TheGleeteam threwGwyneth Paltrowinto the eye of the storm onher very first episode— or at least into the rain.
TheShakespeare in LoveOscar winner joined the hit musical dramedy in season 2 for three episodes as substitute teacher Holly Holliday. Her work on the series won her the 2011 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy, but filming didn't come without its challenges.
In her first of episode, "The Substitute," Paltrow performed Cee-Lo Green's "Forget You" with the New Directions glee club and "Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag" fromChicagowithLea Michele's Rachel Berry. But it was the finale — "Singing in the Rain" from the hit musical of the same name mashed up with Rihanna's "Umbrella" — that proved most stressful.
"I remember it was tense, because something was wrong with the water that day," theMarty Supremeactress tells host Gerrad Hall onEntertainment Weekly'sThe Awardistpodcast. "There were bubbles. They were trying to get bubbles out of the water. There was some technical thing they were trying to figure out."
That said, "I had the best time doing that number," she affirms. It was so much fun. I just was drilling down on all the choreography. And then of course, it was a TV show, so it was like we did that whole thing and then it was like, 'Okay, lunch!' and we're done with that entirely, whereas if it was a movie, it would be the whole week. So it was like a whirlwind."
Returning twice more before the end of the season, Paltrow performed a handful of songs, including Prince and the Revolution's "Kiss" withMatthew Morrison's Will Schuester, the Chicks' version of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" withNaya Rivera's Santana andHeather Morris' Brittany, and Adele's "Turning Tables."
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She also returned toGleein 2014 for the show's 100th episode, but still most fondly recalls her first few days on the series: "That episode is, to me, one of the best things I've ever gotten to partake in — just in terms of the cleverness and the innovation."
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