Naya Rivera was a forceāon the small screen and behind it.
A month since the actress’ tragic death, the TV star’s memory lives on in the people she touched throughout her life, including her Glee co-star Jane Lynch. Appearing remotely on Today With Hoda & Jenna on Wednesday, Aug. 12, Lynch remembered the late actress as a powerful and professional performer.
“I think that one of the things that kind of got lost when we were doing the show was what a force she was because there were so many talented people,” Lynch told Jenna Bush Hager. “She was one of those peopleāshe wasn’t in every scene, but when she wasā¦she just blew everybody away.”
Lynch, who played opposite Rivera’s Santana Lopez as cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, also noted how the young actress rolled with the punches. “I had three-page monologues, so did she. It took me a week to get mine. She would do them right off the bat and they would be changing them and she had no problem with it,” Lynch described.
