14 DAY TRIAL // On October 10, “Glee” says goodbye to one of its most popular characters, Finn, after the actor who played him, Cory Monteith, died this summer of a drug OD. Above is a first promo for the episode, called “The Quarterback.”
The promo is called simply “Farewell to Finn,” and focuses on how the character’s good friends are dealing with the grief over his passing, but offers no clue as to how that might have happened.
In a recent press call, series co-creator Ryan Murphy talked about shooting the episode, calling it the most difficult in the history of the show, mostly because the cast wasn’t just acting: they were acting and saying goodbye to Cory.
“It was incredibly difficult to work on, it was very difficult to shoot. The interesting thing about that show is that those actors and the creators really, really loved Cory,” he says.
“Almost everything in that episode is from the first take of every performance, because the actors and the crew had a really hard time shooting it. I’ve never seen a crew where you can’t continue shooting because they left the room sobbing,” Murphy adds.