Britney Spears Seemed Vacant On Glee Set

If you are a Glee fan, you most likely keep in mind Britney Spears’s memorable look within the Season 2 episode “Britney/Brittany” again in 2010.

Britney’s look was filmed a couple of years into the conservatorship that her father Jamie had put her below earlier within the 2000s. She’s since been free of the conservatorship and has spoken out about its damaging results on her psychological well being and basic well-being.

In a current episode of their podcast And That’s What You REALLY Missed, former Glee stars Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz revealed what it was like filming with Britney throughout that point — and it sounds prefer it was just a little tough.

During the episode, Kevin admitted that the solid and crew weren’t “totally sure” whether or not Britney would really present up for her day of filming. “We discover out Britney is coming onto the present, and we will’t consider it,” he recalled. “But it was additionally just a little little bit of ‘Is she going to come? Is she not going to come?’”

Jenna stated that Britney was “very quiet and very nice,” but additionally appeared “very nervous.” “And…if you will, in the nicest way possible…a little vacant,” she additionally admitted. “I imply that within the kindest manner as a result of at that time, she should have been going via a lot.”

Kevin additionally identified that it was “sort of hard to witness” what was really occurring with Britney whereas they had been filming. “It was great, and then she would get whisked away,” he recalled. “Somebody from her workforce or one thing would take her away, and he or she’d come again and be once more, for lack of a greater phrase, a bit vacant.”

“It felt like she was not given the possibility to take part in the best way that she wished to,” he added.

Kevin went on to notice that Britney was “amazing” on set, and that “she was fully in it” when it got here to filming her scenes — however Jenna nonetheless described the expertise as bittersweet.

“It was this very weird contrast of being so excited,” she said, “and also, like, now I just feel sad thinking about what she was going through at the time.”