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Revision as of 17:42, 30 December 2011
| Santana Lopez | |
|---|---|
 Naya Rivera as Santana on the Glee Live! In Concert! tour. | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" |
| Created by | Ryan Murphy Brad Falchuk Ian Brennan |
| Portrayed by | Naya Rivera |
| In-universe information | |
| Occupation | High School student |
Santana Lopez is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Naya Rivera, and has appeared in Glee from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. Santana was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Introduced as a minor antagonist and a sidekick to Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) in first episode of Glee, Santana's role grew over the course of the show's first season. In the second season, Santana has seen more high profile storylines, such as her romantic feelings for her best friend Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris), which leads her to discover she is a lesbian. Rivera, who has been vocally supportive of the love story between hers and Morris' characters,[1][2] has received praise for her portrayal of Santana, as well as for her for vocal work in numerous songs performed as part of the show's central glee club, New Directions.
Santana is introduced alongside Quinn and Brittany as one of the three most popular cheerleaders at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio, where the show is set.[3] She joins the school's glee club, and soon is spying on it for Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), coach of the cheerleading team the Cheerios. As the season progresses, she becomes more sympathetic to other glee club members, saying she is staying in the club not because Sue is forcing her, but because she likes it. She has several romantic relationships, briefly dating Puck (Mark Salling), taking Finn Hudson's (Cory Monteith) virginity, and carrying on a friends with benefits relationship with Brittany. In season two, the show delves into the motivations behind Santana's antagonism and her sexual aggressiveness towards boys; it is later revealed that her cruel attitude is because she is struggling with her romantic feelings towards Brittany, and subsequently with her lesbian identity. This storyline has been positively received by critics.
Storylines
Santana is introduced as a popular cheerleader at William McKinley High School . Santana and her friends Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) and Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris) join the school glee club, New Directions; cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) then enlists the three of them to help her destroy the glee club from the inside.[4] Initially romantically linked to football player Noah "Puck" Puckerman (Mark Salling), Santana soon breaks up with him over his bad credit score,[5] though the two have an on-again, off-again relationship well into the show's second season. Brittany also reveals in an offhand comment that she and Santana have slept together. When the two are accused of giving Sue the New Directions set list for their first show choir competition, Santana defends herself and admits that she has come to enjoy participating in the club.[6] After Quinn is kicked off the cheerleading squad due to her pregnancy, Santana takes over as head cheerleader. At Sue's behest, Santana and Brittany go on a date with glee club co-captain Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith).[7] Santana takes his virginity, though Finn immediately regrets sleeping with her.[8] When Puck begins dating Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley), Santana is jealous and confronts her with an aggressive duet of "The Boy Is Mine".[9] A similar confrontation, though entirely physical, occurs in the second season after Puck sings a love song to Lauren Zizes (Ashley Fink) in front of the glee club, though Santana loses badly to Lauren.
In season two, Santana is demoted from her position as head cheerleader when Quinn reveals that she had breast implants over the summer, leading to a physical fight between the two.[10] While making out, Brittany suggests to Santana that the two of them should sing Melissa Etheridge's "Come To My Window" for a glee club duet competition. Alarmed, Santana claims that she was only sleeping with Brittany because Puck was not available. Brittany begins to date club member Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale), which piques Santana's jealousy.[11] They briefly quit the glee club when Sue demands that they choose between it and being cheerleaders, however Finn convinces them to reverse their decision. Temporarily without a boyfriend, she breaks up Quinn and her boyfriend Sam Evans (Chord Overstreet), and dates him herself for several weeks. Confronted by Brittany about her feelings for her, Santana confesses that she is in love with her, but fears being ostracized by the student body for being in a same-sex relationship. Brittany reciprocates her love, but declines to break up with Artie.[12] In the hope of convincing Brittany to be with her, Santana runs for school prom queen. She blackmails closeted jock Dave Karofsky (Max Adler) into becoming her beard and running mate; he wins prom king, but Santana is not named queen. Brittany comforts her, and encourages her to embrace her identity.
In season three, Santana rejoins the Cheerios along with Brittany and is made co-captain by Sue alongside Becky Jackson (Lauren Potter). She is kicked out of New Directions for disloyalty, though she is soon allowed back. But in "Pot o' Gold," she leaves again to join Mercedes in the newly formed rival glee club, the Troubletones, and convinces Brittany, who is now her girlfriend, to come with her. In "Mash Off", Santana takes the clubs' rivalry to a new level by bullying Finn and Rory. Finn slowly tires of it and after Santana's "apology" turns into another stream of insults, he accuses her of being a coward for tearing other people down only because she can't admit to everyone that she's in love with Brittany. This is overheard by other students, one of whom tells her uncle, who is running for Congress against Sue and Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley). He plans to use Santana's lesbianism in an attack ad against Sue, and sends Burt an advance copy of the ad. Burt, Sue and Will warn Santana that the ad is about to air, and she is devastated at this public outing: she hasn't yet come out to her parents. She blames Finn and slaps him, and would have been suspended had Finn not lied and claimed it was actually a stage slap. Santana is suspicious of his motives but Finn convinces her to come back to New Directions for the week along with her fellow Troubletones to see that there are people who have her back regardless of her sexuality. When Santana is confronted by an arrogant jock who wants to "change her mind" about men, the New Directions and Troubletones girls shut him down. Her parents are accepting of her revelation, but her grandmother is offended that Santana has decided to make her sexuality public, and tells her to leave and never come back. Although Santana is devastated by her grandmother's rejection, she tells the other Glee club members that she appreciates their support and knows that she can rely on them.
