Tripp blows! But it turns out
Aaron Tveit, the actor who plays him, doesn't. You might of heard of the Tony-award winning Broadway musical
Next to Normal. Well,
Tveit is actually one of the stars--one of the dancing and singing stars--who impressed the Great White Way's critics and practically stole the show. And that wasn't even his first play. He actually had the lead love-interest role in
Wicked and in
Hairspray for a while. That's right,
Serena's current unsuitable suitor actually has serious talent. In fact, he even auditioned to play
Finn in "
Glee." (No offense, but I prefer
Cory Monteith. He may not sing as good, but he definitely looks more like a suburban jock than the puny politician.)
Luckily for
Tveit, his foray into more commercial entertainment outside of theater won't end with "
Gossip Girl." He already scored a co-starring role in the much-talked about drama
Howl, which also stars
James Franco, Jon Hamm, and
Jeff Daniels. He'll play the poet
Peter Orlovsky, who was best friends with the poet
Allen Ginsberg (
Franco). The film will focus on the release-aftermath of
Ginsberg's most famous poem,
Howl. If critics eat it up, he could be looking at a serious film career.
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