Hello! And welcome to a very special episode of Watch Me Wednesday
I don't know what I'm doing, I'm just saying things because I'm
I've left it a little bit late today to get ready
But I thought I would do a little Get Ready With Me,
which I don't think I've, have I ever done a Get Ready With Me before?
I thought I'd do a special Wednesday version,
a Wednesday Adams Get Ready With Me,
but it is currently 6:49, almost 6:50
Which is five minutes away from the half hour call
And usually, I'm definitely more ready than this by now
Definitely just found a hole in these tights
It's alright, it'll do, it'll do
Wednesday would probably have holes in her tights from hunting through Central Park, so we're fine
Oh it is right in the crotch though, that's annoying
So you guys may recognise this dressing room from when I was here with Chitty
This is exactly the same dressing room
For some reason, on tours, last tour for Chitty and this tour
I'm always in dressing room 4. And it was the same in Les Mis in Dubai!
Dressing room 4 is just my dressing room, I'm not entirely sure why
Okay, Wednesday tights and pants are on, we're halfway there
I say halfway
Oh no, I don't have my pins
Got my pins!
Gavin and Jacob had them upstairs for some reason, I'm not entirely sure why
This is- this week has just been absolutely bizarre
I travelled home four and a half hours on the train from Edinburgh last Sunday,
and then on the Monday, at like 6 o'clock in the morning,
I got picked up to go to the airport,
for my flight to Florida to go and surprise my family.
And then literally, in the blink of an eye, I was back in Gatwick airport,
waiting for my luggage.
And then on Monday we had a very exciting day, which you shall all find out about very very soon.
And then today, we're in Northampton!
For those of you wondering what I'm doing to my hair, this is called pin curling.
And usually I do the front,
then get bored.
So then I just wrap the back, which is just taking all this hair
and just piling it on my head, essentially,
and making it as flat as possible.
There's a horrible thing when you have a bit of time off from a show,
where you think, 'Do I remember everything?'
'Do I genuinely remember every word that's written in the script that I'm meant to say?'
Even if I do remember them now,
will I remember them when I'm on stage in front of a thousand people?
That, that, that's the real question
Intercom: Ladies and gentlemen of the Adams Family Company, this is your half hour call
Intercom: You have thirty minutes please, your half hour call, you have thirty minutes please, thank you
Carrie: Okay, alright, we're okay, look at this
Literally just piling on top of my head
Jen's going to kill me, Jen's the wiggy
That feels sturdy, that's okay
It's really interesting, because when I first got into Les Mis, I had no idea how to pin curl my hair.
And Les Mis was my first adult job
And for the first few weeks, the wiggys there pin curled my hair for me,
because they did that for some of the other girls.
And then it just got to a point where I was like, 'I should really learn how to do this'
'because this is something that I can definitely do myself, and it would help out everyone'
And now it's like second nature, now I just don't even think about it
It's just a thing that I do
So everyone asks me what this is
Someone said that it looks like two testicles on the top of my head, which it kinda does
But this is, these are my microphones,
which are then attached to a mic pack, which goes on my-
well, it's on my waist right now, but it'll go on my hips,
because I have a corset, and it won't fit under the corset,
so I have to have it lower down, sort of like half way down my arse.
These are one of the tiny tiny details
that Diego, our costume designer, has given me
that no one from out front will ever be able to see
But I have these great little earrings
that are just these purple spiders,
and I absolutely love them, they're so good!
Okay, the age old question about what order I do this in
Do I put my false eyelashes on before I put my makeup on?
Today I say yes
Intercom: Ladies and gentlemen, the house is now open, please do not cross the stage
Intercom: The house is now open, please do not cross the stage. Thank you
Carrie: Okay, one is on
Okay, right, second one's on
Alright, so this is my little Kryolan
I think that's how you pronounce it, Kryolan foundation
Which is ultra foundation and is called TV White
So let's Wednesday up
*Music*
The issue with playing a famously pale character,
is that when you go on holiday to Florida
you have to be really mindful about getting a tan.
And then I've got some gorgeous fixing powder
to hopefully make it all stay in place.
Next I have another Kryolan palette
which is very very Tim Burton.
It's basically grey, dark grey, and black
The black I use for my eyebrows.
So, lots of people have asked me why I do my own makeup,
and why aren't there makeup artists who do it for us.
And the answer is:
There are lots of people in shows, like lots of characters
who need extensive makeup, like this, done,
and if we all had one makeup artist individually,
to do our makeup for us,
it means the production company would have to hire
like a team of 10 or 20 in some cases.
Which, you know, costs a lot of money,
and it means there's a lot more people in the theatre,
in sometimes very cramped backstage areas.
And it's kind of unnecessary if we can just learn to do it ourselves.
So, I can't really tell you what I'm doing convincingly
Like, with any conviction
I can't be like, 'so yeah, now I'm taking this brush, and now I'm using this colour'
'which is called Frosted Meadow'
Like, I have no idea.
I'm just putting the light one on first,
and then using the slightly darker one on top of it.
And my eyeliner is Maybelline New York Master Ink
*Music*
Carrie: Beautiful Jen: Yeah, great
Carrie: Great, thanks. See you in a bit!
Carrie: That's Jen, she's amazing
Right, the last bit is my favourite, favourite bit
It's the lipstick
So I have this lip pencil, which is Number 46 Makeup Forever Paris Lip Pencil
I've no idea what colour it is.
It's that colour.
You're welcome.
I magically now have my costume on
because Jocelyn, who helps me get into my corset
knocked on the door, so..
This lipstick, I love it so much.
It's from Freedom and it's called Noir Darkness,
which I think is very very Wednesday Adams
*Music*
Intercom: Ladies and gentlemen of the Addam's Family, this is your five minute call
Intercom: You have five minutes please
Intercom: This is your five minute call, you have five minutes please, thank you!
Carrie: For someone who thought that they weren't going to be ready on time
I think I've done quite well!
My last touch is my necklace
There's something on this necklace that don't think I'm allowed to show you,
because it's kind of a giveaway about what the show's about.
And there we have it!
I mean, the last thing, of course, is a mint
Of which I have about seven during the course of one show
I hope you enjoyed this Get Ready With Me
Wednesday Edition
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