Actor Arielle Jacobs plays the former first lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos in the Broadway show 'Here Lies Love.'
The Infamous Life of Imelda Marcos: The Bulletproof Bra, 3,000 Pairs of Shoes and Biographical Broadway Musical of the Philippines' Former First Lady
“It’s funny because they had told me early on, ‘we love your audition, but it’s not going to work out now, but maybe for a possible future production.’ And they didn’t know what the future productions would be,” she says. “And now that it’s here on Broadway, and I finally get the chance to do it, it’s pretty wild.”
“What was exciting to me then — and still now — is just being able to tell a Filipino story on stage and being able to play a Filipino for the first time in my career,” she says. “I’ve played everything under the sun. I have played Mexican and Puerto Rican and Middle Eastern and Chinese, and Native American and Colombian, and Afghani, but I’ve never played Filipino. There’s never been the opportunity to do it.
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