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Interview: Marisa Davila & Cheyenne Isabel Wells Talk Being the New PINK LADIES in the GREASE Prequel Series
May 17, 2024
Marisa Davila and Cheyenne Isabel Wells are creating Grease for a new generation in Rise of the Pink Ladies! Watch a video of two of the new Pink Ladies discussing the new stories that are represented in the series, why they were relieved to be playing new roles and not characters from the original film, and their favorite musical numbers.
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Hi guys, how are you? Hi Michael! So good, how are you? I am so excited to speak with you about this
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series. I loved it. My first question is what was it like to create characters in Grease for a new
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generation? Oh my goodness, so fun. I actually prefer it that way. Yeah. I think it would have
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been way more stressful to try to like fill those shoes of the original characters and
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we just have we had a little bit more liberty to to create these characters from scratch
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Yeah, I mean and we're seeing the series tackle some subjects and themes that weren't really seen
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in the original film. So what was it like representing those stories in the series
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I think it's an honor to be able to represent those stories especially I mean my character is
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Mexican and she's showing that side like going through all those like I mean there's a lot of
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difficult times in the 50s for that person and so it's just I think it's very it's an honor to just
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to show that story and get to tell and have little girls and little boys look up to that and be able
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to see themselves and like see themselves and even the older generation be able to look back
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and be feel represented right from the 50s. Totally and I mean you guys have some killer
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musical numbers throughout this series. Do you have one that you're sort of most looking forward
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to audiences seeing? So many. All of them for different reasons. Yeah. Oh, I love Good Girl
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Act. Good Girl Act to me feels like Officer Krupke like the chaos of like things flying
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everywhere everybody having fun and I love that song so I feel like that really embodies the same
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energy, the grace energy. What about you? I'm excited for the later songs later in the season
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Like the last episode has some great numbers and can't tell exactly what they are but
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I think people will be very pleasantly surprised and happy about it. And I think the music's rolling
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out slowly with the episodes too so you're gonna have to wait. Wait a while
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Good morning boys and girls. Thank you for the best summer of my short life
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And welcome to the 1954 to 55 school year. Lydia, save your seat from my lap
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You're to be our greatest year at Rydell yet. We promised Roy and Bill we'd eat lunch with them
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today. To end the divisions among us. I want to be a T-Bird. And become a truly united Rydell
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He told me exactly what you did to get that jacket. It's not as bad as it seems. These things blow over. Maybe for you
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There are a lot of kids in Rydell who are sick of feeling like they're not welcome here
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I know what it feels like to not be like the others. We have to think big. Really change things. Everyone already thinks we're such bad girls
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Watch out fellas. It's a girl game. We're not girls, we're ladies. The pink ladies
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We're gonna need some jackets. Pink lady pledge is to act cool, to look cool, and to be cool
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Till death do us part. Think pink. The world's changing boys
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Maybe sometimes you gotta be bad to do good
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