August 14, 2025 • 49 mins
This is not a drill! The one and only Quinn Fabray is here!
Yes, the fan's most requested guest is finally on the pod! Dianna Agron is back with Jenna and Kevin to share more stories about her time on Glee! Including what it was like slapping Rachel and Santana, her big literal flop on set that left her with rug burns, where Quinn is now, and she shares her fond memories and a super sweet story about Cory Monteith. Plus, how she's putting everything she learned on Glee to use on the projects she is currently working on!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Welcome to and that's what you really miss the podcast.
Welcome back for part two. It's Diana Week again. I mean,
who doesn't want more Diana. There's so much more to
talk about. There may even be a Feybury mention.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So you know some people have Shark Week, we have
Dana Aground Week.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
This is what we're doing, So get into it. Turn
up the volume and get ready for the sweet sounds
of Dana Agron's beautiful voice. This is part two with Dana.
The Unholy Trinity was one of the best parts of
the show. And your bond with like on camera and
(00:56):
off camera, with Heather and Nya and like you and
Iya obviously from the very beginning, Yeah, formed a bond
just because of exclusion. Yeah, and obviously that didn't last
long the exclusion. No, but that the relationship between the
three of you, and I think you know, the success
of the show, like you mentioned earlier, a lot of it,
(01:20):
I think, or some of it was due to the
fact that we all did naturally love each other and
have great chemistry. And the three of you also had
like your own special chemistry amongst each other. It's like
those cheerio uniforms and that high pony really did something
on camera together. But what like do you have any
(01:42):
you know, memories or thoughts about just like the three
of you, the unholy trinity, working together and doing so
many good numbers.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So I I those musical sequences like obviously we said
say a little prayer, but.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
What was it you and never get one? Oh no,
that was the tree of Us. But I love that
one very much.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Songs you Yeah, I just think there was something I
was not a cheerleader in high school. I was definitely
the ballet theater girl, yearbook staff.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You know that that was my role. But it was
very fun to step into this kind of very typically.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
American high school experience in that form and play this
you know, trio that just really gets to sit in
their power in the moments where they are powerful.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It did all quite stunning to try on that hat,
you know.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, and then all three of us became, you know,
expressed all versions of vulnerability, and you know that was
They didn't sit in that queen Bee triangle for very long.
But I do think there was something quite fun about
the sisterhood of us and that kind of triangular form
(03:13):
when it did express itself on set, and that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The costumes for all of us.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I mean, I remember very distinctly Ryan talking about his
creative decisions the sets and the wardrobe and him saying, yes,
this show takes place in Ohio, but this doesn't look
like Ohio. The colors are more saturated, there's not and
be more expressive. We don't need to understand why they
(03:42):
are able to afford this, it's just magical realism that's
coming through a little bit where this is kind of
both like their reality and the dream version of them.
So like, let's give them that lift. And I think
that is showcased in every thing that Ryan does. It's
if you're gonna make something that's hyper real, then you
(04:05):
have to adhere to those codes.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That was what our show was.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
And even with Lou wonderful Lou trying on what was
the exact skirt and length and color coms, how that
worked at the high ponytail and all of those things
that we really looked.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, Bay, I had an envision might have looked when
I read the.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Pilot and tailored to perfection.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I just I.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Loved the worlds that we inhibited in those ways our character,
and then I loved when we got to do Rocky
Were a picture show and oh yeah, Danna what we
were able to wear and how we were able to
express ourselves in those numbers. To me, anytime we went
really you know, much farther into the performance aspect, to me,
(04:56):
that was big joy.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know, it was particularly fun to watch you do
those things too. You could sound the joy, oh my god,
like radiating through our entire body. Whenever we got to
like play dress up even more you that camera came on,
you were doing all kinds of crazy and it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Great favorite.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I think Rocky Horror in particular, that to me was
dreaming one of my favorite episodes.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
To make for sure, and.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Just watching all of us the way we looked at
episode in just the camp aspect of those songs in
which we performed them.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I mean, if I were to go and watch one
episode tonight, that would.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Be the one.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I think.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It's a perfect episode. Yeah, it's so good. It also
felt like because that was the first time we did
something like that where it felt like we were actually
in school and we're doing something special. Because it was
so out of our normal routine.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yes, so true. Yes, that's very very.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Just one of those times where it really mimicked. It
felt like it was mimicking real life, which was Yeah.
You also got to work with Jane so much from
the very beginning, and we.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I know, and so lucky.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Jane is, obviously, you know me a legend and icon
and the anchor of this show. What was that like
stepping onto set and you had so much to do
with her?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I know, I've I've been blessed with many things in
my career, and I think the women that I've had,
and Jane first and foremost, that have been kind of my.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Guideposts in.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Duo relationship over time, has just been incredible. And with Jane,
I was such a fan of her work, especially I
mean her comedy.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I grew up watching Lucille.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Ball and to me that was I was just mesmerized
by that kind of comedy.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And Jane, to me, is our contemporary version of.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Somebody like Lucille Ball, so to walk or make choices
in front of me, okay, and just the dryness to
her delivery and I mean those lines that she had,
and especially when you could understand where it was being
ciphered from like everything that you kind of knew was Ian, yes,
exactly through j.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But and just the warmest you know. I think that
was the thing too. Every single cast.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Member that we had, both in our you know, stable
of like our core cast and then our guest stars
were so generous in the way that they could be
a rock and an anchor for us in scenes and.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Not make us feel inhibited.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
You know, we really I think we're so supported by
every member of cast and crew that have been.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Doing it for so much longer than we had.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, that's true. We were very lucky. I feel like
it's so rare you have that many big stars guest
stars come on the show and have big names like
Jane on a show and nobody sucked. It's like everybody
was great. Everyone was so nice and excited to be there. Oh,
Ricky Martin's ugly and so unkind, so unkind.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
No, but truly it.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You would think there would have there would have been
an awkward moment with somebody, but no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
No, And again I think that speaks to casting.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And you know, Ryan and Brad and Ian and Robert
really understanding what was going to play well in the
landscape and hand picking those people.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
But I do have.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Extreme pleasure points, like watching Kristin Chenowith with the watermelon
between her life. There are just moments that really ping
to me, as just like wanting to cry of laughter
having that done in front of you, like when it's
in character, as like when she was teaching outside of
(09:22):
you know, not singing, as like singing class and dressing
after hysterical, hysterical and historical figures. Yes, well, you know,
I just I I so appreciate the kind of play
we were able to.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Have and kind of what was being explored on that show.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And you know, some things didn't work as well as others,
but there was just gold.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Tomic two episodes. You know it's not going to win
them all.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, No, seven hundred musical numbers can't can't get them all, right, just.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Like the little digs, the little like quips, there were
so many, even pet bird like hype in man Hands, you.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Know so good.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
One of the best things on this show ever, is
the fight between you and Aya.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Tighten your pony before you head back to class.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yes, oh, do you remember filming that.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
By you do?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Because I remember it was the first time I had
had kind of a physical combative scene and not wanting
to hurt my friend, but wanting it to look real,
and also having the sense of like, didn't like.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Push me, you know, and she's like, we'll push me real,
and so trying to find that line of of being
you know, really real.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It looked.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Her and then you know, Matt Morrison coming in, break
it up, Break it up. Oh but I mean I
had been slapped on that show.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I've slapped people, and then I mean when I slapped
Leah in the bathroom during the wrong episode, she was
very adamant that I must slap her. And and you know,
being slapped is one thing because you think, oh, I
can take it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That slab thing somebody else is.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
A whole different ceiling because you're gonna you know, it
just doesn't feel.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Right, it doesn't sit right.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You don't want to hurt somebody.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
No, but then you.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Want to look really And I guess that's the thing
with acting, is everything that you do. I mean, I
did this psychological thriller where in the script there were
so many things like she eats the raw egg, she
hangs out of the building, she does this stuff, and
the director was like, oh, Dana, you can't actually do that.
