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Meet the new scream queen. Lea Michele gave her vocalcords a work out when she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday. TheGlee actress, who stars in the new Fox horror comedy Scream Queens, jumped andsquealed in surprise when Ellen DeGeneres scared her.
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The former Broadway star was talking about how she wants towatch the original Halloween with the film's star (and her Scream Queensco-star) Jamie Lee Curtis, when a guy dressed as the film's killer, MichaelMyers, jumped up beside her. "That's it," Lea said as she grabbedEllen's arm. "I'm not coming on your show again." (We're not sure ifshe was serious.)
Lea, 29, also talked about shooting the new series from Gleeand American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy in Ellen's hometown of NewOrleans. She raved about the restaurants, as Ellen shared pics of Lea andco-star Emma Roberts doing some extreme Pilates moves that Lea explained were meant "to counter balance" all the rich Cajun food. She continued, "It'ssupposed to be really good for you."
Ellen asked if she'd also been on a swamp tour, and Leaenthusiastically said she had. "I fed a gator, I did the wholething," she smiled as Ellen explained that gators can actually feedthemselves.
Lea, who wore a Jonathan Simkhai dress on Ellen's show, alsotalked about a challenging scene where she was buried up to her neck in dirt. "Iread the script and I thought they were totally going to do this on asound stage but we were actually in the ground," she said. "I didn'tthink I was going to be so freaked out by it and then you're buried up to yourneck and I'm secretly panicking and I'm not going to let anybody know."
She couldn't move her hands, so Ryan came to her aid whensome of the live props got a little too friendly. "I had these hugespiders crawling all over my face and Ryan would come over and whack them offof me," she explained. "It was really intense."
Lea and thecast, which also includes Ariana Grande, Abigail Breslin and Nick Jonas,celebrated the show's premiere with a party at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre on Monday, September 21. The singer and actress showed off all that Pilates work in ablack cutout dress by David Koma London and shared a pic on Instagram with herdate, boyfriend Matthew Paetz.
Scream Queens premieres Tuesday, September 22, at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.