Joel McHale got very emotional during the Community movie table read 😢 'We did that table read during the pandemic and I cried like a baby afterwards and I’m not joking.'
A month after it was finally confirmed, Joel McHale opens up about the Community movie table read, earnestly saying he "cried like a baby afterwards." McHale starred as the lead of all six seasons of Community as Jeff Winger, a disbarred lawyer who starts a study group at Greendale Community College.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Ever since Danny Pudi's pop culture-obsessed Abed Nadir uttered the phrase, "six seasons and a movie," referring to the short-lived NBC series The Cape, Community's cult following latched onto the line as a hopeful motto for the show's future. After years of waiting and advocating from fans, the Community movie was finally confirmed to be in development with most of the original cast returning.
I’m going to look a lot older. I’m not kidding, so you know that I’m sarcastic about literally f—ing everything but um, there will be tears. We did that table read during the pandemic and I cried like a baby afterwards and I’m not joking. Everyone thinks that what I say is joking, but it is like being with — it really is like a family reunion but without a-holes. Because you know, you go to a family you and you’re like, "Ugh, there’s that one cousin of mine. He smells.
What To Expect From The Community Movie Most of the original cast is returning for the Community movie, including McHale, Pudi, Gillian Jacobs, and Alison Brie. Jim Rash, who played Glendale's Dean Craig Pelton, and Ken Jeong, who played the school's Spanish professor Señor Chang, have also been confirmed to return. Donald Glover and Yvette Nicole Brown were two stars missing from the original announcement, though it's possible their deals are still being worked out.
With Harmon and Andrew Guest returning to write the script, fans can expect the Community movie to remain true to everything that made the original show so beloved, including its meta-humor, frequent pop culture references, and homages to television and film tropes and clichés. Like the table read that McHale described, fans can also expect the Community movie itself to be a heartfelt reunion for their favorite television study group for the first time since 2015.