Director Taika Waititi and his kids are living out our quarantine nightmare in a New Zealand hotel room

Chaos reigns.
September 4, 2020 3:17 p.m. EST
September 8, 2020 12:01 a.m. EST
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Call it good upbringing or strategic parenting. Either way, it took a full seven days of hotel room quarantine for filmmaker Taika Waititi’s two daughters to completely cover their current living quarters with, well, the entire contents of several suitcases. But while the kids’ reaction to their cooped-up situation may have arrived belatedly, it definitely arrived — as documented by the Oscar-winning director’s recent Instagram photo of the *ahem* dire situation.Waititi and his two girls are halfway through their mandatory two-week quarantine after returning to the filmmaker’s home country of New Zealand, where tight restrictions are keeping a lid on a rise in new COVD-19 infections. Being confined to smaller-than-usual quarters isn't easy for anyone, and for a solo parent outnumbered by his progeny, it’s nothing short of chaos. May we present Exhibit A:
[video_embed id='1339040']RELATED: Taika Waititi can sleep anywhere[/video_embed]Comparing the hotel etiquette of his daughters to that of a rock band on tour/a legendary bender, the man behind Jojo Rabbit and What We Do In The Shadows whose next film project is Thor: Love and Thunder, seems resigned to his fate for the next seven days. That fate: being surrounded by finger paints, crayons, small, mostly pink items of clothing, and half-eaten plates of room service food (we think we’ve spotted some leftover nachos in one corner of the frame).Chaos aside however, Waititi is on the right path in terms of doing his part to combat the spread of the coronavirus by isolating for the mandated time-period. And we salute him for his sacrifice.[video_embed id='2021405']BEFORE YOU GO: Woman films creepy doll moving on its own[/video_embed]

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