Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio podcast. Welcome to you, and that's why you
Speaker 1: really missed ask me anything part I don't know, we've
Speaker 1: done asked me anythings with Ryan and what kind of
Speaker 1: and Jane and are So this is version one thousand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just another one, another one. Okay, thank you for
Speaker 1: submitting all your questions. Again, we got thousands, so many questions.
Speaker 1: So many do you need to despite some people just
Speaker 1: write in people's names. It's like Cord Danna darn right. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not a question. But yes, I agree. Um, let's
Speaker 1: let's let's just speed round, Jenna, let's get to as
Speaker 1: many of these as possible. Whoa, Okay, let's go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's give the people what they want. Jenna. Were you
Speaker 1: aware of all the Glee merch? We were not. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are some things that we saw and obviously on
Speaker 1: or we saw some things, but um, the amount of
Speaker 1: things that I'm learning about now that are out there, it's, um,
Speaker 1: it's mind blowing. So no, I was not. I was not. Um, Kevin, Yes,
Speaker 1: what song would Artie and Tina sing if there was
Speaker 1: a reboot? Oh oh um, oh man, what god, what
Speaker 1: do you think? Um? I don't hear what were we
Speaker 1: sign good together on? Well? What's in the top forty
Speaker 1: right now? I mean, oh, I don't know, Like I
Speaker 1: would love that would be funny. Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think you're probably right. That's yeah. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: it's just you hear it and you're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: of course. Um did the cast ever break while filming
Speaker 1: where you had to stop so you could stop laughing? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: but not that often. The one that comes to mind
Speaker 1: for me is fix You. Yes see, this is why
Speaker 1: we tried not to happen have it happened, because we
Speaker 1: would get in trouble. We do get in trouble. We
Speaker 1: were filming Fix You, and that has to do this,
Speaker 1: like you know, he's the lead on vocal on it,
Speaker 1: and we're in the background doing the ooze, and we
Speaker 1: all decided to do basically what Leah's bad singing from
Speaker 1: Laryngite is, but all off key behind Matt as he's
Speaker 1: got a cry and we're all futzing around because like
Speaker 1: we don't have anything to do really, and we are
Speaker 1: singing really poorly. Everybody is laughing so hard. Our shoulders
Speaker 1: are shaking, probably probably see it. And because everyone else
Speaker 1: was actually keeping their faces and everything was fine, I
Speaker 1: was the one whose shoulders were like convulsive and I
Speaker 1: couldn't had nowhere else to go. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: to do. She's like Kevin, like she was right behind me.
Speaker 1: It's got so mad at us, and I was crying.
Speaker 1: I was. There were tears stream I mean tears streamed
Speaker 1: on your face. Doing is directed Kevin. Do you have
Speaker 1: any anger towards Ryan for how hard you worked? I
Speaker 1: can only speak for me. I don't. I think with
Speaker 1: the hindsight, I was always very of the mind, and
Speaker 1: I think maybe this is probably the wrong mentality, just
Speaker 1: because of how I grew up at a young age
Speaker 1: in the music business of just say yes and be
Speaker 1: grateful for the work, and if they're running you into
Speaker 1: the ground, it's fine. I was so happy to have
Speaker 1: a paycheck and be able to afford rent, and you know,
Speaker 1: all those sorts of things. I think we've had really
Speaker 1: good conversations with him now where he looks back in
Speaker 1: hindsight and realizes how it did not need to be
Speaker 1: the way that it was. But I don't know. I
Speaker 1: am empathetic towards you are a showrunner slash writer, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you are put in charge
Speaker 1: of this billion dollar brand, and I don't think correct
Speaker 1: anyone is trained for that, and I don't think that's
Speaker 1: ever going to be perfect. Now does that mean? I
Speaker 1: don't know? I don't know. I feel like there's a
Speaker 1: gray area and thereof everybody could have been better, done better.
Speaker 1: But I don't have any sort of anger towards him
Speaker 1: for that. Well said, you know, did you do you
Speaker 1: have any anger towards him or do you just want
Speaker 1: to let me answer that? No, I you know, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I had anger towards him about that.
