Lea Michele is preparing to dazzle broadway audiences as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl next month after Beanie Feldstein left the role, but she already has Twitter pretty entertained by a gem of a podcast clip that’s been making the rounds.
Michele has been posting to social media from the rehearsal studio, and it’s all smiles:
But as we noted earlier in the month, from Glee to Spring Awakening to The Mayor to Scream Queens, the actress has seemingly made enemies in nearly every production she’s ever been a part of.
Perhaps that’s why a clip of Michele’s appearance on Jamie Lee Curtis’ podcast, Good Friend with Jamie Lee Curtis, is simultaneously getting so much well-deserved attention.
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In the brief clip, Curtis asks Michele if Spring Awakening was nominated for any Tony Awards.
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“We won eight Tony Awards,” Michele boasts, to which Cutis responds, “But you didn’t, Lea.”
That’s Michele’s Spring Awakening co-star Jonathan Groff cackling at the end of the audio, for the record.
Author and podcast host Danny Pellegrino shared the “chic” drag along with the comment: “JLC was savage for this.”
JLC was savage for this. pic.twitter.com/REHO0pIMXA
— Danny Pellegrino (@DannyPellegrino) July 29, 2022
Here’s how the class is responding:
Chicest drag I’ve ever heard QIL pic.twitter.com/gOFuSELKxt
— Brian Gray (@BrianW189) July 29, 2022
I’m screaming my QUEEN
— toronto’s christian mingle sensation ✨ (@dianasauss) July 29, 2022
Drag her!!! pic.twitter.com/RIc97MQzfb
— Josef Thee Ziegler (@JosefZiegler) July 29, 2022
Officially renaming her Jamie Lee Curtains cuz she just ended Lea 👏
— Colin Rothamel (@ColinRothamel) July 29, 2022
Veryyyy chic burn
— Steven with a PH 🍑 (@howmuchfuller) July 29, 2022
Bring. Her. Down. A. Notch. Ma’am! 👏🏿😆👏🏿
— Mama Xavi (@FromNazWithLove) July 29, 2022
Jamie Lee Hurtus
— 10 Things I Rate About You (@flatbammy) July 29, 2022
— David L. Strugar (@DavidTreks) July 29, 2022
A national treasure 💎
— Danni Lemus (@DanniFry) July 29, 2022
So chic!
— Elon’s Horse Play (@smoothb92086457) July 29, 2022
She did what Lucy did to Charlie Brown 😂🍷 pic.twitter.com/t51fMyoKry
— Lobottomizado (@Loonancio) July 29, 2022
LumpyPillows
So being kunty to Lea for being kunty is OK? I’m just trying to figure the rules out. It’s like dead naming people you hate is OK, as long as most people hate them? Oh, being a liberal is so hard! (Tongue in cheek, sweeties.)
MrGoldman
90% of the people who are mad at her can’t even tell you what she did that was so wrong. Only thing I know of is she threatened to shit in someone’s wig. Big deal.
dbmcvey
MrGoldman. Threatening to defecate into a co-workers wig is harassment.
LumpyPillows
Sounds like a joke to me.
Leash
yeah well she didnt threat to shit in your wig (yet), if it does, you can decide if YOU think its funny or not
also what has deadnaming to do withw this? why are you so obsessed with trans people?
mailliw110
Maybe you don’t even need to play in this game?
Cam
Oh look, the right wing troll account that always defends bullies is still defending Lea Michelle.
Sweetie, your trolling is sad and weak.
ffxv
Rules are hard when you skip elementary education. Maybe u can go back and get ur GED and theyll cover it?
MrGoldman
She is doing that upper lip filler. These women look absurd.
Den
My thoughts exactly. If she has already had procedures like this at her age (looks like she has also had a brow lift, or some other eye work), she will look like Jocelyn Wildenstein in 15-20 years!
ncman
Not sure I understand the point here. Curtis asked Lea if Spring Awakening was nominated for any Tony awards. Lea answered correctly that the show had won 8. So why is Curtis taking a shot at Lea? She didn’t ask if Lea had been nominated. And Lea didn’t take any personal credit for any awards. Seems uncalled for and like bad form on Curtis’ part.
sfhairy
Agreed.
dbmcvey
Oh, do you think she might have hurt Lea’s feelings? At least she didn’t threaten to sh*t in her wig.
humble charlie
as off-putting as lea’s porcupinish poisonous personality is, i’m sure she’ll do an ok job.
Diplomat
Until Lea addresses these diva claims or gets some serious backing that she is not a problem anymore she will be fodor for the media to knock her down.
However she probably will do great in Funny Girl.
Beanie was just wrong wrong wrong right out of the gate. I can’t imagine why she wasn’t excused on first audition.
val_el
And this is what is called misinformation! If you go to the actual podcast to the time they claim the comment was said and it was not. Great editing though! I had the chance to listen to it and it was not there. It is a shame this site didn’t even investigate and just based their investigation on Twitter. Next time listen to the Podcast instead posting what someone edited.
Cam
Except multiple publications like Newsweek have also reported the story. Are you saying that not one of them listened to it?
mailliw110
I only care enough to write this sentence.
Jennifer
It sounded like friendly banter to me. Jon and Lea’s big annual “fight” over Tony nominations. People are so quick to hate on Lea for anything really.