Ryan Murphy Makes His Lighthearted Plea With Glee - Page 3

“Then what happened was we did the pilot, and she sort of sewed that character … leapt off the screen, I thought, and people loved her so much that we said to her, ‘Would you like to enlarge the part and be a series regular?’ and she loved that idea, so we did. But it really just came from shooting it and seeing it and seeing how good she was in the part. It sort of grew.”

Lynch, perhaps speaking as Sylvester, sung the praises of her would-be show-stoppers (such as Michele's Berry, left) during a recent FOX promotional interview. “These kids in our Glee Club, they look like the outcasts and the misfits but they’ve got such light and they’ve got wonderful voices,” she said. “And you can see how in high school they probably wouldn’t have been looked at twice and maybe even beaten up. But they’ve got this great talent and when they’re finally singing a song they choose for themselves, and they actually work on the choreography, they work on their musical parts, and when they perform it, they’re just in their power and in their element. ... And they’re all so shiny and bright and you get to see these are really, really special kids who shouldn’t be treated so badly by the other ones.”

So will the accomplished Lynch, who sung and played guitar on A Mighty Wind, get a chance to go to the head of this class act as a song-and-dance woman? While she hinted at that possibility, a cautious Murphy would only offer, “You probably won’t hear Jane Lynch sing, but we are currently shooting an episode where Jane Lynch does a fantastic 1940’s dance. You will see her cut a rug.”

That alone will be worth waiting for this fall.

Credits
• Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele photos by Carin Baer/FOX
• Jane Lynch photo by Matthias Clamer/FOX
• See a promotional video of Glee, with cast members performing “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” below:

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