Mickey Kuhn, the last surviving credited cast member of the 1939 film classic Gone With The Wind, died Sunday at a hospice facility in Naples, Florida. He was 90.
03.11.2022 - 19:39 / usmagazine.com
A bittersweet effect. Glee was already over when Naya Rivera died in 2020, but her costars Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale believe her death led to healing among the surviving cast members.
“Everyone was so emotionally raw and just sort of like, ‘How is this happening? Why is this happening?’ Let’s talk about it,” McHale, 34, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, October 31, while promoting his “And That’s What You REALLY Missed” podcast. “Let’s talk about everything. … It was really nice that everybody could find a space to feel comfortable and open and trusting enough to do that.”
Rivera’s July 2020 death at age 33 occurred around the same time that many of her Glee castmates began speaking out about what their time on the show was really like, and the American Horror Stories alum doesn’t think it was a coincidence.
“Thinking back on, like, funnily in the spirit of Naya, who would just speak her mind and was so good at making sure we all spoke our mind and spoke up for each other … it was weird timing,” the Texas native told Us. “Like, why is this happening now?”
McHale and Ushkowitz, 36, noted that Cory Monteith‘s 2013 death didn’t have quite the same effect because Glee was still airing, but when Rivera passed, the Fox show was far enough in the past that they could begin to heal. (Mark Salling, who played Puck, died by suicide in 2018 after pleading guilty to charges of possessing child pornography.)
“[Cory] did bring us together as well … but we were still doing the show,” Ushkowitz told Us. “There was a lot to lose. There were, you know, jobs at stake. There was just a lot. Like Kevin said, after Naya passed, it was like we had a lot of space away from the show and a lot of time to process, and a lot of people had
Mickey Kuhn, the last surviving credited cast member of the 1939 film classic Gone With The Wind, died Sunday at a hospice facility in Naples, Florida. He was 90.
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