika an award at the Toronto Film Festival. Taika just cannot deal with it.

Taika's fucking HOT. Love his 'stache.

He was attractive when he was younger, but so much more handsome now.

he looks eminently fuckable at R73

R58 that's a shame. I wonder what happened?? Is it because his career is taking off?

Seems like a drunk who is very full of themselves

R76 then he'll fit in just fine with the rest of us.

I went to university with him. Nice guy.

[quote]In some photos he's a Greg Louganis lookalike.

I came here to say the same thing!

He changed his name to Waititi r68 to get that Maori funding the New Zealand film commission loves to dole out.

R80 to be fair, Waititi is his father’s surname.

r80, yeah, Jane Campion did the same thing. BTW when he appeared in the New Zealand sitcom "The Strip" he was billed as Taika Cohen (Cohen being his mother's maiden name.) To get all that Jewish sitcom money I reckon.

Gorgeous and very, very hot. Possibly the only person who could persuade me to cheat on my partner. (Just KIDDING, of course!!!!! Whew!)

R82 What a weirdly tame scene for a New Zealand show.

Yea or nay?

How he got there:

MAJOR PEDO VIBES

The daughter was doing really well and then he made her shave it off.

Fuck him. I was the best New Zealand director until I got busted in Hollywood for prostituting in drag..

I directed Once Were Warriors, Dammit. But then I directed crap like Die Another Day, Next with Nicolas Cage, and that XXX sequel with ice cube and Vin Diesel that nobody wanted to see.

Lol. Imagine being the blockbuster director who lost it all because you couldn't contain your inner transvestite street hooker? I can't even feel sorry for the idiot

If Taika starts whoring himself out on street corners, I'm in.

Even if he's in a ladies curly wig and fishnets? Do you really want to hear Taika tell you to rip off his panties and fuck his "pussy"? Coz that's just ssssssick.

The first time I ever saw or heard of him was when he was on @midnight. He was hilarious and eye candy all at the same time. So happy to see his career take off.

Oh, it would take a lot more than that to turn me, R92. It would have to be of the magnitude of toast crumbs in his margarine fountain or finding out that he organized a [italic]liberate[/italic] rally; nothing short of that.

R92 That sounds hot. I wish he also scream "Fuck my hairy Kiwi pussy!" in a high falsetto when I go at it.

I wouldn't go so far R65, but he does seem to be trying WAY TOO HARD to be witty, clever and funny in R71's link, and it just makes him look like he thinks he needs to be 'on' all the time in order to be accepted.

He's hot, and definitely charismatic, but is losing his looks fast. Even with good lighting and photoshop, those heavy, droopy eyelids makes him look a LOT older than just 45.

He reminds me of a polynesian George Clooney, except more flaming.

Taika wrote the screenplay and directed the movie "Jojo Rabbit". He played Hitler in it as well, brilliantly comically. He won the Oscar for "Best Adapted Screenplay". The film was nominated for "Best Picture" and Scarlett Johansson was nominated for "Best Supporting Actress" as well. I'm surprised so many people haven't associated his name with this film. A lot of the people I know loved it. I really enjoyed it, as well.

And he was the ONLY good thing in that awkward, overrated film R98. It starts out hysterically, because of his wild, funny performance, but then gets serious, too serious IMO, and drags on and on and on...

Perhaps he deserved the Oscar for the script, but Best Picture? No way. It almost wasn't a film, but more like a play. Very wordy, more for the stage...

R99 - well plenty of people would disagree with your assessment. I thought it was a fine film, not without a few flaws.

How can you not get serious about Nazis and WW2? To not do so would be strange and dismissive of what was going on around them.

R100, tell that to Mel $$$$ Brooks.

I liked Jojo Rabbit.

Having said that, it did do a HUGE shift in tone about 3/5ths of the way through and while the acting is good, it didn't *quite* ace the landing.

But I was still entertained, and thought the way that Jojo was swept up as if Hitler was a comic book character had a lot of parallels to today.

And yes, Mr. Waititi is handsome in an offbeat way.

