Spoilers for upcoming episodes and the finale!
Q: When will we see you on Glee again?
LG: I don’t know when the episodes come on. Anything Vocal Adrenaline, I’m in. So I know in a couple weeks, I shot a fun scene where I threw eggs at Lea Michele. We threw eggs at her so they’re going to be coming on in the next couple weeks. I just don’t know exactly when it is.
Q: So far you’ve only been in the first one.
LG: Oh yeah? And actually they didn’t even show us. It was more like a quick rehearsal shot. I was kind of bummed.
Q: So there’s a lot more where we see you up close?
LG: Yeah, I hope so. It kind of all depends how they want to edit it together. I was a little bummed with the first one just because the number that we put together was a lot longer than what they showed. They stopped it right at the really cool part.
Q: Do you get to sing the songs too?
LG: We sing while we’re dancing but we’re not recorded as we do it. What we do is so crazy that there’s no way that we could sing with it, but to get into character and what not, we have to move our mouths so we’re all yapping up there.
Q: Have you gotten to work with Idina Menzel, who plays Vocal Adrenaline’s coach?
LG: Actually, it’s been really cool to be on set because we’ll be around them. Idina actually, this next one we do is like a Lady Gaga inspired one and she kind of yells at us and tells us to sit down. Then we have to see her perform. I don’t know how many takes we did, probably a good 20 takes of it. It was a pretty cool scene and we always get to see everyone up close do their scenes and stuff so it’s pretty fun.
Q: Is there a big dance off coming for the season finale?
LG: Oh my God, we just shot the finale. It’s a six minute long number, like six minutes and we had to shoot it for 12 hours. So during shooting, we had one broken pinky, one sprained ankle, one concussion. Someone’s head whipped into a steadicam. People were falling off like crazy. So bad that the director came up and said, “I have a little something for you guys. I know what you just did was so crazy.” So he called for somebody and she came over with a big bag of all these first aid kits with a little vodka bottle attached to it. So everyone’s a jokester on set. Everyone gets along. It’s such a great environment.
Q: Were any of those injuries yours?
LG: You know what? Crazy enough, I didn’t get hurt that day but it was the craziest thing. To see what we had to do, everyone was laughing at us because we have this stage and it’s a much more elaborate stage than we’ve ever had. It’s like the finale so they had these stairs going back from behind the stage so when you went down those stairs, if you were to stand up you’d still see your head. So every time we went down those stairs we had to get on the ground and crawl to get off stage. If you were back there and saw us, we were like monkey crawling.
Q: Have you been able to adjust your style to Glee or whatever show you’re working on?
LG: I’m really happy with where I grew up in Arizona. I studied at this dance school and from a very early age they ingrained in us that when you go to these auditions, you’ll never know what’s going to be faced in front of you so you have to be ready. So from a really early age, I went into every single kind of dance class. No choreography was bad choreography in my mind. Everything is something. A dancer has to make everything look good. So it’s just been kind of how I train, so it’s been really nice and really easy. Like today I had a last minute commercial audition, so you’ve got to snap the fingers and just go into a totally different mind frame. I really love that I train that way because it makes everything a lot easier.
Q: Is this all a result of So You Think You Can Dance?
LG: I give So You Think so much credit. I don’t know where I would be right now without it because there’s nothing like being on a hit TV show in front of millions of viewers a couple nights a week and stuff. So that was such a huge blessing because it gave and it still is giving all these dancers that room to grow and stuff and be something, because dancers work so, so hard. I had only moved out to LA six months prior to auditioning for the show, so I had done a couple things. I had worked with Shakira and did a Nike and a Macy’s job. I would start to work, but since this it got me into so many different elements of the entertainment business. I’ve fallen in love with hosting and acting and doing all these different kinds of things. I give the show so much credit for that.
Q: Do you turn a lot down now?
LG: Sometimes. You’ve got to look at what’s smart and what works for you. It’s really nice when you get to turn stuff down because it’s like okay, you have options. It kind of sucks at the same time. I just got offered the other day to go on the Glee tour. They’re doing like a four city tour all of May. I turned it down which I’m so bummed about because it won’t work out with my schedule, but I just have this feeling I should be in town. It’s one month before So You Think starts and that’s like the biggest challenge and boot camp of your life. So I just felt like going on the road and that whole road life isn’t where I should be. Yeah, you kind of do sometimes but you hope you make the right decisions.
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