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Chapter 1: Who is the guest on today's episode of Therapus?
and feeling the warmth from the blanket and the cold from the outside air. So I guess I'm just making more of a statement. But tonight on Therapist, we have Leah Michelle. I grew up being the biggest Gleek in the entire world, and I never got to see Glee live in concert. So this was extremely full circle for me. And Really important to me. It was one of my favorite interviews I have ever done.
During the interview, I honestly couldn't believe that I was doing it because I kept thinking about how excited I would be as a 10-year-old if you told me that this would be my life today. So I'm just very grateful to Leah and everyone. It was incredible. It was incredible and I'm so excited for you guys to hear it.
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I feel like you have so many amazing fans and so many great supporters. But I really feel like I was at the beginning.
You were at the beginning?
I was at the beginning. And I wrote you. And I was sending your videos to everyone I knew. This is the funniest person I have seen in years. There are certain people who tickle my funny bone and make me laugh. It's like... Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, and you. Stop. Whatever you do. I was trying to think of my top three. I remember when you did Baby Moses going down on the stream.
Yes, it was raining in LA.
It was raining? Yes. That was unbelievable. It's like true genius. It's like you are... I think all people who are funny, like, are geniuses. And you have to be, like, you have to be so smart. And you're so smart and funny together. And, like, oh, my God. Like, you brought me such joy.
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Chapter 2: What is Lea Michele's experience with Glee?
Well, Lea Michele, everybody, is on the podcast today.
Oh, my God.
Wow. The fact that if I had told like little me that you just said that to me, like could die happy.
Well, I really mean it.
Thank you. I am the world's biggest fan. I'm the world's biggest Glee. Like I am so excited that you're here.
I'm so excited. I'm so excited to chat and be with you. Yes. Great.
So you are about to go on tour, huh?
I am. Yeah.
And are you doing your you're doing like Glee covers and stuff, huh?
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Chapter 3: How did Lea Michele get her role on Glee?
And then they hired Corey. And then, you know, however, later into the run, Ryan was like, will you please come on at least and just play this like, you know, kind of coming in, coming out character. Right. And he was like, sure. So then he came and played Jesse St. James.
That is a wild, crazy, wild story. That makes so much sense.
I mean, imagine if I hadn't gone there. Right. Like.
The butterfly effect.
Yes, totally.
But is it true that... Because I remember hearing that when you auditioned, there was a car crash or something that happened right before and you had glass in your hair.
Yes, this is the story of my life. Talk about butterfly effect. Yeah, no, I was in LA. I had left Spring Awakening. I knew that this Glee audition was coming up, but I was like, whatever, whatever. It's never going to happen. They're never going to cast me. I was always told I was too Jewish looking for television. I wasn't like pretty enough, like all of that.
And I was driving in my little like mini coupe that I had rented in L.A., blasting Adele and singing at the top of my lungs on my way to my Glee audition. trying to make a right turn into the studio from the center lane because I'm from New York City. Right. And I totaled my car, played dead, but then realized if I'm dead, I can't audition.
So then I revived myself, literally left the car in the road, ran up the lot and walked in and they were like, you can go home. And I was like, I'm not going home. pulled the glass out of my hair, dropped it on the table, auditioned for Rachel Berry and got the part that day.
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Chapter 4: What were some challenges faced during the filming of Glee?
yeah i don't know i'm 28 now it's like how am i how are you even supposed to do this kind of math um but no i'm 38 and proud of it um but yeah sorry continue no i just yeah it's just we were so young we really were and do you remember like was there ever like did life imitate art in the sense that like was anyone ever fighting for a song Not that I can remember.
I do know that it was very clear when you would hear a song on the radio, you would be like, that's going to be in a script next week and you're going to get it.
Right.
It was very clear who would get what songs based on the artists of the time. So I don't remember, but I remember I would hear a song on the radio and be like, oh, I hope that that song is going to be on the show. But we were doing so much that, like, I never felt – like, I felt very, like, satiated in that I was doing a lot of different stuff. Right.
It was, like, literally, like, theater. Like, high school theater.
Yeah. Yeah. Like, cranked up on fucking who knows what. Right. Like, crazy.
Like, crazy. Like, actually, like, I feel like maybe, like, the really, like, kids, like, younger than me, like, don't really recognize, like, at the time, like, how – everywhere Glee was. Like, it was inescapable. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it was... I mean, so when you weren't filming, were you doing press and promo and just everything under the sun?
We were on tour. Right. So we did a tour in between almost every season of the show. Right. Except for maybe the last... Three or four. Right. Because we did, like I said, the Hot Topic tour, the Australia tour, the Radio City run, and then the worldwide one.
With the 3D movie.
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Chapter 5: Who were some memorable guest stars on Glee?
Chapter 6: How has motherhood changed Lea Michele's life?
like I don't know how to explain it, but it's like he sort of like saved me and he changed me in so many ways and helped me learn and grow. But that was like a growth thing. My daughter, I just feel like she's like sunshine.
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Cheers. Eyes. Yes. I don't drink like alcohol anymore also, which is like so annoying.
When did you stop drinking?
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Chapter 7: How can listeners get discounts on concert tickets?
A little bit before I got pregnant.
Okay.
Okay. Which is like what you should do before you get pregnant. Of course. But it's just kind of like continued. But it's like I'm feeling so great.
I did. So you were like you stopped drinking, obviously, for the pregnancy.
I'll have like a little like my husband and I like I had a little champagne on my anniversary, but like totally like so much less.
Right.
Yeah. Sorry. Congratulations. Party Leah. No more.
Were you a party girl?
I love a good, you know, I've never done drugs in my life. But no, but I would like love a nice little drink. But yeah, they say it's like bad for you now.
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