054: Pearl Mackie (Part One)

Join host Andrew Keates for The Show People Podcast, recorded live from The Two Brewers in Clapham.

This episode features an extraordinary conversation with actor and activist. Pearl Mackie.

Episode Highlights Include:
• Growing up in Brixton, a love of Judy Garland and watching musicals, wondering why there were no black faces.
• The things she learned while training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
• How she survived after leaving drama schools and the many crazy jobs she had to take.
• Climbing her way up the London fringe theatre scene and eventually getting her West End breaks.
• What it means to be a young black queer woman and the intersectionality that comes with it.
• And of course, many references to Bill Potts, her character in Doctor Who

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Special thanks
to Liam Chaplin, Adam Deamer, Oliver Blatherwick, Rhys Godfrey and the staff of the Two Brewers, and of course, Pearl Mackie.

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Until next time - love always, Ax