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Have you met Taika?
By: Sylwia Date: January 28, 2018, 10:31 am
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Hey,
I've just been wondering if you have met Taika. where it was and
what was your experience like.
I've met him once, years after becoming his fan and setting up
World of Taika website.
(tbc)
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Re: Have you met Taika?
By: Penguin022 Date: February 3, 2018, 3:04 pm
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I've never met him, although I wish to someday meet him. How'd
you end up getting the chance to meet him?
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Re: Have you met Taika?
By: Sylwia Date: February 4, 2018, 5:07 pm
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Sorry, I meant to continue the story in the opening post, but
run out of time.
I met Taika four years after starting the WOT website. Jemaine
and him came to London for the UK premiere of What We Do in the
Shadows at Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House in London on
20th August 2014.
I don't usually remember dates, but I documented the event and
posted some stuff on YouTube and Soundcloud so I've just popped
in there and checked.
My friends and I managed to get tickets to a limited space event
before the main screening. It was called "Behind The Screen:
Shadowmen Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement in Conversation".
I've uploaded the audio here:
HTML https://soundcloud.com/world-of-taika/film4-summer-screen-behind-the
We came a bit earlier, just in case they were already around so
we could stalk them, but they were successfully hiding somewhere
in the building giving the interviews and what not and only just
before the event they came down when we were already waiting in
the hall to enter the room for the event.
I remember sitting on a couch and spotting Taika as he was
taking a peek into the hall and noticing me and for a moment I
had the feeling he recognized me. We had never met before but we
exchanged a few messages on fb, so I was wondering if he
remembered me from my profile picture. My first thought was,
"wow, are all Kiwis so tall?". I had already met Jemaine and
Bret and remembered how surprised I was how big Bret was and Sam
and Luke from The Phoenix Foundation are tall guys as well.
I was with three friends. Two of them had already met Taika when
he was in London showing BOY a few years back. I still lived in
Poland back then and couldn't join them. After the Conversation,
we approached Taika together and he immediately remembered my
friends, hugged them and looked happy to see them and then said
something like "I'm happy to meet you, Sylwia" and hugged me as
well. So sweet! Yep, he knew me already. And because it was his
birthday that month, I gave him a present, a T-shirt. I've never
seen him wearing it, though, lol.
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width=500]
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before one more hug
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The reason why I bought him this is that when he was campaigning
to raise money to release BOY in the USA, he called his backers
Smurfs, so he was Papa Smurf and Threadless just released this
T-shirt. The tattoos simply sold it.
The organizers were pushing us out and it was time for them to
come out and introduce the film. Us and the rest of the public
came out to the courtyard and found some space to sit and soon
after the 'show' began.
Here is their introduction of the movie,
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S003yb1Pyh8
And here is a Q&A after the screening,
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZYbmgmkfc8
My life as a fan was complete. It was great to be in the same
room as Taika, have a word with him. Sure, I was nervous then,
but he was cool and easy-going, nice and polite. I used to be a
Jemainiac, but that night Taika completely won me over. There
were moments when I was getting annoyed at Jemaine that he
didn't let Taika say anything, but he was trying to outshine and
be funnier than him. You can have your own opinion when you
listen to the Conversation. I wish Taika said more, but he was
too polite to interrupt or block the second guest and his
friend.
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