Bella Freud

You performed a one-woman show of the whole of Jesus Christ Superstar singing every part.

It was absolutely amazing.

I mean, I only watched it online because I saw the original production when I was 11.

You did?

I did.

I did, and it made a huge impression on me.

Wow.

My sister and I, we made up this version of Mary Magdalene's song, I Don't Know How to Love You, and we would sing I Don't Know How to Hate You

Do you ever include any of that in your set?

Oh, really?

I just remember the whole kind of question of morality when I went to see that, the original performance, and particularly Mary Magdalene, how it was like, oh, wow, she seems to represent...

the sort of ambiguity of how you might feel, like, I don't know how to love him, but if he loved me, I'd be scared.

Yeah, because Twigs was talking about how interested she was in her and how she was a herbalist and a kind of healer and all these other things, but she was more, but that's how she's remembered.

Not quite sure if she, I mean, obviously, who knows.

But it's, I don't know, she just represents questioning and how the nuances of loving someone and how sort of alarming one's own feelings could be.

And I went home from that thing at 11 thinking,

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's so good because it's got, you being alone has got slight Maria Callas kind of drama to it, which is just fantastic.

That and Wuthering Heights.