Speaker 1: I think the bigger thing for me was like when
Speaker 1: he kind of went away, right and he had to
Speaker 1: go do his other stuff, and it felt like the
Speaker 1: show kind of faltered because when he went in some ways,
Speaker 1: and now that we've had these you know, wonderful honest
Speaker 1: chats with him, and as you said, like he wasn't
Speaker 1: equipped or traded. There was no camp to go to
Speaker 1: how to show run, you know, and like manage a
Speaker 1: billion or multimillion dollar show. I definitely feel like I've
Speaker 1: found my um my closure and my like kind of
Speaker 1: therapy with him and being able to share our honest,
Speaker 1: you know, feelings of where we all were. So I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not lying when he says when he comes on
Speaker 1: here and says, this is like therapy working at all
Speaker 1: out in real time. Well, and also there's just no
Speaker 1: mental there was no talk of mental health in the workplace,
Speaker 1: like we keep saying that, Like had that been a thing,
Speaker 1: I think we all would have been able to have honest,
Speaker 1: open conversations where it didn't come from a place where
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm complaining, I'm not ungrateful, I'm feeling so
Speaker 1: because back then it felt like because we were in
Speaker 1: such a position of privilege in many ways that if
Speaker 1: we were complaining, we were assholes, you know, and like
Speaker 1: how dare you? So that was kind of the it's
Speaker 1: just a different time. Yeah. It's also something like we're
Speaker 1: a part of a union, like actors are in SAG
Speaker 1: after and it's like they're the amount of people who
Speaker 1: are actually working regularly within that union is very small,
Speaker 1: and so to get any opportunity to do work and
Speaker 1: have consistent work, you just feel like I have to
Speaker 1: just say yes to it because it is so rare
Speaker 1: that you get a job, and you get a job
Speaker 1: that you keep getting to do for six years. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: There was another question sort of relevant to that, one
Speaker 1: of how how many days a week did we shooting? For?
Speaker 1: How many hours a day? Oh my gosh. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I would say the earlier seasons, I think we're a
Speaker 1: bit crazier. As it went on, we sort of as
Speaker 1: there was New York in Ohio. You know, schedules were split,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't as bad. But the first couple of
Speaker 1: seasons we were working regularly I would say fifteen hours
Speaker 1: a day, fifteen, sometimes up to seventeen, but regularly I
Speaker 1: would say fifteen. Well, and additionally we were also shooting
Speaker 1: a long beach for all of our musical numbers, so
Speaker 1: it was like a forty hour minute drive for most people.
Speaker 1: That was the average each way, each way, and so
Speaker 1: it was just very it felt very aggressive, and we
Speaker 1: were just I remember so vividly, just constantly hitting my
Speaker 1: pillow at night and feeling like when I opened my
Speaker 1: eyes like no time had passed. Yeah, you just close
Speaker 1: your eyes open as you back to work, You're like
Speaker 1: where am I? And it was crazy and how it
Speaker 1: works with those things too. So you start on a Monday,
Speaker 1: you start early usually you know, five or six am,
Speaker 1: and then you have a certain number of hours you're
Speaker 1: allowed to work before the crew cast get overtime. And
Speaker 1: so what happens is the days start to get later
Speaker 1: as the week goes on, because you have to have
Speaker 1: a certain amount of time from when an actor is
Speaker 1: wrapped for the day. You're just to have twelve hours
Speaker 1: before they're allowed back onto set, and if you need
Speaker 1: to fudge that rule, you have to pay for it.
Speaker 1: There's a penalty for it, so they try not to
Speaker 1: do that. So therefore, by the end of the week
Speaker 1: on Friday, we could be starting up one pm. And
Speaker 1: what does that mean. That means we're going at least
Speaker 1: until one am Faturday. Faturday, and usually we go late later.
