The singer is temporarily pausing her successful music career to star in a brand new play 2:22.
Lily Allen says the show's cast and crew have been "patient and supportive" with her foray into acting
Allen joined the cast earlier this year, after receiving a call from a casting director one day while she was wandering around New York. "He sent me the script and I read it, and my husband [actor David Harbour] read it, and we were both just blown away by it. So I spoke to the director the next night, and I was here six weeks later," she explains.
"It's a primal instinct to want to be scared, but also to know it's just fiction," Fraser says of the continuing audience appetite for frightening stage plays. Producers couldn't have hoped for a much better name than Allen to drum up media interest in the show. But as a relative newcomer to stage acting, she is open about how much of a learning curve she has been on.
But while she has extensive experience of playing live, Allen says stage acting is a "completely different" discipline. For one thing, she's not able to engage with the audience. "The fourth wall thing is completely insane," she says. "It's a completely different experience being on a stage and trying to actively captivate an audience with your being.
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