Songs
Development
Before her casting on Glee, Naya Rivera had made numerous appearances in small roles on popular primetime television shows. In casting Glee, series creator Ryan Murphy sought actors who could identify with the rush of starring in theatrical roles. Auditioning actors with no theatrical experience were required to prove they could sing and dance as well as act.[13] Rivera drew on her own high school experience of unpopularity to prepare for the role, as well as watching films such as Mean Girls to "really get in the zone and feel like a bitchy Sophomore".[14] She has described Santana as "your typical high school cheerleader, for the most part,"[14] explaining: "She's really mean and loves boys. She's really witty so I love playing her."[14] She has characterized Santana as "a bit of a bad girl" who is "really snarky and always has these really witty one-liners she throws out there."[15] Rivera enjoys the fact Santana is competitive and headstrong as she herself shares those traits, but dislikes Santana's mean streak.[16] She auditioned for the role as she loves singing, dancing and acting, and had never before had the opportunity to combine all three skills in one project. She finds the show's pacing challenging, especially the dancing, and commented in June 2009 that her most memorable moment on Glee was performing the Cheerios' glee club audition piece, "I Say a Little Prayer".[14] Santana played a more prominent part in the last nine episodes of Glee's first season.[17] Rivera commented: "Santana's been wreaking havoc with people's boyfriends and people's babies and teachers—she's the high school terror, and she's going to continue to be the villain." Although Santana continues to step over others to get what she wants, she exhibits moments of compassion and loyalty to the glee club.[18]
Rivera has been vocal in her support of the Santana/Brittany relationship, and her attitudes toward Santana's emotional attachment have informed her portrayal of the character. In April 2010, when asked if any of "the guys" were Santana's soul mate, Rivera answered, "I think that Brittany is her soul mate. I think that they should end up together. They're in love."[1] A month later, when interviewed by The Advocate, she reiterated this point, saying, "Maybe they’ll fall in love. I do think they're soul mates. Brittany just gets Santana, even though a lot of people don’t like her."[19] On December 8, 2010, after a surge of fan disappointment over Twitter at the recent absence of Brittana, Rivera tweeted, "There’s been a Brittana fan uproar…Don’t worry, I miss it too."[2] In January 2011, after several more "Brittana fan uproars", in an article entitled "The future of Brittana: Outlook Not so good", Rivera expressed the reason for such strong fan response: "Honestly, on a deeper level, to the girls that are going through that and it's not so comical in their world, in their everyday lives, they kind of looked up to us, in a sense. That's kind of my reason for hoping they continue the storyline."[20] Ironically, soon after this pessimistic article, Brad Falchuk, co-creator of Glee, tweeted on January 20, "Brittana is on. Brittana was always on."[21]
Santana's arc following "Sexy", where she admits her romantic feelings for Brittany, sees Santana come to terms with her sexual orientation. Falchuk describes Santana, from this point, as having come out internally to herself, but being afraid of coming out to her peers. "Santana is a lesbian. She might not be ready to come out yet, but she is."[22]
Reception
Critical response
When a promotional clip for the episode "Sectionals" indicated that Brittany and Santana had slept together, Dorothy Snarker, writing for lesbian entertainment website AfterEllen.com, praised the pairing, referring to them by the portmanteau "Brittana". Snarker called the two her "new favorite Glee pairing", commenting that: "While Heather Morris (Brittany) and Naya Rivera (Santana) have had minimal screen time, they’ve made it count. [...] Never mind Finn and Rachel—I'm on Team Brittana now."[23]
Todd VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club praised the character development of Santana, calling it the highlight of the episode "Born This Way". He continued, "The best thing about this episode is Naya Rivera’s work as Santana and the story the three writers have cooked up for her. Rivera's really come into her own this season, going from just a generic bitchy cheerleader to an actual character who has motivations and might be a better villain for the show than Sue. [...] On a show where we’re meant to accept that the characters do whatever the fuck the writers need them to from scene to scene, the storyline of Santana realizing she was in love with Brittany and [...] is probably a lesbian has been nicely plotted and surprisingly deep. The reveal about Santana hasn't washed away her less savory qualities; indeed, it's heightened them, to a degree, as she struggles to be true to herself and still maintain her status as the hottest girl in school."[24]
Accolades
At the 2010 AfterEllen.com Visibility Awards, Brittany and Santana were nominated for the Favorite Fictional Lesbian Couple award, and Rivera was nominated in the Favorite TV Actress category.[25] Also that year, Rivera was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress/Television category at the Imagen Awards,[26] and she and her co-stars won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.[27] They were nominated in the same category the following year.[28] At the 2011 ALMA Awards, Rivera was nominated in the Favorite TV Actress – Leading Role in a Comedy category.[29]
References
- ^ a b dos Santos, Kristin (April 13, 2010). ""Glee" Gets Romantic". E! Online. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
- ^ a b Rivera, Naya (December 8, 2010). "December 08 Tweet". Retrieved March 2, 2011.
