Glee - Interview with Jane Lynch

Jane Lynch, who portrays cheerleading coach and sworn enemy of the Glee club on Fox's "Glee," hinted that her character will warm up to the gang in an upcoming story arc this season. Still, she doesn't expect that fondness to last.

In a joint interview with SpoilerTV and other entertainment sites, Lynch was asked about the different dimensions of Sue.

Robby Soave, SpoilerTV: "Sometimes it seems like Sue really is trying to destroy the Glee Club, where other times it seems like she’s more trying to improve it through tough love. Are these two natures of Sue going to come to a head at some point or is there a way you would like to push the character to choose one or the other?"

Jane Lynch: "No, I don’t know if that will ever happen. The thing I keep coming back to Sue that motivates all these different ways she goes after them is that she just wants an enemy. She’s looking for the next fight. And sometimes it’s that fight to get these people to stand up for themselves instead of being so weak and wussy. And other times it’s, yes, to destroy them because they threaten her spotlight in the Cheerios that she works so hard to make a world-class cheerleading squad and she doesn’t want anything in their light. But I think she’s always looking for a formidable enemy.

"I think she also has a fondness for Will and for who he is and how he’s genuinely just a good person. In moments she hates him for it and other moments she has great admiration for him."

But it sounds like Sue's destroy-the-glee-club mode will be shutting down for at least the immediate future.

Amy Amatangelo, The Boston Herald: "Could you just talk about what else we’ll see coming up for Sue and for Glee in the second half of the season?"

Jane Lynch: "Let’s see, we’ve done a couple more after the Super Bowl episode. Sue has a devastating summer, suffers a devastating loss with her …after the Super Bowl episode and she becomes very, very depressed and she becomes kind of dangerously depressed, where she’s more violent than usual. They get her to join the Glee Club to lift her spirits and they find that raising her voice in song kind of lifts her and she gets out of her depression. So I’m actually in the Glee Club for a while."

Lynch also revealed some details of this Sunday's special Super Bowl episode, "The Sue Sylvester Bowl Shuffle."

Hal Boedeker, Orlando Sentinel: "Does Sue Sylvester get to be meaner than usual on Super Bowl Sunday?"

Lynch: "She does. We’re kind of doing an episode of Glee that is on steroids and writ large. Sue Sylvester is a little bored with her routine, even though she has kids riding around on BMX bikes and jumping through fire. And this one routine with Katy Perry’s California Girls she wants to top herself, so she finds out there’s a human cannon in town, she buys it and wants to shoot Britney out of it. …doesn’t allow it… And she has a hissy fit. She has two hissy fits where she just rips two rooms apart. So it was definitely Sue Sylvester on the war path."