Glee starlet Jenna Ushkowitz recently sat down for an exclusive interview with JustJared.com. Here’s what the 23-year-old Long Island native had to share…
JJ: How did you get into showbiz? Was it that Jell-O commercial?
JU: (laughs) That was one of them. I did three Jell-O commercials with Bill Cosby. I was kind of one of those kids who would go up to people in restaurants and say hi to all the tables - that kind of thing. So it kind of rooted from that and they were, like, why don’t you get her into modeling? She’s a cute little Asian girl! So they put me in and we found a manager on Long Island. The first job that I booked was Fisher-Price for the Dress Me Up Ernie doll and the second one was a Toys ‘R’ Us commercial with Geoffrey the giraffe.
JJ: You have your minor in musical theater - did you play any instruments in college or do you play any now?
JU: No. I learned for Spring Awakening how to play the piano but only a little bit. I can only play you two songs from Spring Awakening! [laughs] I can play “Touch Me” and I can play “The Mirror-Blue Night.”
JJ: What’s your favorite prop from the set of Glee?
JU: Okay, well, there’s this weiner dog statue and Matt Morrison’s music teacher kept it in his classroom when he was younger.
It’s in the choir room right now. He actually took it from his music teacher’s classroom and put it onto the Glee set. There’s a story back there, that’s why I like it. Or Artie’s wheelchair - either one!
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