Confession Box: Rima Te Wiata
GLUTTONY
What can't you get enough of?
The sight of a freshly baked date scone with butter makes me keel over with longing; a box of cherries is easily eaten in one
sitting. Rationing them out is impossible. I can eat three boxes in two weeks. I am not actually that gluttonous but when it comes to date scones and cherries it's kind of very difficult.
Those are quite wholesome things to scoff.
Are they? They can really pack on the pounds, that's for sure.
WRATH
For you, wrath is a theatrical device. In real life, what makes you angry?
Myself. Not being able to accomplish something in rehearsal. Even today - I did quite well in rehearsal today but I made some boo-boos and that makes me do a myopic thing at the end of the day where I will sit there in a dazed tunnel going over everything I got wrong and ignoring the 90 per cent of it I got right. Sometimes mistakes can lead to really interesting things that you can incorporate. That doesn't happen that often …
Outside of acting, what makes you angry - politics, pop culture?
They don't make me so much angry as wanting to correct them. I'm not annoyed with Jacinda, for example, I think she is doing a brilliant job. I am really, really proud of our Prime Minister. I am really proud of what she has achieved and I don't know how she does it with a baby as well, it's extraordinary. No, I'm not angry with the political situation in New Zealand. I have a kind of disappointment with things overseas that are frustrating. You wish people would think the same way as you do. Whoever you disagree with truly does believe they are doing the right thing. It's one of the tragedies of being a human being.