The three-part documentary “The Price of Glee' recounts the dark shadows around its actors from Cory Monteith’s overdose and Mark Salling’s arrest to Lea Michele’s bullying behavior. It premieres Monday. Glee PriceofGlee Read more:
Creatives from 12 beloved shows, from ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ to ‘Rap S—,’ explain how they surmounted what may be the medium’s most daunting challenge.Created by Ryan Murphy, “Glee” debuted in 2009, alongside the explosion of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. “It’s great that fans of a show can come together and connect over things, but the fighting began almost immediately,” entertainment reporter Andy Swift remarks in the first episode.
But the bigger the ratings grew, the more elaborate the routines became: “Go watch the lifts that we do, they’re basically figure skating lifts without the figure skates or the ice,” recalls former dancer Doug Penikas in the first episode. “There was definitely the sense of, they were always trying to top themselves.”
Fans regularly mobbed the cast when they were shooting on location, and occasionally became invasive: Chris Colfer was kissed by a fan on the mouth without consent; Monteith had a young woman stalking him. The production even had to “build a wall from their trailers to the set that was like a tunnel so that the cast could travel safely without the tours bothering them or just people in the parking lot,” says Stephen Kramer Glickman, who filmed “Big Time Rush” on the same studio lot.
“That confused him and made him mad,” added Kirkpatrick, who doesn’t name the actor who spoke to Monteith. “But he did. He started drinking because he was given permission by somebody that he loved. He resented it, but he also took the direction. It took him on a path to destruction.”who tragically passed away during and after the show’s run, which reporter Swift called “rare” for any series.Michele’s on-set behavior did not go unnoticed.
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