Brittany Susan Pierce is a fictional character from the musical comedy-drama series Fox Glee . The character is described by actress Heather Morris, and first appeared on the show's second episode, "Showmance". Brittany was developed by Glee creator Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan. In Glee , Brittany is a cheerleader, or "Cheerio" for fictitious William McKinley College, and a school happy club member led by Will Schuester. Morris was originally hired to teach the dance "Single Ladies" BeyoncÃÆ'Â © to the Glee cast. The show was looking for a third cheerleader, and Morris landed his role. Morris was upgraded to a regular series in the series' second season, where Brittany was given a larger storyline, solo and dance routine to perform.
Morris plays Brittany as "utterly crazy", but also fully intended to be kind and kind. He has said that Brittany "loves [s] everyone, no matter who they are"; he often smiles and behaves well to others. The character traits of Brittany including his discovery recipe are confusing, deceiving classmates who are mentally handicapped, thinking his cat, Lord Tubbington, is reading his diary, and not knowing his right hand from his left. These facts are often presented in a single-liners delivered by Morris, many of whom he has ad-libbed. Brittany's one-liners are regularly celebrated in the Glee review. Lack of character intelligence and frank speech means, as Morris says, that "Brittany is used by series writers to say things that other characters lack." The character has also received positive reviews related to his romantic storyline with his close friend, Santana (Naya Rivera). While Brittany is bisexual, and not ashamed, Santana has trouble accepting his lesbianism. Brittany continues to support Santana and urges her to be honest on herself.
The characters have been well received with television critics. Jarrett Wieselman of the New York Post has compared Morris as Brittany with Lynch as Sue, and argues that he has "emerged as one of the funniest bananas on TV today". Wieselman writes that since its introduction, Brittany has been given "more and more to do [and] less and less to think," and that the result is "one of the most unfamiliar characters who ever found a way to dress themselves in the morning." Snarker referred to Brittany and Santana as "Glee's new favorite couple", and commented: "While Heather Morris (Brittany) and Naya Rivera (Santana) have minimal screen time, they have counted it. laughter because Cheerio at least gets Mensa invitations. "Brittany has drawn a comparison with the character of Amanda Seyfried from the 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls . Morris also received praise for his dance and his role as Brittany.
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Storylines
Musim 1
Brittany first appeared on Glee during the second episode of the show, as a member of the cheerleading team of William McKinley High, Cheerios. She joins the happy club, New Directions, with her friends and fellow Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) cheerleaders and Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera). Cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) then enlarges three of them to help her destroy the club from within. When the club will compete in the round of the performance choir, Brittany unknowingly leaked their set list to Sue, who leaked out routines to compete with glee clubs. New Directions puts a new set list together at the last minute, and continues to win the competition. Brittany also revealed that she and Santana had sex but were not dating. After the club's victory in the sectionals, Sue renewed her efforts to lower them, and enlists Brittany and Santana to break up co-captain Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) and Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith). They invited Finn on a date with both of them, but ignored him all night and finally asked that he sit in the car and leave them to finish their own meal. She mentioned in the episode "Bad Reputation" she made with almost everyone in school - men and women, and school cleaners. He also had a date with Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) in the episode "Laryngitis" because he wanted to look more masculine to impress his father and he is the only man he has never dated at school.
Season 2
In the second season episode of "Duets", he asks Santana to be his partner for a duet competition when they are making out. Santana refused, so Brittany tried to make her jealous by dating fellow glee club member Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale). She sleeps with Artie, but Santana tells him that Brittany just uses him for her voice, so she broke up with her, to Brittany's dismay. Brittany's relationship with Artie continues to grow; in "Never Been Kissed", he made her go with her again. On "Furt", they are officially dating. In "Sexy", following her appearance of "Avalanche" with Santana and Holly Holliday (Gwyneth Paltrow), Santana admits her true feelings for Brittany. Although Santana is afraid of being ostracized by McKinley High's students for being in same-sex relations, he confesses his romantic love to Brittany, a reciprocal feeling. However, Brittany states that he also loves Artie, and will never do anything to hurt him, even if that means not being with Santana. He says that if he and Artie ever break up, he'll become a Santana, so proud.
