I’m worried that it’s going to be a little embarrassing, in terms of how crazy it was when we were filming it.Īre you going to be singing anything from your boy band this season? Whether or not it’s a good song is personal preference. I can’t tell you any details, except to say that it’s a very famous rap song. I get to do a rap song in the very near future, in, like, Episode 4 of the new season. These back nine, there’s so much going on in every episode, that all of us get more than we did in the first 13. What is going to be done about this? Are they finally going to let you shine this season? Now, you’re one of my favorite characters on the show, and I happen to think you’re adorable, but I feel like the plot lines always get hogged by Finn (Corey Monteith), Rachel (Lea Michele), and Mr. Well, you must have done something right, since you got the part. You must be in a Gleeked-out fever at this point with all the lead-up to the new season finally coming to a head tonight. We’d do anything for you.”That sounds like a thrill. We came in over the weekend to tape the segment, and she was like, “Thanks for coming in on a Saturday,” and we were all like, “Um, you’re Oprah. We did Oprah last weekend, which was kind of a big deal. Kevin McHale: That’s scary! We were just in Chicago. Also, I’m in the eleventh floor of a hotel room in Chicago right now, looking over the river, and there’s a man dangling from a rope outside my window with a brush and a squeegee, so if you hear any banging or screaming, that what that’s about. I don’t usually do celebrity interviews, so pardon me in advance if I totally suck at this. Thanks for taking the time to talk to me today. Those of you who followed my weekly Glee-caps last season may recall my “affectionate” descriptions of Artie after his star turn in the episode “Wheels” (and those of you who don’t give a whit about my tireless efforts here at VF.com may have spotted him in the print magazine with his male Glee cohorts pretending to be one of five contemporary, and very soggy, sartorial clones of Gene Kelly in his Singing in the Rain phase.) I find Artie to be one of the most compelling and sympathetic characters on the show-plus, I naturally side with the underdog-so while everyone else in the media echo chamber was attending to his bipedally-abled co-stars, I snuck in and chose him as my first-ever cast interviewee.īrett Berk: Hey Kevin. Kevin McHale plays Artie-the kid in the wheelchair-on the hit TV show Glee, which begins its second season tonight.

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