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"  There&amp;#039;s been some online speculation lately regarding Aaron Tveit&amp;#039;s relationship status, so I felt it was my duty to call him up and ask. Ladies, swoon: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m single and dating and looking to find a very nice girl. So who knows?&amp;quot; the Graceland actor says bashfully. We&amp;#039;ve been crushing over Tveit ever since his one-episode stint as America Ferrera&amp;#039;s momentary boyfriend on Ugly Betty, but since then the singer-actor has had a swift ascent as the blue-blooded Tripp van der Bilt on Gossip Girl; Enjolras in the film version of Les Mis\u00E9rables; a number of musical roles on Broadway, where he&amp;#039;s fast become a favorite; and undercover agent Mike Warren on USA&amp;#039;s Graceland. Now in its second season, Graceland has taken a turn for Tveit&amp;#039;s Mike Warren, who, between seasons, has transformed from a staunch adherent of the letter of the law to a morally-flexible mission-driven man, and goes head to head with his mentor in a drug case shrouded in deception. Tveit told us about becoming Agent Warren (he can now shoot a gun), rapping in the shower, and his best-ever on-screen kiss. Did you have to learn any new skills to become Mike Warren? A lot. I think I had shot a .22 rifle once in my life, but I had never really learned how to operate it, and I wasn&amp;#039;t familiar with handguns. I&amp;#039;m supposed to be this expert marksman, so I said, &amp;quot;OK, how do I make that show on-screen?&amp;quot; Luckily we have a lot of resources available to us on set. We went to tactical training last year, and all the SWAT team guys you&amp;#039;ve seen in the show are all actually current or former law enforcement guys, so I can ask, &amp;quot;Am I holding this gun right?&amp;quot; I heard from them their pet peeve is watching shows where these guys are supposed to be badass FBI agents, and they are immediately &amp;quot;frauded&amp;quot; because of the way they&amp;#039;re holding the gun. I wanted to make sure I looked like I knew what I was doing. Are you a good shot now? Yeah, I can actually shoot a gun pretty well. Did you save your targets and hang them up? I did, actually! I have a couple of them. It&amp;#039;s funny you ask that. Other than Graceland, what do you watch on TV? I&amp;#039;m a huge Game of Thrones fan. Though I&amp;#039;m more of the book snob. I&amp;#039;ve actually read all five books twice. And while I&amp;#039;m shooting I find it very hard to watch other scripted dramas. I&amp;#039;d rather go home and watch golf or NBA and a lot of baseball, or I still watch American Idol and The Voice and shows like that. I want to hear about Gossip Girl. Who was the most fun cast member? I&amp;#039;m really great friends with Chace [Crawford]. We still keep in touch. We kind of instantly were bonding over sports that we liked. We&amp;#039;re very similar. And I loved working with Blake. I can&amp;#039;t say enough great things about all of those people, and they really welcomed me into their little family. It&amp;#039;s amazing how many people still ask me about Tripp Vanderbilt, which will probably go down as the all-time greatest character name that I will ever play in my life. What about Ugly Betty, in which you America Ferrera&amp;#039;s boyfriend? I was very blessed to be a special guest on a lot of these New York shows; working with America was fantastic. I never met her before and we kind of instantly hit it off also. Again, they made me feel so welcome to their set. I learned a lot from that time and those people. That&amp;#039;s the way that you should treat people on your own set. So I said, if I ever got the chance to be a lead on a show, I have a lot of references to how to act and how to treat people. I learned a lot from those experiences. Best ever on screen kiss\u2014who was it? Oh, man. I was pretty lucky to get to kiss Blake that often. I mean, that was pretty great. my friends were like, &amp;quot;Are you kidding me?&amp;quot; Your background is in theater. Do you practice singing often? I do. I still take voice lessons when I&amp;#039;m in New York, and I sing everyday because it&amp;#039;s a lot like everything else; you need to work it out. My castmates would tell you that I never stop singing. I have no concept that I&amp;#039;m doing it. Do you watch a lot of theater yourself? I do. When I&amp;#039;m in New York, I try to see as much as I can. I recently saw Rocky, and I&amp;#039;m really looking forward to Holler If Ya Hear Me and After Midnight and Hedwig. What&amp;#039;s your favorite show tune? Soliloquy from Carousel is my favorite show tune of all time. More importantly, what&amp;#039;s your shower song? My shower song\u2014some days I&amp;#039;m screaming Bruno Mars out. Other days I&amp;#039;m rapping in there. Other days I&amp;#039;m singing old Frank Sinatra or Rat Pack songs. Rapping, huh? Freestyle or covers? I was a kid of the early &amp;#039;80s. I grew up, arguably, in the best hip-hop time, the late &amp;#039;90s. I went to a high school that was very driven by hip-hop culture, and I listened to a ton of rap music growing up. It&amp;#039;s a lot of Tupac and Biggie and Jadakiss and Nas. I&amp;#039;m sure my neighbors think I&amp;#039;m an absolute crazy person if they can hear it. You might not know this, but there&amp;#039;s a lot of speculation online about your relationship status. Are you single? I am currently single, yes. You&amp;#039;re about to make some readers really happy. Yeah, I mean, that&amp;#039;s something that I don&amp;#039;t talk about often, but yes, I&amp;#039;m single and dating and looking to find a very nice girl. So who knows? Is there a role you&amp;#039;re dying to play post-Graceland? I&amp;#039;m dying to get back on stage in New York, either with a play or a musical. What do you like most about Season 2? I kind of like not being so nice to everybody all the time. It&amp;#039;s kind of a lot of fun. I had a really great time with that, but I think overall I think the storytelling has stepped up a notch. Mike Warren has gone from being something of a goodie-goodie to a renegade agent who&amp;#039;s not afraid of gray areas from Season 1 to Season 2. Which one are you? I don&amp;#039;t really tell people off very often, like Season 2 Mike does. I try to keep my mouth shut most of the time and go about my own business. I&amp;#039;m probably more like Season 1 Mike than Season 2 Mike. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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