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I love these. These are really these questions were absolutely amazing, And thank you for sending him in. Keep setting him in and we'll do more of these, I think if you like them. There were there were some themes here. We will address the frequent questions. There were some great questions, some thoughtful questions. UM, and this we were all very very excited. So yeah, to echo, Jenna said, very should have.

Let's get into a Jenna, let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna just scroll in here and look at one of the randomly, I'm just gonna pick one. Okay, okay, did you get to choose Alicia Facciano. Also, please, we're apologizing now for the bottery of names that we will message you so thank you so much, thank you for your patients. Um. Alicia Fasciano said, did you get to choose your spots in the choir room scenes or were

they chosen for you? As a very good question, A lot of the time we were allowed to choose them. A lot of the time we uh, we kind of chose them on our own, knowing our little storylines that we're going on. You're like, well, I have to sit next to Artie because we have lines and you know we're dating. But I can't sit next to Finn because we just got in a fight. So there was a

lot of like jigging jigging wow um. And then some directors would come in and have spots for us, like Karas Barclay or extols who knew us very well would assign a seat. So it just depended on the director, right, Yeah, I did, um, And dependent on the scene. Some of them we needed to be sitting across from each other for like a particular shot where we could like throw a glance and the some sitting right next to you, then that wouldn't work. So yeah, it's it's very depending

on who was in charge. E Carosi, I totally. I know I'm futuring this. UM asked what was the hardest song you had to sing on the show? Oh? Um, I think um my top two, like the first thing coming to my three, um or foot Loose just because Luke Edgemond did some insane ad lib and that song is weirdly just so high. UM at last was very difficult. And having to do a song like that, like an iconic song that you don't want to mess up with Amber was also just a lot of extra pressure, you know,

didn't I didn't. Yeah, that was very difficult. Um. And I would say another one was p y T was probably the hardest because I did have like a hundred and two fever and I would sing a line it would basically be like where did it come from a baby, And then we had to supper five minutes after my voice to come back because it would go out every line. Yeah,

it was really sad. What about you? You know? I was having vocal issues mid seasons, I want to say, like four or five, and UM, I never quite figured out what it was. It was partially acid reflux and partially I don't know anyway, your body rejected. Yeah, she was tired. Um, dog Dy's was actually very much in my register, but those higher moments were really hard for me to sustain during those times. So dog Days was really hard because I wanted to nail it, obviously because

you're seeing with Amber at number two days. Because like one of my favorite songs for the record, thank You, I tried, And then um, because You Love Me was incredibly difficult. Um, I knew it so well that it was actually it was easy to do, but it was so hard. I mean, who can sing Celene and do it well? And then um, Congdom Style obviously for its own reasons was the hardest. Emotionally, Yeah, yeah, definitely emotionally, and um, physically and learning another language one of the

hardest languages to learn. And yeah, just like in thirty minutes follow up to that, was there an easiest song that you just knew so well that you could just do? That's you know, Flash Dance was a really fun one for me. I'm pretty easy to do. Um and yeah, yeah that was that was one that was an easy one. What about You I Think Stronger by Britney Spears. I was scared of that high note at the end, but

once I got in there and started recording it. It ended up being one of the quickest sessions because I just knew it. Yeah, fully jumped out, Well, I'm glad it did. I'm glad we got UM. Here's one from Poison Blossom. What was your least favorite character storyline? Oh, there's a lot of them. Um, I don't know. Honestly, your your STD storyline was my only story I actually didn't. I don't know. I I just think the idea of you and an STD costume freaks me out. Yeah, it

wasn't great. That might be my don't There were times when there was. It wasn't necessarily storyline, but I feel like my response to um was the writer's story, It's like a really serious story and then already replies super insensitively obviously that's not my storyline. But he did a couple of those things, a couple of times where he just seemed like an ass. I'm just like, what who is this? It's one of those times where you like, oh, it's not me. It is a character. Fine, yeah, you know,

