MATTHEW WHITTET makes his feature film debut in MOULIN ROUGE (2001)Since graduating from Sydney's NIDA in 1997, his theatrical roles have
included Touchstone in AS YOU LIKE IT for director Neil Armfield's Company B, and Edgar in Barrie Kosky's production of KING LEAR ( for the Bell Shakespeare Company. Whittet has also made guest appearances in the Australian television drama series WILDSIDE and WATER RATS.
"Satie is based on a loose mix between Eric Satie and Ravel. Our Satie's the young eccentric musical genius. The other Bohos are all rather large. They're like strutting birds, peacocks. Satie's more like a quail. Where all the Bohos are outcasts in some way, Satie fits into the group by virtue of being young, twitchy and extremely cerebral. "