We're gonna get like a prop egg, raw egg, and
(11:58):
if that's not gonna look real, and you know, our
like wonderful props member comes up and shows this like
very weird composed of it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Look real, and like, I'm just gonna swallow the raw
egg and she was like, well, then you're gonna have
to split it spit out. I was like, but then
you're not gonna see me swallow.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
And we're constantly finding the ways in which you know,
how many times do we get slush sheet?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I think I only got slusheed once.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But people got slusheed a lot, and you just have
to do the thing, yeah, you know, and if it's
not gonna kill you, then you know, and if.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's only mildly dangerous, then.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It feels exciting because it's like you're getting permission to
like be that little kid playing dress up and using
your imagination like excuse to eat eat egg now? Yeah,
and I'm gonna get paid for it.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Whole debate was like, well you can get salmonilla.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I was like that if I was a bodybuilder like
Arnold Schwarzenegger, I would will you be doing them every
day and she was like, there was was that a rumor?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I was like, no, people do that.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
They eat raw eggs, we eat raw fish, we eat
raw a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, did you eat the rye?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I had to swallow like three of them and then
it was like, oh, now we need to do a
different angle. So I think at the end it was
like six raw eggs. And our director was so upset
about it. I was like, you wrote it in the script.
I She's like, but I didn't want you to actually have
to do it. I was like, well, you wrote it.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I did it.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Yeah, she's probably please, I'll let Diane get sick.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm just not the next day like green, holy sick. Honestly,
we've done crazier things.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
AG.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
That's just well.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And also we've worked through being sickly, so it's well.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Never have I ever been more sick than when we
were filming Thriller.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Thriller.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, the super Bowl episode got all of us.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Never forget it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I was had the flu and I had.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I'll forget it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
We just have all the rhyming things and a fellow
I'll never forget it.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I don't forget that too, because what.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Were we going to do postpone and like that location,
all those extras.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
There was one time that Kevin was so sick on
the field. It was like one of those four days
that we were filming. It wasn't the overnight one, but
he's in his football outfit and I'm standing next to
him and we're doing a scene and I looked down
and it's not Kevin.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Oh who had a standing like maybe it was j
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It was a body double that they had found was
like just close enough to Kevin's build that they put
him in a helmet and just put him.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Next to me because he was sleeping in the trailers.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I was so mad. I was like, you're really going
to make me drive down the long beach of one
hundred and two and a half fever.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, we did it. Yeah, and then ride yourself back.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I was so happy that day. I was sad you
were sick. But they're like, Okay, now Dana has tonsilightest,
We're going to take it in turns in Like thank you, Diana. Yeah,
just taking one for the team.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
So sick, But guess that was the thing about working
that many hours. You just stop one tumble cast. You
just sometimes you're going to be sick. And I mean,
I definitely know. There were so many moments where they
were as you mentioned, like put somebody else in, try
(15:35):
to navigate around it, try to minimize the amount of
hours that you were on set to you know, be
kinder to the situation. But then there's only a certain
amount of strategy to that, and then sometimes you're just
gonna yeah, put your best happy face on it. Just
don't get work, make it work, sir.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
One of my favorite mashups we ever did was I
feel pretty unpretty.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Oh oh, I still listened to it.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Often expends me joy and oh, oh good. Did you
like recording in the studio?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Oh was that something that you knew or were familiar with,
because it was brand new to me.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, it was branded too.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I had never done it before in my life, and
and the very first time was was for say a
little prayer.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And I remember because as you.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Can hear in my speaking voice, my natural register is
low and I definitely wasn't speaking like that as Quinn.
I guess this makes sense that you know you're a
younger person, you're playing younger characters, and also probably I
just wasn't as comfortable speaking in you know, this voice,
(16:58):
and so because she's spoke very high and had this tone,
that's how she's sang as well. And I don't know
how it was for you guys that Adam Anders. I
did not record with Adam and the pilot.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Did you guys record with Adam? Was Adam a part
of Okay?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Like the first thirteen I recorded with Adam a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Jimmy Kay, Yeah, yes.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
So it was just such a learning curve because it
was so much higher than I anticipated singing. And then
just understanding, you know, how to make your voice work
to the best of its ability, when you swallow, when
you take a breath, when you do these things, and
like if there's too much moisture in your mouth, what
(17:41):
that sounds like. There's a whole art of learning to
sing in a recording studio, and I did not know
any of that. So I think that it was a
very quick learning curve. But I went home from that
first recording recording session thinking, oh, no, I'm really bad
(18:04):
at this and I'm just not gonna sing again in
the show. They'll just make Quinn kind of music.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
To being a recording artist.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Totally and now, I mean it's it's fun understanding. Like
recently I've been doing some work in the recording studio
that's singing, not you know, because as actors, I mean
talk about how wild for a slight diversion that we
never had to do a dr because of Brilliant.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
We had Philip on the podcast and.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
A master because you know, typically you would have to
do all that all the time. But but yeah, recently
I've been doing music in the recording studio and then
and it makes me feel proud that we learned so
much on this show. Oh, I mean we cut our
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teeth in every aspect of storytelling.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, dancing and singing, the.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Langurs, everything ethic, Yeah, yes, so many hours and like
learning camera work and movements at what kind of drive
storylines forward? It is just it really was a masterclass
in how to be a participant in a very vivid
(19:31):
and larger than life world, how to take that into
the real world and to communicate what your authenticity is.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Who you are. Also, how wild that we were discovering
who we were.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Publicly so unfacing and such age Like we really had
a lot to handle those regards.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yes, I don't think we I didn't at least realize
like that was the period of our life that we
were in. Yes, and then you all of a sudden
have success. We're making more money than we've probably ever
made before, and people know us, and so it's a
very strange, Like we were all very safe with each other.
I think that's also probably why we were so close,
(20:18):
because we could find that commonality amongst ourselves. Yeah, and
it was so strange to like view each other like
what would happen outside of our little group, you know,
like who people are dating, or like even like where
are you going on vacation? Like everything felt like who
are we now? Outside of each other because the people
(20:39):
we were before the show is very different well situation,
like we're in a completely different part spot in our lives. Yeah,
and it was I felt like we were so lucky
to have each other and that to grow together.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
God bless. I can't imagine doing that alone or doing
that as a solo artist of some sort.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Right, So I would think about that a lot during
that show. I was like, I am so happy. It
is such a large.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Cast, But we were such kids and we thought we
were fully independent young adults.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yes, we did so in our minds.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
We were fully functioning adults in that place. But really
now looking back at it now, I'm barely learning who
I am and accepting all of that. To look back
at that time and go, oh my god, we were
looking for all of this external praise and you know,
(21:35):
acceptance in addition to our just figuring out who we
are without all of that, you know, or people do
that at that formative time.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But thank god we had each other.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I just remember we were at our first TCAs and
we were at Ruby Foo's and we were talking about
we went around the tables like saying what.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
We were for.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
We love to do that, We love to go around
the table.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, And the paparazzi was so crazy, right, and we
were like, we're just gonna hold hands and freak them
out and make them think we're really weird. And we
walked into the hotel holding hands in linked arms and.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
We were really weird. We No, That's the thing, the.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Sweetest thing I think I've ever.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It's like one of us very fond memories I have
of being like we are in this together and we're
gonna freak everybody else out.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, yeah, you know, Yeah, I'm still weird.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Just getting weirder. We're just getting weirder over here.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yes, it's just choking itself into different forms.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah, I I I.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Think that's maybe. Additionally, why.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
When anyone sees more than one of us together in
real life it feels charming because it is one kind of.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I guess you would hope for for people who have
worked together that intensely retain a love in a friendship.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
And and it's I mean talk about when we were
traveling in group form. Uh, yes, that was some of
the wildest.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I've never been grabbed so many times by mothers. It
was always mothers.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yes, the continues today, you're grabbed by that mother.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
That's right. I know. It was a gentle.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Changed yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, I just hum.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
We were kind of this phenomenon situation airport. That's when
I really remember the most nuts.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
There's nowhere to.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And I doing the airport. Would be so wild to
see a whole cast at some thing TV walking through
the airport at the same time together.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yes, yeah, I would be freaked out too if I
saw that, I would show I loved you, like, oh
my god, you're all the.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Kettle well here, Yeah, yeah, I get that. I get that.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Speaking of all the success of the show and like
how we dealt with it, Another thing lesson I think
I learned from you is you are really good with people.
