Given that he (well Jermaine Clement and him) use the phrase bi-racial,
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I'd have expected 'part-Maori' or 'half-Maori' unless he explicitly self-described as Maori. (It's also how I describe my similarly mixed background as a Kiwi).
I've not yet figured out where that horizontal bar is on my…

A proper accent not only has how the words sound, but more importantly the phrasing. Matthew Goode mentioned this when he was playing American against Colin Firth in A Single Man: the hard thing was to try and keep the American phrasing and not slip into English. I suspect the phrasing is one of the things a dialect…

This is very late to the game, but Satantango has just been playing in cinemas in the UK. I'm glad I had the chance to watch it in a 'distraction Faraday cage' of a cinema, where it really does envelop you with a hypnotic slow rhythm.
Apparently the cat scene was staged and a vet was to hand (I'd say the cat must have…

Back for Good was a top 20 hit, but in a one-hit MOR wonder kinda way (and don't forget it was Gary Barlow doing all the singing!). Don't think it really helped Robbie that much.

Robbie *was* big in the colonies—NZ, Australia—just not America. I suspect you need a common culture for that one: while Take That were never massive in NZ (so Robbie really did become a star in his own right), the bad boy with wit to spare act went over well, perhaps less so than it would have in the 90s USA which…

Is there any US actor that is purported to have been nice at high school? Similar things have been said about Jason Segel as what you've mentioned above…. Come to think, of it, the Kiwi girls who went to high school with Courtney Love called her a 'whiney American chick' so more general entertainment industry?
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