Hi I'm Iziyah, welcome to Iziyah's World. Today I'll be interviewing Oscar Kightley.
Oscar's known for Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street.
That was a good joke, that
was a good joke, well done.
My first question is who are you?
Iziyah I ask myself that
every day and the answer varies from time to time.
I think most of the time I'm a Samoan guy living in Auckland.
Is it true that
you're in the movie Moana?
Yes, I was lucky to be in that cast, I got to play
this fisherman. It was cool.
What other stuff have you done? got to
I got to work on some cool movies like Sione's Wedding and Hunt for the Wilder People
and I got to work on a cool cartoon called Brotown and heaps of other stuff.
Would you rather be named Oscar Kightley or Steve?
That's like the best question
anyone's asked me. I think- cause Steve's a cool name.
Steve's a good- that's a fantastic name, it's got a V two E's but I think
I'd have to say, just because I've had it for a little while now, I'd rather have
the name I have.
It's Snack Time.
Can I tell you something oscar? My vision is like looking through a straw so I want you
to try looking through the bottom of a straw.
Wow okay. Is that right?
Yes. I can only see out of one eye.
Oh my - stop it! Iziyah, that's crazy. This is how your vision is buddy?
Yep.
Whoa.
What does it feel like for you?
Just looking through a big long tunnel. I can
only see from here to that window over there.
Wow.
*Whistle*
Thank you, thank you.
What does it mean to be Samoan?
That's a big question. You know, I
think it's a lot of different answers for lots of different people
Yeah?
To me it just means I was born there and I'm shaped by looking Samoan and being
Samoan and acting Samoan.
I'm half Samoan. Are ya?
Hey have you been to Samoa?
No I'm not allowed to travel. At all?
Like in a plane. Will that ever change?
Hopefully. Ah, good.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
Taller.
What do you want to be when you
grow up? Um. I have two things that I want to be.
Probably I'll start this when I'm 13, I want to be in the Blind All Blacks.
Wow, yep
I can see that happening.
And a singer.
A singer? Wow.
Cause I'm good at singing. Are you?
I do have a
Facebook page that you can hear me. Yeah? What's is called?
Iziyah's Intrepid Journeys.
Wow okay.
It's not spelt how you think it's spelt. How is it spelt?
I Z I Y A H
Wow that's individual, that's a cool way of spelling it.
Were you ever bullied
when you were little?
Yeah probably, what about you?
All the time bra. Eh man! That sucks.
Absolutely everywhere. What happens to you?
You know, staring, everything. How does that make you feel?
Really bad. Yeah, you know when people do
that or say stuff it's more about them than you right?
When they do it I just
look at them, stare back even more.
What a cool way of dealing with it.
Do you have any other questions for me?
No I don't have any other questions for you, Iziyah.
I think it's been a wonderful conversation and I've already learnt so much about you
that I didn't even expect to learn, so thank you for sharing and for being
interested in asking me stuff as well.
(off camera) Go out the other way.
I'll try watch some of your movies. I have watch Moana, I didn't even know you
were in there.
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