Lea Michele Wants You to Know She Has Lots of Interviews Scheduled
An added bonus to the rampant success of Glee -- besides the fact that the show found a way to make Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" tolerable; thanks Darren Criss! -- is all the behind-the-scenes gossip that revolves around the Fox smash hit. Is the entire cast having sex with each other, Caligula-style? Did Naya Rivera trash Mark Salling's car when they broke up? Is Lea Michele the diva-terror everyone claims? Well, about that last one...
The December issue of Details features a cover story on Matthew Morrison -- lady porn alert: he's shirtless throughout -- and includes an interesting aside about Michele's on-set behavior.
Everyone's looking over their lines now, rehearsing dance steps -- except Lea Michele, who keeps staring at me as I observe Morrison. Every time I look up, I catch her looking my way. It seems she knows I'm a reporter and wants my attention.
When Morrison brings over a laptop to show me a movie treatment he's been working on, Michele crosses the set, stands next to me, and starts talking to the show's publicist. "I have a lot of interviews to do," she says. "There's that AIDS blast and..." She turns to look at me. "Oh, hi."
Within minutes the publicist asks me to leave the set. I'm a distraction.
The spotlight is only so big. For what it's worth, Movieline has yet to interview Michele...but we'd love to! We'd even talk about that "AIDS blast" with her. (Call us!) Anyway, forget Grey's Anatomy; if there's a television show that deserves a companion behind-the-scenes reality series, Glee is certainly the one.
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Misunderstanding. Don't think she meant it like that. Say what you want. Don't care.
Talking to a publicist about scheduled interviews?! That Bitch be CRAZY!
Please. This chick is a massive pain in the ass.
Please the only one looking for attention was the writer of this article. He is using Lea's name. She was irrelevant to his story and had no reason to even mention her. Then he makes assumptions about what went on in the conversation.
Don't feed the stupidity. If she wanted attention why did this writer give it to her. More piling on and name dropping.
Seriously this is a story? Why did the writer even give this second thought? Wasn't the story support to be about Matt?
Movieline this is really petty of you to even pretend this is something.
Why would she interview with you and you will do is twist it around, for some reason you want to be negative. Just ignore her if you think she wants attention pretty common sense mvoe.
Oh but you want to you her to get people to your site.
People are jsut trying to start stuff so sad.
Sounds like a case of majorly inflated ego... on the writer's part! This guy just wants people to think a pretty young actress wanted his attention. I don't think Lea Michele needs to be lobbying for interviews, the press is already all over her. Perhaps she was looking over (even she even was) because she was bored, or curious about what her friend/co-star was doing. And maybe, just maybe, she was talking to the publicist about her upcoming interviews because, well that's what the publicist is there for. Get over yourself, dude. Good going making Matthew's moment about Lea... looks like the cast aren't the ones stirring up trouble on the set.
Oh, please. I love drama too, but all the faux 'fan outrage' here for Lea is hilarious. Lea Michele is a bitch on wheels and it's now referred to openly (as here) in articles, not even bothered to be hidden anymore by the press. And when that happens? Not good for anyone. Least of all Lea. At least some (like SMG) managed to hide their difficulty for most of their star-making runs.
But here? I think Lea's got a great voice on "Glee," and liked her in "Spring Awakening," but she ain't all that. She scoops half her notes (it's a singer thing, she's developed some really bad habits), and let's face it, she's a notorious pain on set, she's demanding and hard to work with, and there are prettier and more talented girls out there (despite whatever goodies she showed for GQ) by the thousands. In Los Angeles ALONE.
And the thing is, she's wrong. Lea obviously thinks "Glee" is just a minor stepping stone, one she can discard and denigrate as fast as she can. When: wrong. This role on "Glee" is a dream role. It fits her perfectly, allows her to perform superbly in ways no movie opportunity will ever do.
If Lea really wants to achieve anything like other divas, she's gonna have to rein in the drama for a decade or two, buckle down, do the work, get the attention she can, and turn it into a career. Otherwise, this show will wind down predictably in approximately two years, Lea will find herself jobless and with only a few stage gigs to support her, and none of that superstardom she evidently hungers for. She's already too notorious for most movies to even bother with her.
So here's hoping the latest series of press leaks about her jerky behavior cause her to wise up and start treating people better. But... I wouldn't hold my breath. At least it adds to the inadvertent comedy. She'll still think she's the best ever in twenty years (heck, ten), wondering where her career went to, and all it would have taken was a few kind words and simple courtesy. She ain't Angelina, after all. So imagine what the goodwill of her directors and co-workers could do. But nope. She'll still treat people like dirt, make demands, kid herself, and end up a nobody in ten years, wondering where it all went wrong.