“Heart” Press Release
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CUPID DESCENDS ON MCKINLEY HIGH ON AN ALL-NEW “GLEE” TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, ON FOX
Jeff Goldblum (“Jurassic Park”) and Brian Stokes Mitchell (“Kiss Me, Kate”) Guest-Star
In honor of Valentine’s Day, Will challenges the New Directions to find and perform the world’s greatest love songs. Meanwhile, Rachel’s two dads Hiram (Jeff Goldblum) and LeRoy Berry (Brian Stokes Mitchell) pay a visit to McKinley High in the all-new “Heart” episode of GLEE airing Tuesday, Feb. 14th (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GLE-313) (TV-14 D, L, S)
Cast: Matthew Morrison as Will Schuester; Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester; Lea Michele as Rachel Berry; Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson; Jayma Mays as Emma Pillsbury; Dianna Agron as Quinn; Chris Colfer as Kurt; Kevin McHale as Artie; Amber Riley as Mercedes; Mark Salling as Puck;. Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina; Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez; Heather Morris as Brittany; Harry Shum as Mike Chang and Darren Criss as Blaine Anderson.
Guest Cast: Chord Overstreet as Sam Evans; Damian McGinty as Rory Flanagan; Vanessa Lengies as Sugar Motta, Jeff Goldblum as Hiram Berry, Brian Stokes Mitchell as LeRoy Berry.
Source: Fox Publicity
Matt Bomer Poised to Play Blaine’s Brother
Apparently, pretty runs in Blaine’s family: White Collar hunk Matt Bomer is nearing a deal to guest-star in an April episode of Gleeas the Warbler’s older brother, TVLine has learned exclusively.
This is big for a number of reasons. Among them: Since this will be the first time we meet any of the other Andersons, we might finally learn a bit about Blaine’s apparently gorgeous kin.
This will also be the first time a lot of people will get to hear Bomer sing — because yes, natch, his character will get in on his sib’s musical number.
It seems the soap grad is something of a new muse for Glee creator Ryan Murphy: He’s also just cast Bomer in his in-the-works film adaptation of Larry Kramer’s play, The Normal Heart.
Brian Stokes Mitchell Talks ‘Glee’
From Brian’s official site…
“So I’m walking down Broadway last Monday and I pass a “Glee” poster. Two things crossed my mind when I looked at it: 1. what a phenomenon the show has become and 2. It seems that hardly a day goes by without someone asking me or emailing me: “When are you going to be on “Glee”? I got home and it wasn’t more than a couple hours later that my agent at Paradigm, Sarah Fargo, calls me to say I have been offered the part of one of Rachel’s 2 dads on the show.
I asked if she had any info on the role, but she didn’t as they were still writing it and because they are super secretive about the show so they won’t release any info until absolutely necessary. The “Dads” have been referred to constantly throughout the show’s run and lots of fans have been wondering when they would be revealed.
Blindly but trusting, I said “Yes!” and the next day was on a plane headed for LA. I got my script when I got to the hotel in the evening, sat down and read it over dinner and cracked up.
I couldn’t say much about the show because it is good form to let the company make the announcements, but the next morning when I got up it was already all over the internet.
I went to the studio for my costume fitting and to go over some music with the other dad, Jeff Goldblum who I had worked with before. Back that evening to study lines for the next days scenes and up for an early call.
It was especially terrific seeing Lea Michele, who is my “daughter” on the show. We gave each other big hugs in the makeup trailer as we were getting ready for the day. Lea and I go way back to when when was about 8 years old starting in the Toronto production of “Ragtime” – I was “Coalhouse Walker” and she was Tateh’s “Little Girl”.
I’ve gotten to watch her grow in maturity and roles on Broadway in “Spring Awakening” and also the revival of “Fiddler on The Roof” In 2008, we were reunited once again at the Hollywood Bowl in the Summer production of “Les Miserables” (She was Eponine and I, Javert). I know Lea probably had more than a little to do with my being on the show and I am grateful to her and everyone else that have invited me to be a part of such a fun-fest.
After a pretty long day of shooting, I headed home to the hotel to prep for a very early pickup to get back to NYC!
PS – An interesting note – I had decided last year that I wanted to do more TV and I put the “ask” out to the Universe. As someone wiser than me once said, “ASK and you shall receive. KNOCK and the door shall be opened.” It worked for me…Try it for yourself!
Darren Criss In Talks to Play Bill Flynn
Darren Criss took the stage by storm when he played J. Pierrepont Finch in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and now it seems that he’s headed back to the Great White Way. This tweet set the Darren Criss fans on fire last night.
So what are your thoughts on this possibility? Hit the comments and let me know!
How Hot Will Lea Michele Be at the SAG Awards? Inside Dish on Her Next Red Carpet Look!
From her People’s Choice victory to her sultry style at the Golden Globes, Lea Michele‘s been a red carpet knockout so far this season. But what will she do next?
