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"  Photo: Mike Rosenthal/thelicensingproject.com With his curvy pout, soulful, puppy-dog brown eyes, and deep melodic voice, Jacob Artist has quickly become Glee&amp;#039;s newest bad-boy hunk in his role as Jake Puckerman. When the musical series returns next week, fans anticipate how the love triangle between Puckerman, Marley (Melissa Benoist), and Kitty (Becca Tobin) will play out. Much like his character, an aspiring actor and dancer, Artist is a trained dancer who performed lead roles in his hometown in Upstate New York. But when he deferred his acceptance to The Juilliard School to move to L.A., he set a chain of events into motion that would eventually lead Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy to cast him on the hit show a year and a half later. Here, ELLE.com chatted with the up-and-comer on his celebrity crush (hint: she&amp;#039;s got gorgeous blonde locks), his signature dance floor move, and teasers for the upcoming Grease episode. Name: Jacob Artist Age: 20 Provenance: Buffalo, N.Y. Relationship status: Single On sharing a name with his character: &amp;quot;People were like, &amp;#039;Did they change it at the very end because you were cast?&amp;#039; And I was like, &amp;#039;No, absolutely not. It&amp;#039;s been Jake from day one.&amp;#039; It must have been meant to be, because it&amp;#039;s so funny that we share the same name. When I first I auditioned, I didn&amp;#039;t even know I was auditioning for this part. And as things kind of got going, they said that I would be reading for Puck&amp;#039;s little brother. I immediately fell in love with the part. I was just like, &amp;#039;I would love, love, love to do this.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; On being Glee&amp;#039;s new heartthrob: &amp;quot;I always talk about how I remember sitting on my couch and watching the pilot; and now to be on the show two years later is completely insane. It&amp;#039;s just been a blast. And I&amp;#039;m absolutely channeling Puck. I think Jake is definitely a Puckerman in lots of aspects of his behavior. So I was definitely using some Puck mannerisms. Puck has a bit of an attitude problem and he exudes this bad-boy persona of not really caring about lots of things.&amp;quot; On how his penchant for both ballet and football affects his dating game: &amp;quot;Girls love guys who dance, and I&amp;#039;m definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don&amp;#039;t hold back when it comes to dancing. I like to keep [my dancing] toned down initially. It&amp;#039;s a lot of snapping first off, just to get a feeling. Back and forth a little bit\u2014I&amp;#039;m definitely a snapper. But signature move? Oh, I don&amp;#039;t know. I kind of do it different every time.&amp;quot; On his dream song to perform on Glee: &amp;quot;I love Frank Ocean. I think he&amp;#039;s so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like Bad Religion or Pink Matter. I think it would be cool to have some sort of duet \u00E0 la Dirty Dancing. It would be fun to use some of the music from that movie and just have a really cool iconic dance number.&amp;quot; On which Glee cast member resembles his or her character the most: &amp;quot;Honestly, I&amp;#039;m one of the ones who is least like my character, just because I like to make people laugh and have a good time\u2014and be kind of fun and silly. Jake is very composed, has his guard up, and is a bit damaged. [But] Cory Monteith is pretty much like Finn. I think they both kind of have that goofy sense of humor. Cory is so hilarious in his everyday life, just like Finn is.&amp;quot; On his celebrity crush: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m definitely going to say Blake Lively, but I know she just got married, so I&amp;#039;m kind of in a reassessment period. Yes, I love blondes. [On being matched up with his blonde cast mate, Heather Morris:] Oh yeah, she&amp;#039;s gorgeous, and I mean the dancing on top of that. She&amp;#039;s so beautiful.&amp;quot; On Glee spoilers: &amp;quot;Ryan [Murphy] has been tweeting pictures about how we&amp;#039;re doing a Grease episode, and I think that that&amp;#039;s going to be really cool for people to see. I know, for me, Grease was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre. We&amp;#039;ve got some really cool dance numbers.&amp;quot; Glee returns to Fox on November 8.  Photo: Mike Rosenthal/thelicensingproject.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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