When the director Jamie Lloyd offered Nicole Scherzinger the lead in his new musical production of Sunset Boulevard, “I was like, ‘Are you out of your mind?’ First of all, I still look great under bright lights. And isn’t that an older woman who is, like, an old relic? How does that even remotely have anything to do with me?”
The former Pussycat Dolls pop star couldn’t see herself as Norma Desmond, the tragically faded and forgotten, psychotically deluded former silent movie starlet who at 50 still dreams of a comeback. Hand on hip, adopting a deep southern drawl of indignation: “I was, like, ‘Yo, this chick is crazy. I don’t want to play her. She crazy.’”
Scherzinger, 45, had planned on being in
