In true Spice Girl fashion, British singer and author Geri Halliwell-Horner knows there’s no better place to find talent than on homegrown soil, especially when it comes to choosing actors to play her in a biopic of her life.
‘I would go for Florence Pugh and Emily Blunt. [For] the different stages in my life. They’re both gorgeous, they have huge hearts – they’re real,’ she told ELLE UK during a recent game of Ask Me Anything. ‘Wow, that would be a privilege and honour if those two amazing women played me.’
Celebrating women with heart has long been of great importance to ‘Ginger Spice’, ever since she was thrown into the spotlight with the English pop group, The Spice Girls, in 1994. Now, the ‘It’s Raining Men’ singer is injecting some much-welcomed girl power into her new novel, Rosie Frost and the Falcon Queen. The book explores protagonist Rosie Frost’s journey at a mysterious school on an island, and touches on the author's love of British history, nature, and adventure.
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‘It’s about an ordinary hero finding the courage she never knew she had. The reason I decided to write Rosie is because I feel like the world does need a new hero, one that is not perfect. It’s about finding her power, and through her we find ours,’ Halliwell-Horner, explained, noting that her best writing tip is to write in a dark room, à la Stephen King.
Reflecting on her near three-decade long career, the author revealed that if she could give herself another Spice name, she’d choose Golden Spice. ‘I feel like this is a new chapter in my life, it feel timeless. It feels good. It feels gold.’
With a penchant for whipping up creations on her sewing machine – an activity the singer has enjoyed since her Spice Girls days – Halliwell-Horner also recalled some of her favourite DIY projects.
‘My stitching can get a little bit wobbly,’ she began, adding that she made the famous Union Jack dress out of a tea towel, stitched onto a black Gucci dress. ‘There was this sparkly dress that I wore when I picked up the [BRIT] award, and I was thinking “yeah, Jessica Rabbit”, you know when you get an idea in your head? I wanted it to be like that. But the unfortunate thing was that I didn’t put a lining in it, so it kept on slipping. For an interesting reason, that was impressive.'
'If I could only wear on Ginger Spice outfit for the rest of my life it would be this cream coat that I wore when I turned on the Oxford Street lights,' she noted. 'It’s very Gangster's Moll looking, and it’s vintage. But it looks very Yves Saint Laurent. It didn’t cost me a lot of money. I love it for two [reasons]: you always feel stylish and also, I hate being cold. It’s my worst thing. If I’m cold, I can’t stand it.’
From one of her most prized possessions, gifted to her by friend George Michael, to her most memorable run-in with a celebrity, watch Geri Halliwell-Horner’s Ask Me Anything video at the top of this article.
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