You're excellent with people. You're in like work settings that
can feel sort of gross and schmoozy and what like
an obligation as opposed to finding some joy in it.
(24:42):
You really walk the line in those situations of you know,
so like, yes, this is all silly and whatever, but
also finding like real connection in that with people, and
you get I mean, there's not a person that doesn't
like you, like you get along with everybody, And I
think that's such a It's not you're not putting it on.
You are just genuinely extremely nice and likable. But I
(25:05):
think being able to have someone like you in our
group to watch move through those situations was a huge
bonus for us because it's taught us those things by example.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
That is such a kind thing to say, especially hearing
it from two people that I find to be the
kindest people and assmates ever.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So I would like to return that compliment to the
book of you.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I think that's I think that's how you have to
be though in this industry, you have to really understand that,
like kindness is key, and you will continue to work
with different people at different chapter's life and you don't
always know when it's going to happen, but why not
do it? Which is great leadership and participation and like
(25:55):
make everybody feel good at work.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
That doesn't everybody want to do that right to work?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, but I mean like sometimes you know, like we'd
be tired, or like you never had a moment really
where you slipped, you know, or like I would have
a day I've.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Had some moment before I've slipped on the floor.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I just I can't Diana just flopping forward.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
It is just so hard and I am so.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
That was so rough.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I just remember it so vividly because I just wanted
to get there. I was so tired, and I was like,
oh you want us on stage?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, here we go. I'm running And then I ripped
on that carpet and I had a huge rug burns
her dress.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
She face flopped forward, I saw her hands go.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Never forget that that moment.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
It was like after a full day of filming like
sectionals or regionals, and they wanted us on stage for
her fall and we were like, please, let us just
go home.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Go.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, and now Dan has injured herself.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Tripped, she stripped. Some of those long beach nights were
so late, and you are just let me go home.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I was like, we should not be allowed to drive
home right now.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
No, no, it's not safe.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Safe.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
One of the best parts of doing this podcast surprising,
but I guess unsurprising, especially with the new cast members.
We've learned so much about how Corey played this like
leadership role quietly with people, like taking time outside of
work to like grab sit down with coffee with people
(27:42):
or just make sure everybody's feeling safe and whatever. And
it's been really beautiful to hear. You got to work
with Corey a lot in the beginning. What was your
experience like with, you know, working with him and just
being his friend through all of this.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
He was a teddy bear, and I mean that in
a way of just his kindness and groundedness.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
In himself was so perfect. I just and he was
this tall, big brotherly.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Presence in all of our lives, and he was a
few years older than us, and he just felt so
safe and so equally excited about what he was getting
to experience. With his character, and his character had a
leadership position in the show as well. And I just
(28:42):
there was not an ungenerous bone in his body.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And I remember this one time that.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
He was having people swim in his backyard and my
brother had come down to San Francisco and he said, oh,
you know, you're squinting a lot. Do you not have
a pair of sunglasses or something like that. He was like, oh, no,
I don't. And it was like, you know what, come
with me, and he took him into his room. He's like,
these are all my sunglasses. Just take a pair. He
(29:13):
was like, oh no, okay, well I'll give him back
to you. And he's like, no, I want you to
take a pair that you want to take a comb
and now you have a pair of sunglasses. I just
that's who he was, always, always.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
It was so amazing to have I just Chris bumps
on my arms. I just I it's hard to.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Think of our loved ones from the show not being
with us anymore because they feel so present in my heart, body, mind,
sold all of it. Yes, And I think that the
tenderness that I feel and the memories that I have
and who you know, both Corey and Nya and Mark
(30:00):
were as people, as cast members, as our friends and family.
That's just so vivid and that will never dissipate for
me ever. And I think there's beauty in that, and
I think it's it's I just I could replay memory
(30:22):
after memory after memory. There's so and I in some
ways I feel bad because sometimes you could tell me, oh,
and then we shot this scene in this scene in
this episode here, and I wouldn't be able to tell
you that I remember that at all. Yeah, I think
that speaks to the volume of the work that we
(30:45):
were doing. And even I I rewatched the finale because
I know you guys aren't getting to the end because.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I didn't remember of us do you.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Opinion most of it? But that's not why I don't
remember it. I just there are so many fuzzy details.
But I'm so pleased, and it feels so pleasurable that
there are no fuzzy details as it relates to.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yes beautifully said, Yes, that's exactly right, Yes it is,
And yeah, I think we're all very fortunate. Those memories
are just stamped in there. It's like what number we
did on what day?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Who knows?
Speaker 7 (31:26):
Ye, Like I'll never forget Lucy kaboozy.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Oh I remember that little moment to what what is
your transition?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Jenna?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Here she goes, because her popularity is on the line again,
she must overcome.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
No, no, I didn't mean to swatch like that, but
I truly it's just you're so versatile in your life
and as Quinn, and it's so as Diana, and.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
The way I know you and we know you, and you.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Just you are just such a beautiful soul of like
no abandon like you just live where you are with
like such freeing energy and it's something that I've always
admired about you. And so with Quinn, all these things
you just took them with such grace and you just
went and committed so hard with these, you know, questionable
(32:21):
moments sometimes that you know, we all had with.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Our characters who were like, what what do I have
to do?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Okay, great, I'll make it work. And it's just so
it really does just speak to who you are and
what you gave to everybody.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
As one of the most requested guests on this show.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Oh yeah, We're like we need Diane, we need her her.
We're like, well, we need her. I need her.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I always need her, but we need her. And it's
just a testament to like what you gave to our
fans and our listeners and all the people out there
who you know, love the show and love your character
so deeply.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
This is I. I feel so.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Loved right now by the two of you, and I
really and I love you both so very deeply. And
I didn't understand I was going to receive so many
flowers to take this.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I feel learn yet balance. I just want to now
go into each of them.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
You're going to sit there and take it, take it,
take it, Okay you thank you?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, yeah, but so generous.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
I I really I feel very loved and cherished by
the two of you, and I just hope that you
know how deeply loved you both are in my heart, body, mind, soul,
all of it.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I just wow, it's okay, I get it. It's hard
to take.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Sometimes we do this weekly and we just don't on
our guests because we have to.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
People here us all the time.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
But they need to hear the testament to which we
speak about everybody and speak about the show. It is
nice to have you, guys as the test of walking testimonials,
like we're not making this up. It's not just Kevin
and Jenna making this up. Like everybody who comes on
speaks so such loving words about their time and about
the family and about what we built together. So we
(34:24):
are grateful that you guys come on and share your
experience and that it's it resonates and it feels like, oh, yeah,
we weren't crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Kevin and I weren't like the crazy one.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Sitting in the background like this is all great.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
We definitely well, we weren't always saying that no, no.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
We've been honest.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
But it's really beautiful that you've set the groundwork and
hold the space and can sew cleverly and beautifully articulate
the experience and really go through the ins and outs
it with so many different people on our show, because
I think that is how you build the landscape of
understanding is talking to people in front of the camera,
(35:06):
behind the camera.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
This was a group of people.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
But that's why I love making film and TV so much,
is you come together as a unit of people who
all are bringing their experience to the table and cares
about making something. To me, the making of the thing
is the best time you'll ever have. Yeah, if it
goes out into the world and it is well received. Sure,
(35:30):
that's a bonus that the making of a show is there.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Is no feeling like it and less doun alignment.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
But if it is a line everybody is joining together
in that kind of you know, grand and wonderful way
in which we did, then.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
You can't even explain it.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
You can't come home from set and give people the feeling,
even as descriptive is just you have to be there
and you have to experiencing it on the ground and
and that is just a huge life joy to be
a storyteller.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I need you to be in a leadership role on
the set.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Oh it's it's slowly coming together.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
But do you think so deeply and passionately about all
facets of filmmaking behind and in front of the camera
that hearing you speak about these things, that just makes
me want to see, like, what is a Diana production
you know, well.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Direct that we're putting together.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Now that it's been right, you know, it's like, I'm
that's been a couple of years in the making, because
sometimes things take a while to write and get and.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Do these things.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
But I really have been having so much fun building
things from the ground up.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
And writing and producing.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Things, and I've done in short form, not in long form,
and I just realized that I was so crave the
opportunity to do something that I had a hand in
the storytelling that wasn't a script that was coming to me,
and a couple of years ago I understood what that
story was and we built it.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I'm super proud of it. It's a really big film.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
It's a very big, ambitious landscape and film that's a
psychological thriller is very thrilling to me. Oh thanks, I
do think I'm writing something right now. I just finished
something that we're sending out to producers right now and
they're all very tonally different.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Uh. It was a rom.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Calmly, very British rom column that I just finished with
a friend of mine. This thing that I'm writing on
my own, it's like I'm writing it as a I'm
trying to write it as a book first and then
adapt to us weekly because I had so much to
say that I to build it out in a way
that felt honest and true. But I did realize in
(38:07):
the last couple of years that in order for me
to experience all the facets of joy that are within
me as a storyteller.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I couldn't just wait for the on set experiences.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
And honestly, I mean you days, Remember I always had
a camera on set.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I was always filming things together.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Do this.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I see the.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
World in frames, and I just again, I think back
on what I learned on Glee, and when I think
about Ryan as a visual storyteller that is so specific
with his references and tone and just gets it right.
