Where do I begin? 💭 💚
I have followed
@jonmchu and
@chrislxd since the LXD days. I fell in love with how they elevated street dance and made the dance the story, not just 5, 6, 7, 8 around a story happening. Let alone the way they captured it. 🎥 They got it. I’ve continued to follow them.
(I have been tweeting
@jonmchu since 2012 hoping he’d notice me one day-I have receipts. Crazy and committed.) 🙋🏻♀️
I fell in love with Wicked 🎶 in 2006, when I watched it in previews, on a college trip. My fellow class mate bought me the soundtrack because he knew just how much I had loved it! I have since watched it 14 times. Never enough. 💚
So when I knew the Wicked film was happening…I was excited. When I heard it was happening with
@jonmchu and
@chrislxd I lost my mind. 🤯🤩🤯
If you were around me in 2022, you’ll know, I told everyone I was going to be in this film. (At that point, no one on the casting team even knew who I was-delusional maybe…I call it passionate.) 😏
My agent at the time couldn’t get me in the room, even though I kept asking him.
Then one night I get a message from
@kieranlai.official “Can you get to Base for 12pm? Chris says it’s okay”
Are you joking? Of course I could drop everything and get to Base and do a solo freestyle in front of
@chrislxd to an orchestral version of Kanye West “flashing lights.” (If you know me, you’ll know that was also a sign from the Universe.)
Chris may remember the crazy girl who ran at his table when we were all supposed to be leaving the room, just to confess her love for LXD and everything he’d done for dance. That was me 💁🏻♀️ Not ashamed. Didn’t know if I’d see him again, and you have to give people their flowers. So I did exactly that. Probably speaking way too fast. But you know…leave the room Jaye!
Anyway, jump forward about 9 months, I’m in Sylvia at the Old Vic. I hear the UK casting director
@tamsynmansoncasting and
@leahhill_dancer are at stage door. I can only hope to the musical movie theatre heavens, that they agreed I was remotely noticeable and somewhat Oz-worthy. I spoke to them both outside and could only hope the stars would do their magic. ✨
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