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"Glee" Tragedies and the Cast's Unbreakable Bond
Don't Gleek out, but Kevin McHale is talking astir a Glee reboot.
The actor, who played Artie Abrams connected each six seasons of the Fox philharmonic series and precocious competed as Chick-Li-Fay connected RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race, knows fans person been clamoring for an update on William McKinley High School's finest.
However, atrocious Gleeks, the outlook doesn't dependable peculiarly promising.
"I don't cognize if that would ever hap arsenic a TV amusement oregon a reboot-type thing," McHale exclusively told E! News. "I don't deliberation that would ever happen. Well, you know, until Ryan Murphy says so."
But don't get it twisted, McHale is adamant that the enslaved betwixt helium and astir of his erstwhile Glee castmates is arsenic beardown arsenic ever.
McHale said helium sees Chris Colfer, who played Kurt Hummel, "every mates of weeks" and McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz, who played Tina Cohen-Chang and besides competed connected the existent play of Secret Celebrity Drag Race, precocious announced a caller associated podcast called And That's What You Really Missed, premiering Oct. 31.
McHale, who was lone 21 years aged erstwhile Glee premiered successful 2009, explained that going done specified a popular civilization whirlwind—especially connected a amusement that meant truthful overmuch to truthful galore antithetic people—bonded the radical of young actors intrinsically.
"We each grew up together. We grew up doing this truly insane and unsocial thing," helium said. "It wasn't adjacent conscionable shooting a TV amusement together. It was a TV amusement that became weirdly palmy each implicit the satellite for antithetic groups of radical who didn't usually person thing similar this connected web TV."
One idiosyncratic McHale hasn't precisely kept successful interaction with, however, is Lea Michele, who played Rachel Berry and is currently starring connected Broadway successful Funny Girl. McHale said "I don't person immoderate plans" to spot the production, adding, "I haven't talked to her successful a while, to beryllium honest."
Still, McHale has nary doubts that his erstwhile co-star knocks it retired of the park.
"She's evidently extremely, highly talented," helium said. "I'm definite she's f--king phenomenal successful it. Are you kidding me? She could bash the relation successful her sleep."
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As for McHale, contempt being eliminated connected the Sept. 23 occurrence of RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race, he still spoke highly of the experience—and however it's changed the mode helium moves.
"There's a small other sway successful my hips erstwhile I'm walking adjacent retired of drag. I don't cognize what happened," helium said. "I had the clip of my life. Every infinitesimal of each time determination was conscionable truthful nice. It was specified a great, supportive, queer unit of people."
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race airs Fridays astatine 8 p.m. ET connected VH1.
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