{"id":132456,"date":"2024-11-13T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/darren-criss-looks-back-on-glee-its-not-like-it-was-absolutely-horrendous\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:16:44","slug":"darren-criss-looks-back-on-glee-its-not-like-it-was-absolutely-horrendous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/darren-criss-looks-back-on-glee-its-not-like-it-was-absolutely-horrendous\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Criss looks back on Glee: &#8216;It&#8217;s not like it was absolutely horrendous&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-11-13\" datetime=\"1731514604\" pubdate=\"\">13 November 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/darren-criss\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,darren-criss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darren Criss<\/a> &#8220;doesn&#8217;t run away&#8221; from his time on &#8216;Glee&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Darren Criss &#8216;doesn&#8217;t run away&#8217; from his time on Glee<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old actor started his career with the cult show &#8216;A Very Potter Musical before getting his big break as Blaine Anderson on the Emmy Award-winning Fox series in the late 2000s but even though he has gone back to his theatrical roots in recent times, he doesn&#8217;t mind at all that people mostly remember him more for his signature role. <\/p>\n<p>He told USA Today: &#8220;It&#8217;s not something I run away from and it means so much to so many people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like this really fun party that was had many years ago. And so when people reminisce about that party or that big game, it&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re talking about something absolutely horrendous. The show&#8217;s called &#8216;Glee&#8217; for God&#8217;s sake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Glee&#8217; initially ran from 2009 until 2015 and made stars out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/lea-michele\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,lea-michele\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lea Michele<\/a>, Amber Riley and Chris Colfer amongst a host of others as they played a group of teenagers singing and dancing their way through high school.<\/p>\n<p>\nSeveral episodes featured songs from musicals such as &#8216;Grease&#8217;, &#8221;Wicked&#8217; and &#8216;Les Miserables&#8217;, whilst other moments saw the cast pay homage to popular music artists such as Britney Spears, Madonna and Michael Jackson. <\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Darren is now appearing in the Broadway musical &#8216;Maybe Happy Ending&#8217; &#8211; which centres on two robots in love &#8211; and explained that because his character is unable to relay emotion, he spends time backstage crying before he goes on.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;These robots are not human. So the one thing that I can&#8217;t do is really process that in a human way. The only people in the room that can do it is the audience. And with any luck they do.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;For me, every night, I just need like a good like five minutes to cry it out after because the entire show, I&#8217;m just gripping on for dear life not to do the one human thing that you want to do the most.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/darren-criss-looks-back-glee-like-absolutely-horrendous-1409018.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 November 2024 Darren Criss &#8220;doesn&#8217;t run away&#8221; from his time on &#8216;Glee&#8217;. Darren Criss &#8216;doesn&#8217;t run away&#8217; from his time on Glee The 37-year-old actor started his career with the cult show &#8216;A Very Potter Musical before getting his big break as Blaine Anderson on the Emmy Award-winning Fox series in the late 2000s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2562,383,2565,3406,2560,9910,419],"class_list":{"0":"post-132456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-amber-riley","9":"tag-britney-spears","10":"tag-chris-colfer","11":"tag-darren-criss","12":"tag-lea-michele","13":"tag-madonna-n","14":"tag-michael-jackson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}