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Video: Jodie Comer Is Coming for Her Tony Award
May 17, 2024
In this video, watch as Tony nominee Jodie Comer chats more about how the play is impacting audiences, the honor of this nomination, and so much more.
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So first of all, it is Tony Day. You've got a Tony pin
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I know! It's official. I'm so thrilled. I'm so thrilled. Yeah, I can't quite believe it
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I feel like I'm in a, it's a total whirlwind at the minute
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You know, we opened last week. So it really does feel like we have so far
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there's so much work still to do and we have so far to go, but to be acknowledged in this way is like
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I never would have dreamed that this would be happening, you know, so it's amazing
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You had done theatre so early on in your career. You watched it on TV and film and now you're on Broadway
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You got a Tony nomination. It's a stunning performance that you give in your show
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What's made it so special for you? What's made it so special for me
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I think there's two things. I think it's the, how it's changed me as a woman
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what I figured out about myself and also ultimately, I think the relationship with the audiences, you know
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it's undeniable the effect that this story and this play is having on people
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Yeah. You know, we receive letters daily and, you know, the work that our producer James Beaman has done
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with different organisations and we've, we're seeing firsthand that the, you know
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the kind of effect this play is having and how it's trying to provoke and is provoking change
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So I think to feel audiences walk away, changed in some way or moved or invigorated
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like it doesn't happen all the time, you know? So I just, I'm really trying to soak up that connection
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because it's like, it's incomparable and it's so unique. Yeah. We talked about this opening night
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but you're bringing a whole young audience to the theatre that's never seen, you know, they know you're from TV and film
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Right. Oh my God, she does this live. What that honour means to you
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I mean, it's incredible. It's funny because it's something I feel like I can't
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can't think about too much because it gets overwhelming, but to hear that people are coming to the theatre
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and experiencing theatre in that way, you know, is amazing and especially for it to be a story
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like this and for, you know, predominantly my fan base is young women
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and for them to come and hear Tessa's story, I think is so important
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So yeah. You're so young, but what would the older version of yourself
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tell your younger version, when you were starting out in this business
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God, I feel like I've, when I look back at myself and my past decisions
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I think, I don't know if I tell her much because I think you have to figure things out
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you know, and I think that, like in regards to theatre, I've said this a lot, but like I got told no a lot
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because I hadn't been theatre trained and I just felt like I was so disheartened by it
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and I thought, you know what, one day I will meet a director
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who will meet me in the middle and doesn't see it as this huge mountain to climb
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and then I met Justin Martin and that was that relationship, you know, where he was like, you know, he had as much confidence in me
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and in himself to be like, this isn't some huge feat, you know, so yeah
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