Speaker 1: And so while we technically didn't shoot on the weekends,
Speaker 1: we only shot five days a week, we still then
Speaker 1: had to be there at six am or earlier on Monday.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, if you're getting home at three or
Speaker 1: four am on a Friday night, your day Saturday is
Speaker 1: sort of like a half day because you're sleeping in
Speaker 1: to recover. I just remember having the luxury of being
Speaker 1: able to sleep in where most of our crew had
Speaker 1: family least, that's the time you spend with your family,
Speaker 1: so like you go home at three, you wake up
Speaker 1: at six seven to be with your family, and then
Speaker 1: you go back to work again on Monday at five
Speaker 1: or six. It's just it's a vicious the energy human
Speaker 1: industry is really hard fron especially on crews like that
Speaker 1: because they're the ones who are there all the time.
Speaker 1: And for us as a Glee cast, we kind of
Speaker 1: worked like the crew because we were all in every
Speaker 1: scene all the time or rehearsing or recording or having
Speaker 1: more job fittings. So yeah, that was it was a
Speaker 1: lot in the beginning. Did you use stand ins a lot?
Speaker 1: So the way it works, we're stand ins. There's always
Speaker 1: stand ins for the principal actors. So if Tina n
Speaker 1: Lardy are in a scene, say like um, I don't
Speaker 1: know the episode dream on, they're in a scene, your
Speaker 1: standing is always there working and a lot of the
Speaker 1: time the stand in will get the job and then
Speaker 1: keep the job for our show. And so it's a
Speaker 1: really solid, insistent work because you know, as long as
Speaker 1: the show is running and you're available, like you're working
Speaker 1: for as seeing Tina's stand in or already stand in
Speaker 1: and yeah, shout out to Kim and somehow you know,
Speaker 1: it varies sometimes, but yeah, the standings are always on
Speaker 1: set and then they kind of sit off in when
Speaker 1: we're working and shooting. And then when we're getting ready
Speaker 1: for a scene and they're lighting the scene, that's when
Speaker 1: the stand ins are there standing in our place. Literally, yes,
Speaker 1: there's a stand in. And then usually when we get
Speaker 1: to then because what happens if we rehearse the scene
Speaker 1: and then we go get ready, like Jenna said, and
Speaker 1: when the stands are there and they're lighting it, sometimes
Speaker 1: there are little changes to the blocking and so then
Speaker 1: we get to set after we're all prepared and dressed
Speaker 1: and makeup and all that, and then they fill us
Speaker 1: in sort of on what the changes may or may
Speaker 1: not be. And then each time there's a new camera setup,
Speaker 1: if the camera moves to a different part of the room, whatever,
Speaker 1: then again standings come back in and we leave so
Speaker 1: they can work. Do you have a favorite competition song? Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I have a soft spot for Oh God,
Speaker 1: what is the one you and Darren did? What have um?
Speaker 1: Boston m a feeling a feeling, yeah, not what a feeling,
Speaker 1: um more than a feeling, more than a feeling. I
Speaker 1: think you guys smashed that and also like that whole
Speaker 1: number was very emotional for a number of reasons. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we have like the tribute to Finn in it, and
Speaker 1: that I was going to say that's my favorite was
Speaker 1: still having found what I'm looking for. And that's also
Speaker 1: when we found out Marco, my ex boyfriend, was coming
Speaker 1: back to America because he had been trapped out of
Speaker 1: the country and we were singing the song America. I
Speaker 1: literally got off the phone with his mom and she
Speaker 1: told me his like his green car was approved after
Speaker 1: he had been trapped out of the country for three
Speaker 1: and a half years. And it was so late at night,
Speaker 1: and we were so tired, and I had to get
Speaker 1: back on stage and I just shouted to everyone because
Speaker 1: everyone was in on it. They everyone knew the situation,
Speaker 1: and we were shooting America Wow, and the song I
Speaker 1: did not love. And then you better believe I was
Speaker 1: shouting that number out loud like I was going So
Speaker 1: that's and yeah, I think that was probably my favorite
Speaker 1: set of Yeah, that's funny. I love that one. Yeah, great.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of fun doing those with that
Speaker 1: new crew. Is there any chance that tell Him gets released?
Speaker 1: I picked that one, Kevin, because I know how much
Speaker 1: you love it and I thought that was really funny. Wait,
Speaker 1: can I do something I legal right now? Are you
Speaker 1: gonna play? Can I play it off of my phone?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I feel like if you play
Speaker 1: just like three seconds, we won't get in trouble? Right?