We tapped celebrity makeup artist Melanie Inglessis to find out. Inglessis, who also works with Olivia Wilde, Mia Wasikowska and Jaime King, has been doing Lea’s makeup since they met at a Glee event three years ago. “We went really natural and beautiful then.”
So we asked her to share Lea’s favorite look—smoky eyes or hot lips?—the secret to looking great on the red carpet and what style the Glee star might rock this weekend at the SAG Awards…
How do you decide what look Lea is going to rock on the red carpet?
“We wait to see the dress first. This will dictate the look for hair and makeup.”
She’s gone from bright pink lips to neutral with a major smoky eye for the Golden Globes. Has there been one look that you loved more than the others?
“I really loved the Grammys look two years ago, smoky dark grey eyes and straight hair with that short navy feathery dress.”
What’s Lea’s favorite?
“She likes them all! Everytime we finish a look it’s her favorite! She really liked the pink lip at the People’s Choice Awards and also the New Year’s Eve premiere bronze goddess look.”
Can you give us a hint of what you might do for Lea’s makeup at the SAG Awards?
“I don’t have any ideas as I have not seen the dress yet. But it’s not last-minute—we normally know a couple of days early what she’ll wear and will discuss.”
Do you work it out with her wardrobe and hair stylist?
“It is a collaboration between all of us, including Lea. It’s a fun process, for sure. The dress really is the starting point for discussion. Once we know the dress we have a little powwow and pull reference.
What helped you decide on the natural look she wore with that stunning green dress at the SAG Awards in 2010?
The green dress was such a stunning color and with a beautiful cleavage that I really didn’t want to distract from that. I wanted to keep it youthful and fresh so we just went with a natural makeup. Any colors would have clashed with the emerald colored dress.
For SAG 2011, Lea wore that stunning white-gold dress. As soon as she tried it on, we all agreed it was a stunner. It had a ’70s feel, Jade Jagger, Studio 54. Really sexy. So we decided on a small smoky eye, not too dramatic but still defining her eyes and bring a little sexy into it. Lot of contours and bronze and, of course, a nude lip!
Is there one makeup trick you can share that would make anyone look good on the red carpet?“Make sure you are not shiny on your T-zone! And a little peach color on the apple of your cheeks always does the trick for me! With a lip, with a smoky eye! It just brightens the face.”
What about making the look last all night?
“I always send my clients on the red carpet with a powder and lipstick and whatever else she feels she needs so she can retouch the makeup for the afterparty!”
What would you do for Rachel Berry if she got her big red carpet moment?
“Make her really sexy!”
Grant Gustin (Sebastian!) Opens Up About Fan Backlash and What’s Ahead!
Hell hath no fury like a fanbase scorned. So when Grant Gustin won the role of the scheming Sebastian, who would (attempt) to come between Blaine (Darren Criss) and Kurt (Chris Colfer), a lot of Glee fans cried out for his blood. Others fell in love with snarky Sebastian. And we…well, we couldn’t decide how we felt.
So we decided to force invite Grant into our studios and sit him down for his very first oncamera interview so we could get a real look at the man behind the evil Sebastian. And do you know what Grant had the nerve to do?
…he charmed the pants off us. Seriously, as soon as he started telling the story of how he found out about winning the role of Sebastian, we were doomed. Didja know he took a call in the middle of performing West Side Story onstage?
“I had a voicemail from my manager, and he knows I’m in [the middle of] a show,” Grant tells us. “Of course I called him right back. And he was like, ‘you got it, man!’ And I didn’t even believe it. And I was in the middle of the first act, so I still had the rest of the show to do.”
As excited as he was, it turns out that Grant was not going to be welcomed with open arms by the Glee fanbase, not when he was set to potentially break up a fan-favorite couple. “It pissed everybody off,” he laughed. “I didn’t really know it was going to be this intense, mean character…major douchebag. And all these pictures started coming out of Darren Criss and Chris Colfer with my head shot in the middle, just set up to be the douch-iest!”
Yep, he described the exact picture we ran with his casting announcement way back when. Ahhh, memories. And what do fans do when they smell a threat? Take the fight to the Internet!
“[I got], literally, death threats on Twitter saying, ‘if you break up Klaine, I will find you and I will kill you,’” Grant says. “Glee fans are intense in the best way possibly, and I appreciate it more than anything, but there was definitely backlash.”
Since by now it’s clear that Kurt and Blaine were not affected by Sebastian’s “Craiglist-scented” advances, what’s there left for Sebastian to do? Well, next week’s highly anticiaptd Michael Jackson tribute episode marks a big one for the character, and we know we’re not alone when we say we’re dying to see the full “Smooth Criminal” number. And after that? Grant would only reveal he’s not going away anytime soon.
“Sebastian will be back after the Michael Jackson episode,” he reveals to us. “He’s got a fun little return coming up.” And since we’ve only heard rumblings of a series regular upgrade for him and not any official confirmation, Grant can only say this about next season: “I would love to be around for as long as they’ll have me. I’m having the time of my life.”
To hear if Sebastian could transfer to McKinley and more MJ talk, check out our full interview with Grant below.
