You’re starring in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. What’s your earliest memory of Tina and her music?
The “[Simply] The Best” ads for the NRL. I grew up as a Canberra boy, so the Raiders were my team by default. It was a very special time for everyone in Canberra when Tina came out.
You’re playing Ike Turner. What did you learn about him through this production?
How much of a musical genius he was and the tragedy of his upbringing. Growing up as a child in the deep South in the 1940s and ’50s would have been tough. Among the dark elements of his life, Ike had a very complex and layered world.
And Tina?
I didn’t know that it was Ike who gave Tina her name. I always thought that she had been famous from a young age. I didn’t realise that her greatest success happened in her forties, which back then was unheard of in pop music.
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