Jane Lynch Signs off as ‘Glee's’ Sue Sylvester, Set to Star Next as Amy in ‘Angel from Hell’
With Glee ready to air its final episode on March 20, Jane Lynch, 54, can now safely tuck away her Sue Sylvester persona back in the closet. She is now set for her next TV series role. In fact, Lynch is already signed on to be one of the two female leads in CBS' upcoming half-hour comedy pilot Angel from Hell, developed and created for TV by writer-executive producer Tad Quill and CBS TV Studios, according to Variety.
Lynch will be playing Amy, described as a "larger-than-life, brassy and flamboyant woman who claims to be another woman's guardian angel." Allison (yet to be cast), the other woman, as described by the network, "can't decide if she's actually an angel or if she's just plain nuts." Don Scardino will serve as director for Angel from Hell pilot comedy series.
In finally leaving behind her Sue Sylvester character and moving on from the rest of the Glee cast, Lynch told US Weekly: ""[The show has] been mind-blowing for forward-thinking. It's nice to not get up on a soap box, [but] to do it through the show. It's good to have really hated characters that you love at the end and characters that are so good you want to spank them! Matt Morrison's character is like that, he's so lovely and he's just like that in real life. It's been really sad, it's all over now. I wasn't expecting it to be what it was, it felt very right that it was over and we really celebrated it. We celebrated every cast member one at a time. We all remember Cory [Monteith] everyday, one of the best guys I've known. We all still remember and love him everyday. I love the whole cast and I'll see them in life, but when the show ends you won't see them like you used to. Everyone is going to go on with their lives. I'll miss it."
Asked what her last song on the long-running Fox comedy musical drama was, Lynch said it was a duet of an ABBA song with Morrison. "It was brutal," she added.