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Video: & JULIET's Philippe Arroyo & Ben Jackson Walker Show Off Their Broadway Crib
Sep 24, 2024
In this video, watch as Ben Jackson Walker and Philippe Arroyo welcome us to their Broadway crib with a champagne toast and an inside look at their lucky Nicholas Cage pillow, bedazzled guitar, character bobbleheads, and of course, cherished gifts from fans.
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You're gonna take Walker
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No! It's not a marker! I don't know what it is! It's Greg! Get out
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Get out! Sorry about that. We didn't see you there. Hi, Broadway World. I'm Ben Jackson Walker
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And I'm Philippa Royal. I think we're ready for you. Yes, please. Come in
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We would love that. Indeed. Cheers
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To... Oh, not before the show. Oh, of course. So we'll just hold this and look fancy
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What was the question? Alright, Broadway World. Come with me. I'm gonna give you a little tour
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of everything we got here. But first, I want you to see
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on my left, I have Nicolas Cage. This was actually, not this actual pillow
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but a replica of this pillow was in the first casting office
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where I ever got my first job, which was a guest star in the last episode
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of Orange is the New Black. And this Nicolas Cage pillow was sitting there
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And so I got him as a good luck charm. And now all I need to do is really just caress his face
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and then I have good luck whenever I step into this building
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This is really cool. We have a guitar that was actually given to us by
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Flash Music. And it came as this Anne Juliet pink color. And so I bedazzled it
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I took it even further. And you know, we got Britney here, if you can get a little
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close up on this. We got all these stickers that were actually made
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and designed by our very own Justin David Sullivan. These are really cute
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And it's of course bedazzled and rhinestoned. Because it has to be
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We have some of the little fan gifts that we've received over the time
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that we've been here in the show. This is my dream role
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Little shops if you're out there. I'm looking to be a Seymour one of these days
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And then we got a bobblehead from the Pop franchise of Francois over here
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We got some Lego flowers. This is a Romeo bobblehead. Which I love
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This is our book writer, David West Reed of Schitt's Creek fame
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gave us this. All these little bobbleheads. We each got one. So if you see up here, Philippe has one too
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He's so cute. Look at us. Yay! MrStarkSands got us these the pop dolls
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You might have seen these at your local Target. But yeah, we have ones for us in the cast
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So this is me, which is great. I have highlights. You can see it
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Just like in real life. This is one of my favorite birthday gifts that I've ever received
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Don't know why I have it, but you know. I held on to it for 10 plus years
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There's a lot of things that have been sent to me. Our fans
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are amazing. Let's see if I can show you a few of them
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I have this wonderful doll that was given to me that is like
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absolutely incredible. They got the jacket absolutely right. It's like really well done because this is the actual jacket
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I wear in the show. It's this amazing Montague biker jacket. This is like a
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leather jacket with the sleeves cut out. It has this amazing heart with all the safety pins. And
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this person got the jacket exactly correct. It also looks like a voodoo doll
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It's kind of scary. I got this award. It was for the sexiest larynx
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on Broadway. I don't know if anyone knows this. I got a vocal surgery last
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year and I felt very insecure about it but I was gifted with this
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to make me feel a little better so now I feel that my voice is the sexiest on Broadway
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So yeah, my routine for getting ready for the show, you would think I have a lot
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of time to get ready but I really don't because I have to walk across the stage
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during the third number in the show Baby One More Time and I
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so I have to get ready at the very top with everyone else. I can't just relax and
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just leave my couch. But actually I have it done to a science now
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where I can get it done in five minutes if I need to but really all I do is put a little
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brow on, a little eyeliner and then I put my costume on and that's it
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Oh, I do my hair. If it's been a bad hair day I do my hair but
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literally everyone else in the show would kill me because it takes them probably like the majority
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of our half hour to get ready. And it takes me five minutes
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It's one of the perks of being Romeo. Also something really fun is
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me and Philippe's dresser, Eric Strauss is an incredible interior designer and he does all these things by himself
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and so he helped us put up this beautiful fringe and this gorgeous
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navy blue curtain and so yeah, I just come back here and I feel calm
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and I feel relaxed and I have a cigar because that's what I do
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Just kidding, no I don't. I don't think it was really until
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maybe halfway through our first year here with Aunt Juliet that we started to really make it feel like a home
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because I mean we spend we got this like fringe going on that our dresser Eric Strauss
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helped us put up but it's super important I mean I spend so much time here
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during the show. Sometimes we get here early we spend time between shows
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and you know sometimes we stay on a Saturday night and we hang out with everyone and you know
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it truly feels like my second apartment in New York City. I'm more excited to be here than my actual
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house. I really did set it up that when I'm not at home I have my video games here
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I do a lot of work here. I used to do a lot of writing here. I do tons
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of napping right here especially in between shows. That's true. A lot of
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meditating, a lot of journaling so it has really become I think a second home for me
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and just a place that I look forward to go throughout my day
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It all leads here. It always leads back here. Cheers! That's what we'll cheers to. Cheers to that darling
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