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Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz just wrapped the fourth season of their Glee rewatch podcast, "And That's What You REALLY Missed," and ahead of season five, McHale stopped by Elvis Duran and the Morning Show to talk about it and more, including whether or not he believes in the "Glee Curse."
Over the years, the show's cast has seen the loss of several Glee stars, including Cory Monteith, Mark Salling and Naya Rivera, and when asked about the "Glee Curse," McHale is not a believer. He explained:
"No. We we make jokes about a curse, which makes a lot of people uncomfortable. The amount of times we've said some things that everyone gets really quiet, like, 'No, no, you don't understand if we don't laugh about this, like we will all just be sad because it's insane. It is really crazy. I don't believe in curses. I am not superstitious. I don't know if any of us are. I think it, unfortunately, is just a lot of horrible coincidences and accidents, and we are a big cast of a lot of young people, and things happen. I think things happen on other shows as well, and you're working with crew members, and things happen to crew members. You're not necessarily hearing about that. But I just think a lot of unfortunate and really horrible accidents do happen."
Curse aside, the upcoming fifth season of "And That's What You REALLY Missed," is the season during which Cory Monteith passed away. Kevin explained that they are going into this next season very considerately. He said, "I think approaching these episodes coming up, we're being very considerate of that, considerate of our feelings. We don't know how we're going to feel going into it, but we do know that there's no pressure to make it seem a certain way, if that makes sense. And I mean, the good news is is that through tragedy and grief and all that, we've have a really big family."
McHale added, "We're all very close, all very protective of each other, and so that is helpful when you go through hard times like that. And so I think going through the next stages of the show, we're just constantly checking in with each other, especially me and Jenna, being like, 'Does it feel okay if we approach it this way? Does it feel okay if we've approach it that way? What does what do we want this to look like.' And that's very nice."