Speaker 1: Which part should I play? I'm gonna play? Don't know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm getting so trouble, but you don't know what you're missing?
Speaker 1: What a number? I'm gonna sad like some sort of
Speaker 1: SoundCloud and just put it on there. Um and also
Speaker 1: love the way you lying, which I'm not gonna Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's so good. Um. Do you have a
Speaker 1: playlist of your favorite lay songs? Okay? Um? I don't,
Speaker 1: But do you think we should make Let's make one? Okay,
Speaker 1: I inspired? How do we do that? How do we
Speaker 1: make a proper Glee playlist for everyone? We're gonna do that.
Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed favorites? Okay. I did
Speaker 1: go on like a Twitter listening spree a while back,
Speaker 1: like a late night and I'm through all the seasons
Speaker 1: of like my favorites and like live tweeted them. Oh
Speaker 1: and we're just like I sounded like shit on this one. Oh, listen,
Speaker 1: I sounded pretty good. We should do that, um, like
Speaker 1: a listening party. I actually recently started in the car.
Speaker 1: I get coffee in the mornings sometimes with Emma and
Speaker 1: I go and get like a coffee out in the
Speaker 1: world and I will. There's a Spotify is just ugly
Speaker 1: all the seasons like in a row, and so I
Speaker 1: scroll through those and I pick them. So we should
Speaker 1: do that, all right. What do your go to? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: Never Going Back Again is one? Really yeah? Um Dog
Speaker 1: Days is another. Um. I just listened to Bridge Over
Speaker 1: Trouble Water, um and some Madonna definitely like but and
Speaker 1: then um and what's the one we did? The friend one?
Speaker 1: Um never? Yeah? Yeah, I love how we sound on
Speaker 1: that one. I love Yeah, it's really good. It's a
Speaker 1: good one. Okay. What are your song of your gots?
Speaker 1: I do Breakaway a lot lately. That's that's like the
Speaker 1: past year or so. That's really been I love it.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I do. I do the hundred
Speaker 1: episode version of a Loser, like me, Wow, Kevin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it's selfish, it's narcissistic. I just know
Speaker 1: I like the harmonies and the runs that Luke Edgemond
Speaker 1: had me doing, and it's some of those things. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just like I used to be able
Speaker 1: to sing right some of those. I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I remember when I was like I got to go
Speaker 1: into a professional booth and like be produced like really
Speaker 1: well and like beautifully, And you're like, oh, that was cool.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go listen some paces after this. Okay, which
Speaker 1: style of temas did you like best? Oh? My gosh, well,
Speaker 1: which one did I hate the most? There was a
Speaker 1: season I think it was before season thing. I think
Speaker 1: this season two. At the steampunk it's just a lot
Speaker 1: of lace and a lot of buttons, and I remember
Speaker 1: at some point being so miserable I wanted to cut
Speaker 1: myself out of this dress. And I think I looked
Speaker 1: at you maybe or somebody, and I said, something's gotta change.
Speaker 1: Something's gotta change. And I talked a little about it,
Speaker 1: and she was like I was just thinking the same thing,
Speaker 1: like maybe we can do black a little black dresses
Speaker 1: and like dress them up with accessories. So they're more comfortable.
Speaker 1: And I just thought, like, God, if we're going to
Speaker 1: be here for six more years or five more years,
Speaker 1: I can't keep doing this. This is so hard, and
Speaker 1: it's you're in it for so long during the days
Speaker 1: and you're under bright lights and the makeup it was
Speaker 1: just it was really bad. So Steve Punk was my
Speaker 1: least favorite. UM. I liked the mod Gina like when
Speaker 1: she had the color blocking dresses later later in time,
Speaker 1: I thought that was really fun, what a great evolution.
Speaker 1: You know. I was very lucky. I did get to
Speaker 1: kind of switch up my look um quite often, so
Speaker 1: that was fun. And I will say there was a
Speaker 1: question to say, why did Artie never dress better? His
Speaker 1: old man clothes were too unrealistic? How dare you? I
Speaker 1: think Artie brought back Normcore. He's a trend setter. U.