Season 3
Brittany ran for senior chair in the third season, starting with "I Am Unicorn", and won the election in "I Kissed A Girl", defeating Kurt in a vote. She and Santana joined the Troubletones, a competitor's all-girls choir at McKinley, and officially started dating; after Santana was defeated by Finn, they were open about their relationship. Both reunited with New Directions after the Troubletones lost with them in Sectionals. Santana sent Brittany singing valentine in "Heart", and two public kisses afterwards. In "Saturday Night Glee-ver", concerned about Santana's future plans, Brittany gets the idea to ask Sue to arrange Santana for a full scholarship to the top college cheerleading program in the country. After a year of non-existent president of the class, Brittany had a senior dance party themed dinosaurs. At the end of the season, Brittany reveals that his grades are so bad that he does not pass, but must repeat his senior year.
Season 4
In the first episode of the fourth season, Brittany competed to be the vocalist of New Directions, but lost to Blaine (Darren Criss). He then loses him again as he runs to become second-class senior presidential president. Santana officially broke up with Brittany because he felt that their long distance relationship did not work, although the two remained friends. She later became 'blond friends' with Sam Evans (Chord Overstreet), and then started dating her. Santana returned to try and destroy it, but failed. Brittany visited MIT, where she was nicknamed a mathematical genius. Back in Lima, he becomes arrogant, refuses to appear in Regionals, abandons Cheerios, and breaks up with Sam. After Will and Sue fail to get Brittany to change her attitude, Sam gets Santana to return to Lima to intervene. After talking to Santana, Brittany decided to perform at Regionals. Brittany revealed to the club happily she had been offered an early entrance to MIT and gave an emotional goodbye, as she would leave after Regionals.
Season 5
Brittany returned to McKinley in "100" along with other New Directions alumni after the closure of the Glee club. Brittany expressed her unhappiness to be a mathematical genius and kissed her ex-girlfriend, Santana. In the "New Directions", Brittany agrees to get out of MIT before continuing the journey to Lesbos with Santana. Santana asked Brittany to go with him to New York after their journey, and Brittany accepted. Brittany finally graduated in the episode, a year late. Brittany returns to New York in the final episode of the "Rachel Berry Untitled Project" season but she learns that Santana is out of town to shoot another Yeast-I-Stat ad.
Season 6
At the start of season six, Brittany returned with Santana and the rest of Glee's club alumni to McKinley High School in "Homecoming" to help Rachel and Kurt recruit for New Directions. In "Jagged Little Tapestry", while alumni survived for another week, Brittany was surprised by Santana's marriage proposal and gladly accepted. Brittany and Santana then return to "What The World Needs Now" to deal with Alma's grandmother who disagrees with Santana - with whom she has not spoken since coming out as a lesbian. Brittany takes the matter into his own hands and tries to invite Alma to marriage, but Alma's prejudice is too strong and he refuses their engagement, and Brittany tells him to leave for doing so. Later, New Directions encouraged them in an attempt to be invited to their upcoming marriage. Brittany and Santana were married in a double ceremony with Kurt and Blaine in the eighth episode of "A Wedding". Before the ceremony, Sue arrives with Alma, whom she has helped to realize that although she may not believe that women should marry each other, the family is the most important thing, guiding her and Santana to reconciliation. Brittany and Santana returned briefly in the last minute of the final series "Dreams Come True" for the final appearance with the rest of Glee Cast to take a bow.
