You and Heather Morris, who plays Brittany, are close in real life. When did you two become BFFs?
We were friends from the beginning. I remember not knowing who the third cheerleader was going to be and not knowing if she was going to be cool, but we hung out the first day I met her. We live close to each other, so now we hang out all the time. It’s nice that I’ve found a friend out of work. The chemistry that we have on-screen has stemmed from our real-life friendship. Half the stuff we do is us just joking around or ad libs like the pinky thing. Brad told us to do the pinky thing one time, but now we try to fit it in other scenes. That kind of stuff really makes our scenes better.