Lea Michele referenced the viral rumor that she will’t learn in a latest TikTok video posted over the weekend.
In her video, the previous “Glee” star lip synced to a clip from “Maintaining Up With the Kardashians.” The audio is of Kardashian on a cellphone name whereas in Mexico. She’s requested “how is it?” She responds, “It is wonderful,” earlier than getting emotional, and saying, “however wait are you able to discuss for a sec?”
The textual content on Michele’s video, which has amassed almost 10 million views as of Monday, reads, “Calling Jonathan to learn me the feedback on my first TikTok.”
She had posted her first TikTok over the weekend. Jonathan refers to actor Jonathan Groff, who Michele is shut mates with.
The web rumor that Michele cannot learn started as a joke in 2017, in line with meme database Know Your Meme.
The primary reference of the joke got here from the podcast “One Extra Factor,” wherein hosts Jaye Hunt and Robert Ackerman learn late actor Naya Rivera’s e-book “Sorry Not Sorry.” Rivera and Michele labored collectively on “Glee.”
After studying a passage about Michele refusing to improvise, the hosts joked that Michele might need had her traces fed to her as a result of she could not learn.
The commenters on Michele’s TikTok video appeared thrilled to see the actor subtly weighing within the years-old meme.
“LEA THIS IS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANTED THANK YOU!!!!” one individual wrote in response to the video.
One other individual commented, “Sensible PR transfer… that is profitable me over.”
Michele has acknowledged the rumors earlier than. In a tweet from 2018, Michele responded to an individual discussing the rumor with, “Beloved READING this tweet and wished to WRITE you again. Actually laughing out loud in any respect this. Love you.”
That very same yr, Michele acknowledged the rumors on the present “Watch What Occurs Reside with Andy Cohen.”
In a latest New York Occasions profile, Michele condemned the rumors, calling them “unhappy” and claiming that they had a sexist undertone.
“I went to ‘Glee’ each single day,” Michele informed the publication. “I knew my traces each single day. After which there’s a rumor on-line that I can’t learn or write? It’s unhappy. It truly is. I feel typically if I had been a person, loads of this wouldn’t be the case.”
Michele took over the lead position of Fanny Brice in “Humorous Lady” on Broadway earlier this month, after Beanie Feldstein departed the manufacturing.
Michele lately examined optimistic for Covid-19, leading to her having to step away from the manufacturing for 10 days. She joined TikTok throughout that point.
In her first TikTok video, she lip syncs in a duet with a creator who parodied what he thought Michele would appear to be on opening evening of “Humorous Lady.”
She made the caption “Clearly I can’t wait to get again to @funnygrlbwy subsequent week.”
