Q: Helena, I wanted to ask you what was it about you’re character that wanted you to play her and was it hard to get the role with the fact that Tim was directing, did that make it easier or was it much harder?
Helena: I would safely say it made it much harder, and well, Tim, yeah, he told me you look right for it, you’re, you know, potentially you’re very right for it but we’ve no idea if can sing, so I said I’ll go and try and learn and he thought it would be a good idea for me to have singing lessons. But apart from, you know, I had to be righter than right because I wouldn’t want to… and for my sake I wouldn’t wanna, you know, I didn’t want to feel | got it because I slept with him. So… but a the end of the day Stephen Sondheim, he had the final say and I definately didin’t sleep with him, so.
Tim: That’s not what he said.
Helena: He wasn’t mean to say.
Johnny: I haven’t slept with anyone.
Helena: Ever.
Johnny: Haven’t. Not once. - I’ve shaved a few but…
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