Hit Rom-Com Creator Shares Guilt For Adding To Genre She Thinks “Is Maybe Bad”
deadline.comKiwi entertainer Rose Matafeo may have struck gold with her TV rom-com Starstruck, but she has shared her fears of contributing to a genre she has mixed thoughts about.
Ahead of the third season’s debut, Matafeo told the UK’s Guardian newspaper: “Maybe through Starstruck I’ve added to the canon of a genre that I do have a lot of respect for, but I think is maybe bad?
One that’s limiting for women in its presentation of romantic love and fulfilment… So maybe I feel a massive sense of guilt for making a romcom.” Starstruck, which Matafeo co-writes and stars in, sees her character Jessie, an ordinary cinema worker in London, meet and fall for Tom (played by Nikesh Patel), a genial young man whom she doesn’t realise at first is a huge movie star.
Romance, chaos and confusion all happily ensue, with the show’s first two seasons proving a hit in the UK, where it was made, and screened in more than 90 countries to date.
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