Lea on Cosmopolitan Italy

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"IN MY LIFE, I'VE ONLY EVER RESISTED TO ONE TEMPTATION, GETTING A NOSE JOB" For the rest, the young star of Glee allows herself every bad girl's fun. Groping asses included, still remaining romantic and faithful. Portrait of a "star" with her feet on the ground. Lea in anxious, she's walking with her back hunched and she begs me to to chose an isolated separé in the elegant Boxwood Cafè of Los Angeles. […] Lea loves her fans, but even an actress and a singer like her that is able to slip the word "grateful" every other word, needs an afternoon to herself to relax. "It's a hard work," she says with a big smile on her face: "Days of sixteen hours, week-ends spent working. When I have a day off, I try to rest." And this is her in her "me-time". No make-up, hair up in a ponytail, the bangs on her forehead split in two halves, flats, skin tight jeans and a vintage blazer over a soft white undershirt with blue strips. After throwing her Luis Vuitton on the couch, she sits down and orders sparkling water and cranberry juice, then she puts her elbow on the table and leans forward. In this moment, she couldn't look more different from Rachel Berry, the ambitious character she portraits on Glee, FOX's hit series. Sure, the resemblances don't miss. Just like Rachel, Lea always wanted to become a star, ever since she was little, and her career is her number one priority. And just like her alter ego from the small screen, she's a die hard romantic. But while Rachel, with her yearning for spotlights, is ready to walk over everyone, Lea is happy with just being herself. "I'm very focused and determined," she admits, "But I have my feet firmly on the ground and and I know very well who I am." A valuable trait in an industry that is capable of making even the most confident girl insecure. But that's not all. In just a few minutes, I'll find out that Lea, unlike Rachel, likes to have some bad girls' fun. A STEP FROM RHINOPLASTY […] When she was eight, she accompanied a friend to the auditions for Les Misérables, on Broadway. On an impulse, she auditioned and got the part for Cosette. […] The only break she ever took from her career, was during high school when she only took part to school's recitals, and she insists that she wasn't an innocent girl while in school. "On the contrary, I loved to have fun," she admits before starting to tell about the time when she and her friends broke into her parents' minibar and made drinks with Vodka. "I thought I wasn't going to get caught if I replaced the Vodka with water, and putting the bottle back in the freezer. But then the water froze and I told my parents, "I don't know, the Vodka must have frozen." Then she gets serious and, looking a lot like Rachel, she shivers thinking back at the pressures all kids in high school have. "I never took drugs and I'm proud of myself. Acting, has always come first. I was lucky because I really believed in who I was." And she needed her self-confidence when it looked like every girl in the Tenafly High School was getting a nose job. "Obviously, I thought about it," Lea says, of whom the big nose is now a sign of beauty. "I'm so grateful that I never did it. There were so many girls that even if they only had a little bump in their noses, asked me "Do you see it" and I was like "Not at all." Once high school was over, Lea got back to Broadway where she got the leading role in Spring Awakening, a rock musical about 19th Century teens exploring their sexualities. After two years in that acclaimed production, Lea, now 22, went to Los Angeles for a new four weeks stage play of Les Miserables (this time with the role of Eponine) at the Hollywood Bowl. After that, she took a break of a few months to do some auditions. "I knew that I was never going to end up in a Disney's show. I mean, look at me! I really don't look like one of those girls," she says. "I just wanted to do a cammeo, like on Grey's Anatomy for example." THE NOTORIOUS AUDITION AND AN ASS-GROPPING. […] Lea had heard that FOX was doing auditions for a show based on the lives of a small choir groups. So she and her friend/housemate Jenna Ushkowitz, with whom she had started acting on Broadway when they were kids, decided to do an audition. Lea got Rachel's role and Jenna Tina's. "Oh my God, we shot the pilot. Then I got back home in New York were I lived with Jenna and then I got an e-mail from the creator for the show, Ryan Murphy that told us that we had been chosen for 13 episodes," Lea tells me getting excited. Jenna won't ever forget that moment. "We were playing a charity show for Christmas, and he wrote me the e-mail from Bali, or someplace like that, and we both started screaming." […] Saying that Glee changed Lea's life, would be a euphemism: it changed her into a celebrity in a day. She sang at the White House, at the Tony Awards, and she got nominated for a Golden Globe. But with the spotlights, it came also the pressure. "I'm in a position where everything I do gets put under a microscope. Like it happened with her GQ's photoshoot. […] "I was with two of my best friends and we had fun and Terry Richardson is an amazing photographer." […] "The mess the medias raised really surprised me: people forget that we are twenty year old and we want to have fun." ON SKYPE WITH THE FAVOR OF DARKNESS No misunderstandings, though. The cast's love for fun doesn't extend to sex behind the scenes. "People think that everyone sleeps with everyone," she laughs. "We spend every seconds of every day together, and when we finish we all go to dinner out and so everyone assumes that we're having sex." She shakes her head. "I'm so grateful that this doesn't happen. If people slept together, there would be too much embarrassment." And then, Lea has a serious relationship. She's been with the actor Theo Stockman for two years that has recently been on the musical American Idiot on Broadway. It's been hard living at almost 5000 km apart, but they found a way to keep in touch. Lea's favorite night? "Take a shower, slid on a bathrobe, pouring myself a glass of wine and talk with Theo on Skype. I don't want anything else." Loving to have steady relationships, Lea had the same boyfriend throughout high school. "And he wasn't on the football team," she points out laughing. Her co-star in Spring Awakening and Glee, Jonathan Groff, who's the one that introduced her to Theo, explains why. "She's not a bigoted, but she's never been a one night stand kind of girl. She gets a lot more out of a steady relationship than just sex." The guy from her dreams? Very similar to her father. "My father makes me laugh, I took my humor from him, but at the same time, he takes care of everything. This is what I look for in a guy and that I found in my boyfriend," she adds, starting to play with the T shaped pendant that she's wearing which is a birthday present from Theo. [...] COSMO QUIZ Name: Lea Michele (Sarfati when I'm not working) Nickname: Child Star gave to my by Ryan Murphy I can't help it, I feel a strong attraction for... E. Other... my boyfriend I feel sexy when... I've just finished taking a walk or right after a bath. The part of my body I like best B. My butt "My mother says that I have behind me a great equipment" It's crazy but I'm scared of... Clowns. There's nothing more frightening than a clown. I can't live without... A. My iPod! "It's a bad habit" The most craziest thing I have ever done for love is... Flying across the country to spend less than 24 hours together