“I think for any role that you’re up for, you want to know if you add value to it, right?” he says. It’s here that Criss brings us back to the LGBT+ question, saying that he doesn’t want to “shy away” from the topic. “I think if Andrew was somebody that everybody knew, I think people would have had a very different expectation, because the assignment would have been different.” “Unlike if you’re playing OJ, or if you’re playing Monica Lewinsky or Bill Clinton, or these public figures that have an extraordinary amount of documentation of how they look, how they sound, how they walk, how they talk, there was next to nothing on Andrew, which gave me kind of carte blanche to do whatever,” he says. So I’m here to tell you there was a lot more good stuff than there was bad stuff.” That’s how families work… No one’s gonna write about the good stuff. You give each other a hug, you respect each other, you love each other. Think about members of your family, fights that you’ve had, things that were said that weren’t meant… If it was written down, or somebody outside the family saw it and broadcast it to other people, it would make you look like a s***ty family… The next night, you’re at dinner, the holidays roll around. “I f***ing dare anybody out there to have the constitution to be able to deal with that in a way that is spotless,” he says.
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It’s also easy to forget that this was a young cast, many of whom were in their first TV roles and had been “shot out of a cannon into the public sphere”. I saw ‘not great’ things, but not because these people are bad people, truly.” Maybe it’s his “bleeding heart idealism”, he adds, but “I don’t believe anybody was ever twisting their moustache, like” – he puts on a Dick Dastardly voice – “‘I know, I shall compromise these people by doing the following things.’” But I was f***ing there, and I saw a lot of good things.
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But it perhaps might get lost in the sheen of what Christmas is.” His nails, aptly, are painted with candy stripes.Įnjoy unlimited access to 70 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 30-day free trial Sign upĬriss continues: “Working on set is an extraordinarily high-pressure zone where the rules are famously written in sand… There’s a great deal of context and compassion that is missing that nobody wants to know about or write about.
“There is just a whole lot of me in this and arguably, it’s one of the most personal albums or bodies of work I’ve ever made. “Aside from it being a painfully convenient pun… It’s a very, very me thing, from the people that I worked on it with and the songs that I chose that are deeply personal,” he says. Or maybe it’s because I am a member of the British press, which he says is “evil”, adding, “I do not trust you.” Even the topic of his new Christmas album, A Very Darren Crissmas, takes us to unexpected places.
Maybe it’s because he knows I’ll have to mention some contentious topics, such as his Glee castmate Lea Michele’s behaviour on set or his history of playing LGBT+ characters. The Glee star also has a lot say, often veering off in slightly paranoid tangents to readjust his points for fear of being misquoted. You’re getting a full-on TED talk where I get further and further up my own ass and pop out of my own mouth, so buckle up.” Darren Criss is an explosion of chaotic energy.