I mean, there's a reason Ryan is able to do
(38:50):
what he does with such success. And I think cultivating
what those things are in your artistry is so fun
and so important because once you kind of start going
further into that lane, it's it's just intoxicating.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah, wow, this is why we need you.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
That's what I'm saying. She loves it, she loves it all,
she loves it deeply. You with that before we won't.
We don't want to hold you for too long, we know,
but where we ask everybody who comes on who's been
a part of the show, what is the feeling that
Glee leaves you with or left you with or continues
(39:30):
to leave you with.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I just have such tenderness for that show. It's a really.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Glee opened the doors to everything I've been able to
do in my creative life, absolutely everything. There would be
no path without that, And so it's just so delicate
and tender to me. It feels like the exact thing
I was searching for given to me at such a
(40:01):
young age. To be able to do that show with
all of you and find our family in that is
just it's joyful, it's tender, it's gleeful, it's you know too.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I just I really and the older I get, the more.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Kind of like protective I feel about our show because
I think that there have been so many opportunities for people.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I mean, we're the only ones that really know what
it was like.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
And I think that again, meeting people on the streets
who have to just light up and want to at
the base level just tell you that they love the
show or your character or whatever, and at a more
in depth level, really want to share with you a
specific reason why.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
And we had that then and the fact that we
still have that now. There aren't always experiences that you
have as a storyteller that dig so deeply into people's hearts. Yeah,
and I.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
I may not ever have a project that people feel
that strongly about that people lead to tether these these
like heart strings too and wrap them up tightly.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
And I think that's phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
I mean, if you can have one, two, three, but
if you have one that sits at the top this
with this amount of strength, yes, amazing because some.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Well don't have that.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Imagine we're just doing other projects that people are like.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I love the stunts that looked really hard, like yeah,
and that's fun and.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Thrilling too, But like the emotional connection that people have
the amount of time somebody's come up to us with
tears in their eyes.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Really have changed my life. Yeah, yeah, it's wild to me.
Speaker 4 (42:03):
But I had that feeling that that's what the show
is going to be when I read that pilot. That pilot,
I had goosebumps. When I finished it, I just hands
I knew if we were given the chance. I can't
believe they let you see footage and I love it delicious,
And I just it was that overhead angle of him
(42:25):
as well.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
She couldn't have shown.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Me a better clip totally, because there was something about
the sweetness and vulnerability that Finn, you know, his release
in that moment, his pure joy, I mean the soap
bar in his hand.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
It's so cute. It's the brush Cory.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
Yeah, I know, it's the dream. It's the dream, you know, the.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
So beautiful Justice For. I'm still standing in Quinn in
a wheelchair?
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Are you guys?
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Justice For? Do you know the Internet? I know we're leaving,
but I just need to know your thoughts on FABERI.
Do you know what FABERI is?
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Yes, now I do. That is Leah and I's characters
right together.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
People think you guys end up together or together?
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
What what the future? Yeah? What is your What are
your thoughts if you have any on that?
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Well, then what happens to Jesse Saint James?
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Yeah, maybe I'm into that?
Speaker 1 (43:40):
What a power couple? And then we both get directed
by him? Oh we're a director? Yes, yes, Oh, we
love this. We love it being more and more Emmy's
and Tony's.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Yes, he is taking over the world, and.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Quinn is her and Jesse they're entertainment lawyer, and she's
just really doing great deals for them, expanding their universes.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
What did she do with Yell? We don't know, we
don't know, we don't know.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
But she's a.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Power, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
She's in her power in the future in her throuble
with Jesse and Rachel.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
We love to hear it if it were thea Barry
What what was sa?
Speaker 2 (44:32):
I also forgot about Santana and Quinn's night together.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
A very special night in the hallway, and then having
special nights.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Toms kiss and make up. They said, I guess I was.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Like, this happened on the show.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
So much that we don't remember there is much What
would you say? What would you say?
Speaker 4 (45:01):
Is this one of the more silly, unimaginable thought twists
that you pointed and this recap.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
I don't know if this is cliche, and it's probably
because we just watched it. What Sue Sylvester in this
last season, Oh my god fully unhinged Jigsaw su jig
Saw Su comes out Jigsaw from Saw going to a
mini tricycle, locks curtain Blaine in an elevator because she
(45:34):
wants them to make up.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
She has a hurt locker, which is like a storage unit,
and she has a shrine, and she loves Clane and
she wants them to get back together.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
And she also has like a murder board basically of
all of us with you know, the yarn in between
connecting that very unhinged.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
Yeah, and then she's the president vice president of the
United States.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
That's exact naturally, naturally, that's how that goes.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Yeah, she marries herself, right.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Yeah, she marries herself in a track sue as a concept,
I think is the wildest part of the show.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
Honestly, I think that is absolutely correct. Yes, so necessary.
Speaker 7 (46:21):
I must have, Yeah, I must have.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
I think we did it.
Speaker 7 (46:25):
I think we did it.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
I opisually don't want it to end looking at your
beauty faces.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
Like, seriously, thank you so much for spending so much
time with us.
Speaker 7 (46:37):
It's getting dark. We got to see the light the
sunset behind you.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Need to go out and have dinner.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
We love you so much. I love you both so much.
Speaker 4 (46:48):
I'm also freaked out by how unchanged your faces are.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Now you kidding me, you're the most unchanged. Yeah, you
must know.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
You better believe. I have a nice filter on.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
Oh, I have the filter all the way turned up
on here, and your background is filtered.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
You've got a blur tunnel.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
But I also have my face is also blurred, not
a single pore.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, have a great summer.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
We love you so much, So nice and hopefully I
get to see you soon.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yes, I would love that very much. I r L
love you. I love you.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
Thank you so much to Diana for spending so much
time with us coming on the show.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
For all of you guys, it's so nice to hear.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
From her and also just to see her because I
feel like we text sometimes with her, but like to
actually see her in the flash is just.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
What a what a dream And we had to do
it big of course, so we had to get her
and it's she's so sweet and so kind for giving
us so much at the time and talking to us
about all of this, and it was nice for us.
You know, we don't always talk about all things Glee
when we're together.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Right, right.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
That is a good point, Kevin.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Times sometimes we'll like it'll come up, but we're like,
not always.
Speaker 7 (48:16):
It's not like the main point of like why we're connecting.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
So it's nice to be in a an insular.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Glee place, right.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
Okay, you guys, we have a few more Glee episodes
left for you before we leave Glee behind. Not all
of it, of course, but you know this this big part.
So next up is our series overview. We're doing favorites
from the entire show. Kevin, we have our homework.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Oh boy, we we we've.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Got it common and we're gonna we're gonna give it
to you.
