a couple years ago after playing Olaf the snowman for a year on Broadway, and I was really kind of obsessed with perfectly landing the dismount from that show. AfterI had a couple months off, and then I did a Chekov play over the summer, and then I did this tiny scene in Tennessee Williams’on Broadway, and then I would do a Sondheim musical. Tennessee Williams and Sondheim in the same season on Broadway.
I’ve been painting. I started with my cats and painting the house plants, and then I shared the paintings on Instagram, and people started asking me if I would paint their pets, first people that I knew, and then I kind of opened it up to people that I didn’t know, and now it’s become this thing. I painted two pets this morning that I’ll be sending out today.Sadly, my dog Benny very quickly and surprisingly died in November. He was 14.
, Ryan Murphy’s show that was about to premiere on Netflix. So I was active in doing a lot of press for that, but when that was over, I was like, well, now what do I do at 2 o’clock in the afternoon? So I’ve sort of stayed away from the cast Zooms because it depressed me, and it depressed me because I hardly know this company. Even though we went through the rehearsal process, we don’t really know each other. I wasn’t at the place where these Zoom things had anything to offer, and it depressed me. I thought I had nothing to contribute. I’m just standing there, and everybody’s sitting there and listening, and I just don’t have anything to contribute. So I sort of backed away from it.