Naya Rivera, who plays mean girl
Santana on the Fox musical-comedy Glee, says she's happy her
character is gay.
In
an interview with The Los Angeles Times published before
the show's season finale, Rivera talked about playing Santana, who
recently admitted she's in love with Brittany (played by Heather
Morris).
“I didn't know where they were going
to take the story line, but I ended up having a lot of fun playing
with it,” she said. “I've gotten to show off different sides of
who Santana is, and I've gotten an overwhelmingly great response.”
Rivera added that the story line took
her by surprise.
“I didn't think it was going to go
this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of
fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar
situations in their lives. I've heard from girls that are in high
school, they're 16, 17, and they're like, 'I came out to my mom,' or
'I came out to my friends, and thank you for helping me do that.'”
Brad Falchuk, an executive producer of
the show, recently
talked about keeping Santana in the closet during the show's second
season, which ended on Tuesday.
Coming out is “a big deal,” he
said. Then, referring to gay student Kurt Hummel's coming out, he
added: “We dedicated two episodes to Kurt coming out and then it
went on. We want to give it some time so we're giving it some time
and we're going to get into it next season.”