These ‘Boots’!
dallasvoice.comLee Walter finds her Kinky side onstage RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writerrich@dallasvoice.com Lee Walter is no stranger to fabulous costumes or even high heels.
She’s locally famous for her drag persona, Jada Pinkett Fox, but even that didn’t prepare the actor for her role as Lola in Uptown Players’ newest production of the musical Kinky Boots.
But it wasn’t the wardrobe that made her reticent, it was Lola. “I was terrified of doing this show. It is a beast vocally, and then, honestly, I’m not a huge fan of accents,” the actor said with a laugh. “But with this show, you just have to do it.
You can’t freak out.” But at the same time that the role has her terrified, she said, it has helped her a lot as an actor. “It helps me as an actor branch out of what I do normally in a drag type of role.
