{"id":875,"date":"2007-07-20T23:32:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T22:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/20\/hairspray-interview-special\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T10:53:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T09:53:23","slug":"hairspray-interview-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/07\/20\/hairspray-interview-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairspray – Interview Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hairspray<\/a>Hairspray<\/strong><\/a> began life as a film in 1988<\/a> and became a cult hit. Written and directed by d the story of a ‘pleasantly plump’ teenager named Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) who dreams of appearing on a local TV show where every one dances.<\/p>\n

It was adapted for the stage in 2002<\/a>, becoming a huge success on Broadway<\/a>, winning several Tony awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new movie version is based on the Broadway show and stars a raft of new and established stars including Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta<\/a>, Christopher Walken<\/a>, Michelle Pfeiffer<\/a>, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden<\/a>, Queen Latifah<\/a>, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley and Allison Janney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I recently spoke to four of the actors in the film and discussed their roles and other aspects of the 2007 Hairspray.<\/p>\n

\"Nikki<\/a>Nikki Blonsky<\/strong><\/a> plays Tracy Turnblad, the Baltimore teenager at the heart of the story.<\/p>\n

Her dream is to appear on The Corny Collins Show (based on Baltimore’s real Buddy Deane Show<\/a>), the hippest dance party on TV.<\/p>\n

I spoke with Nikki about how she got the part and the different aspects of the story that have made it so popular.<\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>\"Amanda<\/a>Amanda Bynes<\/strong><\/a> plays Penny Pingleton, Tracy’s best friend who is also obsessed with the dance show they both love.<\/p>\n

Elijah Kelley<\/strong><\/a> plays Seaweed J. Stubbs, the man Penny falls for and they form a couple whose relationship defies the racial barriers and segregation of early 60s America.<\/p>\n

I spoke with Amanda and Elijah about their roles, the deeper themes of the story and what Christopher Walken would say to them as he got on set each day.<\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/a>\"Zach<\/a>Zac Efron<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>plays Link Larkin – the cool kid on the Corny Collins Show.<\/p>\n

Zach came to prominence as Troy Bolton in Disney Channel’s original movie High School Musical<\/a>, which became a ratings phenomenon and also launched the double platinum original soundtrack.<\/p>\n

We spoke about his new role and the way musicals work on film.<\/p>\n

Listen to the interviews here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?fla=podcast-2007-07-20-89107.MP3]\n

To subscribe to the Interview Podcast via iTunes just click the image below:<\/p>\n

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Hairspray <\/strong>is out at UK and US cinemas from today
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

> <\/a><\/a>Get local showtimes for the film via Google Movies<\/a>
\n> Download the interview podcast as an MP3 file<\/a>
\n> Find out more about Hairspray at the IMDb
\n<\/a>> Official site for the Hairspray movie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hairspray began life as a film in 1988 and became a cult hit. Written and directed by d the story of a ‘pleasantly plump’ teenager named Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) who dreams of appearing on a local TV show where every one dances. It was adapted for the stage in 2002, becoming a huge success […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}