In the Philadelphia area doing an appearance at The Gleek Tour, Glee stars Amber Riley (who plays Mercedes on the show) and Chris Colfher (who plays Kurt) stopped by Good Day Philadelphia to sit down with their host for an interview promoting the show. The two of them pointed out that the Glee premiere is going to be 09/09/09 at 9, and went on to answer questions about whether their real personalities match those of their characters, and about the craziness that has ensued since the show began its quick rise to popularity.
Actress Jane Lynch (who plays Sue Sylvester on Glee) is featured along with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in the now-in-theaters movie Julie & Julia. Lynch plays Dorothy McWilliams, Julia Child’s sister. The movie follows character Julie Powell who documents her way as she cooks every single one of the recipes in Julia Child’s cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The film also tells the story of the time Julia Child spent in France during the 1940′s with her husband, and is based on two books – My Life in France by Julia Child, and Julie and Julia (My Year of Cooking Dangerously) by Julie Powell.
In this new video shared with us via the Official Glee MySpace page we get some new clips of the Glee cast performing Gold Digger. Matthew Morrison discusses his characters own personal gold digger, his wife and how it relates to why the song was chosen for the show. We also get to hear Morrison rapping along to the song, and sounding pretty good! Did you know that he was able to rap? Neither did most of his co-stars! Amber Riley, Kevin Cory Monteith all stated in interviews that they were surprised at his rapping ability, while Lea Michele who said she wasn’t surprised at all.
Glee – described by many as an edgier, more adult version of High School Musical is a one hour musical comedy series that is set to air September 9, 2009 at 9:00 EST on Fox. The show follows Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) a Spanish teacher at the fictional McKinnley High, who sets out to transform the Glee Club to it’s former glory and to help it’s members utilize their talent and realize their potential.
The Glee Club is made of up of Rachael Berry (Lea Michele) a talented over achiever set on making it big (think Elections Tracy Flick but with aspirations to become a singer), Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) football player turned Glee Club member, Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley) as the wants-to-be-a-leading-lady diva, Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale) a wheel chair bound electric guitar playing nerdy kid, Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) the Mr Cellophane singing soprano that gets bullied by the football team, and Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz) the studdering Asian Goth girl.
If you didn’t get a chance to catch the seasons pilot episode that premiered after American Idol back in May have no fear as Fox, Hulu, and Fancast all have the episode available for your viewing pleasure. For more information and a full cast listing for the show, be sure to visit our Glee Cast page above.