and also a storyline. Probably STD. It was fun because it was insane. Oh wait, I think maybe I've told this story. When Taylor Swift visited during that episode, and I'm yes, did you know this? Do you remember this? I mean I knew Taylor was around because her and Diana were friends, but she was filming on Paramount that day and through Diana and she, I was filming. One of the scenes were like the musical number. I'm in

this really gross, ugly hot sweater. I'm probably pretty sninky, and we were like filming with the the girls um that I was like cooking up with at the time. And then Roger comes over to me and it's like, um, Taylor Swift is here, I would like to see and he was whispering like what we're is? She's like right here. He turns around and Jesus right there like he and everyone's like, what's going on? I felt very funny. I was like, don't worry as girl friends swiftly came to visit.

But also that that follow up question to that brookalize as what song would Tina sing from Taylor Swifts Midnight album? And I think Genma and Tina would sing Mastermind sounds about right, Which wasn't that the song that played when Ryan got his Golden Globe? Was it? I think it was that's really funny. Actually, yeah, it all makes sense. It all makes sense. I've got a question, um, Leah, like, was there really so much drama on set like the

media reported? Now, I know we've talked about this before, but there's a lot of juice swirling around right now, and I would like that sentence that juice swirling around. I'm in rare form this week. So I there was a lot of jews swirling around in the media, and um, I would like to be debunket. No, there really was not so much drama on set. There were there were

peaks and valleys. There were definitely times where things would go on or there would be like somebody was in a fight of some sort or an argument, or somebody would wrap themselves and be like I'm done for the day and leave, because sometimes we really hit those those points where it was time to go. Um. But no, I know percent of the time. Percent of the time. Um, like any kind of like water cooler talk or drama, there's like little bits of that here and there. But no,

it never felt like that. No, it definitely didn't. Remember there would be like magazine articles too, like we would laugh at the time. Yeah, like what is this like also like who was going around saying these things? Even now if I see people like saying certain things like none of this is true, that is the craziest magazine to you remember I was We were on the cover I think of in Touch for US Weekly and it

was Glee Kids Gone wild mm hmm. And it was very like stupid, like there wasn't even like pointed stuff to like talk about because there was nothing to talk about. And it was like they're going out to drink and we're like, well, we are of age and we work really hard and sometimes we like to have a drink.

It was very they were grasping. I think people wanted something, so it was just easy to they wanted to see the Glee on the cover of whatever is um speaking of which Faith zero four When one asked, have you signed any India's that keep you from talking poorly about another co star? Which is there are no Indias that were signed in the making of Glee or postly about

talking about anyone for better or for worse. I wonder if people obviously people do think that, but no, I feel like as a cast, we've done nothing but to publicly prove that we talked pretty openly about everything. Yeah. But the funny thing is, like that's all that way. We we talked about things so openly and it's not really like a lot of news and people are like, well there must be more. Yeah, okay, So Slinker Andrew said, what were your guys favorite memories when filming in New York?

New York deserves its own episode and it will have its own episode because there was so much happening. But the thing that I remember the most about New York was like, oh my god, we're gonna be working so much. It's so crazy, Like it's such a big episode. I think we shot a total of five minutes in you because there were so many fans and so much paparazzi, they could only bring us outside to shoot at like

tk ts or wherever. We were on the streets for a very short amount of time before like things got dangerous or weird and we had to go back in. And I feel like we just like hung out a lot. We did. It was so weird, went out a lot of nights in the nights, and we went to work very early and showed up and did our job. But like a lot of the time we were able to kind of just hang out and we watched the We got up and watched the Royal Wedding. When we were

in New York. Um, we celebrated mine in Diana's birthday in New York with our friend Will. It was a really fun time. It was a great time. I also remember showing up and the script wasn't done for that first New York episode. Remember that it was the first time that had happened, and so we were shooting with like three quarters of the script and so we still

