As a rule, WIRED doesn't profile actors. Too boring, for the most part. But when an actor is also a screenwriter, and a director, and a fashionista, and a comedian, and the guy who saved Marvel's Thor franchise from utter forgettableness and conventionality? We make exceptions. So that's how Taika Waititi ended up on our latest cover, in a profile by Jennifer Kahn that pierces through to the weird, wonderful core of his motivations and talents. The piece is not, we should say, really about Thor—that's not what makes Waititi WIRED. What makes him WIRED is everything else, from his style and uncategorizable comedy to his endless, and perplexing, self-contradictions. (The main tension of his life and art, Kahn suggests, is "how to be childlike without being childish.") As one of the only true auteurs in Hollywood, Waititi puts out movie after movie, and show after show, that are once instantly him and, in every case, shockingly new: Flight of the Conchords, What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Jojo Rabbit, Our Flag Means Death. Watch it all. Read the profile. And sure, see the new Thor. It comes out next month. Jason Kehe | Senior Editor |
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