Speaker 7 (48:45):
So tune in and that's what you're reading this.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Thanks Dana, thanks for listening, and follow us on Instagram
at and that's what you really miss pod. Make sure
to write us a review and leave us five stars.
See you next time.
And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Welcome to and that's what you really miss the podcast.
Welcome back for part two. It's Diana Week again. I mean,
who doesn't want more Diana. There's so much more to
talk about. There may even be a Feybury mention.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So you know some people have Shark Week, we have
Dana Aground Week.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
This is what we're doing, So get into it. Turn
up the volume and get ready for the sweet sounds
of Dana Agron's beautiful voice. This is part two with Dana.
The Unholy Trinity was one of the best parts of
the show. And your bond with like on camera and
(00:56):
off camera, with Heather and Nya and like you and
Iya obviously from the very beginning, Yeah, formed a bond
just because of exclusion. Yeah, and obviously that didn't last
long the exclusion. No, but that the relationship between the
three of you, and I think you know, the success
of the show, like you mentioned earlier, a lot of it,
(01:20):
I think, or some of it was due to the
fact that we all did naturally love each other and
have great chemistry. And the three of you also had
like your own special chemistry amongst each other. It's like
those cheerio uniforms and that high pony really did something
on camera together. But what like do you have any
(01:42):
you know, memories or thoughts about just like the three
of you, the unholy trinity, working together and doing so
many good numbers.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So I I those musical sequences like obviously we said
say a little prayer, but.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
What was it you and never get one? Oh no,
that was the tree of Us. But I love that
one very much.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Songs you Yeah, I just think there was something I
was not a cheerleader in high school. I was definitely
the ballet theater girl, yearbook staff.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You know that that was my role. But it was
very fun to step into this kind of very typically.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
American high school experience in that form and play this
you know, trio that just really gets to sit in
their power in the moments where they are powerful.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It did all quite stunning to try on that hat,
you know.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, and then all three of us became, you know,
expressed all versions of vulnerability, and you know that was
They didn't sit in that queen Bee triangle for very long.
But I do think there was something quite fun about
the sisterhood of us and that kind of triangular form
(03:13):
when it did express itself on set, and that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The costumes for all of us.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I mean, I remember very distinctly Ryan talking about his
creative decisions the sets and the wardrobe and him saying, yes,
this show takes place in Ohio, but this doesn't look
like Ohio. The colors are more saturated, there's not and
be more expressive. We don't need to understand why they
(03:42):
are able to afford this, it's just magical realism that's
coming through a little bit where this is kind of
both like their reality and the dream version of them.
So like, let's give them that lift. And I think
that is showcased in every thing that Ryan does. It's
if you're gonna make something that's hyper real, then you
(04:05):
have to adhere to those codes.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That was what our show was.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
And even with Lou wonderful Lou trying on what was
the exact skirt and length and color coms, how that
worked at the high ponytail and all of those things
that we really looked.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, Bay, I had an envision might have looked when
I read the.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Pilot and tailored to perfection.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I just I.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Loved the worlds that we inhibited in those ways our character,
and then I loved when we got to do Rocky
Were a picture show and oh yeah, Danna what we
were able to wear and how we were able to
express ourselves in those numbers. To me, anytime we went
really you know, much farther into the performance aspect, to me,
(04:56):
that was big joy.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know, it was particularly fun to watch you do
those things too. You could sound the joy, oh my god,
like radiating through our entire body. Whenever we got to
like play dress up even more you that camera came on,
you were doing all kinds of crazy and it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Great favorite.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I think Rocky Horror in particular, that to me was
dreaming one of my favorite episodes.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
To make for sure, and.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Just watching all of us the way we looked at
episode in just the camp aspect of those songs in
which we performed them.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I mean, if I were to go and watch one
episode tonight, that would.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Be the one.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I think.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It's a perfect episode. Yeah, it's so good. It also
felt like because that was the first time we did
something like that where it felt like we were actually
in school and we're doing something special. Because it was
so out of our normal routine.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yes, so true. Yes, that's very very.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Just one of those times where it really mimicked. It
felt like it was mimicking real life, which was Yeah.
You also got to work with Jane so much from
the very beginning, and we.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I know, and so lucky.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Jane is, obviously, you know me a legend and icon
and the anchor of this show. What was that like
stepping onto set and you had so much to do
with her?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I know, I've I've been blessed with many things in
my career, and I think the women that I've had,
and Jane first and foremost, that have been kind of my.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Guideposts in.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Duo relationship over time, has just been incredible. And with Jane,
I was such a fan of her work, especially I
mean her comedy.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I grew up watching Lucille.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Ball and to me that was I was just mesmerized
by that kind of comedy.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And Jane, to me, is our contemporary version of.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Somebody like Lucille Ball, so to walk or make choices
in front of me, okay, and just the dryness to
her delivery and I mean those lines that she had,
and especially when you could understand where it was being
ciphered from like everything that you kind of knew was Ian, yes,
exactly through j.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But and just the warmest you know. I think that
was the thing too. Every single cast.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Member that we had, both in our you know, stable
of like our core cast and then our guest stars
were so generous in the way that they could be
a rock and an anchor for us in scenes and.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Not make us feel inhibited.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
You know, we really I think we're so supported by
every member of cast and crew that have been.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Doing it for so much longer than we had.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, that's true. We were very lucky. I feel like
it's so rare you have that many big stars guest
stars come on the show and have big names like
Jane on a show and nobody sucked. It's like everybody
was great. Everyone was so nice and excited to be there. Oh,
Ricky Martin's ugly and so unkind, so unkind.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
No, but truly it.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You would think there would have there would have been
an awkward moment with somebody, but no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
No, And again I think that speaks to casting.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And you know, Ryan and Brad and Ian and Robert
really understanding what was going to play well in the
landscape and hand picking those people.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
But I do have.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Extreme pleasure points, like watching Kristin Chenowith with the watermelon
between her life. There are just moments that really ping
to me, as just like wanting to cry of laughter
having that done in front of you, like when it's
in character, as like when she was teaching outside of
(09:22):
you know, not singing, as like singing class and dressing
after hysterical, hysterical and historical figures. Yes, well, you know,
I just I I so appreciate the kind of play
we were able to.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Have and kind of what was being explored on that show.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And you know, some things didn't work as well as others,
but there was just gold.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Tomic two episodes. You know it's not going to win
them all.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, No, seven hundred musical numbers can't can't get them all, right, just.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Like the little digs, the little like quips, there were
so many, even pet bird like hype in man Hands, you.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Know so good.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
One of the best things on this show ever, is
the fight between you and Aya.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Tighten your pony before you head back to class.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yes, oh, do you remember filming that.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
By you do?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Because I remember it was the first time I had
had kind of a physical combative scene and not wanting
to hurt my friend, but wanting it to look real,
and also having the sense of like, didn't like.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Push me, you know, and she's like, we'll push me real,
and so trying to find that line of of being
you know, really real.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It looked.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Her and then you know, Matt Morrison coming in, break
it up, Break it up. Oh but I mean I
had been slapped on that show.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I've slapped people, and then I mean when I slapped
Leah in the bathroom during the wrong episode, she was
very adamant that I must slap her. And and you know,
being slapped is one thing because you think, oh, I
can take it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That slab thing somebody else is.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
A whole different ceiling because you're gonna you know, it
just doesn't feel.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Right, it doesn't sit right.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You don't want to hurt somebody.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
No, but then you.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Want to look really And I guess that's the thing
with acting, is everything that you do. I mean, I
did this psychological thriller where in the script there were
so many things like she eats the raw egg, she
hangs out of the building, she does this stuff, and
the director was like, oh, Dana, you can't actually do that.
