Taika Waititi’s ex-wife Chelsea Winstanley has given a candid interview about the breakup of their marriage.
Chelsea is a successful producer, writer and director of Māori films.She is also the star of various Disney movies translated In Te Reo Māori.
She met Taika, was interviewed I featured him in a documentary. The two married in 2011 and have two daughters. guessed The couple worked together for a while, with Chelsea serving as a producer. jojo rabbit and What we do in the shadows.
on podcast Anika Moa is personal.Chelsea was asked about ‘paralysis’ [Māori for “work”] He had to take a “backseat” while she “did his job” while she held Taika’s children.
“To be really, brutally honest, I probably started feeling a little resentful at that moment,” Chelsea replied. Even your own. When that little seed of anger starts to form, I really want to be honest and acknowledge my participation in the unraveling of our relationship. ”
Talking about the first time he received a directing job at a major studio, Taika said that in 2017, Thor: Ragnarokshe said, “I didn’t want to be a dutiful wife and race all the way to the Gold Coast.” [in Australia]where he was making sawThen, after sitting in my apartment all day twiddling my thumbs, I take the kids and head outside. ”
“A lot of other wives do it, and I’ll dutifully do it in other departments, but I couldn’t think of anything worse than this,” Chelsea continued. “That means we have to take the baby out of Kohanga Reo [Māori-speaking kindergarten]. And that was really important to me. So I said, “That’s not my intention, but let’s go visit.” ”
“That’s probably where things started to fall apart, because I’ve never been that pandering, submissive, knee-jerk, knee-jerk person.” whatever you want. “But there was someone else,” she added, apparently confirming her cheating speculation, “I didn’t find out about it until years later.”
Chelsea acknowledged her “stubbornness” but said she was ultimately “glad” she chose that path, which included making a movie. Badass and documentary Melata: How mothers liberated themselves from screen colonization: “That’s true for me. Those projects and that kind of storytelling, that’s who I am. It has nothing to do with what was going on.”
“I needed to focus on myself and reaffirm that I can do it. I don’t need anyone else to be able to do it, be happy, and be happy.” [in control]or do what I want to do in a space I love,” Chelsea continued.
The filmmaker added, “It’s great to have people supporting you, or just saying, ‘You got this,’ or ‘I’m so proud of you.’ I’m just happy,” he recalled. “But that was never the case. I had no interest in what I wanted to do. So that’s kind of the big deal.”
“I think I married someone who really had his own buzz and tunnel vision,” she added. “We’re all on our own paths. So to get through each day, I tell myself I’m not responsible for anyone else’s actions. I’m responsible for my reactions.” It’s just how to do it.”
“Over time, you actually get mad at yourself for not believing that you had a right to be better,” she says, adding how her childhood trauma affected the situation. pointed out. Chelsea explained that after talking with a nearly 70-year-old woman about what she had endured in her life, she realized that she was putting up with unhealthy situations because she thought she was “holding on forever.” [she] I was putting it in [herself] Although it wasn’t as bad as my childhood rape, [she] I can handle it. ”
You can listen to the full interview here.