Meera Syal has revealed she would like to star in a musical.
The Goodness Gracious Me star, who wrote AR Rahman and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Bombay Dreams and appeared on a Comic Relief single alongside Gareth Gates, said she would like the opportunity to show off her singing skills.
“I’d love to do a musical. I’m going to go and see Assassins next week at the Donmar [Warehouse], and I would love to do something like that, a [Stephen] Sondheim,” she said.
“I haven’t got one of those under my belt yet. Love Sondheim, but also something like Guys And Dolls. Just something classic and wonderful.”
Meera, who recently played a judge on ITV drama Broadchurch and will reunite with her Goodness Gracious Me co-stars for a TV special, has been enjoying a taste of work in the US, on new HBO show The Brink with Jack Black and Tim Robbins.
“It was a fantastic first experience of me working in America. I’ve worked in New York but I hadn’t worked in Los Angeles; I hadn’t worked on film in America before,” she said.
“It’s about really c**p CIA agents. All my scenes were with him [Jack]. He was just amazing to work with; extremely generous, really up for improvising, and very warm; had no entourage with him. Just a very regular, down-to-earth, lovely guy. I was very lucky there.”
Broadchurch Series Two is out now on DVD and Blu-ray.
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