CLEMENT We didn’t. Scott Rudin saw the film and then started harassing us until we did it.



WAITITI I was in Hawaii, about to have my second kid. It’d be like three or four in the morning, the phone would ring, and it would be him.



CLEMENT [American producer voice] “Taika. We’ve got to do this show. When is this show happening? We’ve got to get it rolling. I know it can go.”



WAITITI When it’s like three or four in the morning, the only thing you can say to get rid of people is like: “Yeah, yeah, totally, just do it. O.K., we’re doing it. Bye.” And the show happened.



CLEMENT The thing is, in the movie, we were the bosses and we never had to take notes. Now we have to take notes from the network.



WAITITI Take notes on something you created and you know everything about.



CLEMENT And a lot of the notes are like, “In the movie … ” Oh, man. We know. We did the movie.

Did you ever consider reprising your movie roles in the TV show?



WAITITI They encouraged us to do it. “It’d be really cool if you guys were in the show, at least one of you.” Well, I’m not going to do it if he’s not going to do it. Neither of us really wanted to do it.