don't know how the episode ended. Yeah, and so we were just and like in New York, the trailers have to be on the street, so it felt very much like we had like there was security and everything and people couldn't but it did feel like anytime we would go outside of our trailer to walk to another trailer or walked here and makeup, there was pop Rozzie everywhere. So there's all these photos online of all of us like sort of yelling to each other outside of our

doors and just being dumb. But it was so I felt so lucky because we got to sort of like shut down these beautiful areas of New York and like in Central Park and village times Times Square, Remember Times Square. I think we shot that thing in Time Square twice and then that was it. It felt pretty rock star, I have to say, like it felt very famous and also like I was, like, yes it was I was home, so it was just nice to be home. I'm sure

that was so cool for you. Oh it's awesome. My my mother and my sister in law and my dad and my my um, dad's cousin worry in the extras in Lincoln Center. That's so cute. At the Lincoln Center. That was really quick too. I barely remember filming there. Oh yeah, that was fun. Do you remember this? So? Breaking the Curtain asked thoughts on the Glee novels that were released during the first few seasons. I have no

thoughts because I did not know there were novels. Did you know that I know about fan fiction, I don't know about the novels. Yeah, if that is real, can somebody like send us those because just on Twitter that is wild? Okay? Yeah, Julie Jules said, what was your favorite Amber Riley performance? Yeah, there's so many, ain't away. It is definitely one of them. Um, and I'm telling you was also one of them. Ain't No Way on

tour was unreal. Look, and I'm telling you because I got to see Amber do it in London in dream Girls like postally as well, so it felt very full circle and um was really cool, really cool. I think I always think of tour, I think of Ain't No Way, and I think um River deep down hyah was just

of course, So I'm not gonna lie. I had to go on YouTube earlier and Jasmine d From made this video fifteen minute video of the ranking every Tina coin Chang song because I had to go on and watch because I didn't remember all the songs that I did. It's hard to remember some of those, like like I don't know, it's just some songs that I didn't remember. And it was really great. And I'm now going to go down a hole and do it for all the characters because I believe there there must be ones for

like you and Amber and everybody else are one. Um, no one but shells asked for there where any of the guest stars divas. No, No, The guest stars were actually usually the easiest, the coolest, happy to be there and like really like Gwyneth, Kate Hudson, Sarah Jessica Parker all awesome. Everyone is so cool. I remember Kate Hudson just hanging out in base camp and just been like, hey, so like the schedules crazy, is it's normal? I'm like, yeah,

you know. She's like I haven't gotten the song back yet that I recorded, and I was like, yeah, here's from the time table of like how that works. Like oh really, It's like, okay, that's good to know. It was just she was so like hanging with us all the time. Everyone was really really nice. So co Heavens did being the only two o g s grab that

graduated in season five bond you together more. Um, it didn't feel like we're the only two o g s because like there was like Cordy and Darren and and everybody, and then everybody else felt like they just were, you know, part of the crew. But I do I like this question because do you remember we only found out we were going to be We were juniors on the panel at Comic Con when they announced it to everybody. I do not remember that. Oh, we were at Comic Con

for the first time. We were so excited. All the photos we look like such babies, and um, I remember Brad and Ryan and they're like, what about the graduating class blah blah blah, And they're like, well, Tina and Nardi, you're juniors and me and you on the panel were like this boom and I was like oh, and then the wheels like start turning on stage. I'm like having to process the fact that we're not graduating, which we

were like very excited about. I was very excited about the time, um because just because you're like something new, something different, We're we're all going, what's going to happen to the show, and then all of a sudden, it's like you get to be in the choir room for another hole year. When I when we found out, I do remember feeling um thankful, because I was worried that if I was in New York or something like like oh,

maybe it wouldn't be on the show anymore. And it's like, oh, I'm still in high school, so I still got a job I'm going to do. We think we were going to get like kicked off the show at some point? Was that a thing where like are we going to be in the show? Like maybe they won't bring everyone to New York because that seems weird, like why would everything character move to the same place and go to

