Q&A Time

And that's what you really missed with Jenna.

And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.

Welcome to and That's what you really missed podcast. Wow, Hello Kevin. I'm smiling so hard. This is the first time we recorded in like two months. It feels like yesterday, Like we never laughed. You guys also may not know we ever left.

That's right.

We banked all those episodes because I was preparing for my maternityly, which I'm still on technically.

This is just that we're just popping in.

We're popping in. The world has changed. My life has changed, The world has changed, La has changed. A lot has happened.

Jenna.

We recorded our last episode together, and you thought you were going to have several weeks before. That's right, you had a baby.

I thought I did, and then my water broke like in a movie.

Like twenty four hours later.

Black.

Yeah, that's right. It was very quickly after that that happened. Yeah, like twenty four hours It's right.

You No, it's just this podcast is so important to you that you just had to hold out long enough to finish the last record.

So well, Graham knew, he was like, I had a hold on until Jenna finishes all her episodes and then I can make my entrance into the world. What a sweet boy, sweet sweet man. I can't believe the time has flown so quickly. But it's good to see you amidst the devastating factors that have happened recently to our city.

Yeah, it's nice to have some semblance of joy or positivity. So seeing your face, getting a chat with you is actually a very needed bright spot in this city that we love and have lived in for a very long time.

Yes, and we are great. I'm happy. Wow.

Like I said before we started recording, I have brain fog from pregnancy and postpartum, So if I don't make sense, We're not even going to edit it out. We're just gonna go with it, because this is who I am forever.

Finally, even.

I have a zero brain power. I can't read. I'm I'm the new Liah Michelle. I can't read. I'm just kidding. Liah can read. I also can read partially. We're happy to hear from you, guys. This is Q and A. Ask me anything. We're going to check in. This is mid season five ish, and you guys never fail to improcess with the amount and the quality of your questions.

Oh my god, there are so many questions and it feels good. This is I'm glad, this is like how we're getting back into this because I love doing these.

I know. Should we just dive in, Kevin, Yeah, let's just go for it.

Someone said top songs of the season so far, and there have been some incredible songs, obviously. I'm We've talked about I'm a sucker for more than a feeling America and still haven't found what I'm looking for, right same. Gloria was a big surprise. Really love Gloria, Love.

Gloria, Rhythm Nation, the performance and that whole thing was so.

Good, Brave.

I really enjoyed Breakaway, Breakaway whenever I call you friend, Jenna, you know.

Oh man, yeah, is there some biggers in here? Applause, Oh of course, Kevin, one of your favorites. Somebody asked, what would you say to your younger self at the first shooting.

Day of lie Oh my god.

It's actually a really good question.

Oh my god.

I would just say, oh my god, hold on, strap your seatboat real tight, get ready, just trying to be.

More present.

When you can, just like try.

Yeah, I think that's a big thing. That's I think if we could tell our little selves, like everything and more that you could have ever imagined is going to happen through this journey, right, and so like just soak it up. Yeah, like, don't worry about anything. It's You're going to get to experience a lot, no great things, So just enjoy it.

Exactly.

Would either of you write books? I've read choosing Glee, Jenna, but would you ever write a novel or a memoir? I'm too scared, I think I am. I will leave the writing to the professionals. Chris Golfer, mm hmm, that's not me, you know. Chris always threatened with a tell all one day.

I hope he does it.

Yeah, and I hope he does too, Hi, somebody else. Could Glee be adapted to a Broadway musical? And if so, what's the premise?

We've kind of.

Talked about this before, But I think that would be a cool adaptation because.

It just it's like the concert, but.

With more of like a story through line, like there could be a story within it.

Yeah, Like I mean it could. It could be. It could be a sort of like a snapshot into the moments leading up to a competition, right, you know, or like maybe we lose a couple of members, we have to find new member. I don't know that sounds kind right.

I'm not a writer, but it does need that camp, you know, feeling to it well.

Like six, I think is like a really great example of it's like it feels like a concert, but you're still learning. There's a there's a storyline through it, but it's not a traditional storytelling format.

I didn't see six though, like's what you said.

Though it's similar to like the Glee concert, and it's so entertaining.

I think, be great. I would love to see that actually, even more than you know what I dare I say, even more than a reboot right now. Almost prefer to see like just a show that's like a totally different story.

There's a lot of questions about how we're feeling about season five thus far, because we got all those warnings.

Again, we've talked about this, like separating the experience from the viewership, like or from the viewer perspective.

We were going through so much that.

Like part of it I blacked I will a lot of it I like blacked out from my mind, I like dissociated yeah.

I also think.

It's getting better as we go. I progress on and we're finding our feet together, like our legs again.

Correct, And I do think it provides some needed levity and a dark time in the show where it's just sort of a little chaotic, a little big, a little extra campy. But I think that's fine and I've adjusted to that and I'm enjoying it.

Yeah.

Yeah, I appreciate these these like setting expectations for us from you guys, because it really does help.

Us enjoying it more.

