As someone who really loved Hunt For The Wilderpeople, it’s really easy to be happy with the choice, as the funeral sequence is wickedly hilarious and weird.
That sermon at the funeral – I really wanted to do that, because I wanted to get it right.
Hunt For The Wilderpeople certainly would have been a much different movie had Taika Waititi played Uncle Hec instead of Sam Neill — but after seeing the finished product, it’s clear that the right choice was made.
And so I really wanted to make sure that like it was how it was in my head, particularly that speech and that character.