Apparently, Matthew Morrison was prepared to depart Glee properly earlier than the ultimate season!
Perezcious readers will recall he portrayed trainer and glee membership director Will Schuester on the favored present for six seasons from 2009 to 2015. But throughout an interview on And That’s What You REALLY Missed podcast on Thursday, he revealed to his former co-stars Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz that he deliberate to stop the sequence throughout its fifth season to pursue different tasks! Matthew stated:
“I actually was trying to get off the show. In season five, I asked to be off the show because I was just like, ‘I’m no longer being used in the way that I wanted to.’ And no disrespect to the show. We are at a high, I was like, ‘Maybe if I get off the show, I could go do something else, go do a movie or whatever.’ And they agreed to let me off the show.”
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However, plans modified when tragedy struck. Cory Monteith, who performed Finn Hudson, died from a deadly overdose in July 2013, and producers couldn’t let Matthew go anymore. The Broadway star stated he was informed “they couldn’t do it” after Cory handed away. He additionally knew needed to keep for the sake of the present. The 45-year-old actor stated:
“Obviously, I understood. Trying to reconcile my own wants and selfish needs with the grief of losing an amazing friend, it was a lot of mixed emotions. But I’m a professional, I showed up. I did my job.”
It additionally helped that he acquired a “good pay increase,” in accordance with Matthew. Ultimately, he identified that all of it “worked out” in the long run. But one factor that made him depressing engaged on Glee nonetheless? The intense on-line criticism of his character. Matthew later defined on the podcast he got here so wired amid the “high highs” and “really devastating lows” of the present that he broke out with psoriasis at one level:
“You have these newsfeeds coming out, bashing the way you’re playing your character. People trying to tear you down, and that got interesting. I was just stressed. Our bodies are not designed to go through that kind of pressure.”
Oof. Despite the less-than-gleeful moments, Matthew is eternally grateful to have been part of a present that had such a giant “cultural impact.” He expressed:
“The impact, that’s the thing that will stand the test of time. For me, that’s a beautiful thing. There are few and far between shows that have a cultural impact and a societal impact for people. I love being a part of that legacy.”
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