Taika Waititi revealed “SmartLess” Podcast (via business insider) When the two collaborated on an NBC ad in 2012, Donald Trump reportedly had a list of demands.of commercial, titled “Brotherhood of Man,” will air during the Super Bowl and combine characters from series such as “The Office,” “30 Rock,” and “Saturday Night Live” to create the network’s television show. advertised the slot. Waititi directed the ad, which also featured Donald Trump, then the face of NBC’s reality competition series “The Apprentice.”
“I directed Trumpy,” Waititi told the podcast host. “There was a paper with a list of demands. The camera had to be a certain height to make him look a little thinner.”
Waititi then joked, “Whatever Pantone had to represent on screen for Orange, I think it was here.”
The director added a more serious comment: “He had a make-up person who boosted his self-esteem and she would touch him up and say, ‘Oh, Mr. Trump, oh, Mr. Trump.'”
“The Apprentice,” which Trump hosted and executive produced, aired on NBC from 2004 to 2017. Waititi shot the ad in 2011, years before he rose to prominence in Hollywood as director of Thor: Ragnarok. At the time, the future Oscar winner was coming off New Zealand hits Eagle vs. Shark and Boy. His profile was greatly increased by “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” which were released after the NBC Super Bowl commercial. These projects brought him to the attention of Marvel, who cast him in Thor: Ragnarok. Director Waititi said on the SmartLess podcast that he has agreed to direct the Thor sequel for a fee.
“You know? I had no interest in being in those movies,” Waititi said. “It wasn’t in my plans for a career as a writer. But I was poor and had just had my second child, so I thought, ‘This is a great way to feed the kids. I thought, “This is an opportunity.”
“And ‘Thor’ was probably the least popular series, to be honest,” he continued. “I never read the ‘Thor’ comics when I was a kid. It was the one I picked up and thought, ‘Hmm.’ Then I looked into it and he read one Thor comic, or 18 pages, or however long it was. I was still confused by this character. ”
Waititi will direct two Thor movies at Marvel. 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok is widely considered one of the best Marvel movies, while 2022’s Thor: Love and Thunder is one of the most polarizing Marvel movies. It is one. .