We're gonna get like a prop egg, raw egg, and
(11:58):
if that's not gonna look real, and you know, our
like wonderful props member comes up and shows this like
very weird composed of it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Look real, and like, I'm just gonna swallow the raw
egg and she was like, well, then you're gonna have
to split it spit out. I was like, but then
you're not gonna see me swallow.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
And we're constantly finding the ways in which you know,
how many times do we get slush sheet?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I think I only got slusheed once.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But people got slusheed a lot, and you just have
to do the thing, yeah, you know, and if it's
not gonna kill you, then you know, and if.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's only mildly dangerous, then.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It feels exciting because it's like you're getting permission to
like be that little kid playing dress up and using
your imagination like excuse to eat eat egg now? Yeah,
and I'm gonna get paid for it.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Whole debate was like, well you can get salmonilla.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I was like that if I was a bodybuilder like
Arnold Schwarzenegger, I would will you be doing them every
day and she was like, there was was that a rumor?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I was like, no, people do that.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
They eat raw eggs, we eat raw fish, we eat
raw a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, did you eat the rye?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I had to swallow like three of them and then
it was like, oh, now we need to do a
different angle. So I think at the end it was
like six raw eggs. And our director was so upset
about it. I was like, you wrote it in the script.
I She's like, but I didn't want you to actually have
to do it. I was like, well, you wrote it.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I did it.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Yeah, she's probably please, I'll let Diane get sick.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm just not the next day like green, holy sick. Honestly,
we've done crazier things.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
AG.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
That's just well.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And also we've worked through being sickly, so it's well.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Never have I ever been more sick than when we
were filming Thriller.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Thriller.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, the super Bowl episode got all of us.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Never forget it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I was had the flu and I had.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I'll forget it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
We just have all the rhyming things and a fellow
I'll never forget it.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I don't forget that too, because what.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Were we going to do postpone and like that location,
all those extras.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
There was one time that Kevin was so sick on
the field. It was like one of those four days
that we were filming. It wasn't the overnight one, but
he's in his football outfit and I'm standing next to
him and we're doing a scene and I looked down
and it's not Kevin.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Oh who had a standing like maybe it was j
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It was a body double that they had found was
like just close enough to Kevin's build that they put
him in a helmet and just put him.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Next to me because he was sleeping in the trailers.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I was so mad. I was like, you're really going
to make me drive down the long beach of one
hundred and two and a half fever.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, we did it. Yeah, and then ride yourself back.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I was so happy that day. I was sad you
were sick. But they're like, Okay, now Dana has tonsilightest,
We're going to take it in turns in Like thank you, Diana. Yeah,
just taking one for the team.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
So sick, But guess that was the thing about working
that many hours. You just stop one tumble cast. You
just sometimes you're going to be sick. And I mean,
I definitely know. There were so many moments where they
were as you mentioned, like put somebody else in, try
(15:35):
to navigate around it, try to minimize the amount of
hours that you were on set to you know, be
kinder to the situation. But then there's only a certain
amount of strategy to that, and then sometimes you're just
gonna yeah, put your best happy face on it. Just
don't get work, make it work, sir.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
One of my favorite mashups we ever did was I
feel pretty unpretty.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Oh oh, I still listened to it.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Often expends me joy and oh, oh good. Did you
like recording in the studio?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Oh was that something that you knew or were familiar with,
because it was brand new to me.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, it was branded too.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I had never done it before in my life, and
and the very first time was was for say a
little prayer.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And I remember because as you.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Can hear in my speaking voice, my natural register is
low and I definitely wasn't speaking like that as Quinn.
I guess this makes sense that you know you're a
younger person, you're playing younger characters, and also probably I
just wasn't as comfortable speaking in you know, this voice,
(16:58):
and so because she's spoke very high and had this tone,
that's how she's sang as well. And I don't know
how it was for you guys that Adam Anders. I
did not record with Adam and the pilot.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Did you guys record with Adam? Was Adam a part
of Okay?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Like the first thirteen I recorded with Adam a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Jimmy Kay, Yeah, yes.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
So it was just such a learning curve because it
was so much higher than I anticipated singing. And then
just understanding, you know, how to make your voice work
to the best of its ability, when you swallow, when
you take a breath, when you do these things, and
like if there's too much moisture in your mouth, what
(17:41):
that sounds like. There's a whole art of learning to
sing in a recording studio, and I did not know
any of that. So I think that it was a
very quick learning curve. But I went home from that
first recording recording session thinking, oh, no, I'm really bad
(18:04):
at this and I'm just not gonna sing again in
the show. They'll just make Quinn kind of music.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
To being a recording artist.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Totally and now, I mean it's it's fun understanding. Like
recently I've been doing some work in the recording studio
that's singing, not you know, because as actors, I mean
talk about how wild for a slight diversion that we
never had to do a dr because of Brilliant.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
We had Philip on the podcast and.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
A master because you know, typically you would have to
do all that all the time. But but yeah, recently
I've been doing music in the recording studio and then
and it makes me feel proud that we learned so
much on this show. Oh, I mean we cut our
(19:01):
teeth in every aspect of storytelling.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, dancing and singing, the.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Langurs, everything ethic, Yeah, yes, so many hours and like
learning camera work and movements at what kind of drive
storylines forward? It is just it really was a masterclass
in how to be a participant in a very vivid
(19:31):
and larger than life world, how to take that into
the real world and to communicate what your authenticity is.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Who you are. Also, how wild that we were discovering
who we were.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Publicly so unfacing and such age Like we really had
a lot to handle those regards.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yes, I don't think we I didn't at least realize
like that was the period of our life that we
were in. Yes, and then you all of a sudden
have success. We're making more money than we've probably ever
made before, and people know us, and so it's a
very strange, Like we were all very safe with each other.
I think that's also probably why we were so close,
(20:18):
because we could find that commonality amongst ourselves. Yeah, and
it was so strange to like view each other like
what would happen outside of our little group, you know,
like who people are dating, or like even like where
are you going on vacation? Like everything felt like who
are we now? Outside of each other because the people
(20:39):
we were before the show is very different well situation,
like we're in a completely different part spot in our lives. Yeah,
and it was I felt like we were so lucky
to have each other and that to grow together.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
God bless. I can't imagine doing that alone or doing
that as a solo artist of some sort.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Right, So I would think about that a lot during
that show. I was like, I am so happy. It
is such a large.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Cast, But we were such kids and we thought we
were fully independent young adults.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yes, we did so in our minds.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
We were fully functioning adults in that place. But really
now looking back at it now, I'm barely learning who
I am and accepting all of that. To look back
at that time and go, oh my god, we were
looking for all of this external praise and you know,
(21:35):
acceptance in addition to our just figuring out who we
are without all of that, you know, or people do
that at that formative time.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But thank god we had each other.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I just remember we were at our first TCAs and
we were at Ruby Foo's and we were talking about
we went around the tables like saying what.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
We were for.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
We love to do that, We love to go around
the table.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, And the paparazzi was so crazy, right, and we
were like, we're just gonna hold hands and freak them
out and make them think we're really weird. And we
walked into the hotel holding hands in linked arms and.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
We were really weird. We No, That's the thing, the.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Sweetest thing I think I've ever.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It's like one of us very fond memories I have
of being like we are in this together and we're
gonna freak everybody else out.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, yeah, you know, Yeah, I'm still weird.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Just getting weirder. We're just getting weirder over here.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yes, it's just choking itself into different forms.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah, I I I.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Think that's maybe. Additionally, why.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
When anyone sees more than one of us together in
real life it feels charming because it is one kind of.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I guess you would hope for for people who have
worked together that intensely retain a love in a friendship.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
And and it's I mean talk about when we were
traveling in group form. Uh, yes, that was some of
the wildest.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I've never been grabbed so many times by mothers. It
was always mothers.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yes, the continues today, you're grabbed by that mother.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
That's right. I know. It was a gentle.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Changed yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, I just hum.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
We were kind of this phenomenon situation airport. That's when
I really remember the most nuts.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
There's nowhere to.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And I doing the airport. Would be so wild to
see a whole cast at some thing TV walking through
the airport at the same time together.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yes, yeah, I would be freaked out too if I
saw that, I would show I loved you, like, oh
my god, you're all the.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Kettle well here, Yeah, yeah, I get that. I get that.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Speaking of all the success of the show and like
how we dealt with it, Another thing lesson I think
I learned from you is you are really good with people.
