But with Cory, I think we just respected each other so much and we respected working with each other so much. It was terrible. I remember vividly when you guys did that Cee-Lo song, you sort of do a twist with Gwyneth Paltrow…. I called it The Goop.
Also, that, the people we got to work with. I feel so ashamed because I wished I had worked with all these people on my second job because I borderline stalked everyone that came onto that set because I was so excited. The tattoos are endless. It was difficult. It has been a crazy, emotional, fantastic, exhausting, but fulfilling ride. We all grew up in that choir room in one way or another. It was so hard to say goodbye, much, much harder than I was expecting. It turned me into a role model, which was a very, very hard thing to embrace and accept at the time.
It was the beginning of a great book, but a great chapter nonetheless. What do you think the legacy of the show is? What do you think it has brought to pop culture? I think it was just so out of the box. It was the first show that really showed a world and a group of kids that had never quite been seen before or as quite as authentically portrayed. Personally, when I found out that I got cast as the gay character on Glee , I had thought my career was going to be over because at the time, it was such a taboo for an actor of any age to play a gay character, and now you look and there are multiple gay characters on every single show.
Bringing the struggle of kids that were bullied — I was bullied terribly in high school. I never thought the world would form a campaign to stop it. Karofsky seemed to merit special consideration because he's a closeted gay who's overcompensating. It seems unlikely a straight gay-hater would have gotten the same treatment. Kurt had hit on him repeatedly, sexually harassing his soon-to-be stepbrother. It played into the stereotype that gays pursue straights and attempt to convert them.
Murphy acknowledged the mistake, as did Burt. And "Glee" made another course-correction last week. Karofsky showed genuine remorse. And some degree of reality returned to McKinley High when Kurt was elected prom queen as a cruel joke. Because the world isn't as progressive as "Glee" sometimes pretends it is.
The show has always been erratic, with plotlines wildly gyrating from week to week. If "Glee" was all fluff, it wouldn't matter. The writers of Skins focused instead on the struggles of Anwar, a Muslim boy who felt that his strict upbringing made it difficult for him to get along with gay pupils, despite them being friendly towards him and a fellow minority in the classroom.
You might say that any gay character that gets past the Fox filter is a triumph. And there's a sense of liberation, happiness and honesty to quick-witted Kurt that has warmed the hearts of millions. Chris Colfer has created a fun character, more three-dimensional than I've probably made him out to be.
It comes as no surprise that he has a vast gay following — the website AfterElton named Kurt the seventh best gay character of all time. It's also a personal achievement for Colfer, winner of a Golden Globe, a millionaire, only 20 and openly gay. He shares the red carpet with gay men twice his age who never in their award-stuffed careers dared to come out. Perhaps Kurt Hummel is just the spoonful of sugar that Hollywood needs right now, but I can't wait for the day when we don't need these irritating test-tube gay heroes on TV.
How about a new series called Gloom, set in Southend-on-Sea, in which the gay protagonist is a kleptomaniac BMX biker who meets his teenage boyfriend in a young offenders home after being jailed for conning tourists? Episode one features the song Don't Stop Deceiving, a heavy-metal cover that isn't available on iTunes.
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