- ^ Kelly, Mike (May 17, 2009). "'Glee' series set in a Lima high school has Toledo connection too". The Blade. The Toledo Times. Retrieved May 19, 2009.
- ^ Ryan Murphy (director, writer), Brad Falchuk (writer), Ian Brennan (writer) (September 9, 2009). "Showmance". Glee. Season 1. Episode 2. Fox.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ John Scott (director), Ryan Murphy (writer) (September 16, 2009). "Acafellas". Glee. Season 1. Episode 3. Fox.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ Brad Falchuk (director, writer) (December 9, 2009). "Sectionals". Glee. Season 1. Episode 13. Fox.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ Brad Falchuk (director), Ian Brennan (writer) (April 13, 2010). "Hell-O". Glee. Season 1. Episode 14. Fox.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ Goldman, Eric (May 11, 2010). "Glee: "The Power of Madonna" Review". IGN. Retrieved September 24, 2010.
- ^ Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (director), Ryan Murphy (writer) (May 11, 2010). "Laryngitis". Glee. Season 1. Episode 18. Fox.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|series link=ignored (help) - ^ Brad Falchuk (director), Ian Brennan (writer) (September 22, 2010). "Audition". Glee. Season 2. Episode 1. Fox.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|series link=ignored (help) - ^ Eric Stoltz (director), Ian Brennan (writer) (October 12, 2010). "Duets". Glee. Season 2. Episode 4. Fox.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|series link=ignored (help) - ^ Ryan Murphy (director), Brad Falchuk (writer) (March 8, 2011). "Sexy". Glee. Season 2. Episode 15. Fox.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|series link=ignored (help) - ^ Martin, Denise (April 26, 2009). "Video: 'Glee' team rewrites the school musical". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved May 19, 2009.
- ^ a b c d Steinberg, Jamie (May 2009). "Naya Rivera - Filled With Glee". Starry Constellation Magazine. Retrieved June 2, 2009.
- ^ "TWIST Chats With Glee's Naya Rivera". Twist. Bauer Publishing. September 15, 2009. Retrieved December 18, 2009.
- ^ Simpson, Melody (March 17, 2009). "Meet Cory Monteith & Naya Rivera of Glee". Hollywood the Write Way. Retrieved December 18, 2009.
- ^ Ninojosa, Stacy (December 3, 2009). "Naya Rivera From 'Glee' Talks Santana, Singing and Spencer Pratt". Just So You Know. Retrieved December 18, 2009.
- ^ dos Santos, Kristin (December 14, 2009). "Spoiler Chat: Is Jenny Humphrey a Gossip Girl Homewrecker?". E! Online. Retrieved December 18, 2009.
- ^ Voss, Brandon (May 4, 2010). "Naya Rivera: Bring It On Bitch!". The Advocate. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
- ^ Bendix, Trish (January 12, 2011). "The future of Brittana: Outlook not so good". AfterEllen. Logo. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
- ^ Falchuk, Brad (January 20, 2011). "January 20 Tweet". Retrieved March 2, 2011.
- ^ Goldberg, Lesley (March 17, 2011). "Ryan Murphy says "Santana is a lesbian"". AfterEllen.com. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
- ^ Snarker, Dorothy (December 7, 2009). ""Glee" spoils us with an unexpected coupling". AfterEllen.com. Retrieved December 7, 2009.
- ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (April 26, 2011). ""Born This Way"". The A.V. Club. Onion, Inc. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ^ AfterEllen.com Staff (December 1, 2010). "The AfterEllen.com 2010 Visibility Awards – Vote Now!". AfterEllen.com. Logo. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
- ^ "Nominees for 25th Annual Imagen Awards Announced". Imagen Foundation. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
- ^ "16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards scorecard". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. January 23, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
- ^ "Nominations Announced for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". www.sag.org. Screen Actors Guild. December 16, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
- ^ Powers, Lindsay (July 28, 2011). "'The Voice's' Christina Aguilera, Selena Gomez Among ALMA Award Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
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