You're excellent with people. You're in like work settings that
can feel sort of gross and schmoozy and what like
an obligation as opposed to finding some joy in it.
(24:42):
You really walk the line in those situations of you know,
so like, yes, this is all silly and whatever, but
also finding like real connection in that with people, and
you get I mean, there's not a person that doesn't
like you, like you get along with everybody, And I
think that's such a It's not you're not putting it on.
You are just genuinely extremely nice and likable. But I
(25:05):
think being able to have someone like you in our
group to watch move through those situations was a huge
bonus for us because it's taught us those things by example.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
That is such a kind thing to say, especially hearing
it from two people that I find to be the
kindest people and assmates ever.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So I would like to return that compliment to the
book of you.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I think that's I think that's how you have to
be though in this industry, you have to really understand that,
like kindness is key, and you will continue to work
with different people at different chapter's life and you don't
always know when it's going to happen, but why not
do it? Which is great leadership and participation and like
(25:55):
make everybody feel good at work.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
That doesn't everybody want to do that right to work?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, but I mean like sometimes you know, like we'd
be tired, or like you never had a moment really
where you slipped, you know, or like I would have
a day I've.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Had some moment before I've slipped on the floor.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I just I can't Diana just flopping forward.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
It is just so hard and I am so.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
That was so rough.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I just remember it so vividly because I just wanted
to get there. I was so tired, and I was like,
oh you want us on stage?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, here we go. I'm running And then I ripped
on that carpet and I had a huge rug burns
her dress.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
She face flopped forward, I saw her hands go.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Never forget that that moment.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
It was like after a full day of filming like
sectionals or regionals, and they wanted us on stage for
her fall and we were like, please, let us just
go home.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Go.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, and now Dan has injured herself.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Tripped, she stripped. Some of those long beach nights were
so late, and you are just let me go home.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I was like, we should not be allowed to drive
home right now.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
No, no, it's not safe.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Safe.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
One of the best parts of doing this podcast surprising,
but I guess unsurprising, especially with the new cast members.
We've learned so much about how Corey played this like
leadership role quietly with people, like taking time outside of
work to like grab sit down with coffee with people
(27:42):
or just make sure everybody's feeling safe and whatever. And
it's been really beautiful to hear. You got to work
with Corey a lot in the beginning. What was your
experience like with, you know, working with him and just
being his friend through all of this.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
He was a teddy bear, and I mean that in
a way of just his kindness and groundedness.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
In himself was so perfect. I just and he was
this tall, big brotherly.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Presence in all of our lives, and he was a
few years older than us, and he just felt so
safe and so equally excited about what he was getting
to experience. With his character, and his character had a
leadership position in the show as well. And I just
(28:42):
there was not an ungenerous bone in his body.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And I remember this one time that.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
He was having people swim in his backyard and my
brother had come down to San Francisco and he said, oh,
you know, you're squinting a lot. Do you not have
a pair of sunglasses or something like that. He was like, oh, no,
I don't. And it was like, you know what, come
with me, and he took him into his room. He's like,
these are all my sunglasses. Just take a pair. He
(29:13):
was like, oh no, okay, well I'll give him back
to you. And he's like, no, I want you to
take a pair that you want to take a comb
and now you have a pair of sunglasses. I just
that's who he was, always, always.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
It was so amazing to have I just Chris bumps
on my arms. I just I it's hard to.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Think of our loved ones from the show not being
with us anymore because they feel so present in my heart, body, mind,
sold all of it. Yes, And I think that the
tenderness that I feel and the memories that I have
and who you know, both Corey and Nya and Mark
(30:00):
were as people, as cast members, as our friends and family.
That's just so vivid and that will never dissipate for
me ever. And I think there's beauty in that, and
I think it's it's I just I could replay memory
(30:22):
after memory after memory. There's so and I in some
ways I feel bad because sometimes you could tell me, oh,
and then we shot this scene in this scene in
this episode here, and I wouldn't be able to tell
you that I remember that at all. Yeah, I think
that speaks to the volume of the work that we
(30:45):
were doing. And even I I rewatched the finale because
I know you guys aren't getting to the end because.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I didn't remember of us do you.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Opinion most of it? But that's not why I don't
remember it. I just there are so many fuzzy details.
But I'm so pleased, and it feels so pleasurable that
there are no fuzzy details as it relates to.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yes beautifully said, Yes, that's exactly right, Yes it is,
And yeah, I think we're all very fortunate. Those memories
are just stamped in there. It's like what number we
did on what day?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Who knows?
Speaker 7 (31:26):
Ye, Like I'll never forget Lucy kaboozy.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Oh I remember that little moment to what what is
your transition?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Jenna?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Here she goes, because her popularity is on the line again,
she must overcome.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
No, no, I didn't mean to swatch like that, but
I truly it's just you're so versatile in your life
and as Quinn, and it's so as Diana, and.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
The way I know you and we know you, and you.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Just you are just such a beautiful soul of like
no abandon like you just live where you are with
like such freeing energy and it's something that I've always
admired about you. And so with Quinn, all these things
you just took them with such grace and you just
went and committed so hard with these, you know, questionable
(32:21):
moments sometimes that you know, we all had with.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Our characters who were like, what what do I have
to do?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Okay, great, I'll make it work. And it's just so
it really does just speak to who you are and
what you gave to everybody.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
As one of the most requested guests on this show.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Oh yeah, We're like we need Diane, we need her her.
We're like, well, we need her. I need her.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I always need her, but we need her. And it's
just a testament to like what you gave to our
fans and our listeners and all the people out there
who you know, love the show and love your character
so deeply.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
This is I. I feel so.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Loved right now by the two of you, and I
really and I love you both so very deeply. And
I didn't understand I was going to receive so many
flowers to take this.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I feel learn yet balance. I just want to now
go into each of them.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
You're going to sit there and take it, take it,
take it, Okay you thank you?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, yeah, but so generous.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
I I really I feel very loved and cherished by
the two of you, and I just hope that you
know how deeply loved you both are in my heart, body, mind, soul,
all of it.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I just wow, it's okay, I get it. It's hard
to take.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Sometimes we do this weekly and we just don't on
our guests because we have to.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
People here us all the time.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
But they need to hear the testament to which we
speak about everybody and speak about the show. It is
nice to have you, guys as the test of walking testimonials,
like we're not making this up. It's not just Kevin
and Jenna making this up. Like everybody who comes on
speaks so such loving words about their time and about
the family and about what we built together. So we
(34:24):
are grateful that you guys come on and share your
experience and that it's it resonates and it feels like, oh, yeah,
we weren't crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Kevin and I weren't like the crazy one.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Sitting in the background like this is all great.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
We definitely well, we weren't always saying that no, no.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
We've been honest.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
But it's really beautiful that you've set the groundwork and
hold the space and can sew cleverly and beautifully articulate
the experience and really go through the ins and outs
it with so many different people on our show, because
I think that is how you build the landscape of
understanding is talking to people in front of the camera,
(35:06):
behind the camera.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
This was a group of people.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
But that's why I love making film and TV so much,
is you come together as a unit of people who
all are bringing their experience to the table and cares
about making something. To me, the making of the thing
is the best time you'll ever have. Yeah, if it
goes out into the world and it is well received. Sure,
(35:30):
that's a bonus that the making of a show is there.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Is no feeling like it and less doun alignment.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
But if it is a line everybody is joining together
in that kind of you know, grand and wonderful way
in which we did, then.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
You can't even explain it.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
You can't come home from set and give people the feeling,
even as descriptive is just you have to be there
and you have to experiencing it on the ground and
and that is just a huge life joy to be
a storyteller.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I need you to be in a leadership role on
the set.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Oh it's it's slowly coming together.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
But do you think so deeply and passionately about all
facets of filmmaking behind and in front of the camera
that hearing you speak about these things, that just makes
me want to see, like, what is a Diana production
you know, well.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Direct that we're putting together.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Now that it's been right, you know, it's like, I'm
that's been a couple of years in the making, because
sometimes things take a while to write and get and.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Do these things.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
But I really have been having so much fun building
things from the ground up.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
And writing and producing.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Things, and I've done in short form, not in long form,
and I just realized that I was so crave the
opportunity to do something that I had a hand in
the storytelling that wasn't a script that was coming to me,
and a couple of years ago I understood what that
story was and we built it.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I'm super proud of it. It's a really big film.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
It's a very big, ambitious landscape and film that's a
psychological thriller is very thrilling to me. Oh thanks, I
do think I'm writing something right now. I just finished
something that we're sending out to producers right now and
they're all very tonally different.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Uh. It was a rom.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Calmly, very British rom column that I just finished with
a friend of mine. This thing that I'm writing on
my own, it's like I'm writing it as a I'm
trying to write it as a book first and then
adapt to us weekly because I had so much to
say that I to build it out in a way
that felt honest and true. But I did realize in
(38:07):
the last couple of years that in order for me
to experience all the facets of joy that are within
me as a storyteller.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I couldn't just wait for the on set experiences.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
And honestly, I mean you days, Remember I always had
a camera on set.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I was always filming things together.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Do this.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I see the.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
World in frames, and I just again, I think back
on what I learned on Glee, and when I think
about Ryan as a visual storyteller that is so specific
with his references and tone and just gets it right.
