Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. Very excited to bring you my conversation this week with Tony winning actress Nicole Scherzinger.

She stars as the lead, Norma Desmond, a Hollywood has been, in the classic Broadway musical

and movie before that, Sunset Boulevard.

You probably met Nicole first way back in the Pussycat Dolls, going back almost 20 years ago.

They sold something like

50 million albums, the girl group. She went on to be a judge on shows like The X Factor, the Masked Singer,

and now she's got a new series called Building the Band on Netflix. So she's had this career as kind of a pop star,

and then a judge on these talent

competitions. But inside of her, she's always been a theater kid with incredible talent and an

incredible voice that was on display in the pussycat dolls, but not quite in the way that

it's been in Sunset Boulevard. So she has been an absolute revelation on Broadway.

The show just closed, Sunset Boulevard, recently, and she walked away with that Tony Award

for leading actress in a musical. She was stunning in that show. So we got together kind of as a

valedictory interview. It was the week the show was closing to reflect on this

performance, this character in this show that has really changed her life. And as she says,

given her a chance to truly, after all these years, show what she is capable of doing.

Lovely to talk to. We got together to a place called Mineta Tavern, very famous place in New York City,

and really got to just let her exhale after this, about a year's run almost on Broadway. And before

that, she had Sunset Boulevard on West End in London. She's seen a lot in her career,

but nothing quite like this. And it was a great moment to catch up with her. So please sit back,

relax, and enjoy Nicole Scherzinger right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast. Nicole, thank you for doing

this. Thank you so much for having me. Last time I laid eyes on you, you were standing on a stage

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