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Creating and casting
Brittany first appeared as a guest character in the second episode of the first season Glee . He was taken as a member of the cheerleading team of William McKinley High, Cheerios. Brittany is regularly played by actress Heather Morris. Morris grew up with a strong background in choreography. She took acting classes and actively pursued an acting career when she was offered a place on the recording artist BeyoncÃÆ' © Knowles toured the world as a dancer. Morris, however, refused the work. Shortly after that, he was asked by Zach Woodlee's choreographer Glee Zach Woodlee to teach dance choreography "Single Ladies" BeyoncÃÆ' Â © to Glee Glee Glee Glee > actors. At the same time, the show was looking for a third cheerleader, they originally wanted to have a third being African American, but Morris finally landed the role of Brittany Pierce. Initially a background character that hardly ever speaks, the growing role as the author finds Morris having the gift of delivering one sentence. In an interview with Brandon Voss from The Advocate.com , Morris said of his casting:
"About six months after I first moved to LA, I got a job doing a Beyoncà © tour. After I finished the tour, I started working with choreographer Zach Woodlee, who started hiring me to do things like Fired! and Eli Stone Before the Single Ladies tour I was supposed to move to New York to do West Side Story, but then I stopped dancing and started acting classes because I did not want to dancing again and I really want to fulfill my lifelong acting dream.Zach called me and said, 'Are you in New York?' I'm like, 'No, I'm still here in L.A. and I'm acting.' She's like, 'OK, I want you to come and teach the dance "Single Woman" to Chris Colfer and Jenna Ushkowitz for this TV show I'm doing, Glee.Because you act now, I know Ryan Murphy will be happy to consider you for the part. Looks as sweet as possible so he will love you more. "So I went in to teach the children in full clothes. I was scheduled to read with Ryan Murphy twice, but he canceled both. After that, Zach called me and said they probably would not hire me because they wanted the third cheerleader to be black, so my hopes were shot. But then my agent called a week later and said, 'You are now selected as Brittany in Glee.' So that's crazy. "
Brittany's role in the show originally meant to be small, but grew towards the end of the first season. He did not have solo music performances during the first season, but Morris hopes he will have one in the second season. On April 27, 2010, Michael Ausiello from Entertainment Weekly reported that Morris will be upgraded to a regular series for season two. Talk to E! Online, Morris commented: "It's so fun, I really just stood there and fell asleep and then I was like, 'Oh yeah, I have to talk now! ' " In 2010 TV Critic Association of the Summer Press Tour, Murphy states that Brittany will have a "big storyline" in the new season, because viewers want to know more about it.
Characterization
Some of Brittany's most impressive lines are devoid of manuscripts, and otherwise designed by Murphy during the filming, or improvisations by Morris. Morris describes Brittany as "absolutely insane." He is used by series writers to say things that no other characters, to the point that Morris considers some of his sentences unreasonable. The characteristics of the Brittany character including his recipe of discovery are confusing, deceiving intellectually disabled classmates, thinking his cat is reading his diary, and not knowing his right hand from his left hand. He is friendly to all other characters, and Morris has explained that Brittany "loves [s] everyone, no matter who they are", so he often smiles and behaves well to people. Morris based his role as Brittany on the character of Karen Smith from the Mean Girls film. He plays Brittany as a very innocent man, not a fool. In the episode "A Night of Neglect", Brittany participates in academic galleries as a warm seat, but surprisingly ultimately contributes to the victory due to the fact that he is an idiot in the topic of cat sickness. It is also revealed in "Britney/Brittany" that Brittany is also "Britney Spears" as her middle initial is "S" which makes her "Brittany S. Pierce."
At the Paley Festival Glee panel in March 2010, Murphy stated that Brittany and Santana will be seen to perform during the first season of the show. Morris and Rivera just became aware of this after reading the Paley Festival report online. When they asked Murphy about his progress, he claimed to have made a statement "to get a kick" out of the "dirty guy" who asked about them. Murphy told Morris and Rivera that Glee will not encourage relationships to meet the demands of the show's fans, but will only pursue those who are "organic and natural." Though there are moments on the show depicting Brittany and Santana as being very close to each other, Morris connects this with his close relationship with Rivera: "it's just Naya and I joking with each other and getting very close." Always he and I just screwed up and finally use it. "
Then in 2010, when interviewed by After Ellen and discussing Glee's large lesbian audience, Ryan Murphy insists that the second season will contain at least one kiss between Brittany and Santana. In January 2011, a few months after Brittany and Santana were spotted in bed together, co-creator Glee Brad Falchuk further confirmed that "Brittana is active." Brittana is always active.
