- Taika Waititi has dug and built a hangi in the backyard of his Auckland mansion.
- In a video on Instagram the director can be seek tending to a firepit while wearing a Russell Crowe T-shirt and gumboots.
- Waititi and wife Rita Ora purchased the Point Chevalier home in 2023 for $10.5 million.
Christmas has got off to a roaring start for Taika Waititi and pop star wife Rita Ora.
A video posted on social media shows the Academy Award-winning film-maker has taken catering into his own hand this year, building a roaring hangi in the backyard of his Point Chevalier mansion.
This morning Vas J Morgan, an English television personality and close friend of Ora, posted a video to his Instagram account that showed Waititi, shovel in hand, standing next to a dug-out pit and a wood pallet alight on a pile of stones.
The Hunt for the Wilderpeople director — wearing Red Band gumboots, a straw hat, red Wayfarer sunglasses and a T-shirt with a collage of Russell Crowe on it — appeared to be explaining the process of building a hangi to his guests. His words were inaudible as the video was soundtracked by the Ed Sheeran song I See Fire.
