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Naya Rivera's Dad Speaks Out successful The Price of Glee Docuseries Trailer
Original Glee cast subordinate Kevin McHale is singing nary praises astir an upcoming new docuseries astir the show.
The Price of Glee, acceptable to premiere Jan. 16 connected Investigation Discovery and Discovery+, focuses connected the bequest and controversies surrounding the Fox philharmonic comedy, arsenic well as the deaths of formed members Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera and Mark Salling. According to Deadline, key formed and unit members stock connected the docuseries first-hand stories of their clip on Glee.
"Show maine this 'cast' you talk of," McHale, who played Artie Abrams connected the show, tweeted Dec. 9. "This is [wastebasket emoji]."
The histrion added, "This was the bully version, ftr. Don't marque maine talk connected this again."
E! News has reached retired to Warner Bros. Discovery for remark astir McHale's remarks and has not heard back.
Jenna Ushkowitz, who played Artie's emotion involvement Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee, responded to McHale's past tweet with a grimacing look emoji.
The 2 co-host the Glee rewatch podcast And That's What You Really Missed. In November, the actors concisely touched upon the caller docuseries successful an interrogation with BuzzFeed.
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"In presumption of the Discovery+ documentary, it feels adjacent much important, to maine astatine least, to bash the podcast due to the fact that we were the ones who were there," Ushkowitz told the outlet. "And we were the ones experiencing this. And we cognize what truly happened. So you know, for me, it feels adjacent much pertinent to really beryllium the ones to stock our acquisition erstwhile radical are sharing experiences that they didn't have."
McHale added, "I besides deliberation the different crushed wherefore we wanted to bash this was that with the pandemic and TikTok, determination has been this weird resurgence of Glee. A full caller procreation of radical has been uncovering it. Like, children, who were not live erstwhile the amusement started. We talked to [creator] Ryan [Murphy] astir that, too, astir conscionable however chill and what an accidental that is for people. They're not needfully attached to each of the, let's say, drama, oregon the atrocious things radical volition speech astir successful the property due to the fact that they're conscionable seeing this with caller eyes."
McHale and Jenna starred connected each six seasons of Glee, which ended successful 2015. Cory, who played their character's person Finn Hudson, died astatine property 31 of an accidental overdose in 2013.
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In 2018, Salling, who played Noah "Puck" Puckerman connected the show, died of suicide at 35 astatine portion awaiting sentencing successful a ineligible lawsuit to which helium had pleaded guilty to possession of kid pornography involving a prepubescent minor.
In 2020, on the seventh day of Monteith's death, Rivera, who played Santana Lopez on Glee, was confirmed dormant of accidental drowning astatine 33 aft a boating accident.
Her father, George Rivera, is featured successful The Price of Glee docuseries. During his interview, helium reflects connected however the series impacted his precocious daughter's life. "I knew that was the apical of the upland for Naya," he says successful the trailer, released Dec. 8. "For your kid, it was conscionable surreal."
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, delight telephone the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline astatine 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
