Donald Glover was snapped Wednesday in New York City as his recollections about former Community co-star Chevy Chase’s behavior on the set of the NBC show made headlines.
The 34-year-old entertainer kept warm in a brown leather bomber jacket with a fleece collar, light blue jeans, wearing a surgical mask to ward off germs as he arrived at LaGuardia Airport.
Glover, who’s made music under the moniker Childish Gambino, carried silver metallic luggage and wore an olive green backpack as he arrived at the travel hub.
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Protected: Donald Glover, 34, was snapped Wednesday in New York City as his recollections about former Community co-star Chevy Chase’s behavior on the set of the NBC show made headlines
Glover, who’s set to play Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story, was later snapped, sans mask, making his way out into the city.
In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Glover kept things classy as he said how he viewed Chase as an entertainer uncomfortable with the idea that he was past his prime on the set of the NBC series, which ran from 2009 thru 2015.
‘I just saw Chevy as fighting time – a true artist has to be OK with his reign being over,’ Glover said of Chase, a box office king of the 1980s with films such as Fletch, Caddyshack and the National Lampoon’s vacations films. ‘I can’t help him if he’s thrashing in the water. But I know there’s a human in there somewhere – he’s almost too human.’
Community creator Dan Harmon, 45, accused Chase in the piece of making racially-charged remarks and jokes to Glover out of his seething envy of the gifted performer, once telling him, ‘People think you’re funnier because you’re black.
Smart: Glover kept germ-free by wearing a surgical mask at LaGuardia Airport
Out and about: The surging entertainer was mobbed as he made his way out in the Big Apple
‘Chevy was the first to realize how immensely gifted Donald was, and the way he expressed his jealously was to try to throw Donald off,’ said Harmon. ‘I remember apologizing to Donald after a particularly rough night of Chevy’s non-P.C. verbiage, and Donald said, “I don’t even worry about it.”‘
Chase, 74, told the magazine of the report that he was ‘saddened to hear that Donald perceived [him] in that light.’
Harmon and Chase infamously were at odds during the veteran actor’s latter days on the program, with Harmon insulting Chase at a wrap party for the show; and airing an obscene voicemail Chase left him for staffers, Deadline reported.
Moving forward: Glover revealed the awkwardness he experienced working with Chevy Chase on the show community, seeing the actor as a person ‘fighting time’
Revelation: The show’s creator Dan Harmon told the publication that a jealous Chase would make racially-tinged remarks to throw Glover off his game
Chase constantly had friction with castmates during his time as both as a member of the Saturday Night Live cast and when he returned to host, according to the book Live From New York.
In one instance when he hosted the show in 1985, Chase was forced by producers to apologize to comic Terry Sweeney, the program’s first openly gay cast member, when he pitched a recurring bit that would have Sweeney portraying an AIDS patient who was weighed every week.
‘He was really furious that he had to apologize to me,’ Sweeney said in the book. ‘He was just beside himself. And it was just awful. He acted horribly to me. He acted horribly to everyone.’