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Heather Morris Reveals Why "Glee" Co-Stars Were Afraid To Speak Up
The curtain is being pulled backmost connected William McKinley High.
In the archetypal trailer for The Price of Glee, premiering Jan. 16 connected Investigation Discovery, the bequest of the beloved Fox bid and the deaths of formed members Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera and Mark Salling are enactment nether the microscope.
"In May 2009, 10 young actors made their TV debut connected Glee," substance successful the trailer reads. "By 2020, each of them would beryllium famous. And 3 of them would beryllium dead."
Monteith died of an accidental heroin overdose successful 2013, Salling died by termination successful 2018 and Rivera died by accidental drowning successful 2020.
Glee—which chronicled the melodramatic twists and turns of the William McKinley High glee nine for six seasons from 2009 to 2015—also helped motorboat the careers of actors like Lea Michele, Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Harry Shum Jr. and Dianna Agron, who were each teenagers oregon successful their aboriginal 20s erstwhile the amusement changeable them into stardom.
As the docuseries' rubric suggests, it each came with a price.
"The bigger the amusement went," a talking caput says successful the trailer, "the smaller their worlds become."
The bid besides includes an interrogation with Naya's begetter George Rivera, who reflects backmost connected however Glee impacted his precocious daughter's life.
"I knew that was the apical of the upland for Naya," helium says successful the trailer. "For your kid, it was conscionable surreal."
While The Price of Glee attempts to contextualize the show's analyzable past, it does not see interviews with immoderate erstwhile formed members oregon Glee creator Ryan Murphy.
In fact, Glee alums Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz—who played Artie and Tina, respectively—recently explained, "We're not truly associated with it."
"You don't needfully privation to springiness thing much attraction than it possibly deserves oregon needs," Kevin told In Touch Weekly Dec. 2. "But we'll see. Us and each of our friends person thing to bash with it, truthful we'll spot what happens."
All 3 parts of The Price of Glee premiere Jan. 16 connected Investigation Discovery and are disposable to watercourse aforesaid time connected discovery+.
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