Film director Taika Waititi, best known for Marvel hit Thor Ragnarok and vampire comedy What We Do In The Shadows has decried New Zealand as "a racist place" in a new interview with Dazed and Confused magazine.
Mr Waititi, the son of a Maori father and a Jewish-European mother, described the type of racism he encounters in his homeland:
"People just flat-out refuse to pronounce Maori names properly. There's still profiling when it comes to Polynesians. It's not even a colour thing - like, 'Oh, there's a black person.' It's, 'If you're Poly then you're getting profiled.'"
The interview, with Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson, ranged across a number of subjects but centrered on their shared New Zealand heritage.
