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Nicole Scherzinger has a rather fascinating backstage story from the time in the Broadway musical Sunset Boulevard, full of fake blood, celebrity photos, and quick thinking. The singer-actress shared on The Tonight Show her own inventive fixes to keep her fellow performers and guests clean after she drenched them in stage blood.
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During the interview, Fallon went on to produce a series of photographs ranging from Scherzinger with the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Glenn Close, and Oprah Winfrey. The catch? In each one, Scherzinger was covered in fake blood from her role as Norma Desmond in the musical. To prevent their clothes from getting stained, she came up with a solution: holding hands.
“When I take pictures with you, I don’t want to get my blood all over them,” she shared. “So I say, give me your hand. And we hold hands so it creates a barrier.” She added that the other benefit was avoiding awkward photos where it looked like she was refusing to touch her co-stars.
But Oprah? Oh, Oprah was not having it! Scherzinger chuckled, recalling, “Oprah wanted it all. She was like, give it to me. So I tackled her. And I dressed her up and put it in.” Fake blood went on “the botega, the Hermes, all the egg,” Scherzinger declared. “She didn’t care. I loved it.”
The comments section erupted with praise for her chutzpah and creativity: one commenter referred to her as an “ABSOLUTE icon,” while another got playful, saying Scherzinger was “bloody brilliant.” Good-natured banter like this only illustrates how the audience fares on the combo of her solid credibility with humor.
In a bit of an about-turn, one comment read, “There is life in the blood,” which, while probably metaphorical, threw an unexpected philosophical perspective into the mix. Meanwhile, another user had this ridiculously lengthy and bizarrely formatted comment about health issues and herpes that just came out of left field-a fitting reminder how even the lightest of posts can attract the weirdest tangents.
Clearly, Scherzinger’s stint in ‘Sunset Boulevard’ remains etched in history for both her, and the famous people who dared to bear her fake-blood-covered embraces. Whether it be Scherzinger’s snapping wit or Oprah’s fearless fun, the behind-the-scenes peek reminds us that there are a million unpredictable—and sometimes downright messy—moments in live theater, and if there’s anything Scherzinger is a pro at, it’s gliding right through them.
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The Tonight Show segment was a laugh riots with just enough hindsight of the Queen’s Broadway dalliance and how she turned ‘will-they-wash-it’ outfits into a hilarious story, perched exactly between entertainment and wanton Oprah approval.
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