Amber Riley revealed that she put her foot down when Glee writers crafted a intercourse scene for her character Mercedes Jones.
“There was presupposed to be an episode the place she misplaced her virginity to Sam [Chord Overstreet] and I advised [executive producer] Brad [Falchuk], ‘Completely not,” Riley, 38, revealed through the Thursday, February 29, episode of “And That’s What You REALLY Missed” podcast.
“He gave me the blue pages [where it] was written and I stated, ‘No,” she added of the stunning storyline.
Riley’s former costars Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale, who’re the hosts of the Glee recap podcast, laughed in shock as they heard the behind-the-scenes scoop that they’d no concept went down through the time.
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“[Brad] stated, ‘OK, effectively what if as an alternative of…’ as a result of it was like a full-blown scene that I stated, ‘I’m not doing it.’ He stated, ‘Properly, what if we simply you recognize, have you ever guys maintain fingers and stroll into the room after which like shut the door?’”
Riley remembered not being impressed by the choice angle pitched to her, saying she shot down that concept too. “I used to be like, ‘No.”
McHale, 35, praised Riley for her actions on the time, saying, “Wonderful. Respect.”
Riley continued to element the storyline’s scenario additional, explaining that it was one thing she couldn’t get behind.
“I stated, ‘I’m not doing it. I don’t ever let you know guys ‘no.’ I don’t struggle about something… However, this?!?’”
The actress went on to say there have been a number of the reason why she wasn’t a fan of that specific course the present needed her character to go in.
“It simply would have been so awkward, and I really feel like it might have learn awkward,” she said. “I additionally simply really feel like, yeah, it wasn’t what my character would have finished. I simply didn’t really feel that approach.”
On season 5 of Glee, Mercedes had declared that she wasn’t able to have intercourse and needed to attend for marriage, and Riley felt her character “ought to stick with her weapons.”
The hosts applauded her and talked about the way it’s vital to choose your battles when engaged on units, to which Riley replied, “I picked it.”
Regardless of that one state of affairs, Riley stated trying again now, she cherished appearing alongside Overstreet, now 35, and she or he has no different unhealthy recollections when it got here to the sitcom’s script.
“Chord [was] candy,” she opened up. “He’s simply so candy. It was very a lot so like his character. He’s like boy Bambi.”
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Nonetheless, the actress did confess that she was nervous at first to be in an onscreen relationship with Overstreet.
“It was my first relationship on TV,” she clarified. “I used to be at all times the sort of one that on the whole was very career-focused and pushed. I didn’t date quite a bit on the whole, so, like, dwelling that out on tv was awkward. It was so awkward at first, and then you definately don’t know what the opposite individual is pondering and what they really feel. And, like, additionally being like a much bigger woman on tv, you’re not essentially at all times proven in one of the best gentle in relationships, and also you’re like, ‘The place’s this going to go?’ So we did find yourself having to have these sort of conversations of the place the story was going to go as a result of, you recognize, with our characters, we had been very delicate however protecting about these characters as a result of [they] imply a lot to so many individuals. So that you wanna sort of defend that, and I feel they did a superb job. I feel they did a very nice job [with] even displaying highschool relationships [because] they’re not that deep. They’re very surface-level, you recognize what I’m saying? Folks don’t actually keep collectively after highschool, they usually change into totally different folks they usually develop and all of these issues.”
Glee first premiered on Fox in 2009 and went on to air till 2015. Riley appeared on the sequence as a fundamental solid member for each season, besides season 5, the place she was a visitor star.
