Velma Kelly

She starred in Entrapment, Traffic, Chicago.

Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Velma Kelly in that film, Chicago.

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All right, so we have our main protagonist, who is Roxy Hart, who is, well, I guess, I think the first thing we see is Velma Kelly getting arrested because she murdered her boyfriend and her sister.

But then Roxy Hart is there at the bar, and she is with a guy.

What's his name? Frank? And they're sweethearts.

And she is under the guard of Mama Morton.

That's right.

And she sees that she's in the same prison as Velma Kelly.

And she learns that if you're good to Mama, Mama's good to you.

Drive right up

... of a Velma Kelly wig.

Yeah, very much.

Yes.

And by the end of my run, her and I were just like firing off of each other.

The same was true for my Velma Kelly, who was played by Lana Gordon.

The three of us just really started to like energize each other.

But Charlotte D'Amboise said, I love Jinx's audiences.

Mm-hmm.

It's like, it's like Velma Kelly and her twin, like more or less.

Like, you and Richard will do this basically.

Yes.

So I did, like, Footloose in Chicago.

Uh, I was Velma Kelly.

I thought that would be the peak of my career.

It was not.

but that's also amazing

... right? Kind of iconic.

I feel like I'd make a great Velma Kelly.

Kind of.

Yes.

[laughs] The senator who was caught there was just like, "I was drugged by communists and dragged there [laughs] against my will, and I have no memory what..." [laughs]... oh, my God, there, it was big Velma Kelly energy of just like, "I don't remember a thing, but when I woke up, there was blood on my hands." [laughs] Like it was so funny.

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