“Hairspray” star Nikki Blonsky was simply 18 years previous when she landed her first-ever performing position as Tracy Turnblad in 2007’s “Hairspray.” She discovered herself amongst baby stars Zac Efron and Amanda Bynes and legends Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken and Queen Latifah — and, after all, John Travolta.
Now, 15 years later, Blonsky appeared on Tuesday’s episode of the “Allison Interviews” podcast and recalled how Travolta — who wearing drag and performed Tracy’s mother, Edna — helped construct her confidence.
“‘All the time be your self.’ That's what John informed me,” Blonsky, now 33, informed host Allison Kugel.
“He mentioned, ‘All the time keep true to Nikki. Don’t change for this enterprise or anyone within the enterprise. Don’t take any roles that don’t really feel proper to you. Do it your approach. Simply do what feels proper in your coronary heart.’ I've taken that with me via each film, each TV present and each life expertise that I’ve gone via,” she mentioned.
“’Hairspray’ was the best blessing on this planet in my life, however my relationship with John and his recommendation actually is one thing that I may have by no means fathomed,” Blonsky added. “I might by no means have imagined any individual who's so busy and one of many largest stars on this planet would take a lot time to deal with the individuals he loves, or that I might be a kind of those that he reaches out to repeatedly.”
She added that they discuss “yearly” on their birthdays and on holidays, saying it “means a lot” to her.
“It’s nearly like gentle simply beams out of his coronary heart. He lightens up a room. He all the time finds the great and the constructive,” she spoke of the actor and “Grease” icon.
“He makes everyone really feel like when he’s speaking to you, that you're the one individual there. You're feeling like probably the most particular individual on this planet. Not many individuals have that high quality to try this for different individuals. He simply makes you're feeling so extremely particular, and he's so real and all the way down to earth, actual and human,” Blonsky beamed.
She additionally shed extra gentle on popping out as homosexual on the age of 30 throughout the podcast. Even earlier than she mentioned she knew she was a lesbian, Blonsky performed a homosexual character within the 2013 film “Geography Membership.” She mentioned the character helped her discover the braveness to be herself.
‘I by no means actually loved my time spent within the bed room with males.’
“This character was so out and open and free. I bear in mind feeling so free as a result of that character was so herself,” Blonsky mentioned. “By me enjoying her and letting her simply be herself and being homosexual, proud, sporting her goth make-up and her leather-based jacket and her Doc Martens, she felt so cool.
“That gave me the liberty to say, ‘You understand what, I’m going to decorate how I need,” she mentioned of the position. “I’m going to reside how I need, and I’m not going to care anymore if there are paparazzi on the airport or TMZ catch me in my leggings and my hoodie.’”
Blonsky shared that she all the time felt “totally different” however she “thought that was the actor aspect of me” and eventually realized that she was dwelling her life to please different individuals when she lastly took the leap up to now a girl.
“Then I did and guess what? It wasn’t the scariest factor on this planet,” she mentioned. “I discovered it was precisely the place I wanted to be, romantically. I wanted to not be courting guys as a result of it was nothing however unhealthy, unhealthy, unhealthy; unhealthy story after unhealthy story.”
“I used to be engaged, and I by no means needed to have intercourse with him, ever,” Blonsky admitted.
“Sorry if he hears this. I by no means actually loved it. I’m going to be 34, so I can speak about my intercourse life now, I assume, and I by no means actually loved my time spent within the bed room with males. As soon as I had an encounter with a girl I believed, ‘Oh, OK. Now I really feel extra like myself. Now I’m having fun with it. I’m right here, and I wish to be right here,'” she mentioned.
Now, Blonsky and her girlfriend Hailey — who makes use of they/them pronouns — are arising on their six-month anniversary of courting.
“Hailey is superb and fairly artful,” Blonsky laughed on the podcast.
“It began, I consider, on Cameo,” she mentioned of the web site the place customers pay celebrities for personalised video messages.
“I used to be doing a reside Cameo that Hailey had bought, and we spoke reside, nose to nose. After we bought off, I believed, ‘Wow. That's only a attractive human,’” she defined on the podcast. “I used to be taken by their magnificence after which I bear in mind seeing them on TikTok.
“I went into my inbox and Hailey had slid into my DMs. I believed, ‘Sure! Finest DM slide ever,’ and I clearly thought, ‘Oh my gosh. Hello!'” Blonsky recalled. “I had been fascinated with them ever since that decision, so that's form of how we met. I invited Hailey to return out and go to me in LA, and we’ve been collectively ever since,” she mentioned.
Blonsky has two films set to be launched — in addition to a memoir — in 2023, based on podcast host Kugel.
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