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\"Jenna<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz<\/strong> isn’t the type of person to sit back and let her career just happen. In fact, this year has been busier than ever for her. Glee<\/em>, where she starred as Tina, has just finished it’s six season run, she’s running a foundation called Kindred and Twinsters<\/em>, the documentary she executive-produced, just premiered at SXSW.<\/p>\n

Twinsters<\/em> is the crazy true story of Ana\u00efs Bordier<\/strong>, a French fashion student who stumbled upon a YouTube video featuring Samantha Futerman<\/strong>, an actress in Los Angeles. While watching it, she noticed that they look remarkably alike. She did some research and found out that they were born on the same day in Busan, Korea and both put up for adoption. Ana\u00efs quickly reached out to Samantha via Facebook and soon, decided that it would make a great documentary. Samantha reached out to Jenna (via the agent they shared) and she couldn’t help not to get involved.<\/p>\n

I talked with Jenna before the film premiered at SXSW and she was clearly excited. We chatted about Twinsters<\/em> and her role as an executive producer, the last days of Glee<\/em>, how she accomplishes so much in a day, auditions, her advice to actors and what’s coming up next.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re very busy. It seems you have a ton of stuff going on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Yeah. It\u2019s kind of funny, I asked for 2015 the one thing was to be busy. I should be careful what I wish for. Yeah, I did Twinsters<\/em> here, absolutely is my priority at this point and we\u2019re premiering tomorrow. We just finished sort of the Glee<\/em> finale and the shooting as well as promoting it. And we also just threw our inaugural benefit for our foundation that was sort of a baby out of Twinsters<\/em>. So it\u2019s been pretty crazy.<\/p>\n

How did you get involved in the film?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> So Samantha Futerman, one of the Twinsters<\/em>, she and I had gone back since we were little auditioning together on the East coast. And she reached out to me through our agent, we have the same agent, and she said, \u201cYou may wanna hear this really crazy story. Do you wanna meet?\u201d And I said, \u201cOk.\u201d So she told me about Anais and finding her through Facebook and I was like, \u201cWhat?\u201d This sort of really, really crazy story. And so I said, \u201cHow can I help? How can I be involved? What do you need from me?\u201d And so she said, \u201cI need a executive producer,\u201d and I said, \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d And then she said, \u201cI wanna start this foundation,\u201d I said, \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d So it sort of all happened all at once. And it\u2019s been a really fun experience to play producer and do a different hats sort of situation.<\/p>\n

What was your role as the producer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Sam really wanted to keep it within the adopted community family, people related to adoption, people have some sort of personal experience with it.<\/p>\n

It was sort of a collaborative experience. Hooking people up and sort of saying, \u201cI know this person, maybe they can help with sound,\u201d and just being a presence there for her. And social media as well and getting the word out. So it was kind of this weird collaboration. There was no one true role, but she just said, \u201cI\u2019m gonna surround with all these great people who have experience in some way or another and then help me make this movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

How did you like doing that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> I loved it.<\/p>\n

Can you see yourself producing something again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Absolutely. Yeah, it\u2019s really cool. It\u2019s a different part of the brain, I think, you use. It’s not acting. It\u2019s really fun. I just really, really enjoyed it. It’s like the business side of me, like the CEO side of me, that would\u2019ve been. So I get to use that as well.<\/p>\n

And so through that you started a foundation, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n

Or was that first? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> No, they sort of came at the same time but then the concept of the foundation came later. It was the Kindred Foundation for Adoption and essentially Sam said because of the Kickstarter and their crowdfunding that they did for the movie, she had this outreach of so many adoptees around the world saying, \u201cI relate to you, I need help.\u201d She just realized that there was a lot of aid needed. And so we decided to sort of start this foundation and create an emotional support system for adoptees around the world as well as being a go to resource.<\/p>\n

Before all this happened did you ever envision yourself sort of getting into this side of the business?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Yeah. Not so quickly and so roughly, but yes. Absolutely I thought…<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s good to be thrown into it by trial by fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> 100%. You just think, \u201cWhen I grow up, I\u2019m gonna be that and then a producer.\u201d But we\u2019re grown up. So I forget.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even feel like that myself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> So yeah, it\u2019s kind of crazy. It\u2019s with young filmmakers and we\u2019re all sort of doing the same thing and learning the same things at the same time, so it\u2019s actually a really great support system as well.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ve always wanted to direct as well, so it\u2019s something… that was actually on the forefront and then that kind of got pushed back when Twinsters<\/em> happened. And the foundation as well. I\u2019ve always been pretty into charity work and attending various charity events, trying to actually find the ones that really clicked with me. I\u2019ve actually found them now in the last year b ut then Kindred came. It sort of sprung off and it happened so quickly that I didn’t even realize how we created it this fast. You know? It all sort of happened before I even thought about it.<\/p>\n

Do you wanna direct a documentary as well or a narrative?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> No anything from TV to film or short films, anything really, just to sort of get yourself going., that momentum. They\u2019re such different parts of the brain, again, that you have to sort of work at different skills and it\u2019s a skillset that I don’t have just yet. Or I haven\u2019t honed in on yet.<\/p>\n

I feel like I’m so unproductive at times. How do you manage your day? Teach me!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> A lot of lists, a lot of lists.<\/p>\n

Are you paper or do you have it on your phone?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Both. In my head, on my phone, and on paper. I\u2019m type a, obviously, to get all of that done in one day.<\/p>\n

