Inside June Squibb's Unlikely Friendship With a Glee Co-Star 60 Years Her Junior

June Squibb went on Amy Poehler's podcast and casually reminded everyone that sometimes the sweetest Hollywood friendships are the real ones. She and Chris Colfer hit it off on Glee back in 2014, and a decade later they are still tight. The age gap is big — she is 96, he is 35 — but that has never mattered to them.

How it started

Squibb told Amy Poehler on 'Good Hang' that her connection with Colfer began on the Glee episode he wrote in 2014. He was front and center in the story, and the episode revolved around Kurt helping an older woman, Maggie (played by Squibb), put on a community production of 'Peter Pan.' Within that, Squibb was playing Wendy — yes, it is delightfully meta. They were paired in a bunch of big scenes and shot for around a week and a half, maybe two. Spending that much time side by side on set is what did it; they clicked fast and stayed in each other's orbit.

From coworkers to actual friends

After the shoot wrapped, the friendship only got stronger. Squibb says they started having dinner together, and she got to know Colfer's partner, Will Sherrod — who she says she absolutely adores. No formal mentor stuff, no 'let me tell you how it works' vibe. Just two people who liked each other and kept showing up.

'If I like someone, I don't think I ever think in terms of how old they are. If I feel an affinity, that there's something here that I want to be more a part of... I mean, why would I tell anyone what to do?'

The bottom line

Squibb calls them heavy-duty buddies, and it tracks. They met during a long, oddly charming Glee arc about seniors staging 'Peter Pan,' bonded over a lot of close-quarters filming, and carried it into real life — dinners, friendship, the whole thing — for more than ten years. Hollywood could use more of that energy.