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Cory Monteith’sGleecostars are singinghis praisesnearly 10 years afterhis death.
On the latest episode of their podcastAnd That’s What You REALLY Missed, on which they recapped the Fox hit’s season 1 finale,GleealumsJenna UshkowitzandKevin McHalereflected Monteith’s impressive acting abilities.
Ushkowitz, 36, added: “So good. It’s ridiculous.”
McHale admitted that he regrets not telling the late actor how remarkable he was at the time, sharing, “We’re talking about this but what pisses me off is like he was such a good actor and I don’t think we necessarily told him that enough and like, the things we miss out [on] getting to see him do because he’s so good.”
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The pair — who played Artie Abrams and Tina Cohen-Chang, respectively — went on the praise Monteith and costarLea Michele’s rendition of Journey’s “Faithfully” onGlee.
McHale said it was “such a good versionof the song,” while Ushkowitz added, “They sound excellent.”
Monteith played Finn Hudson on the popular Fox series from its premiere in May 2009 until his sudden death from a drug overdose at age 31 on July 13, 2013. Michele played his love interest, Rachel Berry, on the series and dated Monteith off screen from 2012 until his death.
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In November, Glee creatorRyan Murphyrevealedhis thoughts about filming the showfollowing Monteith’s death while appearing on theAnd That’s What You REALLY Missedpodcast.
Only one month after Monteith’s death, the show filmed a tribute episode titled “The Quarterback”, which aired Oct. 10, 2013 as part of the show’s fifth season. Murphy expressed that if it were up to him, the show would have “stopped for a very long time and probably not come back.”
“It’s an episode I was able to watch once,” he shared of the tribute episode. “And I never looked at it again.”
“Now if this had happened, I would be like, ‘That’s the end,'” Murphy added. “Because you can’t really recover from something like that.”
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Michele expressed similar feelings aboutthe show’s tributeepisode last year.
“I don’t even remember what I was listening to at the time. Like, nothing. I was just in such a hole,” Michele said as she addressed the crowd.
“I’m grateful that [Murphy] asked me. I really, really, really am. Because it needed to be something that felt real for me. But it was also so hard,” she said.
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She added about filming the episode: “I would film it, and then I would run off, and then I would come back. And it was wild and hard, but we healed together, and this song helped.”
source: people.com
