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Why should I leave New Zealand?

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • May 10
  • 1 min read

For a temp job that's essentially an insult to placate Sir Paul? So I can be shot and killed in the USA? So I can be treated like shit in Britain?

I'm not going to be another Kiwi that's informally exiled for my politics, win or lose. The polls are neck and neck in our upcoming election: I've got shit to do.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
May 09

To put it in terms they can understand, I may be the best impersonator of Paul and John that you've come across, but it doesn't mean I have to work for you. It means you're doing it wrong. I'm sure other people would be equally good if they'd done it the way that I did the covers: no clicks, no autotune. - Mendes has made the mistake of seeing the Beatles like a contemporary act. They didn't have choreography. They didn't lipsync, and they really sucked at times. They weren't a bunch of slick people that the suits liked. They fluked their way to the top. Paul wanted to hear them done right. He also wrote a script with me. London isn't going to face an existential…

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
May 09
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The plan to placate Sir Paul by hiring me isn't going to work. I'm busy. Got an election to win. When Sam stops asking me to play a cisgender man, I'll be less pissed off.

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