In the upcoming documentary honoring the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening, the former Spring Awakening co-stars reflect on their 15-year friendship. Former Spring Awakening co-star Jonathan Groff was previously a romantic interest for Lea Michele.
The actress confesses in the upcoming HBO documentary Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known that she began to fall for Groff, who played her love interest in the Tony Award-winning Broadway show, shortly after they met 15 years ago.
Groff says, “Lea and I were given this material where we had to fall in love.”
Michele played the simple Wendla Bergmann to Groff’s Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2006 before transferring to Broadway. Wendla looks to Melchior for answers regarding her maturing body and sexual wants, and the two develop intense affections for one another in the process.
Michele says, “I was so in love with him.”
“Finally, I cornered him at a party, and I said to him, ‘Why don’t you love me? Just love me. Why can’t you love me? Date me. Love me.’ And I just saw this look in his eyes, and at that moment, I knew,”
She said, “I realized at that moment, ‘This is the end.’ And I need to protect this. This is intense.”
“And I never asked him again about his sexuality and it was sort of this… I think he felt safe with me because he knew that I knew and that we could be best friends, and our relationship just grew and grew to the point that we would do the show and then we would go home together. That’s why Jonathan and I became so close. We were so intertwined.”
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