It was one of the things that attracted me to the script, in relation to my Fiji background. We don’t really think of reincarnation, you don’t talk about it in those terms, but you do say, “Oh, there’s your grandmother outside,” when a bird arrives on the lawn. And it’s not a big deal. We go to church on Sunday and do all the Catholic stuff, but at the same time we have this relationship with animals and spirits that feels very normal. In the Pacific, that’s very, very common. So I like the fact that we’re not making too much of a big deal out of it. This is the truth of the story. -Toa Fraser Set in Edwardian England, Dean Spanley revolves around one man’s abject belief in his own past life and another’s skepticism, and is, at it’s core, a simple story of reconciliation and acceptance.