Cole Escola is clarifying their headline-making quip about “four more years” in response to Nicole Scherzinger’s triumph at Sunday’s Tony Awards.
On Tuesday, the “Oh, Mary!” star shared an Instagram story through which they shrugged off the implication their remark was meant as a jab at Scherzinger, who presently stars within the revival of “Sunset Boulevard” on Broadway.
“When I made that joke … when I said, ‘Four more years, four more years,’ I meant it like, ‘Well, she won, she’s who we’ve got for the next four years,’ as if I think winning Best Lead Actress in a Musical is the same as winning a presidential election,” Escola defined.
They went on to notice: “But you know, people just want to pit us Broadway gals against each other, and I think it’s sad. I really think it’s sad.”
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On Sunday, Escola grew to become the primary brazenly nonbinary performer to win the Tony for Greatest Actor in a Play for his or her portrayal of first girl Mary Todd Lincoln in “Oh, Mary!” on Broadway. Scherzinger, in the meantime, emerged because the winner of carefully watched Greatest Lead Actress in a Musical race for her “Sunset Boulevard” efficiency.
Upon studying of Scherzinger’s win, Escola quipped to reporters within the Tonys press room, “Four years. Four more years!”
Many have been fast to interpret the comment as a nod to the controversy that ensued after Scherzinger, a religious Catholic, commented on an Instagram photograph of comic Russell Model in a “Make Jesus First Again” hat final fall, in addition to different social media posts that appeared to assist President Donald Trump.
Scherzinger later issued an apology, noting she’d “made the mistake of not realizing that they could be easily interpreted as being politically related and I apologize to anyone who understandably reached that conclusion.”
“Many presumptions are being drawn, which do not reflect who I am, what I stand for, or who I voted for,” she added. “Many of the marginalized communities feeling hurt and concerned by the results of the presidential election are people I care about most. I stand with them, as I always have, throughout my life and career. If you know me, you know that.”
Actually, Escola and Scherzinger appear to be on pleasant phrases, and fortunately posed collectively for pictures at a Tonys after-party.