Because I had to be completely honest, my expectations going into this season were quite low for a multitude of reasons. But like I'm now like, okay, I can I can get into this. I can get into this, like you take it for what at phase value, for what it is, you know.

I love the dynamic of the relationship with the people who listen and have watched the show and then telling us what to expect. It has been such a saving grace and getting to like run into so many people this past year, and what I love is that they're a part of the conversation where it feels like anybody we run into they're in on it and they're like, I know you're dreading season five, Yes, and in person are telling us things to look out for, and it's

And I also like that.

It feels like the people who love the show are protecting it in that way.

Yeah, because like, yeah, it's not great, but here's something the on board. Yeah, and we still love it and we still watch it, and some people really like it. I've met a couple of people who love season six.

That's so interesting. I'm looking forward to that. With that comment, somebody asked, how do I feel, Jenna, how do you feel about not being in the back half of season five. Well, at the time, I was thrilled. I needed a break, I needed to walk away. It was time. It was so exciting, Like if I can exclasee you like, having like a life at all was like so exciting at that time, right because you had we had worked for

A little bit.

I'm like, I'm not in on the joke as much anymore. And I was like sad about that.

Because when you're eating set for as long as we were every day, those little jokes and like weird things happened very quickly.

Yes, and the relationships change, and it's just obviously like it never changes, but it also changes a lot.

So, yeah, you know, did you have a least favorite accessory that your character had or someone.

Else the spider that's Friday necklace.

The glasses became an issue your favorite thing, oh, because sometimes I just didn't. They were my real glasses, and so they had to stay. Like I would wear them on and off, and props hated that I would take them home and they had backups that were not weird, like the prescription and the whole thing. It just became sort of a pain in the ass because then I was wearing contacts.

I always remember when you had the prop classes and I would know, I guess you have your proper classes on because your eyes would look like in a fish Girl.

I'm wearing them more this season. This is the first season where I'm really going, like in the middle of episode, I'm switching back and forth and I see them, I'm like, oh, there go. I'm I have such horrible eyesight that my glasses, the prescription shrinks like my eyes and everything within the lens. So when I don't wear them, everything just looks magnified.

Funny. I wish you guys good with Sina, you'd just be looking up at me. I Like, it's just so weird. It's so weird.

You would always lose it. It was the best part. Were you able to choose your seat in the glee club most of the time.

Most of the time, there were some directors that would come and be like Tina here, already here, Rachel here, you know, Brittany here, and you're like, oh, But oftentimes we knew our characters and our storylines better than they did coming in, like in the later time, and so we'd be like, oh, I can't sit next to this person, but I should be sitting next to this person.

Yeah.

Like I feel like we all kind of took that upon ourselves to like make those choices or be responsible.

And some directors also would be like, you know, eighty percent of us could go where we wanted, and then they had the stories that were really important. They'd like you hear you, hear.

You, hear yes exactly, Oh this is fun. What do you love about each other? Two thousand and eight versus twenty twenty five.

Oh my god, I don't two thousand and eight. It was just I think two thousand and eight. We were all very much of like the same frame of mind coming into this where yes, we were all so open and just happy. It was like an even playing field, right, like we were all like six seven eight nine on the call sheet. Yes, the four of you, me, Amber, and Chris were all together for like that first week, and we Chris is obviously younger, You and Amber were older, but we all felt similar.

Same playing field. We were like green enough, but had like we had all kind of like done some stuff to get us there.

And then and.

Chris is an old soul, so it was well, I

Now it's nice to see how also, like everybody is so secure in themselves. Everyone's like a fully formed version of themselves. When you're you know, eighteen to early twenties, who are you? You're a plato, You're trying to figure it out, And this show show did nothing but mold us and make us strong and resilient. Yes, and you know, like learning to speak up for ourselves. Like we learned all those things through this experience and all seeing the

You just like take You're like, this is who I am.

Yes, you know it. Yeah.

There's also something that I love about, like when I talk to David about our group, which he's now obviously so integrated and knows everybody and has his own relationships with everybody and understands my time with the show, but like whenever people talk about us during that time, like he didn't know me during that time, and He'll always be like, god, they I know they know you from a totally a whole other life time of stuff, like and like they know me back in a totally different

Yes, special, you know it's hard. I have that with Austin where I'm like, I'm like, I know you missed this entire, really life changing event for me, and it probably feels a little crazy because they'll never know us in that capacity.

I know, but you heard of it.

Yeah, Like these people are going to be around for forever, so.

You need to get to know exactly exactly.

I love this, not a question, but season five teen is such a diva and I love her so much.

Agreed.

Okay, so if Tina and already had a podcast, what would it be about? So if there was a reboot, you know that we'd all have podcasts or be trying to have podcasts. What would our podcast be?

I think we'd have separate ones.

Arties would be on filmmaking for sure.

Yeah, I think I'd be maybe one of those guys on TikTok totally like that, reviews movies that's great and things like that. I think that's maybe what my I think my podcast i'd probably interview writers and producers and directors. I'd like to do that in real life.

So great.

I feel like yours would be like business advice. Tina's would be she'd be one of those like, here's what you need to know about crypto.

