• Didn't know she was a singer until her first audition for Les Misérables at 8 years old
• Is embracing everything she is and putting it into her sound and her look and is free from trying to be someone or something else
• The key to making the album exactly what she wanted was being able to dedicate all of her time to it / not have Glee to film
• Excited to be able to open up
SummaryOn how she's changed as a person since her first album:"I'm in such a settled and happy place in my life right now and I'm so happy to be able to do what I love and get to be back on the stage."
Music or TV?:"I'm really grateful that I get to do both. I love television, but singing is one of the most incredible feelings in the entire world and I wouldn't give that up for anything."
Birthday is in August/almost completed her first year being 30:"I think I've definitely grown a lot in these last couple of years. I'm always trying to constantly grow and learn and improve. But it feels amazing being 30."
Favourite guilty pleasure food (follow-up to this post):"Cheese, cheese, cheese and more cheese. Pizza, bagel and cream cheese, mac and cheese all day."
Lea Michele for Cosmopolitan on
'How I Made It'• Was dying for a party in a Broadway production of
West Side Story• Worked hard on the audition, "literally, I learned Spanish for it."
• She said one line and the casting directors were not having it
• "I was gutted. I went home and I cried so hard, 'what am I gonna do? This was my dream role!'. It's hard when you get a lot of 'no's, you start to just believe that that's always gonna be the answer."
• Got cast on Glee a couple of weeks after the failed audition, to which she credits as the best thing that ever happened to her
• If you could go back, what would you tell yourself? "Don't stop believing."
One of my favs from last week.. 📸Sources:
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this positive, confident, knows what she wants, self-love, girl's girl, feeling herself, "I don't eat candy" frozen gummy bear-eating queen!
last post i was impressed with the album but now i find myself only listening to 3 tracks lmao
heavy love
heavenly
tornado
yehhhh