The Big Picture We Are Lady Parts is back to take over the world, and Anjana Vasan and Sarah Kameela Impey are helping it succeed. The Channel 4 and Peacock co-production returns for another encore this week, following the titular band as they come off a long stint of touring, only to find that they’ve got a number of road blocks, including but not limited to album recording costs and bands attempting to steal their thunder.
We Are Lady Parts TV-MAComedyMusic A look at the highs and lows of the band members that make up a Muslim female punk band, Lady Parts, as seen through the eyes of Amina Hussein, a geeky PhD student who is recruited to be their unlikely lead guitarist. Obviously music is an integral part of this show, and especially for your characters. For Saira and Sister Squire, and for Amina, it's country singers like Don McLean. I know both of you are musical outside of this show, so are there any singers, groups, songs that mean something as personal to you as those singers are for them?
IMPEY: It wasn't that specific. Actually, we talked around examples, but it was more about finding our unique qualities as this new band from our kind of experiences growing up and our circumstances. And it's so nice, I feel like, going into the second series, because the influence that Amina has had on the writing style and musical element is beautiful and so different from the first.
VASAN: There were people who came in in full makeup, curled their hair. Everyone was so excited, and rightly so. But she was so calm and so up for anything and was very chill, and I think she was just taking it all in and wanting to do it well and just, like, be present. That scene, at first, was just us standing in front of the horse, but then it was like we decided we should be dancing.
IMPEY: It was actually a really great day. I know it's a really deep and meaningful subject, but I think there's something within the words becoming something physical that make them so much more apparent with their effect. And to see it in the script and see, like, a stunt team are coming in and you're gonna be on wires, and I was really ill that week, as well, but Saira was meant to be at kind of her darkest moment.