Speaker 1: If you look up the trends, there's a correlation. Lou
Speaker 1: did that? Oh my god, norm Core. I think also
Speaker 1: because you are, like what you just said, because you
Speaker 1: are in these outfits all day. Those outfits were so hot,
Speaker 1: so hot, and I wearing long sleeves and thick usually
Speaker 1: wolf sweaters under these very bright and hot lights all day.
Speaker 1: All day and so eventually they started cutting off my
Speaker 1: sleeves of the shirts underneath. So I would walk around
Speaker 1: as soon as we were done, I would take the
Speaker 1: sweater off in between takes and I would just have
Speaker 1: this like cut off of this button up shirt. It
Speaker 1: looked very weird. I think I told you about this
Speaker 1: in high school. I had to wear a white button
Speaker 1: down collared shirt in high school, as we're a uniform. Well,
Speaker 1: when you were in a show, which I was in
Speaker 1: most of the musicals, you got to wear your show
Speaker 1: shirt the weekend of the performances. So Thursday Friday at school,
Speaker 1: you got to wear the show shirt. Your name was
Speaker 1: on the back, they had the logo on the front.
Speaker 1: What we would do was, because you technically had to
Speaker 1: wear your white shirt underneath your show shirt, we would
Speaker 1: cut the collars and you'd have like a fake like
Speaker 1: a dickey, Yes, exactly, And I had one that I
Speaker 1: would put underneath my show shirts so I could just
Speaker 1: wear a T shirt school, Which is like, what a dream?
Speaker 1: So smart? What a dream? Okay? Um, if you could
Speaker 1: give Artie and Tina middle names, what would they be? Well,
Speaker 1: I would like to give Artie a middle name, and
Speaker 1: you can give Tina's middle name. Okay, I think your
Speaker 1: middle name is Archibald Arthur Archibald Abrams Damn. Okay um,
Speaker 1: I think your middle name is Carolina, Tina Carolina. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's what you can get on bord with that,
Speaker 1: and she might go by Carolina she gets older. I
Speaker 1: don't know. TCCCA, that's what I'm hoping, because it was
Speaker 1: tcc Jacob Artist at some at some point started to
Speaker 1: call me to Sissa, Yeah, to Sissa because it was tccum.
Speaker 1: But I'll take I know, I miss him. He had
Speaker 1: the best nicknames. He always had so many nicknames for you.
Speaker 1: He did. He was the king of nicknames for everybody.
Speaker 1: Jacob Okay, what was it like filming the finale? Devastating? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was rough. We cried a lot, a lot, a lot.
Speaker 1: I remember. It was very celebratory though, it was like
Speaker 1: they threw that party for us on New York Street.
Speaker 1: It was like there was a huge like basically amusement
Speaker 1: park festival. Like they had a band, the nineties band,
Speaker 1: they had like games and it was really fun. But
Speaker 1: it was also like so sad because like there was
Speaker 1: so much time that passed for me personally that I
Speaker 1: was like just rushing to the end. I was like,
Speaker 1: get me out of here. I can't wait till this
Speaker 1: is over, like towards the end, not in the beginning,
Speaker 1: or like you know, just not being present and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're like, oh shit, this is
Speaker 1: going away and we just don't know. This is home
Speaker 1: for six years. So it's just really a very wild experience.
Speaker 1: And then just filming everything. And then when Ben are
Speaker 1: one of our favorites on the camera team, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be real, they're all our favorites, but Ben, who
Speaker 1: would put down our marks every day. The last last day,
Speaker 1: he put down one of our marks in a scene
Speaker 1: and everybody just started clapping, like yeah, and this grown
Speaker 1: British man, this very grown British man, just burst into tears. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh yeah, we all lost it.
Speaker 1: But as soon as Ben lost it, we lost it
Speaker 1: because he is so sweet, quiet, and then it's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, he's breaking, We're done, goodbye. That was the
Speaker 1: funny thing, was like that those like that last week
Speaker 1: one person broke, we all, yeah, if if you keep
Speaker 1: it together and keep it together, but if one person goes,
Speaker 1: I think we all. It was bad. That last um
Speaker 1: song that Matt did, Yeah, brutal. Do you remember we
Speaker 1: were shooting that and then Cord, Oh god, oh god.
