HitFix Interview with Jessalyn Gilsig

HitFix got the chance to sit down and talk with Jessalyn Gilsig, who plays Will’s wife, Terri Schuester. Here is an interesting Q&A where Jessalyn talks about her role on Glee and being an actress in general.

HitFix: For the first few episodes, your character really only has scenes with her sister and with Will. Did you sometimes feel like you were doing a totally different TV show?
JG: Yeah, I did sometimes. I’d be like, “What are you guys doing over there?” Yeah. We were conscious when we’d come to work and it was just Kendra and myself or just Will and myself, you could tell the crew was like “Wait, where’s everybody else?” Everybody was used to doing those big scenes with all of the glee club and all of the extras in the school, so it was creating a a different world. But the different worlds are really important, because if Will doesn’t have that home life, you don’t understand… The kids, everybody comes from somewhere, so I think if you just make the show about the school, it’s hard to build up the stakes that everybody’s navigating. Would I like to be a student in the glee club? I guess so. But those days are over.

HitFix: It looks from the fourth episode, though, as if Terri’s starting to become a bit more integrated with the other characters, right?
JG: That’s exactly right. Terri very effectively works her way deeper and deeper into Will’s school life as the series progresses.

HitFix: Who do you get to have good scenes with?
JG: I think I finally got to work with everybody, but the people I really got to have great scenes with were Sue, with Jane Lynch, so that was a blast, and then I got to do some great stuff with Jayma [Mays] so that was really fun. That’s the thing, we built up all this tension, so finally when we meet, there’s just so much anticipation and so much that I’ve projected onto this girl, that it’s really fun to get to work all of that stuff out together.

Read the full Q&A here: HitFix Interview: Jessalyn Gilsig of ‘Glee’