Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell-Horner: Death Energy, Self-Worth, & Lessons from America
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Mayim Bialik
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Geri Halliwell-Horner (Ginger Spice herself!) discusses what drew her to the Spice Girls from the very beginning, her foray into literature and writing, and the life lessons she has learned from American culture. She shares her thoughts on what it has meant to be Ginger Spice, the connotations associated with being a redhead, and how her intuition guided her to stand up for Spice Girls’ biggest hit, “Wannabe.” Mayim serenades Geri with Yiddish songs and Geri explains how she incorporates songwriting into her books, why she resonates with Sylvester Stallone, how becoming a mom changed her persona and why self-worth can be our best defense.
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| 0:00.0 | I wouldn't be the success I am if it wasn't for America. |
| 0:07.7 | When I was a little girl, my mother used to go to work and I used to turn on the TV and |
| 0:12.3 | there was lots of American TV shows like Charlie's Angels, the A-Team, Rocky, okay. |
| 0:22.7 | You taught me that I'm allowed to dream and go for my dreams and dream big. |
| 0:27.2 | That's America. |
| 0:28.2 | It's not British. British is really a little bit more conservative. |
| 0:30.8 | I'll keep you in my quirky nurse. |
| 0:32.5 | You know, that's sort of something different. |
| 0:35.0 | But that was sort of, it got installed in me. |
| 0:39.6 | Well, I was sitting there going, oh, okay, yeah, I can do this. |
| 0:42.5 | Wow. |
| 0:42.8 | And it was you that gave me that. |
| 0:44.5 | So, let's alone, okay, he's a struggling actor. |
| 0:48.3 | And he writes the script, Rocky. |
| 0:51.3 | And finally, it's going to get picked up by a big studio on one condition. |
| 0:57.5 | Now, bearing in mind, he is living in that sleeping in the back of a car. |
| 1:03.0 | And the studio says, yes, we're going to give you X amount of dollars, a lot, |
| 1:06.9 | hundreds of thousands of dollars on one condition. |
| 1:10.1 | We're going to get somebody else to play the part. |
| 1:12.6 | This dude hasn't got any money and he's like, uh, no, sorry, but I need to play the part. |
| 1:19.1 | And that take a huge amount of belief. |
| 1:21.7 | And I think, do you know what? |
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