As his debut film Once Were Warriors showed, Lee Tamahori was a director of guts and flair

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Tamahori was the outstanding director of Along Came a Spider and Die Another Day – but his first film was his greatest work In 1994, the New Zealand film-maker Lee Tamahori made one of the biggest debuts of the decade, firing on all six cylinders with his gut-wrenching social-realist melodrama Once Were Warriors. The Mekes are a working-class Maori family in South Auckland: Temuera Morrison is the boozing, brawling, bragging alpha-male welfare claimant Jake, who comes home from drinking in the pub with his pathetic sycophant mates to terrorise and assault his wife Beth, played by Rena Owen, and their five children. He is entirely indifferent to the fate of his two elder sons who have drifted into gangland culture and crime, as well as his sensitive daughter Grace, who has talent as a writer. One son gets gang tattoos; the other is taken to a juvenile reformatory where he is at least tutored in the ways of Maori culture – the haka and the taiaha warrior spear – and learns dignity and s...
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Jeremy Pope: ‘An Oscar changes where the comma goes in your cheque’

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The Pose star, who plays a gay marine in the military drama The Inspection, discusses Black masculinity, quitting a studio film over his sexuality – and his bodybuilding pastor father

No one – other than Kaa the snake from The Jungle Book – has eyes like Jeremy Pope. Watch the 30-year-old actor in The Inspection, in which he plays a young gay marine, or in the glittery TV series Hollywood or Pose, both co-created by Ryan Murphy (who recently called Pope “the future”), and it’s hard to deny the hypnotic power of his peepers.

They stay hidden for most of our video call today: he keeps his phone flat on the desk in front of him, with the camera pointing upwards, providing an intimate view of his nostrils. At least his mellifluous voice is music to the ears, even if he does have a habit of referring to himself in the third person.

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