Interview with “Next Goal Wins” Actors, Chris Alosio, Oscar Kightley, Uli Latukefu and David Fane

Full transcript of Interview with “Next Goal Wins” Actors, Chris Alosio, Oscar Kightley, Uli Latukefu and David Fane.

0:04KT: Friends and lovers, it's KT from the For Your Reference podcast and we're at the Next Goal Wins Sydney premiere.

0:21Guests: Yay!

0:25Guests: It's nice to finally meet you. I know, right?

0:28Guests: been keeping up with

0:29Guests: Oh, stop it. Stop it. Chris Alosio, the man, the myth, the legend. Thank you so much for your time and welcome to the For Your Reference podcast. Thanks, man. And I'll be keeping up with your work and the way that you put on for our people. Oh, I'm in awe of it. I love it.

0:45Guests: Stop it. Stop it. Um, New Hollywood, right? You're in there everywhere. You're in all of the films, Indie, all around the town. You want to talk to me? Ahhhh! Hey! Ha ha ha ha ha! How does it feel? Having more mainstream sort of coverage for Pasifika stories. Oh yeah man, that's always the goal man, like, you know, Uh, in the past it's always been Pasifika films and then mainstream and, you know, the, the goal for me coming in, especially these dudes, you know, like what they've done, you know, and, and all you want to do is keep pushing the quota and And we hope to be in films and not have to state that we're, you know, we are the Pacific Islanders in this film.

1:28Guests: We're just a part of the world and we're here to tell stories that need to be told.

1:36Guests: Hi, Mālō e lelei. Mālō e lelei, Oscar. Yes, Oscar Kightley. I just want to start off by saying how much love and respect I have for the decades of work that you've done. Not just in Aotearoa, in Australia and especially to the world. It means a lot to see you out here and having a laugh, man.

1:54Guests: Yeah, so much for saying that. I really appreciate that. It's so nice to Because, you know, as Pacific people, we're, we have our home nations, right? Tonga, Samoa, Fiji.

2:04KT: What the film?

2:05Guests: I'm from America, Tonga, you know? American Tonga. Um, but, exactly, but we're a diaspora, right? So we're spread all around the Pacific Rim, uh, from the States, Australia, New Zealand.

2:15Guests: So it's great to be here in Aussie, uh, celebrating a story from American Samoa.

2:20Guests: And how's it having Pasifika Samoan stories on a global stage? It's really good and especially in this context because it's a comedy. Normally when we get shown on film, it's really serious We're like noble savages or we're violent or we're angry Oh, speak on it! We don't got the time but we can go colonial if you want I mean sure we, sure we have those parts of ourselves too Um, but it's great just to do a specific comedy where we just get to be it's funny and real and

2:52Guests: a little bit silly.

2:58KT: Mālō, my brother. Mālō. Uli Latukefu for everyone in the house. Stand with Congratulations. New Hollywood, Australian screens all around the town. Congrats on all your success.

3:12KT: How does it feel to have

3:14KT: Pasifika,

3:15Guests: know, because we're from America Tonga, right? Right, right.

3:18KT: Um,

3:18Guests: How does it feel to be able to have on a global sort of stage and getting more of an understanding for global audiences of our stories? Yeah, I mean, it's refreshing.

3:26Guests: It's um,

3:28Guests: to say overdue, but the right time.

3:30Guests: Um, you we have such a large Australia and New

3:35Guests: Zealand.

3:37Guests: But it's still,

3:37Guests: I feel like the Pacific Islander presence in America and elsewhere is still kind of like finding its feet in terms of media and, and uh, film and television. So I think it's great. It's a great, it's a great time.

3:53KT: David Fane,

3:54KT: I just want to say

3:56KT: love and

3:56KT: respect to the decades of career that you've

3:59Guests: Oh, You mean a

4:00KT: a lot to a lot of us and I'm not just talking about

4:02KT: bro'Town,

4:03Guests: going to the pub and Yeah. Like, the impact that you've had, not just in

4:09KT: but

4:09KT: in Australia and

4:10KT: it really means a lot.

4:11KT: So, to be in this film I guess, Hollywood

4:16KT: and

4:17KT: And to have Pasifika stories. How does that feel?

4:20Guests: It feels really awesome. Anything that has acknowledgement of brown stories, acknowledgement of brown voices,

4:29Guests: that's a

4:31Guests: that's a bonus. To have a brown voice

4:36Guests: and people not going, what the hell are they talking about? It's really, really good.

4:41Guests: And

4:42Guests: big thanks has to

4:42Guests: go to Taika for never lying about what he said at the, uh, in his law school and when he said he wants to bring more brown stories. be about it, be about it. Yeah, yeah, if you're going to be about it, do it. And if you aren't going to be about it,

4:56Guests: it,

4:57Guests: go and flush

4:58Guests: yourself down the toilet.

5:02Guests: It's a great time to be alive and, you know, with Chris and all the others. All these young bucks coming through. Oh, me and Oscar can retire now. We can just fade off into the distance. Please don't. No, no, no. I'm so humbled speak to you today. I'm very thankful that you're here and I'm honoured and

5:23Guests: Yeah, Nice,

5:24Guests: you know, a bit weirded out.

5:26Guests: You're looking good, my friend. Oh, I bet you say that to all the people with spelling

5:34Guests: spelling bee badges on.