A whole piece on our Glenn being underrated and overlooked!
The article gets into some of his school days, Juilliard and his perspective on acting, his work on Sunny, leaving Sunny after season 12 when he'd thought the show should end (can't wait for that podcast conversation in 3 years or maybe even in Season 6 if they ever address Glenn Howerton Burnout No. 1), and later coming back, continuing to push his boundaries in acting in season 15 with the Ireland arc, and working with director Matt Johnson on Blackberry.
(Gonna use colours now to better distinguish screenshots of the article from my stuff for anyone not using dark mode)
A lot of it is quotes from Charlie and Rob, who are properly frustrated that he's been so overlooked (them, the original Glenn girlies!), his wife Jill, Megan and other people he's worked with, like an old drama teacher from school and Mike O'Brien from AP Bio.
(ok seriously who airbrushed and smoothed the shit out of his beautiful old wrinkly face in this photo, they need to be flogged)
There's also quotes from people, like the Lost writer who's a known Sunny fan and also co-wrote The Hunt, who watched him do his thing in Blackberry and think it's finally going to get him the recognition he's deserved all along.
CALL. THEM. OUT.
Honestly, all of this is just giving me a lot of respect for Matt Johnson, who was looking for comedic actors to play dramatic roles, specifically wanted Glenn to play Jim in Blackberry and had to fight to get him the role because Canadian productions with Canadian funding don't like using outside actors. This guy saw the vision and he was cool with Glenn getting that stupid haircut too.
Apparently, when Glenn received the script, his first thought was why me, shouldn't some bigshot do this role... he's such an idiot.
Something we've always known and the article confirms again is about how he's clearly grateful for the opportunities they have with Sunny, the kind that few writers/actors ever get with that level of creative control (something they get reminded of by other people in the industry a lot) but he's also been the most stifled by it of anyone in the cast because of his goal of being an actor more than the others, and so it gives him these mixed feelings about the longevity of the show.
I don't know if they've ever confirmed that RCG talked about ending the show around season 12.
He's not wrong. We know that once he came back to season 13, he did his rewrites on all the scripts featuring Dennis even though he wasn't fully back to writing yet. I personally don't think they should continue the show if any of them leave. They're better off taking longer breaks between the seasons like Curb does.
Good on you Rob. You tell them.
Seriously, they'd better now give him something good and interesting, so that it's not just us Sunny stans screaming into the void like usual.
remember, points are doubled in round two and tripled in round three so it's still anybody's game! round two will be posted at 12 AM ET tomorrow.
*we awarded partial credit to the folks who got one answer right in the two-answer question (so some scores are higher than quizizz indicated), and will continue to award partial credit for those questions in the upcoming rounds.
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