‘What Glee did to us and for us’ is the basis of our podcast now.” She continues, “Ryan has set the tone in such an open and authentic way that we are able to go forward and not sugarcoat it. It’s a total relaunch of Ushkowitz and McHale’s previous podcast, Showmance, a more straightforward recap of the series, which they halted in 2020 after Rivera’s sudden passing.Īs Murphy says, all involved with the show have had to decipher the difference between “what Glee did to us and for us.” That’s the needle they’ll need to thread in hosting their podcast, explains Ushkowitz: “‘Being a part of something special makes you special’ is the thesis of Glee. Given their apprehension about the past, it’s a wonder that McHale and Ushkowitz recently found themselves discussing that very topic in a three-hour conversation with Glee creator Ryan Murphy for their new iHeart podcast, And That’s What You Really Missed. With the benefit of hindsight, much of the world considers the once-sunny show about singing teens to be irrefutably “cursed.” Others were entangled in dark behind-the-scenes drama, including allegations of domestic violence and on-set racism. Since Glee premiered in 2009, three cast members have died suddenly and prematurely-Cory Monteith of an accidental overdose in 2013, Mark Salling by suicide in 2018 after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography the year prior, and Naya Rivera by drowning in Lake Piru in July of 2020. For all of the opportunities that starring on a hit show provided-performing for everyone from Oprah to the Obamas, for instance-it also inflicted wounds the stars are reluctant to reopen. Let’s move on.’”įeelings about the Fox series that launched their careers as romantically involved show choir kids Artie and Tina are justifiably complicated. “It was like, ‘Okay, that chapter, healthily, mentally, is closed. “It was nice to just not talk about Glee anymore, to be honest,” Kevin McHale tells Vanity Fair on a recent Zoom with his former costar Jenna Ushkowitz.
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