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On 10/16/2015 6:22 AM, Obveeus wrote:
>
> On 10/16/2015 6:39 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>> Ryan Murphy has opened up about the off-screen drama that dogged the
>> cast of Glee, admitting he’s “devastated by everything that happened”
>> over the course of the show’s six-year run.
>
>> Over the course of Glee’s six seasons, the show was constantly plagued
>> with rumours about feuding cast members and fractured relationships
>> with Murphy,
>
> Imagine that...A TV show about wannabee singers competing against each
> other for stage time created a lot of gossip column filler about the
> behind the scenes competition for screen time amongst the actors.  Some
> of that was simply publicity for the show.  Some of that was based upon
> the home viewer/fans creating rivalries because they couldn't separate
> the characters from the actors and because they genuinely liked some
> singers more than others and wanted to see their favorites get more
> numbers on the show.

I liked it when they would go meta and talk about it on the show.

Some of that was simply a fact of every single TV
> show where every actor wishes that (and argues for) their character got
> more storyline than their character gets each week.
>

Not always.  I saw an interview where one of the actors on House was 
saying he prefers it when he gets fewer lines/less screen time since 
it's less work for him and he gets paid the same.

I was at a convention where Robert Picardo was discussing his character 
on Voyager and how he would actively campaign for storylines.  That was 
contrasted by Robert Beltran (not sure if it was the same convention or 
not) who acknowledged other actors would talk to the writers about their 
characters but he never did.  IMO, it *really* showed on the screen.


>> and was rocked by the death of its male lead Corey
>> Monteith, who passed away from an accidental drug overdose in 2013.
>
> That was the major blow for this show as it took out the lead actor and
> a real life (and on screen) couple from the show.
>
>> “I was there with them all day long, and then we’d finish work and we’d
>> go out and have fun all night, and I guess in a weird, twisted way, I
>> was trying to relive the childhood I never had.
>
> Twisted to believe that a bunch of late 20s/early 30s people are living
> any sort of 'childhood' in the first place, much less one where they go
> out and party all night.
>
>> “I thought they wanted a parent, and they didn’t. They didn’t want me
>> to tell them what to fucking do. They didn’t want me to tell them how
>> to treat each other or what the world was like at the end of the day.”
>
> I hope he is opining about some of them rejecting his 'fatherly' advice
> to just get along rather than that they rejected his advice to backstab
> and undermine each other.
>

I think around the first season I read an interview with Matthew 
Morrison where he made a point to say the actors are all only a few 
years younger than himself so he would *not* be trying to give them any 
fatherly advice.


>> He added: “I wish I could go back and do that differently with a lot of
>> those actors. Some of them I’m still very close to: Lea Michele, Chord
>> Overstreet, Darren Criss — but there were some that didn’t work out
>> well, and I regret that.
>
>  From most reports, Naya Rivera is high maintenance to everyone in her
> life so I hope that Ryan Murphy isn't losing sleep over any animosity
> with her.
>
>> “I guess I just wish I had been able to let them figure it out for
>> themselves.”
>
> He definitely talks as if this was a cast of kids rather than young
> adults.  It would seem that he did let them figure it out for themselves
> (after all, there is ultimately no choice in that matter)...and part of
> that is to accept that some people just don't ever figure it out.  Some
> will continue to act like petulant children, cussing and lying and
> manipulating as best they can.  Best to just leave them to it.
>

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Ryan Murphy talks Glee: ‘I’m_devastated_with_everything_that_happened’ Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> - 2015-10-16 05:39 -0500
  Re: Ryan Murphy talks Glee: ‘I’m_devastated_with_everything_that_happened’ Obveeus <Obveeus@aol.com> - 2015-10-16 09:22 -0400
    Re: Ryan Murphy talks Glee: ‘I’m_devastated_with_everything_that_happened’ Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> - 2015-10-17 13:28 -0700
      Re: Ryan Murphy talks Glee: ‘I’m_devastated_with_everything_that_happened’ Obveeus <Obveeus@aol.com> - 2015-10-17 20:25 -0400

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