As she explained, nostalgic memories of her time on-set were brought to the surface as she filmed Netflix’s The Chosen One in 2022.

“The boy who plays my son is 13 years old, and him and his friends, who are this Goonies/Stand by Me little bunch, they are all between the ages of 13 and 16, and they hadn’t acted before,” Dianna noted. “Watching them interact with each other, I was reminded of the curiosity, enthusiasm, intrigue, and discovery that we had on Glee. It allowed me to reflect a lot on it.”

This included looking back at what was it was like to be a young woman in the spotlight, a factor she noted was a “sliding scale of appropriate to terribly inappropriate.”

And some of this stemmed by how people perceived her based on her character Quinn, a popular cheerleader, on the Fox show.