
Glee sweethearts Lea Michele and Cory Monteith are Teen Vogue‘s latest cover models. The stars dished on everything from their work on the show to their relationship off set.
“Teen Vogue: So, you guys have gone from relatively unknown to pretty ubiquitous in the past eighteen months, thanks to the success of Glee. Do you feel like you’re finally getting everything you worked so hard for?
Cory Monteith: No. I don’t feel like I was working toward this at all! I didn’t even know that you could get paid to be an actor when I first started doing this.
Teen Vogue: How did you start?
Cory Monteith: You want to take this one, Lea? She’s heard this story, like, 100,000 times.
Lea Michele: We’ve all heard each other’s stories.
Cory Monteith: I’ll make it quick. I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, “Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?” But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning. I slept on someone’s floor. I brought, like, two shirts and two pairs of pants.
Teen Vogue: Why didn’t you pack more pants?
Cory Monteith: I didn’t own any! I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like Smallville, Supernatural . . . and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.
Lea Michele: Hybrid. Check it out.
Teen Vogue: Did you enjoy that?
Cory Monteith: I was, like, so stoked. But when the Glee audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.
Lea Michele: Fast-forward two years, he’s on stage at Radio City, singing live in front of 6,000 people and, like, loving it.
Cory Monteith: Loving it.
Lea Michele: He’s a rock star.”
Theses two have great chemistry together and their pictures from the shoot are precious. Read the rest of the interview HERE and check out the pictures too!
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