Speaker 1: He cried thinking about it. Cord all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: and coord's not afraid to cry it and so when
Speaker 1: he does, he just let it's heartbreaking and he just
Speaker 1: stares at you and it's like, oh god, I have
Speaker 1: that all on tape. It was really bad. We were
Speaker 1: all just like grabbing each other's hands because we were
Speaker 1: all sitting in a line too and looking at each
Speaker 1: other and just losing it. I think I watched it recently,
Speaker 1: recently recently, but I watched that, and I is in
Speaker 1: full to yourself. Yes, there's a video of us online
Speaker 1: when they're wrapping each of us, and you could see
Speaker 1: that was at the end. We had already been crying
Speaker 1: for hours. We had started drinking tequila at some point,
Speaker 1: like we what a day. Yeah, we had had it.
Speaker 1: On that note. Actually, there's another question somebody asked, did
Speaker 1: you ever consider quitting the show? So interesting? Um, well,
Speaker 1: we couldn't if we want to do right. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny because like I'm I think I
Speaker 1: definitely threatened, like I'm I can't. I'm done, you know,
Speaker 1: like your just mental state is like I'm done, I've
Speaker 1: got to get out of here, cut me out. But
Speaker 1: the actual thought of doing it, I don't think I
Speaker 1: ever would have done. Yeah, I wouldn't have let you.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know you're gonna get it together, you're yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean it was some people wanted to quit, Oh yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: and some people did leave, but you know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: like we couldn't really go without permission. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: there was. There were, yeah, a couple of times when
Speaker 1: like you and you understand, like people will become really famous,
Speaker 1: and there are opportunities because this is taking up ten
Speaker 1: months of the year where you can't go do some
Speaker 1: of these other things. And that's why you see it.
Speaker 1: It's so common for people to leave TV shows after
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons because like I needed to start
Speaker 1: taking these opportunities or they passed by. Look. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so I think you know that's that was happening a bit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we weren't allowed to leave. I never wanted
Speaker 1: to quit, but yeah, I know you didn't which season
Speaker 1: had the best music. Oh that's tough. I really don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it was a season. I think
Speaker 1: it was episodes. I mean I think season two. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking abstractly. I don't really remember, but I would imagine
Speaker 1: because we haven't gotten it to gotten to it yet.
Speaker 1: But season two, when we were in the full swing
Speaker 1: of things, yeah, we broke some songs, you know, like
Speaker 1: where people hadn't really heard them for the first time,
Speaker 1: and we got the rights to a lot more songs, right,
Speaker 1: So it was like Katie Perry, there was Gaga, there
Speaker 1: was Bruno Mars, there was Robin Thick, Like I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, two two probably was like we had
Speaker 1: the budget to get it, we had the prestige and
Speaker 1: like artists giving us songs and the permission. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds right. Um, we had a few times for
Speaker 1: a few where did the nickname be come from? So
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know, my nickname, sort
Speaker 1: of amongst all the Glee folk, right was b and
Speaker 1: that actually is It's one of those things that makes
Speaker 1: no sense. But I had I had a friend named
Speaker 1: Carly pre Glee, and um, she and I had this
Speaker 1: running joke where we'd make fun of couples who'd be
Speaker 1: like Beanie Beamie, I'm hot trying the sundown. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And then night and I started
Speaker 1: doing that on Glee. Would be you know, in between
Speaker 1: takes or something like maybe why aren't you Mabie, why
Speaker 1: aren't you hearing me? And then it just short shortened
Speaker 1: tip be B, and then it came I became B.
Speaker 1: But then we all sort of like me and whoever,
Speaker 1: like Leah and I would call each other be Diana
Speaker 1: and I, Nia and I, Corey and I. The craziest
Speaker 1: was when Corey did it, because you have this like
Speaker 1: really big, very straight guy'd be like hey, B. But
Speaker 1: you'd also be on set and you would be like
Speaker 1: quiet and like we'd be like lighting a senior waiting
Speaker 1: for a take to start, and then somebody would just
Speaker 1: like to raw like a beat in the middle of Yes.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was at a restaurant I remember
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and I hadn't seen Leah
Speaker 1: in a while, and I just hear BE and I
Speaker 1: turned around because that's how you call each other. It's
Speaker 1: a good way to just cut through the noise. What
Speaker 1: was your other nickname, Kevin? What was my other nickname?
