[Movieline will post the rest of Agron's roundtable discussion next month.]
About Agron's own high school obsession:
"I found photography in high school. [...] I was on the yearbook staff so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a dark room as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation. I loved it and didn't stop so now I have about ten cameras. My favorite thing to do with them is travel."
Responding to whether she has seen Jeff Bridges' behind-the-scenes photography books that he gives cast members at the end of each film:
"I have. I have. As of now, I've done it for the [Glee] cast. Last year, everybody at the end of the year -- and it was such a good year to do it because it was Oprah and the president and all of these good things -- I made a book for everyone and they really really liked that."
On Glee's open dialogue about prejudice:
"If you do have some discomfort with [homosexuality] in your mind, that we make it, I mean, we minimize it as much as possible. I think it's really upsetting that marriage was legal and then it was taken away. It's just pulling at people's heartstrings and people that have real emotions. [...] I was never raised with prejudice against anything or anyone. My family was very open-minding and very loving. I never saw it. Even to the point where I was so naive to it that my first awareness of it was, I lived in Texas for a few years when I was growing up and every time for the high holidays at our Temple, there would be policemen with guns and things like that. I just thought it was normal, like 'Oh, they're here to say hi.' I didn't really think that somebody might target because there aren't that many Jews in Texas. So when I moved to San Francisco and would go to temple, I'd notice oh, there's no cops here. I just think that people are afraid of what they don't know and can't understand and so if they can understand it more, I think it helps the cause."
On why she won't be attending the Super Bowl:
"I am not a sports girl. It's fun? But I don't understand -- I understand the bare bones, what you need to get by [while watching football]. I think like half of the cast is going. Lea's singing, which is amazing. [...] I feel bad because they said I could have two tickets. That would be such a waste on me. That would be great. I'm sure I'd have fun but people die for those tickets so I felt like I would be stripping a true fan of their year-long goal."
Describing her relationship with Pittsburgh, whose football team will be attending this year's Super Bowl:
"I was [filming both the show and the movie simultaneously] a bit. Towards the end of the movie, I had to go back and finish on I Am Number Four [in Pittsburgh] so I became very familiar with the flight patterns from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles. There's only one direct flight a day at 7:30 and if you can't make that, then you have to go through Atlanta or Washington or all these places, so you really hoped you'd make that 7:30 flight."