On THURSDAYS we wear pink… and talk Mean Girls, Heathers, Legally Blonde AND handling the internet when it’s doing the most…

This week I’m joined by my friend – and actual real-life Regina George – Vivian Panka. We met doing the Heathers movie together (she was Heather Duke, I was New Wave Party Girl…), and now she’s leading the UK & Ireland tour of Mean Girls as Queen Bee herself.

Vivian takes us inside the *wild* audition process: going in for Gretchen, asking to be seen for Regina, last-minute recalls, and finding out she’d booked it while on holiday listening to the cast album on repeat.

We also get into some big stuff:

- Being the first black Regina George and what it means to see yourself in roles you weren’t “traditionally” cast in
- Why colour ≠ “type”, and how she’s gone from 9 to 5 to Mean Girls
- Learning English from a bootleg of High School Musical 2 (yes, really) and why everyone thinks she’s American
- The reality of Stage Door – vocal health, boundaries, safety, weird encounters and why sometimes it *is* okay to slip out the back

Hope you love this one – it’s stagey, sooo fetch and a little bit therapeutic 🫶🏼

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