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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Suddenly Sue: Glee's Jane Lynch [Watch (HLS stream): Suddenly Sue: Glee's Jane Lynch](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DI1B0Guj.m3u8) (3:07)  _Published 2010-04-15. After a decade's worth of playing big in bit parts, Jane Lynch has her breakout moment as Glee's deliciously mean Sue Sylvester_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:30 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [We Don't Know How To Feel About Jane Lynch Rapping Nicki Minaj](/video/xe52k8Bn/) ### We Don't Know How To Feel About Jane Lynch Rapping Nicki Minaj [Glee 6x01 Promo feat. "Let It Go"](/video/S0Qu5yEm/) ### Glee 6x01 Promo feat. "Let It Go" [Barbershop: The Original Glee for Guys](/video/oZdtyORE/) ### Barbershop: The Original Glee for Guys --- ## Transcript >> Jane Lynch is best known for her role in Glee, where she plays the deliciously mean cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, a tyrant in a track suit. >> You think this is hard? Try being waterborne, if that's hard. The premise of the show picks McKinley High School's earnest show choir against the ruthless cheer squad for resources and glory, and it gives Lynch some choice material >> Like the time I sold my house to a nice young couple and I salted the earth in the backyard so that nothing living could grow there for a hundred years. >> If you haven't seen Glee, chances are Lynch still looks familiar. >> You know what I used to eat for breakfast? Cocaine. You know what I used to eat for Lunch? Cocaine. >> What do you have for dinner? Was it cocaine? >> She's got a twenty year career as a big player in comedy roles. >> No, I'm not here to service your house. I'm here to service these young boys. >> And supported herself with voice- overs and in commercials. >> The other day Karen had to hurry to a surprise birthday party. >> I hear someone's in a hurry. >> I know-- >> Lynch told me it was after one of those commercials that she had a breakthrough moment. >> An audition for a commercial that Christopher Guest was directing for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and he cast me. >> Oh and we just love Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. >> And then I ran unto him in a restaurant about six months later and he looked at me and he went, " Oh, I remember you ." He said, " I'm working on another movie, so come to my office today ," and by the end of the day I was going to Vancouver to do Best in Show. >> Sheri Ann did put some make up on me but its, it's really not my style, you know. So I took it off-- >> It looked really good. >> Maybe it was a little too much. >> No. >> The film, a loose, off, and improvised look at the odd world of competitive breeding, suited the appetite for collaboration that Lynch first wed it while performing improves at Second City. >> Number 1, 2, 3. >> I'm not playing small by playing an ensemble. It's my favorite way to work. >> After that, Lynch often got screen time by taking on parts intended for men, such as her turn as Steve Carell's lecherous boss in the 40- Year- Old Virgin. >> When I was a little girl, I developed early. By the time I was fourteen I had this body you're looking at. Can you imagine that? >> I don't want to. No. >> Lynch says Sue Sylvester is a part of her. >> Hello boys, who needs a pick me up? >> You know, she doesn't live too far from the surface. People say, " You're so nice ." And I am a nice person but Sue Sylvester is not far from my surface, she's right there just given the right circumstances. >> Dear journal, feeling listless again today. It began at dawn, when I tried to make a smoothie out of beef bones, breaking my juicer. She takes great delight in her own heinousness. I think she finds her own wickedness delicious and the-- I always kinda play her with a half- smile. We want to have that by worst. >> A quiver. That quiver will lose us nationals. >> Now, with her role in Glee, which has earned her a Golden Globe nomination and helped clinch an ensemble one for Best TV SERIES, Lynch has been nudged firmly into the spotlight, whether she likes it or not. >> Strike a move. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Suddenly Sue: \u003ci\u003eGlee\u003c/i\u003e's Jane Lynch","description":"After a decade's worth of playing big in bit parts, Jane Lynch has her breakout moment as Glee's deliciously mean Sue Sylvester","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DI1B0Guj/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2010-04-15T19:26:28.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DI1B0Guj.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/DI1B0Guj/","duration":"PT3M7S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/DI1B0Guj/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```