Layton Williams: ‘If you’re offended by my iceberg, don’t come watch it’

Layton Williams has shared a almighty connection for anyone offended by him playing an iceberg.

The Strictly Come Dancing star, 30, is taking to the signifier for a precise unsocial relation successful philharmonic Titanique.

He’s vowed to ‘bring joy’ to audiences, and has a almighty connection for anyone offended by the show, aft a Drag creator connected Britain’s Got Talent sparked Ofcom complaints implicit a Titanic performance, which some fans slammed arsenic ‘super distasteful’ aft the 1912 tragedy.

Hitting backmost astatine the haters, Layton told Metro: ‘I deliberation erstwhile truthful overmuch clip passes, to marque joyousness of thing that happened… it’s much a lol connected Celine [Dion], and actually each the characters are fictional.

‘It’s based connected the Titanic film, and we each cognize the characters successful the movie weren’t real. So actually, we’re not taking the p**s retired of existent beingness radical that died.

‘We’re taking the p**s retired of made up characters successful a movie that isn’t real. And present this is doubly not real, truthful this is each fantasy.’

The Bad Education histrion went on: ‘There’s a gorgeous small infinitesimal astatine the extremity wherever we admit the people.

‘So I truly deliberation you’re reaching for the stars if you’re offended, someone’s going beryllium offended astir something. oregon we wouldn’t beryllium capable to permission the house, let’s beryllium f**king real.

‘So if that is you, don’t publication a ticket. If that is not you, get your arse down to The Criterion Theatre.’

Talking astir the iconic caller role, which Layton saw successful New York before it made its mode to London, helium explained however helium was acceptable for thing amusive wherever ‘you astir apt outcry laughing’, aft playing Emcee successful Cabaret for 4 months.

He said: ‘We are successful a precise brainsick satellite astatine the moment, and I deliberation everyone conscionable needs a small spot of joy. And Titanic is going to springiness you that.

‘The iceberg b***h, my large fig is simply a Tina Turner tribute successful a dusty, hard, lace, beforehand wig and a throw-on gown and a cheeky kitten heel. It’s conscionable stupid.

‘Like my iceberg b***h is fundamentally a premix betwixt Tina Turner and RuPaul. That’s the energy, you amended articulator sync for your beingness boat, period.’

Talking astir watching the accumulation earlier it came to the West End, helium recalled however ‘hilarious’ it was, and however helium predicted having ‘so overmuch amusive with this part’.

‘I mean the formed is truthful fab arsenic well, similar precise West End Wendies, apical of their crippled hotties arsenic well,’ helium went on.

‘Everyone’s truthful beautiful, which we love, but connected the astir part, conscionable ace talented. So I’m excited to muck in. It’s a precise shared ensemble portion arsenic well. It feels similar we’re going to stock the load and conscionable person a giggle.’

Though helium can’t precisely hole to play an iceberg by sitting successful a cryo machine, Layton revealed helium has been belting retired his tunes and is gearing up to beryllium ‘the baddest b***h iceberg’ successful immoderate beauteous iconic ways.

‘I conscionable work the script, listened to immoderate Celine Dion songs… it’s similar you’ve got to compartmentalize each these things and conscionable ore connected the happening astatine hand.

‘And thankfully, this is simply a amusement that you tin conscionable benignant of measurement successful and it volition each conscionable travel in. But I’m conscionable listening to my bops. My opus is truly deep, Mountain High, which is specified a tune,’ helium added, earlier breaking into song.

‘Like, that is simply a song, isn’t it? But also, I was successful the steam country the different time and I was like, wait, tin I really sing this song? They’ve not really heard maine sing it. I was like, what if I’m s**t?

‘So I virtually popped my caput retired of the steam room, made definite cipher was determination successful the hotel, closed it and belted my t*ts off. ‘

He went on: ‘There’s decidedly not a batch of caput prep for this relation due to the fact that it’s truthful silly, which is simply a alleviation disconnected the backmost of Cabaret, due to the fact that that truly did instrumentality a antithetic approach, because, of course, the taxable substance a batch deeper.

‘And with Titanic, it did really happen, and determination was a beauteous infinitesimal astatine the extremity of the amusement successful New York, like, “We dedicate this amusement to the radical that mislaid their lives successful Titanic”, we person that moment.’

In betwixt preparing for Titanique and having conscionable finished a tally successful Cabaret, Layton besides manages to find clip to enactment his Pros From The Shows programme, providing the next procreation an penetration into West End productions.

The bi-monthly workshops person launched successful London, Manchester, Durham and present Norwich and Edinburgh, for children and present for adults.

‘I really wanted to acceptable it up truthful it could beryllium thing that, particularly successful my area, radical could autumn into,’ Layton said.

‘And I conjecture the quality that erstwhile I was increasing up, you didn’t truly person radical from the shows travel into your municipality to springiness you these experiences.’

He went connected to explain: ‘Basically it’s conscionable an accidental for radical successful that area, like-minded young people, to conscionable beryllium surrounded by radical that are similar them, that emotion showtunes and emotion dancing and emotion singing, emotion acting, and it could beryllium successful a harmless space, and it’s benignant of nary judgement zone.’

Layton added: ‘It’s not conscionable changing these kids’ lives and mounting them up for the future. It’s besides giving grown radical the realization that beingness is inactive for living. So it’s truly beauteous happening that we tin offer. We’re conscionable trying to get the sound retired determination and fto radical cognize astir it, due to the fact that it’s special.’

Titanique, New York’s splash deed parody musical, docks astatine The Criterion Theatre from Monday, December 9. london.titaniquemusical.com

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