The Skinny on... Xhloe and Natasha

What’s your favourite place to visit?
These days, our beds! But a more interesting answer is probably batting cages in Seoul, Korea. We are both bad at baseball and our forearms hurt for days. 10/10 would return.

Favourite food?
Daifuku mochi, aka red bean mochi cakes, they feel like what we imagine biting a person would feel like (not in a weird way!) We buy them frozen from the corner store and put them in our shirts to defrost while we work on writing so it’s like a reward for later. 

Favourite colour?
Pink because no one can make us feel like liking pink is negative because of its association with femininity. Also because of P!nk the singer, we think she is cool and she did a good job hosting the Tony Awards this year. Love pink. 

Who was your hero growing up?
Rihanna in the Shut Up and Drive music video. Natasha used to wake up and watch it every morning while she ate her breakfast.

Whose work inspires you now?
Jordan Peele! Cole Escola! Mother nature! All of our hardworking, talented friends! All of our untalented, lazy friends! Fringe artists who produce themselves! Ashnikko! The artist Glen Baxter! The warriors of Pinterest! 

What three people would you invite to your dinner party and what are you cooking?
Jack Black, Jeff Probst, and Sean Evans from Hot Ones. Not cooking, ordering Mexican food for delivery and asking them to kiss each other.

What’s your all time favourite album?
Xhloe says: The Lego Movie Soundtrack.
Natasha says: The Moulin Rouge Soundtrack. The movie one of course.

What’s the worst film you’ve ever seen?
Killer Mermaid, highly recommend. Or Shark Night. It’s the perfect awful shark movie. We gave it the nickname 'Shark Legs' but we can’t remember why. If you watch it let us know if you figure it out.

What book would you take to a desert island?
Desert Island Survival: The Ultimate Guide by Ron White and also Modelland by Tyra Banks.

Who’s the worst?
You! Ugh!

When did you last cry?
Yesterday. Not as we write this, but yesterday as you read this. Probably. We both have a lot of water placements in our astrological charts if you’re into that kind of thing. If you’re not into that kind of thing, maybe try having some whimsy. 

What are you most scared of?
Gang violence, sharks, quicksand, failure, the G train not running, accidentally throwing up on stage, people seeing the real us, strange men on Instagram being creepy, scorpions, scorpios, accidentally joining a cult, hearing a mouse in our apartments, earthquakes, etc. 

When did you last vomit?
Luckily not on stage.
Natasha says: March. Food poisoning.
Xhloe says: June. Got too nervous.

Tell us a secret?
We have a secret physical code of squeezes and signals we use on stage to communicate without breaking character. Please don’t tell anyone!

Which celebrity could you take in a fight?
We think we could both take on Emily Blunt if fighting individually. We could have different tactics but we could both probably take her down. She’s like 5' 7". We googled it. Which is 170 cm. We also googled that. If we’re allowed to fight together then literally anyone. We’re scrappy as hell, please hire us to beat up celebrities, we think we could maybe make better money [doing that] than as artists.

If you could be reincarnated as an animal, which animal would it be?
Probably a couple of rats. Some people say 'they have that dog in them.' We like to say we both have rats living in us. It would make sense!

How do you fuel yourself for a Fringe run?
Chicken shawarma with extra hot sauce! Diet Coke! A 500 pill bottle of extra strength good old American ibuprofen! Positive affirmations! Delusion!

What is the weirdest thing you've seen during the Fringe?
On stage: we once saw a group of high schoolers list things for an hour! Off stage: one time a drunk man confused Xhloe’s hostel bed for his! Get out of my bed!

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Xhloe and Natasha: Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It, Summerhall (Main Hall), 6-30 Aug, 9.10pm, returns only