"Super exciting. It feels like I'm experiencing a new way of performing. I said to the director when we first started that I wanted to throw myself into this and to be pushed as far as I can. When you're in a band, or you've been perceived a certain way for a very long time, it's nice to go into something where you can shake off the Post-it notes that have been put on you by yourself, or by other people."
"Our experience of going from complete normality into a talent competition and becoming somewhat famous overnight, and then the trials and tribulations that follow with teenagers trying to navigate new national fame, is enough of a plot. I don't need to drum up some new far-fetched stories, because I feel like the things that were happening were far-fetched enough. Overnight fame Girls Aloud in 2002 after winning Popstars: The Rivals (from left, Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle, Cheryl Tweedy, Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts)."
"My TV plugger was also Lady Gaga's TV plugger and she had this thing lined up with MTV. The plugger, who's very much a friend, was like: It's just a girly chat, would you be up for doing it? I was still very much in my shell. I said: If it's a girly chat and a fun conversation, I would absolutely love to do it, but I'm not a presenter, so if it turns into that then it's not gonna work."
She describes the West End debut in Hadestown as super exciting and a new way of performing. She wanted to throw herself into the role and be pushed as far as possible. She notes that long-standing band identity and external perceptions can limit artistic risk, and that theatre work enables shedding those labels. She says the Girls Aloud story line for a jukebox musical would be the group's rapid shift from normality into sudden national fame and the subsequent trials of teenagers navigating that attention. She recalls interviewing Lady Gaga, expecting a light chat but finding herself out of her depth, with Gaga being lovely.
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