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Amber Riley is revealing the explanation she refused to movie a intercourse scene with Chord Overstreet‘s character Sam on Glee.
The actress shared on a current episode of the And That’s What You Really Missed podcast that she turned down a deliberate scene the place her character Mercedes misplaced her virginity to boyfriend Sam.
“I instructed [Glee co-creator] Brad [Falchuk], ‘Completely not,’” Riley recalled to her former co-stars and podcast hosts Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale. “He gave me the blue pages or no matter. It was written. I mentioned, ‘No.’”
Riley defined {that a} “full-blown” intercourse scene was initially written, however when she rejected the concept, she mentioned Falchuk tried to pitch her one other plan for the scene.
“He mentioned, ‘Effectively what if we simply, you understand, have you ever guys maintain arms and stroll to the room after which like shut the door,’” the Single Black Feminine actress mentioned. “And I was simply like, ‘No, I’m not doing it.’”
Riley continued, “I don’t inform y’all, no. I don’t struggle on something. … This, it will have been so awkward, and I really feel prefer it would have learn awkward. I additionally simply really feel prefer it simply wasn’t what my character would have executed. I simply didn’t really feel that method.”
Her character on the hit sequence was described as a religious Christian, who additionally professed on the present at one level that she was saving herself for marriage. That’s another excuse why Riley felt like Mercedes instantly deciding to have intercourse wouldn’t have made sense within the storyline.
“I imply, I grew up the church lady. It simply wouldn’t occur. Like, not at that age, you understand what I’m saying? Not that simply,” Riley defined. “After which being pressured and all that form of stuff, and doing it for another person when it’s not likely what you actually consider, the message that I felt that that may’ve despatched to younger women wouldn’t have been nice.”
Glee, which adopted a bunch of scholars who joined a glee membership to flee the tough realities of highschool, aired from 2009 to 2015. Starting within the present’s season two finale, Mercedes and Sam had an on-and-off relationship all through the sequence. They in the end determined by season 5 that they had been higher as simply associates.
