Original Glee forged member Kevin McHale is singing no praises about an upcoming new docuseries concerning the present.
The Price of Glee, set to premiere Jan. 16 on Investigation Discovery and Discovery+, focuses on the legacy and controversies surrounding the Fox musical comedy, in addition to the deaths of forged members Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera and Mark Salling. According to Deadline, key forged and crew members share on the docuseries first-hand tales of their time on Glee.
“Show me this ‘cast’ you speak of,” McHale, who performed Artie Abrams on the present, tweeted Dec. 9. “This is [wastebasket emoji].”
The actor added, “This was the nice version, ftr. Don’t make me speak on this again.”
E! News has reached out to Warner Bros. Discovery for remark about McHale’s remarks and has not heard again.
Jenna Ushkowitz, who performed Artie’s love curiosity Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee, responded to McHale’s final tweet with a grimacing face emoji.
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The two co-host the Glee rewatch podcast And That’s What You Really Missed. In November, the actors briefly touched upon the brand new docuseries in an interview with BuzzFeed.
“In terms of the Discovery+ documentary, it feels even more important, to me at least, to do the podcast because we were the ones who were there,” Ushkowitz informed the outlet. “And we were the ones experiencing this. And we know what really happened. So you know, for me, it feels even more pertinent to actually be the ones to share our experience when people are sharing experiences that they didn’t have.”
McHale added, “I also think the other reason why we wanted to do this was that with the pandemic and TikTok, there has been this weird resurgence of Glee. A whole new generation of people has been finding it. Like, children, who were not alive when the show started. We talked to [creator] Ryan [Murphy] about that, too, about just how cool and what an opportunity that is for people. They’re not necessarily attached to all of the, let’s say, drama, or the bad things people will talk about in the press because they’re just seeing this with new eyes.”
Fellow forged member Chord Overstreet additionally spoke concerning the new docuseries again in August. “I think anybody that knows anything about that show and experienced it doesn’t have anything to do with that from what I know,” he mentioned on The Elvis Duran Show. “We’re all really close and pretty much like family. Nobody knows anything about that. I think it’s a little bit of like just trying to get people to watch something. I don’t think anybody really knows anything about it. I think it’s just like a tabloid thing trying to sell.”
McHale and Jenna starred on all six seasons of Glee, which resulted in 2015. Overstreet joined in season two as Sam Evans. Monteith performed their character’s good friend Finn Hudson, and was additionally an authentic forged member. He died at age 31 of an unintentional overdose in 2013.
In 2018, Salling, who performed Noah “Puck” Puckerman on the present, died of suicide at 35 at whereas awaiting sentencing in a authorized case to which he had pleaded responsible to possession of little one pornography involving a prepubescent minor.
In 2020, on the seventh anniversary of Monteith’s loss of life, Rivera, who performed Santana Lopez on Glee, was confirmed lifeless of unintentional drowning at 33 after a boating accident.
Her father, George Rivera, is featured in The Price of Glee docuseries. During his interview, he displays on how the collection impacted his late daughter’s life. “I knew that was the top of the mountain for Naya,” he says within the trailer, launched Dec. 8. “For your kid, it was just surreal.”
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