Justin Timberlake Almost Played A Meth-Addicted Mr. Schue In ‘Glee’, Ryan Murphy Says

Justin Timberlake could person played a teacher with a precise large occupation connected Glee, the show’s creator conscionable revealed. “When we were penning the pilot, I’ve ne'er truly talked astir this, that aviator was written for Justin Timberlake,” Ryan Murphy said during an October 30 quality connected the podcast And That’s What You REALLY Missed. “Mr. Schue was written for Justin.” The wildly fashionable Fox comedy-drama ran from 2009-2015, and the relation of Mr. William Schuester yet went to Matthew Morrison.  Ryan made the revelation portion speaking with the podcast’s hosts, Glee alums Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz.

Justin Timberlake appears arsenic a teacher alongside Cameron Diaz successful 2011 drama ‘Bad Teacher.’ (Gemma LaMana/©Columbia PictureS/Everett Collection)

Per The Daily Mail, though Ryan had signed a “first look” woody with the studio, helium admitted helium wasn’t definite however helium was going to “figure it out” during its aboriginal stages. ‘We were having these conversations and I was trying to fig it out,” helium said. “Like serendipity, I went to the gym and I was successful a towel and a feline went up and handed maine a publication and helium said, ‘I had a feeling you were successful amusement choir, americium I right?’ And I was similar ‘Yeah.’ And helium said, ‘My person wrote this publication and you should work it.”‘

The writer, Ian Brennan, became Glee‘s co-creator alongside Ryan. And Mr. Schue, the show’s beloved William McKinley High School Spanish teacher/Glee Club director, was primitively conceived arsenic a overmuch much conflicted character. “Mr. Schue, I believe, was a crystal meth addict successful Ian’s script,” Ryan revealed during the podcast. “The NC-17 mentation of amusement choir with a weird protagonist who was unraveling…I conscionable request thing optimistic.”

Matthew Morrison arsenic Mr. Schue connected ‘Glee’. (Adam Rose / © Fox / Everett Collection)

Even without Justin, the amusement was a monolithic hit. It went connected to people astir a twelve Emmy nominations successful 2010 unsocial and adjacent picked 3 Grammy nominations. During its lifespan, it scored 4 Emmy wins and 4 Golden Globe wins, and made monolithic stars of Lea Michele, the precocious Naya Rivera, Jane Lynch, Darren Criss, and Grant Gustin, among others.

Justin went connected to prima arsenic a teacher anyway, appearing alongside former woman Cameron Diaz successful Bad Teacher (2011) and rising his prima with films including The Social Network and Friends With Benefits, among others.