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jdbrew t1_j0yzd7q wrote

Reply to comment by monsieurxander in Glee star Jenna Ushkowitz warns viewers over new docuseries Price of Glee by Collective1985

Having a positive experience does not negate the negative.

I have a family member who was a side character who became a sort of beloved side character and they brought him back multiple times. He was a teenager, about 14 at the time, and was getting into experimenting experimenting with drugs and alcohol and they not only allowed him to get drunk before shooting his scenes, they provided him the alcohol and encouraged it. Not that this was the make or break instance for him, but he went onto abuse alcohol until he ended up in the hospital one night after nearly dying. He’s been sober about a year now. But I always wonder what it would have been like if he wasn’t encouraged to get raging drunk before shooting.

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HappyThreatening t1_j10cmdb wrote

Wait, they encouraged him to get drunk before shooting scenes for Glee? That sounds like something that would happen way back in the day, not in the 2010s. How damaging! Good for him on his sobriety.

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monsieurxander t1_j12dssq wrote

During the second season, cast was drinking so much the producers staged an intervention. And then wrote a thinly veiled episode calling them out for drinking.

If this happened, it was on fellow cast members behind the backs of production.

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TanonBeiste t1_j2fper8 wrote

There were no side characters around that age during the show’s tenure. Josie Totah (who joined in the very last season) was the youngest cast member and was 11-12 during filming

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