JEREMY JORDAN (as Winslow “Winn” Schott Jr. who has an unrequited crush on Kara)

Credits: Rock of Ages (2009) and as Tony in West Side Story, both on Broadway; and guest appearance in the Streetwise episode of NBC’s Law & Order.

Which superhero do you look up to as role model?

“I’m a Batman dude. I like the nosuperpowers-but-still-can-kick-somebutt superhero but also has some serious issues.”

Having come from theater, you, like Melissa, is a good singer. So you must also be excited about the singing parts.

“Yeah, I’m super excited. I mean, my whole career has been based on singing. I’ve done a lot of shows on Broadway. The first TV show I did,

Smash, required a lot of singing. This show has kinda been this weird, where crazy things happen, you know. That we can have a musical episode is really exciting and we’re all like super pumped. I mean we just kinda goof off and sing on set all day.”

Describe your character.

“Winn tries to make a joke of everything. He has a sort of defense mechanism where everything is funny. I think that’s kind of his way of dealing with the world and all the crazy things happening around him. He just kinda makes light of it, then it’s fine. But in terms of like how he helps out, yeah, he’s kind of a computer genius so he helps out all the tech stuff, all the research, all the hacking, all the finding things out, the decoding alien messages and things like that so, yeah, he’s a big asset to them.”

Is Winn over Kara now?

(Laughs) “Oh man, it’s gonna be a long road for Winn and Kara, I think. I hope it’s not over, you know. The last we left, Winn had kissed her and she was like, ‘Eeehhh… I don’t know about that.’ So they really never talked about it though. He told her what he felt, and she was like, ‘I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what to say, I just want to be friends. I just want things to be how they are.’ And they kind of like left it at that.”