The Yidinji actor and writer on dealing with backlash, being an Aboriginal woman in comedy and why this year’s Naidoc is ‘for us’
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When Steph Tisdell was filming the Amazon series Class of ’07, she used to drive every day to Malabar beach in Sydney’s south-east to decompress. It was the summer of 2021-22, and the show’s cast and crew were “bubbled” to mitigate Covid risk.
“I was here for 119 days, staying in a hotel room, and we weren’t really allowed to go to populated places,” Tisdell recalls. “But you’re interacting with at least 50 people a day on set. I’m a social person but I really need my own time, and so I’d always go for a drive – but I’d want to park somewhere and just sit and feel the energy of the place.”
Continue reading… The Yidinji actor and writer on dealing with backlash, being an Aboriginal woman in comedy and why this year’s Naidoc is ‘for us’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhen Steph Tisdell was filming the Amazon series Class of ’07, she used to drive every day to Malabar beach in Sydney’s south-east to decompress. It was the summer of 2021-22, and the show’s cast and crew were “bubbled” to mitigate Covid risk.“I was here for 119 days, staying in a hotel room, and we weren’t really allowed to go to populated places,” Tisdell recalls. “But you’re interacting with at least 50 people a day on set. I’m a social person but I really need my own time, and so I’d always go for a drive – but I’d want to park somewhere and just sit and feel the energy of the place.” Continue reading… Australian television, Television, Life and style, Indigenous Australians, Comedy, Australian books
