From football to acting, boxing to writing, and now, directing, Matt Nable has long defied stereotypes. And now he’s ready to smash some more, speaking candidly about his mental health issues and more.
autumn morning at the Glenrose Village Shopping Centre in Sydney’s northern suburbs, near tables occupied by a young mother with a burbling toddler, a middle-aged woman reading a propped-up iPad and a retired gent nursing a cappuccino, Matt Nable stands out. For one thing, it’s his appearance. At 51, Nable is an actor, screenwriter, novelist and now film director – largely self-taught in every one of these fields.
With that bond, he’s been particularly affected by the diagnosis of younger brother Aaron with motor neurone disease , a devastating neurodegenerative condition. The 45-year-old, who has sons aged 10, two and one, is a former national amateur boxing champion who trained under the legendary Johnny Lewis and sparred regularly with four-time professional world champion Kostya Tszyu.
a sporty kid; one of his first memories is of being put into the ring, at the age of three or four, to box other boys at an army-navy-air force fight night. After his father left the army, the family moved to a house overlooking Brookvale Oval, where Manly trained and played. Nable senior became the strength and conditioning trainer under coach Bob Fulton, then took on the same role with the Kangaroos when Fulton coached the national rugby league team.
Nable went travelling overseas and ended up playing in England for Carlisle, then for the London Broncos, before retiring from rugby league at 25. Without telling anyone, he started writing a novel that became. It was set in a world he knew well: the knock-down, drag-out era of rugby league that he’d loved growing up in in the 1980s.
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