“It was the best job I’ll ever have.”
GLOW actors lament the axing of women's wrestling comedy.
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“GLOW was canceled. I am sad,” actor Betty Gilpin has written in a piece for Vanity Fair.
The show was axed by Netflix given it was too difficult to resume with social distancing. However actor Marc Maron has also taken to social media asking for a telemovie to wrap things up.
Yesss https://t.co/ReAzwy6Nnq
— marc maron (@marcmaron) October 6, 2020
Gilpin continued, “It was the best job I’ll ever have. Our business is a strange mix of attempting childhood dreams to a room full of asleep people and shirking dignity for awake tomato-throwers for rent. This was one of those extremely rare times where we got to do the dream for awake people. And it didn’t disappear in an audition room or unsent email. We did it on a show, recorded it all, I swear. Thirty episodes.
“Panicked that I was never going to be able to support myself as an actor, a decade ago I did an arc on a show where you saw my areolas before you saw my face. Avoiding eye contact with ancestors’ ghosts, I bravely signed on to press my taint against the lens every four frames for Chipotle and weed money, while the other actors did real scenes in between. But there were two lapsed playwright-genius women on the writing room staff, and they went against the bro mandate and slowly changed the part to an addled character actor instead of a blow-up doll to boost ratings. I would cry into their scripts on the subway, clinging to their subliminal I see you.
“Then years later, three days before my wedding, those two ladies gave me GLOW.”
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2 Responses
“… I bravely signed on to press my taint against the lens every four frames for Chipotle and weed money.”
What a sentence!
Rarely do I click on the “read more here”, as I always find you provide enough info to feed my appetite, but the way Betty writes is fascinating! I had to click that button. Her comments on ‘Nurse Jackie’ were quite interesting, and I do remember her character morphing quite a bit as she went on. Never seen ‘GLOW’ so can’t comment on that one.