But the funny thing is that would be Tina now, if it was Tina back then. Tina back then would have a podcast being like trying to be a star. Do you know she's like still Delulu in that world where she's going to pursue this and she wants this like everybody else in the.

Glee club, you know.

She like though it would be gossipy, like it would turn into like you would have blind items about like celebrities and things. It's because you weren't becoming a star. You would just tear down other people.

That's actually great. I love that. That would be really fun. Tina is do Moi's exactly or dumois?

Is it? Yeah?

I think so, MOI.

The Long Island jumped out.

Are you excited for season six? It's honestly one of my favorites. It really brings Lee back to its roots. This is so fascinating what I keep hearing, I know and my brain cannot get there. So I'm excited. We're excited, Kevin. Would you have wanted Artie to be queer selfishly, Yes, but I don't think that really makes sense for Artie because I always want to play a queer character.

But right now, Artie, Artie was not.

How did you this is a good one. How did you deal with intimacy on the show? Was there an intimacy coordinator? No, we were pre all of that. We did not live through this time. There was nothing. There was nothing, nothing about mental health, nothing about intimacy. It was just it was like throwing it to the wolves. Get it done, literally, get it done. I would have

It makes so much sense a.

People person a particular everybody.

Feel comfortable, yes, a protector absolutely, and like if anybody can set a tone on a set and can make me feel safe and protected, Telly, it is like I've never heard it.

So smart of.

Him to to train for that and to start doing that. It's brilliant. Luckily for us, we were all very close and so like when we all had to like kiss this stuff, like, okay.

Whatever, it's fine, exactly thankfully. Yeah, a tour, would you have rather done it as yourselves or in character? We did talk about this going into the tour, Like Ryan discussed it and when he was first thinking about what the tour was going to look like, he's like, do you guys do it in character?

Do you know?

I think I'm to where we had a little bit more or we took more liberties to play, like kind of pull back the curtain, break the fourth wall more. Like I certainly felt like when you're talking to the when we were talking to the crowds, I was Jenna and then you like click into Tina for like the performances.

Right, Yeah, that's actually I think that's that's right, as much as I would have wanted to be myself performing those numbers, as myself would have felt weird. Yeah, and it's different. We weren't exactly those characters and how we perform is different, and so it would have been a little strange. And also I think people weren't showing up to see us. They were showing up to see the characters.

Exact right, like people that they know and watch all the time. Is the distribution of lines even between the three girls and tell him and who's sings what part? Yes, it is quite distribute, distribute. No, we're not going to play it for you. We'll send you the lyric sheet and you can have AI do it.

That's really funny.

Oh god, what is Amber's run?

That's actually very.

Who is someone you want to interview that you haven't yet? There's a lot of people. I would love to have ge quinneth On at some point, Skyler on at some point.

Not Bomar.

Yes, I'd also like to have some modern family people because I would like to talk about we got our experiences coming up at the exact same time.

We were just so in it with them, Yes.

And so I and I see Jesse all the time. I've talked to Jesse about coming on. I think he will come on at some point, but it would be great, like talk to Sarah, like it would be really. I love all of them. They're all the best, hardest dance number routine to learn.

Okay.

I had a really hard time learning Somebody to Love because I came in. I originally was not in it because I played guitar and they put me in late and for some reason, because you all knew it and I had to like adapt to it, I could never wrap my head around it.

That's funny.

So like when we did Oprah, I was so panicked in my head struggling. Yeah, I didn't know where I was supposed to be at what time.

You know.

It's those ones where like you had it wasn't like do go at your level, free form, rock out, feel it how you want to feel it kind of thing. It was the ones that had to look uniform that were the hardest for us. And like like last last Name was really hard because that was also early on in the show where like we hadn't figured out what level we were at as somebody who love.

Yes, that's right, and the other one. Okay.

So we started now in this season doing redoing songs like in hundred right where we're like bringing back songs, keep holding on having to relearn that was actually atrocious. It was so hard we were so it was just ridiculous. It was ridiculous. So those are hard. It was like bringing things back that were many many years.

Ago, anything that was earlier on, because our brains were like learning how we all learned as a group. And so later on when you hear us talk about like, oh we learned this entire competition on the day, we could sort of do that because your brains work different ways muscle memory. At this point in filming, did you enjoy what you were creating as a group. Oh, that's

Somebody asked what Travel rowan song would Glee have covered and who would sing it? Because you know, we would have.

Done, honestly the whole album everything on Midwest Princess. Yeah, like it would have been a full episode totally. And there have been tiktoks and Twitter threads about people assigning numbers to people and they're all so good and I'm a little mad that I can't.

See it well in Travel just stick talking all the time about Glee. I'm like, please come on our show.

Even during Christmas. She like apologized to Glee fans for saying that a Glee Christmas episode was bad.

I can't it's so cool. We have to wrap there because there's just there's so many. We have to do another one of these at some point. Thank you so much for writing in so quickly with such great questions. We really appreciate it. We really appreciate you on the ride with us this season five ride.

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