The Glee reboot is fully underway, with Lea Michele and more O.G. cast members reportedly set to return. Is Chris Colfer one of them?
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The Emmy-nominated actor opened up about the possibility of returning to his breakout role as Kurt Hummel in the Ryan Murphy-created musical dramedy on The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, revealing he thinks his character could very well be working for a certain Gen Z pop star in the present day. “At this point, I’m just curious,” he began on the interview posted Wednesday (Nov. 11), noting he’d recently had a “nice conversation with someone” about the intentions for the reboot.
“I’m gonna have more conversations soon,” he continued. “From what I heard, it sounded very funny and it sounded like a good idea.”
As for what he thinks Kurt is up to now — beyond raising a family with Darren Criss’ Blaine Anderson — the author theorized that his character is hopefully in a high-ranking role at a fashion brand à la Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada. Or, “I could also see him on tour with Chappell Roan, styling her,” he said.
Glee originally ran on Fox from 2009 to 2015, ending with Kurt and Blaine as Broadway stars with a baby on the way, with Michele’s character Rachel Berry — also a Broadway star — as their surrogate. The show has remained a force in pop culture as fans continue to stream it, and the Glee cast remains the act with the fourth-most entries on the Billboard Hot 100. (Only Drake, Taylor Swift and Future have more.)
The Glee-boot will soon find a home on Disney+ and Hulu, which handed it a series order in October after Murphy teased the month prior that he’d finished a script. “I’ve been in touch with around 10 of the original cast members,” the screenwriter said in September. “It’s very sweet, and they all had a lot of questions, but they all were very enthusiastic about the idea.”
Watch Colfer’s full interview below.
