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Theater performer, Luciana Zupa. He's a costume designer, a cabaret artist, a 42-year career in theater. He's absolutely fantastic, and he's here with me in studio. I want to ask you, Luciana, about Robert Whitehead. I want to tell our listeners: if you are, if you can tune in on YouTube, please just go on our YouTube page. I mean, the resemblance is uncanny. Do you ever get that? Yes, I do.

It's funny how also I went into a shoe shop the other day and I heard someone shouting from the back. I'd been in before to buy some shoes from them. And I just heard Pocket Haines, Pocker Haines. Pocket Haines! Pocket Haines! And the lady's trying to talk to me, but she's hearing the slaughter going, and she's telling you to shut up, chut up, shut up. And then Burger King on Louis Booter Avenue, whenever I go there, I hear them all saying, Here's Pocker Haines, Pocket Haines. Pocket Hayes just walked in. I'm not sure. People say, why do you say no? You might get free stuff, but they never give me free stuff.

And of course, that almost scored you an acting gig also? Well, yeah, my agent wanted me to audition for the character of his brother when he needed a brother. But I was busy with something else, so I couldn't do it. So Michael Richards ended up playing his brother. And I mean, I know Robert, and he's lovely. I have such fun with him. He's so funny. Lovely man. Does he see it? Does he see the resemblance? Yeah, I know. We've laughed about it. You sort of like.

Look at each other and we're like, I don't know. I don't know if I see it. No, well, I think everyone else sees it, and we can't all be wrong. Okay. Talk to me, Luciana, about the costume designer part of your career. Well, you see, when I said earlier that I that was either the plan I was going to go into, yeah, but then going to university and studying or college, even I didn't have the financial backing for that. So, you know, I went into waitering and then into cabaret and theater.