the same school. Yeah, I remember that we would come up with different theories about what would happen to us because if we went to different cities, they wouldn't probably cover all of us. So I'm okay, we still have a check for a notice season. Um um six Phobic asked, is it true that the writers would add storylines about you I r L to annoy y'all. They definitely wrote

to some truth, right. They definitely saw relationships forming, they saw friendships forming, they saw certain things happened, situations happened that they wrote to, which we'll get to in the podcast soon. Um. Yeah, And and I think after they start to get to know you well enough, it just kind of like it inspires them and it fits into like the way that we were kind of moving in this show. So yes, they did right to truth, but not all of them and not to definitely not all

of it. Well, like, for an example, I used to because I was in musical theater, I would have crushes on a lot of gay men O Cay some point, So I, Um, they liked that story. I love that story, and so they wrote in that Tina fell in love with Blaine, and um, I know that whole story has a lot of controversy around it, in the vapor rape and the whole thing, but um, it was kind of inspired by me. And so that's like an example of minus the vapo. Yeah, I didn't do that. There are

a lot of questions about that storyline, by the way. Yeah, yeah, we can talk about that. Um, there's there there also as an umbrella thing. There were so many questions about everyone hooking up, people hooking up with each other, people hooking up on st offset, people hooking up with people who were on the crew and cast. It was wild. Um the question, Yeah, there were, because there's no point in this singling out one question because there were so

many questions about this. But yeah, we were. And there I saw one asking if there was like jealousy if people hooked up. We were young. Just think of like your college years. You know, there was drama, no jealousy, There was no drama. It was just we were hanging out. There wasn't a lot of cross section cross cross crosstamination happening. Yeah, cross found nation, cross contamination. There wasn't a lot of that happening. Um, even with the obvious hook ups and things.

But um, now I wasn't. No. I mean like a little bit, but not a lot. Also not our story to tell. That's my that's my little motto. Um all right. Caitlin rathfordy X said, how did you feel about season six and did you like that? Did you feel like your characters were pushed out? Season six was Tina went down to, Well, I went down to a recur um, which is like my contract was no longer that I had to be in every episode, but I was in

just a few. So Tina went to college. And at that point, Um no, I didn't feel like I was being pushed out because I had actually had a conversation with the producers and Bryan and everybody, and you know, this was like kind of a mutual thing. There were a lot of new people coming in and it was something that I wanted to do as well. It was like take a small step back, but not like leave the show. So I didn't feel like that. Um, I

did feel a little removed from the show. That it was weird to hear about it from you, Um what was going on sometimes because I just wasn't there all the time. But also like yeah, I was ready. What about you, Kevin? I felt removed too. I got I wasn't a full series regular. I was like a part time regular. And even then, I think because we were so used to just being there all the time that having anything less than that felt like a disconnect. So

I liked our characters ended up. I like how we ended up, you know that all that rounding out and everything, but in terms of actually like being there and filming, and it felt weird because I think once you're not there all the time. Mentally, I think I was a little removed or checked out, you know, Um, Jenna Hunting, Munty Fitness, Um. I wanted to know if that's you doing the ad libs and express yourself, Slade, you know,

I don't know. I don't know. We all did ad libs and express herself because it was a group number, like I remember hearing Naya did some, Amber did some, and Lea did some. I don't know. Thank you, I'll take the credit, but I don't know that it's mine to take. I don't honestly, I don't remember. There were a couple of times when so when we actually shot

the musical numbers. Phil sound Man um he would have all of the he'd actually have like the studio file of all the tracks um that he would play when we would sing it. So when we're filming it, sometimes if you listen to the recording of it, not to bore you too much, but some of the ad libs um might be mixed low so you can't really hear them. But when we have to lip sync to it, sometimes he would need to turn those up so we could actually lip sync properly to them to hear where they go.