Really it\u2019s about just step by step. Getting to the next 15 minutes, getting to the next hour, getting to the next, you know, meal.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m afraid that in April that it\u2019s just gonna stop and I\u2019m not gonna know what to do with myself. It\u2019s one of those things where I create it for myself. I create the opportunities, I create the chaos, and then I complain about it. So, it\u2019s like I bring on my own pain, but I don’t really know it any other way. Like the last 8 years I\u2019ve been going nonstop and I\u2019m not really sure that I know how to not do this. You know?<\/p>\n

What are your plans? Do you have anything lined up after this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Well, literally I go to Paris on Wednesday to do a farewell Glee<\/em> convention and meet some European fans with a good amount of the cast. And then sort of see what the next move is and focus back on the acting thing for a second and see what other projects come my way. I\u2019d definitely love to develop a TV show or produce something.<\/p>\n

I feel like they say focus in on one thing, but I think all the things in the mix, if you leave a few the probability that two will happen out of the five is a good chance. So you keep yourself sort of busy and then when one comes, you focus on that, lilke we\u2019re here at SXSW.<\/p>\n

And then we\u2019ll probably throw a summer Kindred party as well for some more funding so we can start to help these adoptees. And then we\u2019ll see. Yeah. It\u2019s exciting though. I\u2019m excited to see what happens. It\u2019s weird though because Glee<\/em> has been on for so long and I haven\u2019t been without a job, so…<\/p>\n

Yeah, and you\u2019re not gonna have a day now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Yeah, yeah. It\u2019s a little weird. Obviously I\u2019ve kept myself busy, but yeah. I don’t know. I feel like it\u2019ll sort of fall into my lap the way it\u2019s supposed to.<\/p>\n

Now, I know you\u2019ve done some theatre as well. Would you maybe try and do some of that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Absolutely. Yeah, it\u2019s funny, people ask me right after Glee<\/em> are you going back to Broadway? And I guess people thought that because I was a Broadway girl coming in, but I really consider myself an actor as well. I love my life in LA, I like the TV film world, so I\u2019m allowing this, the plays and musicals, to sort of come my way because I think that\u2019s what people know me for. And then the other stuff I have to peruse a little bit more. But, yeah. Absolutely I would totally do it again. And I plan to.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a couple of actor-y questions for you. What is the worst audition that you’ve been on? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> I\u2019m not gonna go into specifics, but I will say there have been some that… they\u2019re not the most constructive critically. So, to go into an audition when you don’t really feel the greatest to begin with because you don’t know this character very well, you don’t know really what they\u2019re truly looking for just yet, and then to be criticized but not in a way that is helpful at all, I\u2019ve had a few of those recently. Not a few, but I\u2019ve gotten that recently and it\u2019s not… you don’t feel good afterwards. You just come out thinking, What did I do?\u201d And I can\u2019t think, \u201cHow can I fix that?\u201d Because you weren\u2019t given anything good critical to fix. You know what I mean? Constructive to fix. So, those are the worst. And then there are times where you just blank out and that\u2019s not fun either.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had many of those.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Right? You just go and you blank out and you\u2019re like, \u201cThat wasn\u2019t good. I didn’t do anything that I wanted to do in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

And you\u2019re driving home and you’re like…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Yeah, you\u2019re staring at the lines afterwards. \u201cDid I do that the way I wanted it to?\u201d<\/p>\n

You always get the best audition in the car.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Always, right before. It\u2019s literally right before the rehearsal. That\u2019s why you always tape the rehearsal.<\/p>\n

Do you try and memorize the sides before you go in?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Yeah. Yeah. I always hold them, but I do try to memorize them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Something I\u2019m also working on is focus and the way into somebody\u2019s sort of soul is their eyes. And so if you\u2019re staring down at a paper, nobody\u2019s gonna get that. Especially off a tape. So I definitely think that I try to be as 110% prepared as I possibly can to prepare for the worst. But I won\u2019t not hold the paper. I don’t think that\u2019s never expected of anyway.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I tried to do that once and blanked. Completely blanked.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> There’s no safety blanket. If you know you have it you\u2019re usually better off.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your advice to actors?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Broad question. Don’t take yourself too seriously. It\u2019s just… it is what it is.<\/p>\n

And leave it at the door. Don’t take it with you afterwards. It just ruins your day and it’s really not meant to do that.<\/p>\n

And I think auditioning wise, the casting directors want you to be the one. They\u2019re not working against you most of the time, so I think that if you go in with that mindset instead of, \u201cOh my God, I\u2019m gonna mess up, this is gonna be horrible, I\u2019m gonna give the worst audition of my life,\u201d it\u2019s, \u201cOh, they want me to do this. They want me to be the one.\u201d So there\u2019s no reason to feel like you\u2019re gonna fail, which is I think a lot of actors\u2019 problems. They\u2019re setting themselves up for failure.<\/p>\n

And then just my last question about Glee<\/em>, what was the final day for you on set? Was it just tears?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenna Ushkowitz:<\/strong> Severely emotional. That I wasn\u2019t prepared for. Coming in and out of the show and not being there every single day for the last 6 months or so, I was ready. I had sort of felt what it was gonna feel like when I wasn\u2019t there and when it wasn\u2019t going on and not seeing everybody every day. And then you come to this day and you\u2019re surrounded by the people that you love, knowing that you\u2019re not gonna see them all that much. Your crew members that are grown men with families, you know what I mean? You don’t exchange numbers and then… I was not prepared for that. I was like, \u201cI\u2019m gonna be fine, this is gonna be great. Everybody\u2019s gonna be moving on to bigger things. Everybody’s gonna be so successful and wonderful.\u201d And then you\u2019re like… and Lea [Michele]<\/strong> and I cry already so much that it\u2019s expected, but when you see Matt Morrison<\/strong>, grown men cry, it\u2019s heartbreaking. You never like to see a grown man cry. Or you don’t see it as often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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