Chelsea Winstanley could be in Prague with her husband director, Taika Waititi. She could co-produce her latest film, Jojo Rabbit. Instead, she sits in a sun-drenched courtyard in Wellington
Winstanley leaves her daughters in Los Angeles and returns to New Zealand to complete a documentary about her idol, the pioneering Maori filmmaker, Merata Mita. 19659002] "I had to make this choice, if I did, I would not be there, I would not write shorts, I would not literally follow the path of my heart. Taika
"He told me that the other day," It was so arrogant of me to think that you would even follow my life. "It was really a great something to admit to him and it was so refreshing. "
Rejecting his head back, the 42-year-old man laughs, full lips framing sparkling white teeth. Winstanley laughs a lot during the two hours we spend together at Park Road Post while she's taking a break from scoring – improvement of color – work – on Merata.
It also reveals a lot about the dilemmas that women love about her face: being married to a successful man can be hard for the woman and mother of her children, especially when she has her own goals and projects underway … Merata is her "last hoorah" as a producer, before moving on to directing and writing movies.
Winstanley is hot now, is part of a movement She first worked with Waititi on the horror documentary "What We Do in the Shadows", but she does not want to hover behind the scenes while it is inside Wahine Toa, she wants to be ee for her own project She met Waititi in her twenties when she interviewed him for a documentary about Maori artists. They reconnected during the filming of Boy in 2010 and were married two years later.
In an email before meeting us, she tells me: "I'm fed up with women who live in the shadow of their partners, that's all." I did a film with him, I was a filmmaker before I met him and I keep doing my own thing. "
Despite being housed in Studio City in Los Angeles last May for Waititi's career, she was not the only filmmaker. is not interested in the glamor of Hollywood. Surprisingly down to earth, she is dressed in black jeans, a black T-shirt and a crimson jumper under a black leather jacket. Her small feet are locked in Blundstone boots with fluffy crimson socks protruding from the top. The red stuffed animals cover his jeans. Winstanley laughs and wipes it.
On her right hand, she wears two turquoise rings that she bought at a pawn shop in Santa Fe while she was a consultant for the Sundance Film Festival
How about d & # 39; 39, an alliance? They got married in a registration office in New York. Waititi turned to his wife, took out a shiny marker, then pulled a tape on his ring finger, then pulled out another one by himself. Mimicking the clerk, Winstanley puts an American accent: "She said," Are you okay?
The newlyweds walked around New York, hand in hand, glued to ink.