Why I refuse to play Tina

1. I'm not changing my accent. I speak the way I speak, and that means I refuse to be told "I'm American" - NO, I was born and raised in Aotearoa. This is how Kiwis trained me to sound.
   

2. NO show tunes means no show tunes, and no I do not want any input on the script from the theatre community. I actually do like going to gigs, but only certain kinds of gig. Which is why I didn't include any of that cabaret crap in my script: I don't go to those gigs, and I simply will not be persuaded. Maybe the Auckland scene won't piss me off as much as the Welly people, but yeah, the marketing and the vibe of Gay Wellington is why I'm an outsider to that scene... I thought my rants about Sandpit were spot-on. Ethan's blackballed by those people too. I think that bitterness is why we get on.
   

3. No, I don't want to make a TV show anymore. And the reason why is that nobody has actually bothered to write back with real notes except for Ethan and Eilish. If famous people stalk me, the time has come for y'all to write me: I bothered to write to you (Paddy, Ant, Don), so yeah, real replies only. I don't want people relying on my performance for their paycheck. It's too much stress, and I'm not mentally equipped for that.
   

4. Watching myself on-screen fucks with my head, which is probably why I painted over myself. I trained to be behind the camera, and there's no way in hell that I'd ever let anyone else direct my story. Particularly given how much I have despised these notes that people have tried to feed me between the lines...