Y’all know about my inner conflict over the TV show Glee. (I still tried to watch this week’s episode last night, but I only got through half of it before I could no longer deal with the stop-go-stop-go-stop-go of my crappy Internet connection. I’ll try again this weekend, so no spoilers!)
But as torn as I am over liking the show, I don’t feel even slightest bit uneasy about one thing — the best thing — about Glee: Jane Lynch. In my humble opinion, the actress, who’s been in pretty much every TV show ever, is a repeat player in Christopher Guest’s movies and recently portrayed Julia Child’s sister, opposite Meryl Streep, in Julie & Julia, is brilliant. (And I’m in good company: Nora Ephron has called her “a genius.”) In Glee, she plays Sue Sylvester, the tyrannical cheerleading coach. Here’s a typical exchange:
Reporter: Sue, a lot of our readers at Cheerleading Today…
Sue Sylvester: I’m cutting you off. Is this a cover story?
Reporter: Yes.
Sue Sylvester: Okay, this is all your readers need to know. I’m all about empowerment. I empower my Cheerios to live in a state of constant fear by creating an environment of irrational random terror.
Last week, Double X interviewed Lynch about stardom, her own inner Sue Sylvester, coming out to her parents at age 31, politics and fashion (specifically a pair of men’s parachute pants that “haunted her dreams”). When the interviewer asked her about the murmurings of an Oscar nomination for her Julie & Julia performance, Lynch adorably replied: “I can’t even talk about it. I can’t even go there in my fantasies of fantasies… and I have a wicked imagination.” Let me just say that if Lynch is nominated, I might actually watch the Oscars for the first time in years. (Hopefully, my crappy Internet connection will behave.)
— Jacqueline Nunes
