Late Glee star Cory Monteith’s final role will arrive in theaters this Friday, eight months after his death. The 31-year-old actor will be featured in McCanick, alongside veteran actor David Morse.
The film is a crime mystery where Monteith portrays the drug addict and prisoner, Simon Weeks. In a new clip featured on E! News, Monteith sports long, wild hair and speaks in an unrecognizable voice as he wolfs down food beside Morse’s character, Eugene “Mack” McCanick.
“Take it easy, doesn’t your mother feed you?” Morse asks him in the intense clip. “I don’t have a mother,” Monteith murmurs in response. “I’m by myself.”
Last July, director Josh C. Waller told the Los Angeles Times that the role of Weeks was “cathartic” for Monteith. “You could sense it,” Waller said. “In my mind, I was envisioning a teeny little drug guy, but Cory Monteith is this tall, strapping man. But when I met with him, he wanted to do it so badly…He was very vocal about his past, and said he wanted to tap into things from his youth that he hadn’t been able to use as an actor yet.”
Monteith himself had struggled with substance abuse in the past and had recently completed a stint in rehab a few months before his death. In a June 2013 interview with Parade, the star stated that during his teenage years he would take “anything and everything, as much as possible.”
Monteith died on July 13. A toxicology report later revealed his death was a result of a mixture of heroin and alcohol.
See the trailer for his final film below:
