Lea Michele says she was told to get a nose job and that she “wasn’t pretty enough” for TV or movies when she was younger.
this week that as a young actress growing up in the industry, “people would tell me to get nose jobs, that I wasn’t pretty enough for film and television.” But these days, she says that everything that's recently transpired in her career has "all been one incredible dream on top of an incredible dream” culminating in the opportunity to reprise the role of Fanny Brice inin 1964, and which won her an Oscar for the 1968 film adaptation. “She was an icon for me in my life,” Michele shared.
So imagine Michele's surprise when she actually received a handwritten note from the musical legend. “It was so surreal and such a wonderful moment. The fact that she acknowledged my performance—I could cry. I calledsobbing,” she recalled. When asked if Streisand suggested in the note that she also remake the film, the actor laughed, “I hadn’t thought about that yet, but now you’ve placed it in the universe.
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