And I always loved that because I would go through it with him and be like, hey, can you like solo out some of these things just for me, like, you know, off stage, just because sometimes we couldn't tell.

I remember one time Corey Mark and I when were doing one of the Boys mash ups, we had no idea who was seeing what because we'd switch off every other line on a few parts on out libs and at sometimes we all sort of sound similar, and we like I remember halfway through filming that even Corey wasn't doing the album, like Corey, that's you, and He's like, I thought that was you. So it happened a lot.

But we don't because you go in and everybody just records a bunch and then they end up choosing what they want to use, right right. No, I was interesting. I actually didn't. I forgot about that. Um, Annie m R. Wants to know it's the best prank you've done to a cast mate. I don't. I wasn't a prank player.

I was pranked UM quite a few times. And there was one where it was a group of people I believe it was Kelly and Diana and and maybe Nya and a couple of other people that were aing people like UM, pretty little liars, and you would get aid and they would have some dirty little secret on you that they would reveal and and like somehow and and then I came back to my trailer one day. And everybody knows on set that I love Sarachadrach on everything.

I still do. UM. I came back to my trailer and there was an a on my vanity mirror written in Saracha with an empty stratcha bottle in front of it. And I thought that was very good. I still have I think I have a photo of it somewhere. UM. And then they left some dirty little secret about me or I don't know, something like that. But that was it was brilliant. They got all of us. That was the best print because it went on for weeks a while. We went on tour and we got these Samsung phones,

remember that? And so that was the other one. Yes, And so they would stuff. We get these mysterious texts from a and it would always be in reference to like something people shouldn't know. Oh my god, do you remember how wet did it get? Oh my god? That's right. We have our contest winner, our auction winner who donated to snick Smiths and she won and to come on the podcast. And so we're gonna in the spirit of asking questions, we're gonna ask her some and I think

she might have some questions for us. But let's bring in Madeleine. Hi. How are you pretty good? Are you good? Excited that you're here? Yeah? First of all, thanks for being here. Thank you for donating to Snake Smiths. I'm so glad that you did. And now we're all here to get great, very grateful. Where are you calling in from? Um? From my storm in Portland State, Oregon? Oh? Nice, beautiful,

Poreland is beautiful. Um. So we have some questions for you, but we wanted to see if you had any questions for us first. Yeah, Um, I like Brainstorm, got got a couple great go for it, give them to us. So one of the first questions I want to ask was, like, is there any specific storylines in Glee that really resonated with you? M hmm, that's a good one. It's a good one. Um. I think it just resonated with me for the purpose that I was glad it was being seen.

And I've talked about this before, but Kurt and Bert I think was just phenomenal on so many different levels. And it was nice to be able to see a healthy Gayson and accepting father accepting Ish at first um father relationship because I think that helped, you know, transform people's views of how this can be done in a healthy and normal, productive way. That was going to be mine too. You can also say that one, well I did. Yeah, that's that's one of my favorite storylines that like I

really resonated with as well. Just overall, do you have another one that would really resonated with you? Another one was probably getting accepted into college and like trying to find your career in like different places. Um, that storyline and seasons like three through five especially, it was like really hit at the right moment when I rewatched Glee at some point and I was just like, oh, I'm going with this right now. Yeah, that's a very intimidating

and anxiety written. I think inves just what am I doing? How much of the snow what I want to do at this age? That makes no sense? Yeah, all right? Next question nextclusion is do you have a favorite finale out of all the finales? We've talked about this on the podcast before, but um, the two thousand nine I think at one point was supposed to be the finale of the series, and there was some question of like is this going to be or is the other one

going to be? What is the other one called? Um, you know, the two parter essentially, and I thought two thousand nine it was where it could have ended for me. Yeah, or was one of my favorites. I think just because it was so fun to do and we were literally just talking about this before you joined us. Was it was a season two when we were in New York filmed filming the finale in New York, and it was chaos but so much fun and it felt like a party.

