InDepth InterView: Jonathan Groff
It’s really just more from the interview linked here on Broadwayworld.com and they ask more questions about Jonathan’s previous work as well as his plans for future projects.
PC: You played a lead role on Ryan Murphy’s pilot, PRETTY/HANDSOME, involving a transsexual, a few years ago. What was the show about?
JG: It was a pilot for FX starring Joe Fiennes. He played a doctor who secretly wanted to have a sex change. In the pilot, you sort of got to know that, and he dressed up as a woman and whatever. It was really, really interesting.
PC: Who did you play?
JG: I played his son, who, you know, was like a senior in high school and had gotten his girlfriend pregnant. It was really… (Laughs.) intense. It was a really good show, though.
PC: What a cast! You, Blythe Danner, Joseph Fiennes…
JG: I know! And Carrie Anne-Moss played his wife and Robert Wagner played his father. It was awesome.
PC: What a shame it didn’t get picked up.
JG: Yeah. Totally.
PC: Have you worked on any other projects that didn’t get picked up or didn’t continue on? You’ve done a lot of work.
JG: Hmm. Let me think. (Pause.) Other than PRETTY/HANDSOME – which was really fun, but never happened, obviously – I have never done another pilot.
PC: What about workshops of musicals?
JG: I have done a bunch of those. A countless number.
PC: What was the most interesting?
JG: Well, I did a really crazy workshop of the sequel to FAME.
PC: What was that about?
JG: David Da Silva, who is the guy that created FAME: THE MUSICAL, he wrote a sequel to FAME called FAME: FOREVER. We did it a couple of years ago. I can’t remember much about it right now. But, I got my Equity card doing FAME at the North Shore Music Theater in Massachusetts and so they asked me to come in, then, to do that. That was one workshop that didn’t happen.
PC: So, from FAME to GLEE – how fascinating! Weird, no?
JG: (Laughs.) Yeah! Totally weird.
