Lea Michele Interview: SPRING AWAKENING The Movie

Lea Michele Talks SPRING AWAKENING: The Movie

April 16th, 2009

While we’re the first to admit that news on the Spring Awakening movie doesn’t exactly fall within the purview of theTVaddict.com, we couldn’t resist bringing reaction direct from the set of GLEE, where actress Lea Michele, who originated the role of of Wendla Bergman in the hit Broadway musical was kind enough to throw her hat into the proverbial ring when asked for her reaction to yesterday’s news that McG (THE OC, Terminator: Salvation) is in talks to bring Spring Awakening to the big screen.

Not surprisingly, Michele believes that Awakening (alongside In the Heights) is one of a handful of broadway shows that would be incredible on film. And was only to happy to reveal, while taking a break from filming a pivotal scene from an upcoming episode of GLEE that, “I created the role [at 14] and love the piece so much and would love to be apart of it if they will have me.”

Got that McG?

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21 Responses to “Lea Michele Talks SPRING AWAKENING: The Movie”

blueberry Says:

April 16th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

No way she was anywhere close to 14 when I saw her in Spring Awakening in early 2007.

Or did she start the role off-broadway in 2000 (when she was 14)?

Josh C. Says:

April 16th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

This article completely makes me freak out!!!!!!! I’ve played out the SA soundtrack on my iPod and have watched the Glee promo 1,000,000 times

Vance Says:

April 16th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

She was part of the early workshops/readings even before the Off-Broadway production and had been part of the show throughout the development of Spring Awakening.

theTVaddict Says:

April 17th, 2009 at 7:51 am

blueberry,
Just to clarify, Michele was 14 when she started workshopping the role, not on Broadway or off-broadway.

NikkiHolly Says:

April 17th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

wait, Lea Michele is in Glee? well now i’m interested in it! i absolutely love Spring Awakening, and i would love to see it on the big screen (though i don’t know that i’d want to see Lea Michele attempting to play a 14 year old…).

may Says:

April 17th, 2009 at 9:18 pm

blueberry:
no, she was 14 when she was in her first workshop of spring.

jon88 Says:

April 18th, 2009 at 9:03 am

“prevue”? purview?

billy Says:

April 29th, 2009 at 5:49 am

she started the role in workshops when she was 14, she had been with the show for 8 years when she left it on may 18th.

shannon Says:

July 31st, 2009 at 11:35 am

i am a HUGE lea michele fan, but i feel like at this point shes too old to play wendla in the movie. shes 22, and the character of wendla is supposed to be 15 or 16. i just think it would be weird.

claire Says:

August 12th, 2009 at 7:50 am

she started working on the spring awakening project when she was 14, and it opened when she was twenty.

Krystina says Says:

August 14th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

The touring cast of Spring Awakening currently has actors that are 18-24 years of age. It would be pretty normal to see some older actors playing this role. I really respect Lea Michele and I think she has the most beautiful voice but I would also like to see some cast members from the tour and the broadway version of Spring Awakening because they are extremely talented as well.

Carmelle Says:

September 1st, 2009 at 3:53 pm

I don’t think any any of the current touring cast will be involved…I’ve heard that they want to have movie in theatres by Christmas of 2010 which would mean they will probably start filming before the the run is over, not the touring cast this is leaving/has already left by October 6th won’t part of the film…who knows those people might have already signed contracts to be on for the movie?!?!?

joshua wheaton Says:

October 23rd, 2009 at 7:03 pm

If they dont let her play the part they are out of their F$%^$% minds. she was the best in the part and has the voice of an angel

rachel Says:

October 31st, 2009 at 7:02 pm

I think her character on Glee is supposed to be 16ish, so it would be fine for her to play a 15 year old. There are actors who are 27-28 and playing high school students successfully, most people just don’t realize it unless you look them up…

joe Says:

December 9th, 2009 at 7:17 am

There’s no way Lea can play Wendla in the upcoming movie. As good as she was in the role, she’s way too old now and there are several younger-looking girls (i.e., Alexandra Socha) who would be MUCH better for the film.

sami Says:

December 13th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

i feel that if anyone other then Lea were to play Wendla it wouldn’t work as well…she is the original, i mean it just wouldn’t be the same. Besides anyone saying that her age makes her “unbelieveable” she is playing a 15-16 year old on television right now….

blair Says:

December 15th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

lea was in les mis at age 7 and started working on spring awakening at 14 when it was off off broadway and worked with it until it became the hit it is today. spring awakening should have the original cast just like Rent did and just like Wicked should. Nothing is better than the first.

M Says:

January 8th, 2010 at 7:16 pm

I vote Lea Michele and Jon Groff.

Lea is a Liar Says:

February 9th, 2010 at 3:56 pm

Lea didn’t create the role of Wendla. It was actually Haven Burton who did it in the very first workshop.

Kas Says:

March 1st, 2010 at 11:12 pm

I feel that if they were going to make a SA movie, they should get the entire original cast. After all, it was the original cast who voiced the soundtrack we all fell in love with and workshopped the hell out of this play before it even became popular.
I really wish, as exciting as a movie sounds, that they had filmed the show directly from the stage as they had done with Legally Blonde. This way, we could always watch the joy of the OBC most of us fell in love with.
However, no matter who they got, I’m sure I would see this. Spring Awakening is my favourite musical/play of all time.

salsakick Says:

March 18th, 2010 at 7:25 pm

Lea made Spring Awakening her life from age 14 to age 21. She was the “creator” of the role of Wendela in workshop, off-broadway, and broadway.

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