Kevin McHale confirmed cast discussed 'Glee Curse' after three major stars died
The Glee reboot has been confirmed and the popular show about a bunch of high school kids singing songs which wrapped up in 2015 will be returning to screens.
Several members of the cast have hinted they're returning, while others might be reconsidering past comments from years gone by where they declared being part of a reboot wasn't their thing.
11 years on from the end of the show one of the show's legacies has been the unfortunate 'Glee Curse', as Glee's young cast suffered a series of tragedies.
Kevin McHale, who played Artie in Glee, previously said that the cast had discussed it themselves, telling Elvis Duran and the Morning Show back in 2024 that while he'd talked about it he didn't believe in it himself.
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He said: "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."
McHale had previously explained to Us Weekly that the Glee cast didn't initially talk openly about the pain of losing a cast member following the death of Cory Monteith in 2013.
He said it wasn't until Naya Rivera died in 2020 that they started communicating more about the losses they'd suffered.
“It was weird timing. Like, ‘Why is this happening now?’" the actor said of the cast's collective reaction after Rivera's death and the decision to start opening up about it.
"But everyone was so emotionally raw and just sort of like, ‘How is this happening? Why is this happening? Let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about everything.’"
With it sounding like the cast has dealt with the difficult conversations that come from such tragic events the focus on those returning is going to be on getting back on with the Glee reboot.
Joe Harker