Speaker 1: What did that call you, oh, Zach specifically Woodley, he
Speaker 1: would call me tater, top o, tater or talk. Yes.
Speaker 1: I love that one. Loved that one. Um, wait, can
Speaker 1: I ask you a really fun fact question? Somebody presented
Speaker 1: this and I did not know this, or maybe I
Speaker 1: had forgotten, But did you know that Diana Agron exists
Speaker 1: within the world of Glee because Kurt runs for class
Speaker 1: president and he gives out burlesque DVDs as part of
Speaker 1: his gifts and his incentives, and Dana was in burlesque.
Speaker 1: So Diana exists within Glee. That's meta, isn't that? That's meta?
Speaker 1: I love that. Something like do you know this? Like
Speaker 1: now the more you know? Top three Kevin Zong, Oh God,
Speaker 1: don't you never going back again? Py t Well, whatever
Speaker 1: I call your friend is one of my favorites. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do that all right? I'm going with that for now. Great,
Speaker 1: that's a solid three. That is pretty good three. But
Speaker 1: there's so many other ones. I mean, like Empire State
Speaker 1: of Mind. I don't know did you shoot scenes chronologically? No?
Speaker 1: We did not. No, it was timing money. They would
Speaker 1: try to like get if we were going breadsticks and
Speaker 1: there are two scenes you do the back to back
Speaker 1: like it was kind of it was just for efficiency
Speaker 1: and production? Um correct? Did your partners watch Glee before
Speaker 1: meeting you? Yes, David watched it, and then when we
Speaker 1: met on hand, she thought he was being catfished because
Speaker 1: he was like Tenick from Las Campy. Ye here, I am, um,
Speaker 1: what has been your favorite episode? I have you watched
Speaker 1: so far? Man? Was it SmackDown or throw down? I
Speaker 1: laughed a lot. That was really inappropriate that one. But
Speaker 1: I think power of Madonna. Maybe I was going to
Speaker 1: say Madonna is there and and Prager's is definitely one
Speaker 1: of them as well in my memory. Um, one or
Speaker 1: two more, Kevin, one or two more? All right? Oh?
Speaker 1: How did the cast celebrate birthdays on the show? Well,
Speaker 1: it was always fun um crafty or production would always
Speaker 1: get you cake if your birthday landed in the production scare.
Speaker 1: I never did so. I never got a cake. Oh
Speaker 1: did you get a particularly get a cake on tour
Speaker 1: or anything? We did do a birthday. We did your birthday,
Speaker 1: We saw you. We definitely saw my birthday. Kevin did
Speaker 1: your birthday? Oh? Yeah, but we know they bring you
Speaker 1: a cake. And I never got my own cake because
Speaker 1: Harry and I shared a birthday, so Karen, I would
Speaker 1: always get a shared cake. It's like having a sibling
Speaker 1: you or like your birthday landing on like a holiday. Um. Um, Jennet,
Speaker 1: you have two Tony's that you want for producing? Do
Speaker 1: you enjoy acting or producing theater more Current State twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, March March of twenty twenty three parties producing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're so good at both. Oh that's very kind,
Speaker 1: very kind. Um. Oh so um. Someone asked, did we
Speaker 1: have any famous fans of Glee that we are surprised
Speaker 1: watch the show? Yes, they're so. Our first Golden Globes
Speaker 1: was very enlightening experience because yeah, that's right. We were
Speaker 1: on the red carpet. Jane and I were doing an
Speaker 1: interview and I turn around and I go, oh my god. Jane,
Speaker 1: Julian Moore, and Tom Ford are right there because tom
Speaker 1: Ford's movie A Single Man was out that year, and
Speaker 1: she goes, let's go talk to them. I'm like I
Speaker 1: can't do this. I'm like, you can talk to them.
