Rachel Tucker

This show is all about the incredible feminist classic Thelma & Louise and the incredible stage adaptation of it.

First, you'll hear my post-show conversation on stage with an audience with stars Rachel Tucker and Amy Lennox as well as creative consultant Imogen Brodie and Nadia Fall, the artistic director of the Young Vic in London.

We were due to be joined by Callie Khouri, who wrote the classic feminist film Thelma & Louise in the early '90s, and you have to remember the landscape of film at that time.

For her to have broken through with such an extraordinary film about women taking agency and women breaking away from oppression and the iconography of the patriarchy, and to make it such a incredible feel-good romp, um, that captured everyone's imagination, and also to then win an Oscar for Best Screenplay for her first-ever movie and understand what an incredible achievement that was.

So actually, we've got a much, much more exciting in-depth conversation with Callie than I was expecting to have.

So let me take you now to the stage of the Young Vic, where we have a much shorter conversation with the stars and some of the creative team, and then I'll take you to my one-on-one with Callie Khouri.

[upbeat music] The Spontaneity Shop presents The Guilty Feminist with me, Deborah Frances-White, and my very special guests, Nadia Fall, Rachel Tucker, Amy Lennox, Imogen Brodie, and Callie Khouri talking about Thelma & Louise.

Thank you so much, everybody, for staying.

Yes, yes.

And both of the actresses, uh, think we have them here, Amy Lennox and Rachel Tucker-

Yep

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I can't think of people.

I remember I worked with Rachel Tucker at the Coliseum and I would watch her side stage and I would literally mentally take a note of how she's attacking vowels, how she's breathing, how she's getting herself ready in the wing to walk on.

I was obsessed.

That's such an interesting, about the whole entering the stage as well, because it's not just what goes on on stage.

The cast announced that day couldn't wait to get started working on it.

We later caught up with Rachel Tucker, who plays Captain Beverley Bass in the West End, who went to New York to get some early research in.

But now I did see the show in, on Broadway-

Right

Music and lyrics by Nico Case, directed by Chip Coleman.

starring Amy Lennox as Thelma and Rachel Tucker as Louise.

Yes.

Where do we start? I mean, we went for a very nice meal before.

That's quite good.

And that worked well, didn't it? That did work well.

The, obviously Rachel Tucker and Amy Lennox together, like their relationship was, was really strong and really, really nice.

There was some great chemistry between them.

It'll come to me when you say we'll be talking about our musical this week and then it'll come.

And other exciting news that was only announced this week too is that Broadway and West End stars Megan Hilty and Rachel Tucker are just starring in a brand new concert production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

in the London Palladium on the 26th and the 27th of March.

Clearly London's where it's to be in March next year.

I thought, wow.

Yeah.

Like, wow, in general, with Rachel Tucker at the moment, she's doing some amazing things.

Like, she must be exhausted.

So

that was Amy Lennox as Thelma and Rachel Tucker as Louise.

It is thrilling for me to hear the power in those two performers' voices.

What's it like for you when you hear them perform it on stage?

I'm sorry.

It's got two wonderful female leads playing the title roles, Amy Lennox and Rachel Tucker.

But the show, as we say in the biz, is DOA, Dead on Arrival.

If ever a movie didn't need to be translated into a stage musical and doesn't inherently sing, it's this one.