{"id":168824,"date":"2025-05-17T03:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/amber-riley-gives-thoughts-on-possible-glee-reboot-mercedes-spinoff\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T03:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T03:55:08","slug":"amber-riley-gives-thoughts-on-possible-glee-reboot-mercedes-spinoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/amber-riley-gives-thoughts-on-possible-glee-reboot-mercedes-spinoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Riley Gives Thoughts on Possible \u2018Glee\u2019 Reboot &#038; Mercedes Spinoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/amber-riley\/\" title=\"Amber Riley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amber Riley<\/strong><\/a> isn\u2019t interested in a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/glee\/\" title=\"Glee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Glee<\/strong><\/a><\/em> reboot. <\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old singer and actress, who played Mercedes in the musical television series from 2009-2015, shut down the idea in a recent interview. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just feel like what we did was so phenomenal, I don\u2019t want to risk trying to reinvent the wheel.\u201d she said on the \u201cMonet Talks\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/why-amber-riley-isnt-interested-in-a-glee-reboot-11736073\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/ew.com\/why-amber-riley-isnt-interested-in-a-glee-reboot-11736073&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2111926\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost cast members. I just feel like the chemistry, that formula, was so specific, and it\u2019s changed now, so I don\u2019t know if it would be as effective,\u201d she added, referring to the deaths of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/naya-rivera\/\" title=\"Naya Rivera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Naya Rivera<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/cory-monteith\/\" title=\"Cory Monteith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cory Monteith<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/mark-salling\/\" title=\"Mark Salling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mark Salling<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Amber<\/strong> said not even a $40 million dollar contract could convince her to join a <em>Glee<\/em> reboot. However, she also said she\u2019d be open to a spinoff series based on her character.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t see, last year, <em>Glee<\/em> co-creator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/brad-falchuk\/\" title=\"Brad Falchuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brad Falchuk<\/strong><\/a> gave his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/01\/03\/glee-co-creator-brad-falchuk-reveals-biggest-lessons-he-learned-from-the-show-talks-possible-reboot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thoughts on a possible revival<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/05\/16\/amber-riley-gives-thoughts-on-possible-glee-reboot-mercedes-spinoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Riley isn\u2019t interested in a Glee reboot. The 39-year-old singer and actress, who played Mercedes in the musical television series from 2009-2015, shut down the idea in a recent interview. \u201cI just feel like what we did was so phenomenal, I don\u2019t want to risk trying to reinvent the wheel.\u201d she said on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168824","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=168824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}