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WOMAN OF WORDS

Humour for me has always felt like some type of dirty trick,” says performer and script-writing prodigy Nakkiah Lui, over her first extra-strong soy flat white of the day. “Sometimes I feel so bad about it because it’s like going through a back door into someone’s head, but I think you need laughter to change hearts and make people ask questions.”

The 29-year-old co-writer and star of hit ABC series Black Comedy continues, “Even as a child I was annoyingly, insufferably filled with curiosity.

Questions all of the time. Always about everything. I know everyone thinks I’m opinionated, which is probably true, but my opinions change. I like hearing what people have to say, as a writer primarily but also as a performer. I think it’s fun to write characters

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