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Jojo Rabbit and Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi on Next Goal Wins and his quest to quit Hollywood
FirstpostTaika Waititi, himself, doesn’t know much about soccer and professes to know even less after making Next Goal Wins, which opens in theaters Friday Sports movies typically culminate, after stirring locker-room speeches, in a dramatic bid for athletic glory. Taika Waititi’s “Next Goal Wins” concerns the quest of a historically bad national soccer team, the 2011 American Samoa men’s squad, in their struggle to qualify for the FIFA World Cup after an infamous 31-0 drubbing against Australia. “Which makes no real sense because you go to the movies to escape.” The 48-year-old Māori filmmaker of 2019’s Oscar-winning “Jojo Rabbit” and 2022’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” met a reporter the morning after “Next Goal Wins” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Waititi, himself, doesn’t know much about soccer and professes to know even less after making “Next Goal Wins,” which opens in theaters Friday.
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