And as Julie explained, she had the idea for the book way back in the 1990s.
“I was in Victor/Victoria on Broadway,” she recalled, “and my hairdresser came in—darling man—and he said, ‘There’s been a mouse discovered in the hairdressing department.’”
And when the Oscar winner asked him to set down a humane mouse trap, he broke it to her gently “that there are hundreds of mice beneath the stage.”
“A light bulb went off in my head when he said, ‘That mouse probably came up to see all the stars, you know,’” Julie shared. “I came back and told Emma, ‘We’ve got to write this story of a troupe of mice who watch everything up on the big stage, and then develop it for their own pleasure.’”
Over the years, the Bridgerton star has credited writing with helping her find a creative outlet following her 1997 throat surgery, which left her unable to continue singing professionally.
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