Chris Colfer with Chiun-Kai Shih for August Man Malaysia by Justin Violini. Chris Colfer and Polly Bergen Brainstorm for Struck By Lightning.
Glee: Kurt and the Casting Couch. In the second episode of Glee’s new season, “I Am Unicorn,” Kurt’s character loses the romantic lead in the school musical, West Side Story, to his more masculine boyfriend Blaine.
The episode was both fascinating and confounding because instead of interrogating masculinist gender hierarchies, usually one of the show’s great strengths, the show affirmed them, making the argument that Kurt could not sufficiently turn on women because he was too “delicate,” “fragile,” “too much of a lady” and “not Rock Hudson gay, but gay gay.” The adjective “feminine,” was oddly never employed, although it would have been much more suitable for describing Kurt than “delicate,” especially given that the character had just performed an audition that displayed considerable upper body strength. “I am Unicorn” celebrates Kurt’s “theatricality” while simultaneously trying to contain and deny any erotic response. Internationally, Colfer is in good company. ‘The Land of Stories,’ by Chris Colfer. Mr Chris Colfer. Photography by Mr Blair Getz Mezibov | Styling by Mr Christopher Orrell Words by Mr Sanjiv Bhattacharya Sitting there with his Tintin quiff, all skinny and tall, digging into the chips and guac in an otherwise empty Mexican café in West Hollywood, Mr Chris Colfer looks perfectly calm on the face of it.
But here's the thing - he has no right to be. Because Mr Colfer has a lot more on his plate right now than tortilla chips. "Yeah, by the end of next week - well, a bit after that - I have to write a novel," he says, in his trademark high-pitched voice. "I haven't started yet. He's best known as the actor who plays Kurt Hummel, the gay countertenor in Glee, one of the most talked-about shows on television. By the end of next week I have to write a novel.
And yet, it turns out, the 22 year old is also this insanely prolific writer. "I've written one book already, it's for children," he says. "Oh and my agent asked me to adapt this children's book into a feature for Disney. The work Um... 'Glee': 5 Things you didn't know about Chris Colfer. "Glee" star Chris Colfer has a classic Hollywood discovery story: Even though he auditioned for another part on the hit FOX musical series, the producers liked his performance enough to write a character specifically for him.
Thus, Kurt Hummel was born, and the fans' fascination with the boy from Clovis, California began. We already know quite a bit about him. Like Kurt, he didn't have the best high school social experience, and when he was a senior, he wrote and masterminded the production of "Shirley Todd," a gender roles-reversed version of "Sweeney Todd. " We're still on such a high from Colfer's incredible solo of "A House Is Not a Home" from the previous week's episode of "Glee," we thought we'd share even more to love about Chris Colfer: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Chris Colfer 1) His first public performance was in elementary school.
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