Here’s the 411 on KT Tunstall. She’s won two Ivor Novello awards, soundtracked the most iconic movie montage of all time for , and now the Scottish chanteuse is writing the music for . No, you’re not buggin’ – the 90s chic flick is coming to the Trafalgar this February.
But adapting this total Baldwin of film for the was no easy feat, as KT explains. This first challenge? Re-creating the ultimate it girl. Bee of , the muse for Charli XCX and Donatella Versace alike, the girl who told a generation it was actually quite chic to be a virgin who couldn’t drive – what it about Cher Horowitz? And how do you usher in the second coming of Christ in yellow plaid? It’s a question that KT Tunstall, who’s been working throughout the musical alongside Amy Heckerling (the director who’s penning the West End script), had been asking herself.
‘You're basically casting a kind of rich brat,’ she laughs. ‘That was the genius of Alicia Silverstone: she's just immediately, completely lovable, despite her obvious cluelessness and her flaws.’ For what it’s worth, the singer is looking just as glamorous as her leading lady.
Black blazer, silky white shirt, a chain necklace, and matching shark tooth earrings. She talks about the glorious oxymoron that is Cher Horowitz with the kind of veneration you might expect from a literature professor discussing Milton’s God. ‘She’s a really challenging character to cast,’ she says, ‘especially in this day and age where we.