To sort of at the end of the season, like you did your final exams and you just had that extra week in school like that. That's what it felt like, and it felt soft get the film somewhere else and glamorous New York. So that was probably my favorite, the craziest experience in New York every And there was one day that Kevin and I. I just remember this, Kevin and I we showed up to work in the morning and we had the same outfit on. Remember that we were both in New York. We were like we were

at the same outfit today. We didn't call each other much time together. Yeah, clearly. Another question I know in the previous podcast is talked about working with Paris and stuff like that. I was wondering if you had any other favorite directors you've worked with. Well, Ryan for sure. I mean I feel like outside of Ryan and Brad and Ian like the main Holy Trinity um. Eric Stoltz was incredible to work with because he had this whole

different way of working. He was open suits, you weren't allowed, you had to know your lines, you weren't to bring your sides that they would give you for the day. So he wanted you to be extra prepared, but as intimidating that should be. He was so into the characters. He loved the characters. He cared about the character storylines, what they were thinking and doing on and off screen, and being around someone like that Um who always was thinking of those things just meant a lot and he

came up with so many great ideas. Eric was the best. He was just the best, and he came back for like a lot of episodes. He did like a lot a lot of episodes with us, so he was just a really familiar face to have around. UM. It can be really daunting as a TV director to come into somebody else's space and kind of be in charge because it's like our home, right, You're like coming into our

house and then like taking charge of it. So there's like a very um there was a very respectful way that Eric came in, but also like still took charge of everything we need to get done, and you know, really actually like directing and leading versus kind of the laugh thereof with some directors, Um, not a lot, but sometimes it'd be directors that kind of like let everybody else take the lead, and that makes for a really

messy time behind the scenes. I think I remember we started like we kept asking Ryan to bring Eric back more? Do you remember that? And he was so he was like, you guys have never asked this before, Like yeah, but we love him, Like why do you love him so much? Like you need to come be hang out with us. You can see the magic. He also made it on time.

He always made his days, which was really important because some directors could come in and not realize like how much there was to do, and you know, was just like a way over limit. Yeah, and then Eric would be like you're like, what seven o'clock and I can go home? Yea, yeah, Okay, we have some questions for you before you go? So what is your favorite Glee song? No pressure? My favorite Glee song is actually, um, I believe in a thing called love. Uh wow, I don't

think I've ever heard that one. I love that. That's great. But yeah, like earlier was like I like a good rock sone and that it's just a good yeah, great song. Um. What is one of your favorite group numbers? M like full Group or like trouble Tones, whatever you want. Trouble Tones absolutely counts. They win. Um. One of my favorites is the adule mashup mm hm m hm. I'm like know what it's called, but that one's likes it and

something like that one was one of my favorites. Oh, yes, that is an excellent that also, I think just gets better with time, doesn't it. That one is just up there. Um. Do you have a dream storyline that you wish could have happened between some of the characters or the song we wanted us to do. Honestly, I really would have loved to see more Tina and Artie and all of it, not sucking up at all. I would have loved to like dig more into your guys storylines. Yeah, thank you

for saying that. I definitely as we got like into the later seasons, I got to I felt like I got to do more, which was really nice. Um, even though the story has got a little weirder, but um, but I appreciate that. Thank you. We appreciate that. Um. Thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate showing up. You are a pure delight. Thank you so so much. Yeah, it was so nice to meet you. Good luck in school. Thanks for having me of course,

and thank you for listening. Yes, thank you, thank you. That was really fun. Let's do another one of these? Yeah, I could, I could keep going. There are so we had thousands questions. Thank you guys for writing in. Seriously, we're going to do this again. UM. We really appreciate your thoughtful questions asking in writing in. Continue to ask and we'll we'll answer them throughout the podcast as well, obviously. UM and uh, come back next week for another recast.

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