Lea Michele is spending her days in COVID-19 quarantine like most of us: on social media. Nevertheless, the Glee alum can also be utilizing the chance to mock rumors that she’s illiterate.
Michele, 36, needed to take a short lived step again from performing in Broadway’s Humorous Lady because of a COVID-19 analysis, and joined the favored video app TikTok throughout her downtime. In a brand new video, the actress joked concerning the viral rumor that she would not know methods to learn or write.
“It is wonderful however wait, are you able to discuss for a sec?” Michele lip syncs for the digital camera, reenacting Kim Kardashian’s dialogue from an outdated episode of Holding Up With the Kardashians, wherein the mannequin and mogul is visibly upset whereas on trip. The star added the caption, “Calling Jonathan to learn me the feedback on my first TikTok,” implying that she wanted her greatest buddy Jonathan Groff to learn the feedback for her.
Michele formally responded to the weird rumor of her illiteracy in an interview with the New York Occasions earlier this month. The actress identified that she believes the criticism is rooted in misogyny.
“I went to Glee each single day; I knew my strains each single day,” she informed the Occasions. “After which there’s a rumor on-line that I can’t learn or write? It’s unhappy. It truly is. I believe typically if I have been a person, quite a lot of this wouldn’t be the case.”
Fellow actress Jameela Jamil additionally weighed in, posting that it is ableist to joke about an individual’s capacity to learn or write.
“I see lots of people claiming a sure actress cannot learn… after which laughing at her. No matter your concern with somebody, and I do not know this girl, or something about her, however laughing on the thought of *anybody* not having the ability to learn makes YOU seem like a prick,” Jamil wrote. “An elitist, ableist bore. It is embarrassing for you, not them.”
Within the caption, Jamil suggested followers to not “let the particles of your bullets meant for some… hit these you were not aiming at. Some individuals cannot learn due to incapacity, studying disabilities, some cannot due to an absence of entry to schooling. Your phrases and actions additionally have an effect on them.”
Michele’s newest TikTok video was truly her second that she posted on the platform. Her first was a duet with one other TikTok consumer, wherein each of them lip sync to Michele’s personal voice whereas she performs Humorous Lady‘s iconic tune, “Do not Rain on My Parade.” Wearing cozy pajamas and utilizing a hairbrush as a pretend microphone, Michele pretended to ham it up for the viewers, whereas clearly caught at residence.
“Clearly I am unable to wait to get again to @funnygrlbwy subsequent week,” Michele captioned the video, referring once more to her COVID analysis.
The Glee alum took over the position of Fanny Brice within the Broadway revival earlier this month after the position was vacated by Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein.
