![]() ![]() He was caught up in a “bad crowd” and spent his teen years spiraling deeper into drug and alcohol abuse before his mom and friends intervened. ![]() Monteith was open about his history with substance abuse as a kid. Eventually, a walled tunnel was built on the studio lot to connect the casts’ trailers directly to set to keep them safe (and yes, some of the talking heads use this walled tunnel for a cheap metaphor on the casts’ loneliness).Ī cast member allegedly encouraged Cory Monteith’s relapse. Monteith even had to move from his Culver City apartment due to a stalker. Filming in public became a harrowing ordeal due to hordes of fans and cameras showing up. To add higher stakes, the young, hot cast of actors were becoming tabloid, paparazzi and stan bait. Their work days included hours of dance and vocal rehearsal, as well as time in the booth to record the songs for their numbers and, of course, filming the actual scenes.Įvery talking head in The Price of Glee takes time to point out how particularly grueling and isolating their schedules were. ![]() For the first year and a half of making the series, the cast worked on the brand on set and off. As soon as Season One wrapped, the cast were sent out on the Glee Live! Tour, which they embarked on in 21 cities globally the following year as well. Glee was not structured like a normal show: the cast’s versions of popular songs became hits themselves while the show spurred an insatiable online fanbase. Normally, casts of hit television series get a few months off between filming seasons no matter how big the show gets. Though much of the information shared by the talking heads is speculative, here is some of what we learned from those involved in this series. Instead of being a truly juicy tell-all with behind-the-scenes gossip, the doc exploits both the news-making and behind-the-scenes deaths of the cast and crew. Naya Rivera, who stole scenes as snarky cheerleader Santana, passed away from an accidental drowning in California’s Lake Piru while on a trip with her son. Mark Salling, who played less sweet quarterback Puck, was accused of both sexual battery and later possessing child pornography. Cory Monteith, the show’s previously unknown lead who played sweet quarterback Finn, was found dead at age 31, in between the show’s fourth and fifth seasons. Then, there was a string of deaths - tragic, sudden and horrific - that would make people believe that a “ Glee curse” exists. On set, drama was bubbling up and hard to mask. The show’s quality burnt out fast, trying to keep up with what was popular on the radio as well as what the fans wanted from the series and its characters. In the decade since it debuted, however, Glee has had a tumultuous public image. A darkly comedic musical series set in a high school glee club didn’t sound like it would pull nearly 10 million viewers an episode, but the show was a runaway success for Fox from the start. Ryan Murphy’s Glee was an inexplicable phenomenon in its early years. ![]()
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