Speaker 1: I cannot. So we go and Julian Moore knows exactly
Speaker 1: who we are, and she turns to us and it's
Speaker 1: talking to Jane. She turns to me and she goes,
Speaker 1: we watch every single week, me and my kids, and
Speaker 1: we think you're all so good. Wow. I was peeing
Speaker 1: myself and that's when Tom Ford walked up to me
Speaker 1: and fixed my bow tie. I remembered her, and then
Speaker 1: I just start like babbling like whatever. That was also
Speaker 1: the same Golden Globes where Leah was nominated and she
Speaker 1: lost and Tom and Rita Wilson We're bad and said
Speaker 1: you were wrong. Oh my god, that's amazing. Yes, there
Speaker 1: was a lot. We met a lot of them on tour,
Speaker 1: and like Ryan said, like we spoke to like all
Speaker 1: these are artsy underdog kids, so like they relate to
Speaker 1: this type of show, right right. Yeah. What advice do
Speaker 1: you have for actors starting out? Jenna? Oh god, um, exactly.
Speaker 1: I use this one a lot, but I'll share it
Speaker 1: because I think it's I think I wish I had
Speaker 1: this advice. Do not try to copy the stars that
Speaker 1: you I wise, do not try to be a carbon copy.
Speaker 1: Do not try to sound like them. Do not try
Speaker 1: to copy them, because there's already one of them. You
Speaker 1: are one of a kind. The reason that you're going
Speaker 1: to be a star because you're unique, you're different and
Speaker 1: you got something to share, so be true to you.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds so cliche, but growing up, I
Speaker 1: just tried. I tried to sound like Sutton Foster. I
Speaker 1: tried to sound like these like Broadway stars that were
Speaker 1: famous and like Adina and Kristen and all of these people,
Speaker 1: and I just I was like, Oh no, that's not
Speaker 1: what's going to make me successful. What's gonna make me
Speaker 1: successful is me giving the world where I have to share,
Speaker 1: so that'd be one of them. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: Jenna Ray Kevin, What about you, Kevin? I would say,
Speaker 1: and the most unjaded way possible, that you need to
Speaker 1: be so certain and secure in your self and your
Speaker 1: want and desire to do this that when you go
Speaker 1: into a room where you're on a zoom or whatever
Speaker 1: the audition process may be, you can't control what the
Speaker 1: person you're artitioning for is feeling that day. That is
Speaker 1: all out of your control. All you can control is
Speaker 1: what you bring in. And I think the ability to
Speaker 1: not take it personally when you get rejected, when you
Speaker 1: don't get a job, is a really powerful and sustaining thing,
Speaker 1: because if you go in there and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I wasn't the one on that day for that role.
Speaker 1: It's not because oh it's me. They hated me. I
Speaker 1: didn't do a good enough job. No, you don't know
Speaker 1: what the person on the other side of the table
Speaker 1: or the other side of the camera has been through
Speaker 1: that day. You don't know if they got in a
Speaker 1: fight with their partner. You don't know if their dog died.
Speaker 1: You don't know, if they got the best news about
Speaker 1: something else. You just don't know, and all those things
Speaker 1: play a factor in it, unfortunately, and you could look
Speaker 1: like someone's ex, you know. And it's really hard to
Speaker 1: not take rejection personally. But if you can learn to
Speaker 1: not take it personally, you'll be all right. Because this
Speaker 1: business is mostly rejection that you get to work. That's like, um,
Speaker 1: that's like one on one, like you really do have
Speaker 1: to find that in you to sustain. I think for
Speaker 1: everyone and that's okay, And that's I think, that's absolutely okay.
Speaker 1: You give it a go. And if it's not for you,
Speaker 1: you're not a failure. It's not for everyone. I'm just
Speaker 1: dead on the inside. So it's fine. And on that note,
Speaker 1: thanks for writing in you guys, great questions. It can't
Speaker 1: wait to do this again. These are really fun for
Speaker 1: us um I hope join them love this. Thanks for
Speaker 1: spending the time to write in with some of these
Speaker 1: really thoughtful questions and fun facts. And that's what you
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