Katy Perry, her fame assured, wants American Idol to find a star

Hong Kong-bound superstar isn’t resting on her laurels, and brings her music industry expertise to role as TV talent show judge; and for all the success she’s had, singer still has a wish – to play the lead in a live-action Snow White movie

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Katy Perry performs onstage during the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP

Published: 5:56pm, 12 Mar 2018Updated: 5:56pm, 12 Mar 2018

Katy Perry has become a superstar, delivering a continuous stream of hit records, gigantic tours such as the one bringing her to Hong Kong this month and even performing at half-time of the Super Bowl. As if that wasn’t enough fame, Perry now joins Lionel Richie and original host Ryan Seacrest as a celebrity judge on the revival by American broadcaster ABC of the TV talent show American Idol.

Despite her success, Perry has a wish that she would love to see come true.

“Snow White has never been made into a live-action movie. I will go back to black hair if this is ever available,” Perry says. She’s long had a passion for anything Disney, a connection that just got stronger because the company owns ABC, and she has done her share of animated voice work with the Smurf films.

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Few people get to see her commitment to voice work because it’s all done in a recording studio, but Perry says that, when given the chance to be a cartoon character, she throws everything she has into the work. She will work so hard on an animation voice that she has to go back and practise her own songs just to get her voice back to normal.

Katy Perry has had enough success already to sit back and take it easy, but there’s no chance of that, what with a mammoth world tour and her role as an American Idol judge.

She won’t have to worry so much about the singing and voice work for American Idol; Perry will be more content just to talk to all the show’s hopefuls and then to be part of the process of picking the next big star.

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“Literally, we are wasting our time if we do not find a star,” Perry says. She pauses and then adds: “America doesn’t need another star. They need a real legit American Idol. It’s a crowded place, and I take it really seriously, sometimes to my detriment. But I’m very cut-and-dried and get straight to the point … I think that is our purpose.”