By portraying gay, lesbian and questioning teens on one of TV’s most popular shows, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Heather Morris and Naya Rivera were certainly expecting some level of fan reaction, but the response has still been overwhelming, they admit. “Heather and I both receive letters constantly now from teenage girls that are struggling with their sexuality,” says Rivera while doing press for the cast’s upcoming Glee: the 3D Concert Movie.
“I think that since we’ve tapped into that now, they kind of have something to look up to that maybe wasn’t on television before in that way,” she continues. “I know Heather met someone in a meet-and-greet that was like, ‘Thank you, I came out to my parents because of you guys.’ I get letters like that, too. So I think it’s great.”
Morris admits that playing a teenager wrestling with her sexuality has made her more sensitive to what friends and classmates had been going through. “Girls are just more quiet about it,” she says. “I’m sure growing up, I probably had a handful of girlfriends that weren’t sure and probably just kept it under wraps, and it wasn’t as accepted, I guess, to just say it out loud.”
The film breaks up the cast’s concert footage with featurettes on three unique teenage Glee fans, including Trenton, a gay teen who came out in the eighth grade after having his journal stolen and hand-delivered to his secret crush. Trenton discusses how much of a positive influence Colfer’s character has been on his life. “It’s crazy when you represent such a select community, just the stories that you hear that are heartbreaking and inspiring, and they always thank you so much, not realizing that it’s really them who are brave and are the strong ones,” Colfer says.
Criss agrees, adding that the response from gay fans has made him take his character more seriously. “They are much greater than they think they are, because it comes right back to us, and that goes into every performance,” he says. “It’s not just a job anymore. It’s like I’ve been given this superhero’s costume and I get to play him, and it’s a privilege.”
Speaking of playing his character, Colfer talked about “being” Kurt during the recent Glee tour. "I had to be in character, I had to be,” says Colfer. “You just have to leave yourself at the door sometimes, because there's no way I could do 'Single Ladies' every night. I could not. That's when you just leave yourself behind and he just takes over."
While Colfer and Criss’ Kurt and Blaine will be carrying on with their relationship — though while attending different schools — in the new season, there’s more of a question as to what’s in store for the girls, as the pair ended Season 2 as friends despite Brittany’s feelings for Santana. “I got asked the question who would be Brittany’s next hook-up, and I said it’s going to be Dianna [Agron] for sure,” Morris says. “Everybody wants to go with Quinn. Quinn’s a popular girl.”
Agron, for her part, is game: “Well I said, Quinn can always go gay,” she says.
Rivera is hoping for more bad behavior for Santana — and hopefully some romance. “I’d like to see her be pretty mean this year. Like real mean. And maybe get a girlfriend,” Rivera says.
Despite Brittany’s professed love for Santana, Morris is on board: “I’d like to see her have a girlfriend, for sure,” she agrees. “Like a hot girlfriend.”
“With boobs,” Rivera adds.
But when it comes to executive producer Ryan Murphy’s infamous back-and-forths in the press about the fate of certain characters after the upcoming season, the actors are less forthcoming. Murphy had earlier said that some graduating characters — namely Colfer’s Kurt, Lea Michele’s Rachel and Cory Monteith’s Finn — wouldn’t be returning to the show after Season 3, but he soon backtracked.
Of course, both last summer and this summer, Glee has benefited from intense speculation about upcoming plot-lines and guest stars — fueled by leaks and gossip that seem to come directly from Murphy’s office.
So what’s it like being an actor on a series with so much speculation about your future during the off-season? “You kind of stay away from it,” Jenna Ushkowitz, who plays Tina, says. “You wait for your creators to tell you directly what’s happening, and we kind of ignore that because that’s not what the show is about. It’s about the work, and as actors that’s what we look forward to — what’s going to happen. And nothing is set in stone until you open that script — and even after that, you know things get cut.”
When it comes to the post-graduation lives of the characters, Colfer puts it succinctly enough: “I think we’ve got to get through Season 3 before we worry about that. I just want to survive that.”
source: afterelton.com
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