Heather Morris wears a tired bathing suit in Esquire, the same issue covered by Jeff Bridges. Morris is given a weirdly-short profile in the magazine and there are more photos, her interview, and a behind-the-scenes video after the jump. The shoot’s pretty lazy. Morris, a 24-year-old professional dancer, wears an American Apparel bathing suit from 18 months ago, which we’ve already seen Megan Fox wear in Rolling Stone October 2009. And she’s smashing guitars like it’s the year of her birth again. Except, she’s not. Smashing that is. She’s giving you Face, Face, Teeth, Grrr, Face. And then she stops short of actually allowing the instrument to come into contact with the floor. In the article, I’m reminded that she’s a dancer first. She’s not an actress, really. She didn’t audition for Glee in the same way as the rest of the cast. In 2009, ‘producers called Morris to teach the cast the choreography to the song Single Ladies, which she’d recently performed as a backup dancer to Beyonce on Saturday Night Live and the American Music Awards.’ They asked her to stay and gave her the part of Brittany Susan Pierce, the bisexual cheerleader who regularly gets the best one-liners.
- The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn: ‘Like in the ’80s Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That’s it.’
- You don’t want to be too cool: ‘But you don’t want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.’
- It’s already embarrassing: ‘… being in a club. I can’t stand it when someone comes up behind a girl and grabs her hips and tries to grind with her. It’s offensive. Why would you do that to me?’
- What’s really hot: ‘Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.’
- The secret to moonwalking: ‘You have to have slick shoes, or else your feet would get stuck. And you trick people. Your right foot pops, and you’re pushing your left foot back, and once your left foot lands, you do the same thing. It just looks like you’re gliding on air.’
- How does she do it: ‘Twenty-three years of dancing.’
