064 – Merata w/ Cliff Curtis

Van Lathan's The Red Pill

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🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Van sits down with New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis, known for his diverse filmography including roles in Training Day and Avatar. They talk about Cliff’s powerful documentary about pioneering Maori filmmaker, Merata Mita. They also touch on Cliff’s experience as an “ethnically ambiguous” actor in Hollywood and the hardships that indigenous people face all around the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Van Lafe, The Red Pill, where we give you the brutal reality of truth.
0:09.0	Today's guest, Cliff Curtis.
0:12.0	He is... Yes, Cliff Curtis.
0:12.5	He is an actor from New Zealand, a kiwi actor,
0:17.4	that you've seen, you've seen Cliff Curtis
0:19.4	in many different things.
0:21.8	He has been in such movies as Training Day, which he was
0:26.7	great training day. You guys remember from Training Day. In Training Day he
0:30.0	was Smiley. Remember when Ethan Hawk, Ethan Hawk saved his cousin and then Smiley. Ethan Hawk.
0:33.0	Ethan Hawk saved his cousin and then Smiley let him go.
0:35.0	Smiley gets love from all the homeboys.
0:38.0	Y'all know him, man.
0:39.0	He played Pablo Escobar and Blow.
0:41.0	The guy has a fantastic career going on right now.
0:44.0	The Liffry Die Hard, 10,000 BC, the last airbender. Fast and Furious hops and shot, we talk
0:50.6	a little bit about that. He's gonna play The Rocks. Brother Annette, and he's going to play the rocks brother and he's an avatar two and three.
0:55.7	Now he has his own career going which is great but he's here to talk about a fantastic
1:00.3	documentary that he produced along with the people over at Aray.
1:06.7	Shout out to Avidu Vernet and Tling over at Aray about Mirita. Mira Meena, she's a, she was, she has to rest and peace.
1:17.0	An incredibly important filmmaker down in New Zealand where Cliff Curtis is from. They are from the same
1:24.6	indigenous tribe. We are going to talk about the struggles of indigenous
1:29.0	people around the world. Now this is something that we don't really delve
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