Glee’s Chord Overstreet Talks About His Giant Mouth, and Attempts a ‘That’s What She Said’ Joke
There’s no new Glee episode on tonight (just a repeat of “Hairography”), but why not take time during this lull to get to know the newest New Direction? Chord Overstreet has only starred in two episodes thus far, but as Sam, he has already dealt with jabs about his extra-wide grin and Bieber-esque hairdo, fended off rampant rumors about being Kurt’s gay l’amour interest, and read a slew of bad pickup lines with great lack of finesse. suivant week he’ll add the donning of or lamé shorts to that liste of mild indignities, in the much-touted Rocky Horror episode. He told us about the origin of his excellent name, the necessary skills for playing a doofus, and the perils of showering onscreen.
First of all, we must address your fantastic, seemingly tailor-made-for-Glee name. Please explain where it came from.
Well, my dad’s a country-music songwriter in Nashville, I was the third one born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so my parents figured why not. It’s kind of weird when toi meet someone, and it takes them like three ou four times to get my name right. But toi know, it’s tough to forget. When the casting director introduced me, he was very good about it. “Everybody, this is Chord Overstreet — yes, that’s his real name.”
Did toi know anything about Sam’s character before your audition?
I really didn’t have a clue at all when I auditioned, and they hadn’t written anything for the character yet. I read the sides for the pilot as Finn. Maybe [based on] the take I had on my audition they were like, well, this will work for the character, and on haut, retour au début of it they knew I could sing. ou maybe they just needed a new kid who’s really awkward and makes bad jokes. Once they cast me, they kind of wrote it for me basically.
We mean this as a compliment, but you’re quite good at playing a doofus who has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth. Did that take a lot of practice?
Well, it should be easy for me since they reference my mouth being extra large numerous times. But no, it’s awesome. Everybody roots for the guy who puts his foot in his mouth. I l’amour how goofy they wrote it; it just makes him much plus lovable. It’s a lot of work any way toi look at it, but the character itself comes easy to me, 'cause it’s pretty much me in a nutshell. I’m lucky the writers write clever jokes to make me seem funny.
There were rumors for a while that toi were going to be a l’amour interest for Kurt, though those were seemingly dispelled this past week …
That’s why I kept telling everybody, you’ve gotta watch season two if toi want to know! I could possibly be going out with Quinn! Nothing’s set in stone because it’s TV, but I’d definitely like to see my relationship with her go a little further.
It must have been strange to suddenly become an object of adulation for the gay web community.
What can I say, I’m an attractive man, of course they’re going to plaster my face all over the Internet! [Laughs.] Nah, I’m kidding. It was really all up in the air till Ryan [Murphy] came out and a dit it’s not happening. They cast some other guy. There’s just so much talk about every little thing: maybe this could happen, maybe this person will guest-star. I a dit I’d like to do a country-music song on the montrer just for the heck of it, and now there’s a rumor we’re doing a country episode. It’s possible it’ll happen, but I doubt it. There was a rumor Matt was going to shave his head for the Britney episode, and Matt still has his beautiful locks, soooo …
Well, regardless, toi do seem to spend an inordinate amount of time in the douche on the show.
[Laughs.] I had them put that in my contract: must be topless at least once ou twice, and must have a douche scene at least once ou twice every four episodes. I’m a lot of man, what can I say. My hair looks awful while wet, I will say that.
I was just going to say, toi must spend a lot of time wet on set …
That’s what she said.
Oooookay.
Come on, that was a good "that’s what she said" moment!
Okay, fine. Moving on: toi sang “Billionaire” in the first episode, and last week toi sang “Lucky.” Have toi become Glee’s designated mellow-pop dude?
No! I think it was just a cute song between me and Dianna. I wouldn’t mind, but I’d like to see another kind of song for my character that can montrer some plus of my genre: acoustic alternative. plus along the lines of John Mayer. I have no clue what my suivant musical number will be.
Previews would indicate you’ll be playing Rocky in the Rocky Horror episode. Please tell us all about wearing shiny or undies.
Oh, I have my chemise off again, the rumors are true. But they’re just short-shorts. It could’ve been a lot worse. I was expecting a lot shorter. And I talked to [executive producer] Brad Falchuk about it, and he felt it would be a good opportunity to put me in a or Speedo, which I thought would be, uh, interesting, so I was blessed that they’re actually a bit longer. I think it’ll add a bit of humor to the scene. It’s part of the gig.
