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As it turned out, going from theater to hip-hop wasnt as easy as she expected.
Also, My Brothers Gay I think is becoming a sensation.
Leland, who wrote that song, is, you know, a genius.
He wrote a good chunk of theBloomalbum with Troye Sivan.
I know youve done a lot of musical theater.
They set up a rehearsal and I was shooting that day with the show.
I was like,Im really fast at picking up choreography.
This isnt going to be a big deal.
I was dragging my feet about getting downtown to go to this rehearsal.
We start doing it, and I was like, Ohhh.
My brain knows how to learn musical theater dancing, but learning hip-hop?
It was so hard for my body to understand how to move in that way.
These girls that danced in this video were unreal-good.
Were doing this lineup and I was like You guys, this is so fun!
I feel like Im in a Beyonce video.
Kat goes, Oh, thats so funny.
A lot of these girls dance for Beyonce.
My face dropped, and there were two doors in the rehearsal room and I just left.
I needed a minute to collect myself.
I had this rehearsal video.
Everybody got the video and was like, Wheres Helene?
Growing up, was it always specifically musical theater that you wanted to do?No.
I went to Westside School of Ballet in L.A. and I was climbing through the ranks.
Then I got to pointe shoes and I was like, This is not cool, you guys.
This is gonna be in textbooks, someday, along with Chinese foot-binding.
Anyway, its not for me, so I got into doing different kinds of dance.
Then, through school, I did choir and then acting classes.
I had a dream one night that was like,Why arent you just combining all of these things?
You should be going to school for musical theater.I went to Michigan for that.
Those are two of my best friends from college.
But I healed and I got into television and I went back and Im still dancing.
I auditioned and I thought,Theres no way Ill get this.
The characters name is Lainey and that is my nickname, and Max is obviously Maxs name.
Part of me hopes that Max came out from under her thumb, but also thinks maybe that relationship …
I hope that theres more life and theres more to be seen from the two of them.
I remember being in my early 20s and thinking it was hilarious that I was at a gay club.
Youre a straight woman, no youre not.
I have so many gay friends.
I dont know about how I feel about that kind of character.
I think that thats the joke, right?
Youre in my way.
Hes obsessed with me.
In any relationship, if youre thinking about yourself within the relationship, then thats not a successful relationship.
What makes Brooke so different is that I think she is thinking about whats good for her brothers.
Hes the star ofOn Your Feeton Broadway, and, you know,Lysistrata Jones.
They met Josh and they were like,How do we get this guy in the show?
Thats what I think is funny about vocal fry.
Im rich, Im fine, I dont even have to work hard at speaking.
But I pushed it right to the limit.
It became a bit of a little fan fave.
Ill get people who say it to me and its a very stupid, proud career moment.
I have another important question I feel obligated to ask anyone whos ever been inWicked.
You were Glinda on a national tour, right?I opened the second national tour.
So my question is, Universal claims theWickedmovie is maybe, potentially, theoretically happening in 2021.
(A) Do you think it will happen?
I dont think itll happenyet.
Ive had many conversations with people and especially people that are the powers that be.
But theyre still killing it on Broadway.
I cant imagine that they would do a movie yet.
I went up with so much confidence and the security guard was like, Excuse me?
Its like,Oh, cool, Im not that important.
After the seasons been released, were getting recognized here and there.
