We Are Lady Parts Season 2: Anjana Vasan and Sarah Kameela Impey Interview

We Are Lady Parts is back to take over the world, and Anjana Vasan and Sarah Kameela Impey are helping it succeed. The Channel 4 and Peacock co-production returns for another encore this week, following the titular band as they come off a long stint of touring, only to find that they’ve got a number of road blocks, including but not limited to album recording costs and bands attempting to steal their thunder. Creator Nida Manzoor sends the band into yet another pitch-perfect frenzy, and it’s all anchored by a killer new soundtrack and the performances of its two stellar leads.
Vasan leads the series as the mousy but secretly badass Amina, a biochemist by day and Lady Parts’ guitarist by night. But it’s not simply a part — she released her own album, Strange Country Jukebox, right as We Are Lady Parts first premiered in 2021. She’s as bubbly and bright as Amina is on-screen, and it makes sense when she tells me that she brought a little bit of her own musical tastes to her character’s stage presence.

Impey, on the other hand, plays the grumpy and down on her luck Saira, the band’s lead vocalist and primary driving force — and she does so with such talent and passion that I was genuinely thrown by how bright and pleasant she is in person. Her first instinct is to prop up her fellow cast members not present on our Zoom call — including Juliette Motamed and Faith Omole — citing their real-life endeavors as musicians and how much they’ve all bonded as a unit.

It’s easy to see why We Are Lady Parts is such a successful series, and why I would one-hundred percent buy a Lady Parts vinyl if it ever hit the market: you can’t fake that kind of chemistry, that’s obvious even through two separate Zoom windows. Vasan and Impey are as funny in their real lives as they are in front of a camera, and together with Manzoor, they’ve made something legendary.

We Are Lady Parts Season 2 is now streaming on Peacock.

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