Lea Michele on ‘Funny Girl’ controversy: ‘I leave no room for mistakes’

Lea Michele is gearing up for her controversial Broadway comeback after surviving life in a “robotic state” amid a high-profile bout of backlash.

The “Glee” alum, 36, is takes over the position of Fanny Brice in “Humorous Woman” Sept. 6 — infamously changing former main woman Beanie Feldstein, who left the manufacturing amid a swirl of rumors earlier this summer season.

Michele addressed the net hate over her casting — in addition to previous claims she bullied her castmates in a profile revealed on Thursday.

“I really feel extra prepared than I ever have earlier than, each personally and professionally,” the “Spring Awakening” star advised the New York Instances about coming again to her theater roots.

She’s eager for a recent begin two years after her former “Glee” co-stars Samantha Marie Ware and Heather Morris alleged she bullied them each, with Ware accusing her of racist, “traumatic microaggressions.”

When the bombshell claims had been first dropped in 2020, Michele apologized for her actions, saying in an announcement on the time that she “clearly acted in methods which harm different folks.”

Now, the “Scream Queens” actress is admitting she had an “intense time of reflection” about her infamous conduct, noting she felt like she was in “semi-robotic state” in an effort to remain good.

“I've an edge to me. I work actually laborious. I depart no room for errors,” she advised the Instances. “That degree of perfectionism, or that strain of perfectionism, left me with numerous blind spots.”

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The Broadway starlet touched up on the rumor that she’s illiterate.
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Beanie Feldstein
Beanie Feldstein dropped out of enjoying Fanny Brice in “Humorous Woman” in July and Lea Michele was then solid in her place.
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The New York-born actress defined to the outlet: “I actually perceive the significance and worth now of being a pacesetter. It means not solely going and doing a superb job when the digital camera’s rolling, but additionally when it’s not. And that wasn’t all the time crucial factor for me.”

Michele additionally revealed how she’s prepared for a comeback along with her “Humorous Woman” position. “Everybody right here has been by means of rather a lot,” she famous, including, “and I simply have to come back in and be ready and do a superb job and be respectful of the truth that that is their house.”

She even touched upon the wild on-line conspiracy principle stating that the mother-of-one can’t learn: “I went to ‘Glee’ each single day; I knew my traces each single day,” she recalled. “After which there’s a rumor on-line that I can’t learn or write? It’s unhappy. It truly is. I feel typically if I had been a person, numerous this wouldn’t be the case.”

Michele additionally firmly said that she doesn’t thoughts different folks’s opinions anymore and he or she’s simply attempting to be one of the best Fanny Brice she could be. “I actually don’t care about that at this level. It’s nearly with the ability to play this half,” she stated. “[But] I'll by no means be nearly as good as Barbra Streisand,” she added.

Streisand, 80, iconically performed Fanny within the 1968 musical “Humorous Woman” and even scored the Oscar for Finest Actress.

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