I just checked TW's Twitter feed and he mentions being in Sydney last week, which I hope means he's been living in Jacinda Ardern's intelligently managed New Zealand rather than Gavin Newsome's chaotically mismanaged L.A. Here's a tweet from Dec, 1. Make of it what you will:

That stain on my shoulder is either lipstick, blood, or shit. Probably all 3.

No stories but major pedo vibes.

r103 Gavin Newsom (no "e") is the governor of CA. He doesn't manage or mismanage LA. Eric Garcetti is the mayor of Los Angeles. Make of that what you will.

I saw him do a Q&A after a screening of Jojo Rabbit last year and he was TRASHED. And my friend is a critic and said he'd been wasted at another event. I think he might be a drunk

I think it's pretty obvious R106. He has this need to please, this need to be funny, witty, clever...never can just relax. UNLESS...he has a drink, or two, or three...

R193 Sydney is the largest city in Australia.

Australia and New Zealand are separate countries.

^^ Make that R103, but the observation still stands.

My partner knew Taika quite well in NZ and he has always been a bottomless pit of need, desperate for validation, attention, and escape. The difference: in NZ, he realised he was a big fish in the tiniest of ponds and he was also surrounded by people who had known him for years and weren't afraid to tell him to calm the fuck down.

Then he went to LA and (somehow, at his age) mistook classic hanger-on behaviour as genuine friendship and acceptance, and the rest is history. He speaks in a bizarre sing-songy voice that he never had before; he hangs out with Jeremy Renner and a bunch of twenty-somethings; his wife got sober and left him, etc., etc.

Despite all of that, he comes off more as sad — deeply sad — than as a jerk.

[quote]He changed his name to Waititi [R68] to get that Maori funding the New Zealand film commission loves to dole out.

What? Surnames have nothing to do with it, but you already know that. Why not just come out and say what you really want to say?

[quote]He has this need to please, this need to be funny, witty, clever...never can just relax.

He's always on like Robin Williams when he performed. The difference is Waiti is smug.

But, will he ever go full-frontal in a film? I wonder what a Maori/Jewish bush looks like...

Agreed R110. Within 3-4 years he'll be in rehab, if not sooner. Then all the confessional books, interviews, etc..

[quote]I think he might be a drunk

Oh dear. So that footage of him trashed out of his mind getting the Roger Ebert Award at TIFF last year wasn't an anomaly.

He's also been giving out major sad dumped ex-husband vibes. Get up, Taika, we love you!

[quote]He's also been giving out major sad dumped ex-husband vibes. Get up, Taika, we love you!

Dumped husband? Seems he moved on quite fast, last I heard, he's been fucking his much younger assistant. Typical showbiz behaviour.

I worked for the Film Commission, r111 - I know exactly how it works. We had people applying for funding using fake names just to get a foot in the door: 'Sue Parata' 'Unity Reihana' all with female Pasifika 'producers' attached. All bullshit of course, but the middle managers creamed themselves over that shit. I was the one checking that there were enough female/Maori/Pasifika scripts being fast tracked no matter the quality. The number of good scripts sent to the rubbish because they didn't fit the 'theme' was heartbreaking.

And I'm a (now cynical) Maori women from Porirua. So go fuck yourself.

I'm guessing the New Zealand Film Commission was swamped with comedy horror projects after "What We Do In The Shadows" took off internationally.

Terrible, terrible mockumentaries r118.

The other projects I can remember beat by beat.

Usually the protagonist is a Maori/Pasifika/Asian twenty-something in the city. After a tragedy they must go back to their small town/island and/or deal with a clash of cultures. There's the stern father/grandfather figure stuck in the old ways, the cousin who provides comedic value, but is going down a bad path, the old friend who never left the town and isn't book-learned, but teaches the protagonist something important about family and friendship, the all-knowing, magical grandma who passes on something of historical/cultural value - but only after the protagonist passes some sort of test...on and on and on.

It's porn for middle-class white people and I loathed it.

R119 FWIW that sounds like classic first film syndrome. Take away the Maori trappings it it could be any project out of Sundance.

Everything about him screams douchebag.

He's allegedly uncut, which is quite surprising given that he's jewish. Also Telluride poster please come back and tell us about your hook up with Taika!