Mean girl no more?
Lea Michele, who has a reputation for being a diva, goes out of her way to be extra sweet behind the scenes of Broadway’s “Funny Girl,” says a source, who tells us: “She’s so nice, she makes Julie Andrews look like a bitch.”
Michele, who steps into the role of Fanny Brice after Beanie Feldstein and Julie Benko, has faced public accusations of “traumatic micro-aggressions” from former “Glee” castmate Samantha Ware. Another castmate, Heather Morris, also publicly stated that Michele was “unpleasant to work with”. And the late ‘Glee’ star Naya Rivera also documented her troubles, saying that Michele “didn’t like being in the spotlight.”
But it looks like Michele, who will debut on the show on September 6, is working on a new script.
“She is going to be” soooo nice, it’s crazy,” said a source. “She knows everyone’s name and their birthdays.”
The source jokes about Michele’s over-kindness: “She’s watering the plants[castmates’]- Changing rooms quite nice. It’s an expression, a joke. She’s not actually doing it yet…not yet.’
Michele recently told the New York Times about her past reputation that after an “intensive time of reflection” she is now able to “really understand the importance and value of being a leader. It doesn’t just mean doing a good job when the camera running, but also when it isn’t, and that wasn’t always the most important thing for me.”
She also admitted: “I’m ahead of me. I work very hard. I don’t leave room for mistakes. That level of perfectionism, or that pressure of perfectionism, created a lot of blind spots.”
Feldstein shockedly left the show in July after bad reviews. “It’s not that Beanie doesn’t have talent,” a source told us at the time. “It’s not her fault. She was poorly cast.”