Idina Menzel Says She Felt Awkward Playing Lea Michele’s Mom on ‘Glee’: I ‘Should’ve Been Her Older Sister’

usmagazine.com:

A not so gleeful gig. Idina Menzel remembers playing Lea Michele‘s mom on Glee when it was at the height of its success, but she wasn’t thrilled about her role.The Broadway veteran, now 50, started on the musical comedy in the first season as Shelby, the coach of enemy glee club Vocal Adrenaline and the biological mother of Michele’s Rachel Berry.

The job came just after Menzel gave birth to her son Walker, now 12, and she wasn’t feeling her most confident.“The scene from Glee that was the hardest was my first scene on Glee.

I don’t know what that was, but whatever, it was the first day on set,” Menzel explained while completing InStyle‘s Badass Questionnaire, which was published on Monday, September 27. “I just had my little son, Walker.