00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Answer Dissert at Sussex Newspaper. It's a huge
00:06pleasure to speak again to Carrie Hope Fletcher. You are on the road with Calamity Jane and what a
00:10fabulous poem you're playing, Calamity, and you're saying there's just so much to her.
00:16She sounds exhausting, exhausting to play, exhausting to be with.
00:20She absolutely is exhausting, but she's just so much fun. There's no way that you can watch the
00:26show and not come out with a huge smile at the end of it, because it's just such high energy,
00:30good fun, you know, with all of the classic songs that everyone loves, Black Hills of Dakota,
00:36Secret Love, Windy City, Deadwood Stage, they're all such amazing songs.
00:40And you were saying that she's so many different things, isn't she? She's the action hero,
00:44the romantic lead, she's the comedy. How do you get your way into all of that?
00:50It is sort of tough because, you know, she is so many wonderful things and she's got a kind
00:55of chop and change between, you know, singing something that's very characterful, like men,
01:01then going into, you know, Secret Love, which is this gorgeous romantic ballad.
01:06But the thing about Calamity is that she's very, very sure of who she is and she sort of arrives
01:11all guns blazing, not thinking too much about what she's doing until she does it and it all
01:16goes wrong and then has to think about it afterwards. And that's kind of how you have
01:19to approach it. You just need to arrive on stage, this huge, larger than life character,
01:25not thinking too much about what you're doing and just sort of go for it.
01:28It's been a great, absolute blast of energy, which is even more impressive as you are a new mum.
01:32When we last spoke 16 months ago, you were heavily pregnant in Crawley Ponto,
01:37maybe before March the 1st, 2024. How on earth you can make a role as large as this,
01:44with a role even larger as a mum?
01:47Yes, it's a lot. And I'm very, very grateful that I have my husband, who is just an amazing,
01:54amazing person. He's such a hands on dad. So we are kind of taking it in turns to have her
02:01week by week and sort of seeing how we go, which is really tough. And we, you know,
02:05we miss Mabel and we miss each other so much. But, you know, that's, it's kind of where the
02:11it's kind of where the beauty of things like social media and, you know, FaceTime and Skype
02:17and Zoom and all that kind of stuff kind of comes into play.
02:22Exactly, exactly. So it gives us the freedom to still be connected, even when we're not actually
02:26with each other. And, you know, it's heartbreaking. And I always cry every time I get in the car and
02:30leave to go to a different city. And, you know, equally, he, he's sort of left in tears when I
02:36take Mabel with me. But we're figuring it out as we go. And, you know, we keep reminding ourselves
02:40that we're not the first people to do this. We aren't the only working parents in the industry. So
02:45we're very much sort of calling on the wisdom and expertise of our other friends who are parents,
02:49who are also in the industry going through the same stuff.
02:51Well, it sounds like you are more than coping. But later, congratulations on the birth of Mabel
02:56and congratulations on coming to Brighton and Southampton in our area. And really,
03:02really looking forward to seeing it. Great to speak to you again. Thank you.
03:05You too. Thank you so much.
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