Music show
Brittany appeared in many musical serial numbers, although he did not have a solo line until the second season. In the second episode of the "Britney/Brittany" season, Brittany performed "I'm a Slave 4 U" as a solo and "Me Against the Music" as a duet with Santana. The songs by Morris as Brittany have been released as singles, available for digital download, and also featured on the event soundtrack album. Brittany sang the song "Tik-Tok" Kesha in the episode "Blaming Alcohol". Candace Bulter from ScreenCrave praised the New Directions performance of the song and wrote, "Ke $ ha might be able to release Glee members, but their cover of the song is phenomenal." praising the choreography and sound of Brittany, calling it "insane" and "admirable". Sandra Gonzalez from Entertainment Weekly praised all the music and coverings of the episode. At the end of the season, he sang a solo song in the appearance of a native citizen of the original song "Light Up the World". In the third season, Brittany's first major appearance was in the third episode of "Asian F", where she sang "Be the Be Beonc", "Run the World (Girls)", which garnered superlatives from many reviewers including Kevin Fallon from The Atlantic, who writes, "Brittany's performance of 'Run the World (Girls)' is very exciting.This is the number of adrenaline-generated pumps produced by the series: intricate choreography, expertly shot and edited, perfectly knitted into the story, and done greatly beautiful by Heather Morris. "She also did a duet with Santana on" I Want Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) "in the Whitney Houston tribute episode" Dance With Somebody ".
Critical reception
Jarrett Wieselman of the New York Post has compared Morris as Brittany to Lynch as Sue, and notes that he has "emerged as one of the funniest bananas on TV today". Wieselman writes that since its introduction, Brittany has been given "more and more to do [and] less and less to think," and that the result is "one of the most unfamiliar characters who ever found a way to dress themselves in the morning." E! Online Megan Masters also compares Brittany with Sue, and states that Brittany's one-line "easily rivals" Sue's. He considered Brittany "brilliantly brilliant", and thanked Glee's creators for creating it: "Never before have we had the pleasure of enjoying such a stupid - yet always loved - character on television." When a promotional clip for the "Sectionals" episode showed that Brittany and Santana had slept together, Dorothy Snarker, while writing for the lesion entertainment website AfterEllen.com, praised the couple and called it by portmanteau "Brittana". Snarker calls them "Glee's new favorite pair", and comments: "While Heather Morris (Brittany) and Naya Rivera (Santana) have minimal screen time, they've counted it." Heather in particular has brought laughter because Cheerio will at least get Mensa's invitation.Not be concerned about Finn and Rachel - I'm at Tim Brittana right now. "
Morris's appearance in Britney/Brittany drew critical acclaim; Lisa de Moraes called "Britney/Brittany" a "big show" for the actress, and praised the "spectacular dance moves" and "lethal flare". In his negative review, Todd VanDerWerff considers Morris "hysterical throughout" and the player's best dancer. He stated, "Murphy seems intent on running this character to the ground, but Morris will not stop him being cute without a fight." Jenna Mullins from E! Online observes, "When Ryan Murphy says this episode is a celebration of Heather, he's not kidding", and praised his musical performances. Robert Canning of IGN initially worried that the episode would diminish Morris's appeal by lifting him from a background role, but was ultimately pleased that it managed to retain the status of his fan favorite "favorite character". While Poniewozik asks "have we reached the point of being a society where it's mediocre that the most popular TV shows are in the 18-49 demographics as well - almost without comment or controversy - the gayest show on broadcast TV?", Ann Oldenburg from USA Today questioned whether Glee had gone too far with a description of Brittany and Santana kissing and their reference to a so-called "scissoring" sexual act. Christie Keith, in writing for the lesE and bisexual website AfterEllen.com, suggested that "Duets" was "the weirdest episode of any series ever on television", and stated that she shed tears by the last scene of sad Brittany without Santana. AfterEllen.com also listed it in 50 Top Favorite TV Female Characters.
Robert Canning praised Morris for his performance in "A Very Glee Christmas", and writes: "The Heart of" A Very Glee Christmas "was found in Artie Abrams to keep Brittany's belief in Santa Claus live Heather Morris perfectly plays Brittany's innocence and joy around everything Santa, his interaction with the black mall of Santa is the spotlight Watching Artie, and finally the whole club, working to keep Brittany's faith intact in the spirit of Christmas and should be made into a more complete part of the episode Also glowing in this storyline is Dot Jones as Bieste Coach.The scene as Santa, and then the expression of his influence as he sees Artie walking, is the best moments of the episode. "In January 2010, Morris and his co-stars won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Extraordinary Performance by Ensemble in The Comedy Series Later that year, Brittany and Santana were nominated for the " Favorite Fictional Lesbian Couple "in AfterEllen. com Visibility Awards.
References
External links
- Brittany on Fox.com
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