Even though she’s not as active on it now, Mary Neely has Twitter (now known as X) to thank for launching her career. The actor went viral in the early days of COVID-19 for uploading videos of her re-enacting famous musical numbers to the platform – playing all the roles with whatever homemade props, costumes and wigs she had lying around. Why Twitter/X? Neely is blunt: “Purely because of music copyright issues,” she says. “Every time I tried to upload them to Instagram or TikTok, they would immediately get flagged or taken down. I figured it didn’t matter because no one was paying attention anyway. And then it changed
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