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Podcast: BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE
Episode: NIKKI BLONSKY (on Zac Efron, Amanda Bynes, Hairspray & The Pitfalls of Hollywood)
Description: Nikki Blonsky steps Behind The Rope. Nikki chats with us about what it was like to land the breakout role of Tracy Turnblad in the film version of the iconic Hairspray.  We chat about all the details from the audition process, to the mind of John Waters to how life changed after the film came out and made her a household name. Of course, we chat about some of Nikki’s Hairspray co-stars such as Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeiffer, John Travolta and Queen Latifah. We also chat about some of the original film’s stars such as Debbie Ha...