I mean, there's a reason Ryan is able to do
(38:50):
what he does with such success. And I think cultivating
what those things are in your artistry is so fun
and so important because once you kind of start going
further into that lane, it's it's just intoxicating.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah, wow, this is why we need you.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
That's what I'm saying. She loves it, she loves it all,
she loves it deeply. You with that before we won't.
We don't want to hold you for too long, we know,
but where we ask everybody who comes on who's been
a part of the show, what is the feeling that
Glee leaves you with or left you with or continues
(39:30):
to leave you with.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I just have such tenderness for that show. It's a really.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Glee opened the doors to everything I've been able to
do in my creative life, absolutely everything. There would be
no path without that, And so it's just so delicate
and tender to me. It feels like the exact thing
I was searching for given to me at such a
(40:01):
young age. To be able to do that show with
all of you and find our family in that is
just it's joyful, it's tender, it's gleeful, it's you know too.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I just I really and the older I get, the more.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Kind of like protective I feel about our show because
I think that there have been so many opportunities for people.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I mean, we're the only ones that really know what
it was like.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
And I think that again, meeting people on the streets
who have to just light up and want to at
the base level just tell you that they love the
show or your character or whatever, and at a more
in depth level, really want to share with you a
specific reason why.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
And we had that then and the fact that we
still have that now. There aren't always experiences that you
have as a storyteller that dig so deeply into people's hearts. Yeah,
and I.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
I may not ever have a project that people feel
that strongly about that people lead to tether these these
like heart strings too and wrap them up tightly.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
And I think that's phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
I mean, if you can have one, two, three, but
if you have one that sits at the top this
with this amount of strength, yes, amazing because some.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Well don't have that.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Imagine we're just doing other projects that people are like.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I love the stunts that looked really hard, like yeah,
and that's fun and.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Thrilling too, But like the emotional connection that people have
the amount of time somebody's come up to us with
tears in their eyes.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Really have changed my life. Yeah, yeah, it's wild to me.
Speaker 4 (42:03):
But I had that feeling that that's what the show
is going to be when I read that pilot. That pilot,
I had goosebumps. When I finished it, I just hands
I knew if we were given the chance. I can't
believe they let you see footage and I love it delicious,
And I just it was that overhead angle of him
(42:25):
as well.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
She couldn't have shown.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Me a better clip totally, because there was something about
the sweetness and vulnerability that Finn, you know, his release
in that moment, his pure joy, I mean the soap
bar in his hand.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
It's so cute. It's the brush Cory.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
Yeah, I know, it's the dream. It's the dream, you know, the.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
So beautiful Justice For. I'm still standing in Quinn in
a wheelchair?
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Are you guys?
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Justice For? Do you know the Internet? I know we're leaving,
but I just need to know your thoughts on FABERI.
Do you know what FABERI is?
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Yes, now I do. That is Leah and I's characters
right together.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
People think you guys end up together or together?
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
What what the future? Yeah? What is your What are
your thoughts if you have any on that?
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Well, then what happens to Jesse Saint James?
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Yeah, maybe I'm into that?
Speaker 1 (43:40):
What a power couple? And then we both get directed
by him? Oh we're a director? Yes, yes, Oh, we
love this. We love it being more and more Emmy's
and Tony's.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Yes, he is taking over the world, and.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Quinn is her and Jesse they're entertainment lawyer, and she's
just really doing great deals for them, expanding their universes.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
What did she do with Yell? We don't know, we
don't know, we don't know.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
But she's a.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Power, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
She's in her power in the future in her throuble
with Jesse and Rachel.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
We love to hear it if it were thea Barry
What what was sa?
Speaker 2 (44:32):
I also forgot about Santana and Quinn's night together.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
A very special night in the hallway, and then having
special nights.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Toms kiss and make up. They said, I guess I was.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Like, this happened on the show.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
So much that we don't remember there is much What
would you say? What would you say?
Speaker 4 (45:01):
Is this one of the more silly, unimaginable thought twists
that you pointed and this recap.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
I don't know if this is cliche, and it's probably
because we just watched it. What Sue Sylvester in this
last season, Oh my god fully unhinged Jigsaw su jig
Saw Su comes out Jigsaw from Saw going to a
mini tricycle, locks curtain Blaine in an elevator because she
(45:34):
wants them to make up.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
She has a hurt locker, which is like a storage unit,
and she has a shrine, and she loves Clane and
she wants them to get back together.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
And she also has like a murder board basically of
all of us with you know, the yarn in between
connecting that very unhinged.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
Yeah, and then she's the president vice president of the
United States.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
That's exact naturally, naturally, that's how that goes.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Yeah, she marries herself, right.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Yeah, she marries herself in a track sue as a concept,
I think is the wildest part of the show.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
Honestly, I think that is absolutely correct. Yes, so necessary.
Speaker 7 (46:21):
I must have, Yeah, I must have.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
I think we did it.
Speaker 7 (46:25):
I think we did it.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
I opisually don't want it to end looking at your
beauty faces.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
Like, seriously, thank you so much for spending so much
time with us.
Speaker 7 (46:37):
It's getting dark. We got to see the light the
sunset behind you.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Need to go out and have dinner.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
We love you so much. I love you both so much.
Speaker 4 (46:48):
I'm also freaked out by how unchanged your faces are.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Now you kidding me, you're the most unchanged. Yeah, you
must know.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
You better believe. I have a nice filter on.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
Oh, I have the filter all the way turned up
on here, and your background is filtered.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
You've got a blur tunnel.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
But I also have my face is also blurred, not
a single pore.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, have a great summer.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
We love you so much, So nice and hopefully I
get to see you soon.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yes, I would love that very much. I r L
love you. I love you.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
Thank you so much to Diana for spending so much
time with us coming on the show.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
For all of you guys, it's so nice to hear.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
From her and also just to see her because I
feel like we text sometimes with her, but like to
actually see her in the flash is just.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
What a what a dream And we had to do
it big of course, so we had to get her
and it's she's so sweet and so kind for giving
us so much at the time and talking to us
about all of this, and it was nice for us.
You know, we don't always talk about all things Glee
when we're together.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Right, right.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
That is a good point, Kevin.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Times sometimes we'll like it'll come up, but we're like,
not always.
Speaker 7 (48:16):
It's not like the main point of like why we're connecting.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
So it's nice to be in a an insular.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Glee place, right.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
Okay, you guys, we have a few more Glee episodes
left for you before we leave Glee behind. Not all
of it, of course, but you know this this big part.
So next up is our series overview. We're doing favorites
from the entire show. Kevin, we have our homework.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Oh boy, we we we've.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Got it common and we're gonna we're gonna give it
to you.
Speaker 7 (48:45):
So tune in and that's what you're reading this.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Thanks Dana, thanks for listening, and follow us on Instagram
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See you next time.
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Jenna Ushkowitz
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