The actor, playwright and painter may be a polymath – but there’s one role he won’t be taking: politics. ‘You have to kiss arse. Yeah, it’s not my bag’
Since the “unexpected, overwhelmingly positive” reaction to that Q&A monologue, Wyatt has never stopped working. “It took my career into another direction,” he says. “People now see me as a performerThe energy with which Wyatt speaks represents the fulfilment of a childhood spent looking for any creative outlet with which to express himself.
Shari Sebbens first met Wyatt at NIDA in 2008. “We were two of four or five Aboriginal students and we did what every Aboriginal student does: sought each other out!” Sebbens, also a theatremaker and actor, says. Their rapport was instantaneous. “He said to me once: ‘We’re the weird kids from Black families who grew up amongst sports – but wanted to be actors’.”
“Every creative decision, I crosscheck with Meyne. He always has the same response: ‘That’s your show, homie.’ That’s generous of any writer – it shows how willing he is to trust those he works with.”“I love that he’s both very political, strategic and really competent,” Gorrie says. “It takes a lot to call people out, then face those people quite often.”Weekend app
“Meyne doesn’t exist for white audiences, he’s mostly concerned about what other blackfellas think of his work,” she says. “So when we see Aboriginal people speaking to us through the Black gaze, it feels good; people are forced to shut up and listen. It probably feels how white people feel all the time.”With many creative outlets shut off during lockdown, Wyatt did what he hadn’t done in a decade: picked up a paintbrush. “It was my ‘baking bread’ of the pandemic,” he says.
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