⭐ KEALA SETTLE RULES OUT THE GREATEST SHOWMAN STAGE ROLE ⭐
The Greatest Showman star Keala Settle has confirmed to podcast eleven that she has ruled out being a part of the highly anticipated Broadway stage adaptation of blockbuster movie The Greatest Showman.
Settle played the role of Lettie Lutz, the bearded lady, in the 2017 movie alongside Hugh Jackman and Zendaya. She is the original album voice and actress of the Oscar-nominated song, This Is Me.
Settle commented on why she will NOT be part of the stage adaptation of The Greatest Showman: “Nope!
“It was a two-digit hour day for filming in the ring.I had seven people on me. My dress was 25 pounds. I had a corset on, bound by a corset underneath. I was put into a dress which was tightened back as well. I was double-bound. I had boots that had no protective bottoms so, to this day, I have problems with the balls of my feet because of the dancing we kept doing over and over again. I couldn’t sit down unless I had a specific chair, and people had to lift my dress and tell me to back up basically like a lorry doing ‘beep, beep, beep’. ‘Yep, you’ve hit it, go on!’
“They had to take my shoes off every take so I could put Uggs on. And on top of it, there was a person with a glue pen that would keep applying alcohol to my wig and my facial hair because it kept sweating off. The hair and the makeup people were there because they were tagging each other and the beard was attached to the wig. I had a fan person there and I had someone holding a drink of water for me.
“So, that’s just filming. If you think I’m going to do that eight shows every week, sod off matey! There’s no way in hell I’m doing that. Now if they’ve got an easier way to do it… bring it on! Otherwise, naaa!”
That’s a shame, would love to she her in that role onstage but it doesn’t sound practical at all. Always amazed to hear how much work goes on behind the scenes on a film to what we end up seeing on screen.
Thoughts? X x x
Listen to the Eleven podcast featuring Keala Settle – https://podlink.to/eleven
