The Real Reason Lea Michele Almost Didn’t Audition For Glee
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By Adam England/Aug. 9, 2021 12:36 pm EST
While “Glee” had quite a large ensemble cast, it’s undeniable that Rachel Berry was one of the most prominent characters — and the de facto leader of the school’s glee club — but everything could have been rather quite different. Per Us Weekly, Michele — who’s now married with a child — almost didn’t audition for “Glee.” despite her almost now being synonymous with her character, and that could well have changed the course of the show entirely. Here’s why she nearly missed the all-important audition.
She was in a car crash just before the audition
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It sounds like something Rachel Berry would have done in the series, and throughout the rest of her audition Michele channeled her inner Rachel too. “I start singing my first song,” she explained, “and the piano player skipped through the second verse, so right in the middle of my song, I was like, ‘Excuse me!’ … Very Rachel Berry!”
However, “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy already knew Michele from her previous work on Broadway, and wrote the part of Rachel with her in mind, so maybe it was always written in the stars?
