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No. 2
Film (Trailer, Excerpts, and Extras) – 2006
... assured handling and an appealing cast make this a deserving crowd-pleaser.
– Dennis Harvey in a Variety review of No. 2, 22 January 2006
[Toa] Fraser knows Roskill like Spike Lee knows Brooklyn.
– Philip Matthews in a Listener review of No. 2, 11 February 2006
We got the guitar out and had a party and Toa [Fraser] said 'Everybody sing some songs'. That's not strange to us. European, Māori, Fijian, Samoan, whatever — there's so much crossover between our cultures; it's applicable to all of us.
– Actor Pio Terei on a cast party held during rehearsals for No. 2, The NZ Herald, 20 January 2006
I wrote the play in order to write the film, I guess, and I wrote the film in order to direct it myself.
– Toa Fraser on No. 2, Take magazine, issue 42, April 2006
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