The Hollywood Reporter’s Mary Murphy joined the set of “Glee” for a feature article, and observed as Broadway actress and the show’s star Lea Michele gets hung up texting on her phone between takes:

Later, taking a break from work — though not from her phone, which she uses to text back and forth endlessly — Michele seems uncertain. 

“It’s kind of tough getting back into the groove,” she admits.

The groove is so different from anything she’s known before. Michele was a Broadway actress who’d never had any long-running role on television, and was constantly being rejected either because she wasn’t a classic Hollywood beauty or because she was too ethnic — or for myriad other reasons. Now she’s a mega-star. 

She goes over and over her scene, worrying about whether to play it this way or that. Falchuk says he wants Rachel to seem humbled, but Michele would like to try it a few different ways. She pecks out a few more text messages. Then heads back to shoot.