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‘Glee’ Star Amber Riley Rejected a Sex Scene With Chord Overstreet’s Sam: ‘It Would’ve Been So Awkward’


Amber Riley, who starred as Mercedes on 'Glee,' refused to film a sex scene with Chord Overstreet's character Sam.

Amber Riley, who starred as Mercedes in “ Glee,” revealed on the “And That’s What You Really Missed” podcast that she refused to film a sex scene with Chord Overstreet’s character Sam. “I told [‘Glee’ co-creator] Brad [Falchuk], ‘Absolutely not,’” Riley shared with her former co-stars and podcast hosts Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale. Riley also thought that the sex storyline for Mercedes, who was a devout Christian and even declared at one point that she was saving herself for marriage, was not something “my character would’ve done.”

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