Jane Lynch may be a Hollywood mainstay today, but the Glee star had no career plan after college and didn’t even land her breakout role as fiery cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester until the age of 49. And it’s proof, she told Gen Z, that you don’t need to have it all figured out in your 20s.
“What I’ve learned is that life itself has a much bigger and better imagination than we do,” Lynch told students at her alma mater, Cornell University, late last month. “The best things that ever happened to me, without exception, are things I could never have planned, would have never had the audacity to put on a list.”
