Lea Michele’s ‘Glee’ Costars Recall Her Strength After Cory Monteith’s Death [Video]

Glee alumni Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz are looking back at the “strength” costar Lea Michele showed while filming the show’s first episode following Cory Monteith’s shocking death in 2013.

As McHale and Ushkowitz noted on the latest episode of their rewatch podcast And That’s What You Really Missed, the 31-year-old Monteith’s death in July 2013 delayed the start of production on Glee’s fifth season. When the cast and crew reconvened that August to begin filming the first of two Beatles-centric episodes, they “were all very much in the early stages of grieving,” according to McHale, 36.

“And then we’re back in the same places that we had spent so much time with Cory,” McHale recalled. “Like, instinct kicked in, and we were just sort of on autopilot because we could sort of be on autopilot by this point.”

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