Rose Matafeo

It's almost like I'm obsessed with being in love.

I've always been an anxious performer. I've never liked performing.

Being an aunty is the best - exactly what I wanted from this - someone to have ownership over but no obligation to take care of.

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang out with your mates, go to the arcades, go to the cinema in the daytime, it's like being a teenager all the time.

I can never enjoy anything in the moment. And, unfortunately, you live your life in the moment, and I find that incredibly difficult.

People have told me I've got no filter or I'm a bit of an over-sharer.

Part of making a relationship work is compromise and I think the idea of compromise in relationships is something that we lack in my generation.

I like silly photos of me, looking stupid.

I like dressing up when I can... but it's like when someone does my make-up or my hair and I feel uncomfortable or I'm wearing something weird, I just feel like it's not the best representation of myself.

I wear sneakers all the time. Well, I can't fit any girls' shoes. I've got big feet.

I'm highly anxious, ambitious, and very hard on myself.

Unfortunately we live in a world where I think women aren't actively encouraged or at least not empowered to make good work in every creative sphere, particularly in comedy.

I'm a fan of classic romance films as well as screwball comedies. I think love stories are just compelling narratives.

You get used to such micro-aggressions, those sneaky remarks. Especially in comedy: when the mood is meant to be light you can get accused of not being able to take a joke.

I felt that mainstream comedy caters to men and people don't even notice.

But being in love - or actually just chasing boys who don't like me as much as I like them - for me is the ultimate thing.

For so many years, women and people who aren't white have had to be undeniable to get into line-ups.

I'm never intently political about anything, I just speak my mind from my perspective.

A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes any comedian a while to find out what their thing is, or what they feel good doing on stage.

I wanted to make a TV show that I would want to watch and I naturally gravitated towards the genre of rom-com, because that's something that I have so much love for.

The fact that I went back to New Zealand, a country where you are legally allowed to date, and I couldn't manage to get one - I was like, I'm done with this country. I'm fleeing back to London.

I literally tried to get one date in five months in Auckland, and I couldn't. Auckland is quite small, so you know everyone, and everyone in Auckland has a partner already, so there's nobody to date.

Every time I go back to New Zealand I live with my Nan, and it is the sweetest thing. I don't know if she fully understood how much you are catered for on set, so she'd send me to work with like, pavlovas and lemon drizzle cakes and smoked snapper.

Either I'm going to be like an MGM starlet - get married five times, it will be a bit of a laugh - or I will get pregnant, by accident, with someone I barely know. We'll get through it. They'll be a great co-parent. We definitely won't end up together.

When you have a kid, it is the death of a certain life, but it's also the start of a new version of it.