We chat w/Rose_Matafeo about 'Starstruck' Season 2, how 'Magic Mike Live' became part of the show, shooting the big lake scene, and why 'Succession' should hire her.
Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Season 2 of Starstruck.From creator/writer/executive producer Rose Matafeo, the second season of the six-episode half-hour HBO Max original series Starstruck continues telling the story of Jessie , who has decided to change her plan of returning home to New Zealand and instead stays in London, and her relationship with Tom , who complicates her life by the fact that he’s a famous film star.
MATAFEO: I follow some of the dancers on Instagram. One of them is from New Zealand. I’m very proud of him. He’s the one dancing on someone nearby me, in the episode. MATAFEO: I don’t know. I have no clue, at this point. We were in such a unique position with the first series and the second series where, because of COVID, it weirdly led to this thing where we did the second series right on the back of the first one. [The first series] came out the day we started a shoot in the second series. People were like, “Oh, they magically just had a second series.” No, I have not been working on a third series while we’ve been editing the second series.
MATAFEO: It was fun to write, and it’s fun to watch, but it was probably the hardest one to shoot. That party bus was a nightmare because it’s so loud and it’s tiny. None of us are movie stars. We don’t have movie star budgets. It’s TV. It was cramped. We had to set up a particular rig, to even be able to even fit into that party bus. There are only a certain amount of angles that you can shoot in a party bus as well. It was a real challenge to figure out how to shoot it.
MATAFEO: This comes from a place of people, with me and Alice and Karen [Maine], who directed the first series, who really have a lot of love for romantic comedies. We know our shit when it comes to these films. I was in a film, called Baby Done, in 2019, which is kind of rom-com, but kind of not. I did a standup show where I was like, “I’ll never get cast as a lead in a rom-com. Look at my curly hair, and I wear glasses. It’s never gonna happen for me.
MATAFEO: They’re both fun and chaotic. My mom’s a teacher, and sometimes I have to go full teacher mode. I was also always the goodie good in the class and I’ll be like, “Sorry, can we just keep it down? We’re trying to do something over here.” Getting that group together for episode six was sometimes hard to wrangle. That’s the price you pay for a cast with an ensemble that has a lot of chemistry and who get on.
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