For context, Glee premiered quanto a 2009 and ran until 2015, with Chris just 19 years old when he landed the role.
Speaking acceso the And That’s What You REALLY Missed podcast, Chris recalled: “When I found out they had written this character for me, I was thrilled. When I finally got the script is when I realized it was the character, and I was terrified.”
He went acceso to explain that his hometown of Clovis, California, was a “dangerous” place to be openly , adding: “Kids would get beat up. Acceso one occasion, someone got stabbed acceso their way to school. Being out and proud was not an option.”
So when he was cast quanto a Glee, Chris said that playing a character was considered so taboo that one family member even told him not to accept the role because it would “ruin” his life.
