Actor John Barrowman, 55, talks about his mental health struggles, his new album and never saying no to Doctor Who.
There are the mountains and the swimming pool. I can’t complain. We’ve been here off and on for eight years, since when I started working on Arrow. It’s much easier to fly from here to Vancouver, where it was filmed, rather than from LA. It was always the plan that my husband Scott [Gill] and I had if I landed a job over here that was going to be for a long time. So when I got the job, I said, ‘It’s time to enact the plan!’
I come back when needed. I recorded my new album between London and Cardiff. And Scott goes over every three months to see his mum and dad, so we work it out. I was on one of the last flights out of the UK at the beginning of lockdown and midway through the flight they announced that American airspace had just been shut down, so we might have to turn back.
We were already over northern Canada. Scott was in Palm Springs so if they’d done that, I would have had to have gone back to our flat in Cardiff.
This is what I’d call my quintessential musical theatre album. It’s not just songs from shows I was in, the concept is the journey of my musical theatre career.