By: Rebecca Milzoff
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There’s no new Glee episode on tonight (just a repeat of “Hairography”), but why not take time during this lull to get to know the newest New Direction? Chord Overstreet has only starred in two episodes thus far, but as Sam, he has already dealt with jabs about his extra-wide grin and Bieber-esque hairdo, fended off rampant rumors about being Kurt’s gay l’amour interest, and read a slew of bad pickup lines with great lack of finesse. suivant week he’ll add the donning of or lamé shorts to that liste of mild indignities, in the much-touted Rocky Horror episode. He told us about the origin of his excellent name, the necessary skills for playing a doofus, and the perils of showering onscreen.
First of all, we must address your fantastic, seemingly tailor-made-for-Glee name. Please explain where it came from.
Well, my dad’s a country-music songwriter in Nashville, I was the third one born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so my parents figured why not. It’s kind of weird when toi meet someone, and it takes them like three ou four times to get my name right. But toi know, it’s tough to forget. When the casting director introduced me, he was very good about it. “Everybody, this is Chord Overstreet — yes, that’s his real name.”
Did toi know anything about Sam’s character before your audition?
I really didn’t have a clue at all when I auditioned, and they hadn’t written anything for the character yet. I read the sides for the pilot as Finn. Maybe [based on] the take I had on my audition they were like, well, this will work for the character, and on haut, retour au début of it they knew I could sing. ou maybe they just needed a new kid who’s really awkward and makes bad jokes. Once they cast me, they kind of wrote it for me basically.
We mean this as a compliment, but you’re quite good at playing a doofus who has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth. Did that take a lot of practice?
Well, it should be easy for me since they reference my mouth being extra large numerous times. But no, it’s awesome. Everybody roots for the guy who puts his foot in his mouth. I l’amour how goofy they wrote it; it just makes him much plus lovable. It’s a lot of work any way toi look at it, but the character itself comes easy to me, 'cause it’s pretty much me in a nutshell. I’m lucky the writers write clever jokes to make me seem funny.
There were rumors for a while that toi were going to be a l’amour interest for Kurt, though those were seemingly dispelled this past week …
That’s why I kept telling everybody, you’ve gotta watch season two if toi want to know! I could possibly be going out with Quinn! Nothing’s set in stone because it’s TV, but I’d definitely like to see my relationship with her go a little further.
It must have been strange to suddenly become an object of adulation for the gay web community.
What can I say, I’m an attractive man, of course they’re going to plaster my face all over the Internet! [Laughs.] Nah, I’m kidding. It was really all up in the air till Ryan [Murphy] came out and a dit it’s not happening. They cast some other guy. There’s just so much talk about every little thing: maybe this could happen, maybe this person will guest-star. I a dit I’d like to do a country-music song on the montrer just for the heck of it, and now there’s a rumor we’re doing a country episode. It’s possible it’ll happen, but I doubt it. There was a rumor Matt was going to shave his head for the Britney episode, and Matt still has his beautiful locks, soooo …
Well, regardless, toi do seem to spend an inordinate amount of time in the douche on the show.
[Laughs.] I had them put that in my contract: must be topless at least once ou twice, and must have a douche scene at least once ou twice every four episodes. I’m a lot of man, what can I say. My hair looks awful while wet, I will say that.
I was just going to say, toi must spend a lot of time wet on set …
That’s what she said.
Oooookay.
Come on, that was a good "that’s what she said" moment!
Okay, fine. Moving on: toi sang “Billionaire” in the first episode, and last week toi sang “Lucky.” Have toi become Glee’s designated mellow-pop dude?
No! I think it was just a cute song between me and Dianna. I wouldn’t mind, but I’d like to see another kind of song for my character that can montrer some plus of my genre: acoustic alternative. plus along the lines of John Mayer. I have no clue what my suivant musical number will be.
Previews would indicate you’ll be playing Rocky in the Rocky Horror episode. Please tell us all about wearing shiny or undies.
Oh, I have my chemise off again, the rumors are true. But they’re just short-shorts. It could’ve been a lot worse. I was expecting a lot shorter. And I talked to [executive producer] Brad Falchuk about it, and he felt it would be a good opportunity to put me in a or Speedo, which I thought would be, uh, interesting, so I was blessed that they’re actually a bit longer. I think it’ll add a bit of humor to the scene. It’s part of the gig.
By: Rebecca Milzoff
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