The actor, who won a Toronto International Film Festival rising star award for her role in Lee Tamahori’s latest film, speaks to Ensemble.

Showing skin can be seen as two different acts. “One can be deemed as sinful and the other as ‘mana’ full.”

Poets once wrote their verse in “blood” when a monarch died. On the occasion of the Queen’s funeral, what has happened to the art of elegy?

Get ready for some awkward conversations Aotearoa…

“To anyone concerned about why I feel comfortable rejoicing, I ask you to please look up the practices of colonialism, incest or slavery.”