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Buzz Feed
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Celebrities Share Favorite Foods
To celebrate APAHM, we sat down with nine Pacific Islander celebs to chat about their careers and cultures for BuzzFeed's Voices of the Pacific series. Naturally, we had to ask about their favorite food from their culture! Here's what they had to say: Luciane Buchanan (Tongan) "Oh my god, I'm really missing Tongan food right now. My family are constantly like, 'Oh, we're at this function,' and sending me photos. Ota ika [raw fish in coconut cream] is amazing. I love it. I'm in Mexico City right now, so I'm just eating ceviche, like, 'It's almost the same.' I love tapioca. I love lu sipi [lamb, onion, and coconut cream wrapped in taro leaves]. It's funny, I was vegan for two years [laughs] my family would make me a vegan version. But now I'm back to eating meat, I'm fully back into that. My auntie makes this amazing Fijian curry. It's bomb. It's my favorite." Rachel House (Māori) "Green pāua [abalone] and kina [sea urchin]. Equal. I didn't like kina that much when I was growing up, and then in the last 20 years, it's become an obsession." Drew Afualo (Samoan) "Fa'i [green bananas]. I would say I'm a fa'i lover. Now, do I need all of the fixings with it? No, I like my fa'i plain, and I know that's so controversial; I don't care. Also palusami [coconut cream wrapped in taro leaves]. My two faves." Sasha Colby (Native Hawaiian) "My go-to traditional Hawaiian plate would be lau lau, kalua pig, some rice, lomi salmon, and I'm good. Ooh and some poi." Oscar Kightley (Samoan) "Well, this isn't actually Samoan [laughs] but growing up — do you get corned beef in the States? Pisupo? It's like a currency. My favorite growing up was pisupo and rice, pretty much anything with rice. I love it all. We have our own soul food. I love that concept of soul food because food is actually so important to us as well. But if I had to pick one, it would be oka, raw fish and coconut cream." Simone Kessell (Māori) "Well [laughs] when I go home, my whanau or my family say that I'm hopeless because I don't eat meat. So, a boil up, which is probably incredibly good for you because it is all the bones and the meat and the watercress, but it's not a food I eat. I do like fry bread, though. With lots of butter, fantastic." Alex Tarrant (Māori, Samoan, and Niuean) "Oh, man. For food, I love palusami. And if it's dessert — I don't even know if I can call it dessert — but panipopo [coconut buns]." Dinah Jane (Tongan) "It's hard to choose one thing. I was in Utah not too long ago, and I went to Pacific Seas, off of Redwood. That's the first thing I wanted when I landed, Tongan food. So I get there, and the first thing I say I want on my plate is lu sipi. It's like the Samoan palusami. Tongans, we like adding more, we're a little extra. Taro leaves, you have meat in there, you can have corned beef in there, or sipi, lamb, coconut milk and onions and all that." And finally, Uli Latukefu (Tongan) "Lu sipi, manioke, octopus/feke, I like all of it. If I could have it every Sunday, I would." You can read the full Voices of the Pacific interviews here.
South China Morning Post
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet New Zealand actress Luciane Buchanan, star of Netflix's The Night Agent
The second season of The Night Agent – created by Shawn Ryan and starring Gabriel Basso – is a massive success, and it is catapulting its cast to super stardom. Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, the series sequel dropped on January 23 and is currently the most-watched English language television show on Netflix. According to Netflix Tudum, production for season 3 is under way in Istanbul. But one familiar name doesn't seem to appear in the announced cast – Luciane Buchanan. Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin and Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in The Night Agent. Photo: Netflix Buchanan plays protagonist Peter Sutherland's love interest, Rose Larkin, who parts ways with him at the end of season 2. Speaking on the possibility of returning for another season, the actress told Deadline last week, 'I have no idea, and I can't spoil anything.' But she did tease that Rose might not stay away from Peter just because he tells her to. Regardless of whether she's coming back, Buchanan is cherishing her The Night Agent days. In January, she shared a behind-the-scenes photo dump on Instagram, reflecting on her journey. 'Forever grateful for you guys taking a wild chance on me three years ago,' she wrote in part, thanking the show's creators. So, what else do we know about Luciane Buchanan, who became the world's most-searched actress on IMDB when The Night Agent first dropped? What's her background? Luciane Buchanan has Tongan ancestry. Photo: @lucianebuchanan/Instagram According to a 2017 interview with Fashion Quarterly, Buchanan is a Kiwi-Tongan actress, born and brought up in Auckland, New Zealand. She graduated from the University of Auckland with a bachelor's degree in drama and psychology. 'To be a young educated Tongan woman that gets to live the way I want, I mean it's pretty cool and I get to own it,' she said.
