The deaths of Glee stars Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera and Mark Salling are nonetheless troublesome for his or her former costar Dianna Agron to course of.
“It's onerous to think about our family members from the present not being current with us anymore as a result of they really feel so current in my coronary heart, physique, thoughts, soul, all of it,” Agron, 39, mentioned on the Wednesday, August 13, episode of the “And That's What You REALLY Missed” podcast. “I believe that tenderness I really feel and the recollections that I've [of] who Cory, Naya and Mark had been as individuals, as forged members, as our family and friends [are] simply so vivid.”
She added, “That may by no means dissipate for me, ever. I believe there's magnificence in that. I might replay reminiscence after reminiscence after reminiscence.”
Agron performed Quinn Fabray on Fox's Glee reverse Monteith's Finn Hudson. Rivera and Salling performed Santana Lopez and Noah “Puck” Puckerman, respectively.
Monteith died in July 2013, two years earlier than Glee wrapped, following an unintentional overdose on the age of 31. Salling died by suicide in 2018 on the age of 35, and Rivera drowned in a deadly boating accident in 2020 after getting her younger son, Josey, to security.
Agron additional mentioned that she usually appears again on her former costars' expertise and work ethic with fondness within the years since their respective deaths.
Cory Monteith, Dianna Agron and Mark Salling. Adam Rose/©Fox/courtesy of Everett Assortment
“He was a teddy bear, and I imply that in a method of his kindness and groundedness in himself was so good,” Agron recalled of Monteith, who performed her on-again, off-again TV boyfriend. “He was this tall, huge brotherly presence in all of our lives.”
She continued, “[Cory] simply felt so secure and equally enthusiastic about what he was attending to expertise together with his character. His character had a management place within the present, as properly, and there was not an ungenerous bone in his physique.”
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Whereas Monteith was a frontrunner on the Glee set, that very same spirit prolonged when the cameras reduce.
“I keep in mind this one time that he was having individuals swim in his yard,” Agron recalled. “My brother had come down and [Cory] mentioned, ‘Oh, you're squinting lots. Do you not have a pair of sun shades?' He was like, ‘Oh, no, I don't,' and [Cory] took him into his room. He's, like, ‘These are all my sun shades. Simply take a pair.' … That's who he was all the time. It was so wonderful to have.”
Dianna Agron, Heather Morris, Naya Rivera, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley and Kevin McHale. Adam Rose / Fox / Courtesy of Everett Assortment
After sharing her recollections of Monteith, Agron quipped that she had “goosebumps on [her] arms.”
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