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Mostly because she had never imagined herself as a fit for the role.
ButThe Music Manwas not on her bucket list.
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“I didn’t even think about it.
They first approached me three years ago to play her, and my first response was, ‘What?
“It didn’t make any sense to me,” she adds.
She was not in my wheelhouse.
She was a left turn.
So I took it as a challenge.”
Starring oppositeHugh Jackman, who plays con man Harold Hill, Foster matches her castmate for wit and banter.
“I had no preconceived notions of how she was going to unfold,” Foster reflects.
“In fact, I was pretty confident I would be fired.
I just really didn’t know how it was going to turn out.
I took it day to day and discovered it along the way.
I wasn’t really aiming for anything.
Instead of being fired, Foster has earned raves (and that Tony nomination) for her performance.
“I wasn’t anticipating the audience being so excited from the get-go,” she says.
But that’s like, ‘Okay, all right, we have to deliver something.’
Every night I’m blown away by that.”
“I want to feel good about my work and true about my choices,” she says.
“I knew I was taking a huge risk.
I knew there might be people [who didn’t like it].
But as long as I felt true, it was about finding my own voice.
