{"id":668223,"date":"2026-10-28T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668223\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:08:09","slug":"harry-shum-jr-on-reprising-roles-in-glee-revival-crazy-rich-asians-series-would-love-to-try-find-a-way-to-make-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668223\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Shum Jr. On Reprising Roles In &#8216;Glee&#8217; Revival &#038; &#8216;Crazy Rich Asians&#8217; Series: &#8220;Would Love To Try &#038; Find A Way To Make It Work&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/harry-shum-jr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-shum-jr\" data-tag=\"harry-shum-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Shum Jr.<\/a> is currently a contestant on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dancing-with-the-stars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dancing-with-the-stars\" data-tag=\"dancing-with-the-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dancing with the Stars<\/a>,\u00a0and two franchises he\u2019s been part of are getting continuations: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/glee\/\" id=\"auto-tag_glee\" data-tag=\"glee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/crazy-rich-asians\/\" id=\"auto-tag_crazy-rich-asians\" data-tag=\"crazy-rich-asians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crazy Rich Asians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn October 7, Deadline reported that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/crazy-rich-asians-hbo-series-order-adele-lim-jon-m-chu-1237150542\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HBO ordered a series of <\/a>Crazy Rich Asians, and on October 21, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/glee-reboot-series-order-disney-hulu-1237169231\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+ and Hulu ordered<\/a> a Glee reboot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cYou know what? I love those two franchises,\u201d Shum Jr. told Entertainment Weekly after his participation on DWTS. \u201cObviously, the last of [Crazy Rich Asians] ended on the characters that Gemma [Chan] and I play, so I would love to try and find a way to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShum Jr. played Charlie Wu in the 2018 Jon M. Chu-directed romantic comedy. The actor appeared in a mid-credits scene teasing his love story with Chan\u2019s Astrid. Although the character was supposed to be the main focus of a Crazy Rich Asians sequel, it\u2019s unclear whether Shum Jr. will reprise his role in the TV series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Glee announcement made no mention of actors who could reprise their roles, but Shum Jr. said that although he\u2019s \u201ccurrently really, really busy now,\u201d he \u201cwould love to keep continuing because I love those franchises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShum Jr. played Mike Chang on Glee, introduced in the fourth episode of the inaugural season. The actor recurred during the first two seasons before being promoted to regular for Seasons 3 and 4. He went on to continue appearing as Mike during the series\u2019 final two seasons on Fox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline recently reported that OG\u00a0Glee\u00a0stars Heather Morris and Chord Overstreet were\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/glee-reboot-heather-morris-chord-overstreet-in-talks-cast-1237171340\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in talks to return<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0Glee\u00a0reboot, after previously reporting that Lea Michele was also in talks to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/lea-michele-glee-cast-reboot-rachel-berry-1237169876\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reprise her role as Rachel Berry.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Shum Jr. is currently a contestant on\u00a0Dancing with the Stars,\u00a0and two franchises he\u2019s been part of are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,275391,21183,93,67335,283020,61,60],"class_list":["post-668223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-crazy-rich-asians","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-entertainment","tag-glee","tag-harry-shum-jr","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}