Tim Minchin's friend came up with the premise for his new series, 'Upright.' 'He wanted to create a comedy show with me in it that involved a guy trying to get across Australia with a piano on the back of a ute,' he says.
I think a great part of the adventure of creation is trying to place yourself in other people's shoes. I think that's what all of us need to do all the time. I think empathy is intuitive, but it's also something that you have to work on because, of course, your empathy tends to more easily fall with people more like you. So you actually have to fight to try and place yourself in the shoes of others. And I guess I'm intellectually interested in that.
I'm open to hearing the ways in which especially powerful groups — like straight, white, cisgendered males like me — I'm absolutely sure there is cultural appropriation. I don't think that necessarily means that everyone should only write from their own point of view, just because there's a power differential. I think that just can't possibly end well.
This story was edited for radio by Denise Guerra and Martha Ann Overland, and adapted for the Web by Petra Mayer
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