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“Glow” lead actress and all around stellar first time 2018 Emmy Betty Gilpin aka Libert Belle, rose to prominence with the monster hit Netflix show. Being one of our current favorite visual moving pieces on thee online streaming service. Betty stars alongside Alison Brie, Kate Nash and Marc Maron. With the monster success of season one and season two, we are now getting press release word that Season 3 is coming to a Netflix near you!
Season 1 and 2 showed us what the girls were capable of doing, but now that the groundwork has been laid, we are ecstatic to see scarier moves and bigger things and overall action and pushing from the characters themselves both emotionally and physically.
The show stands out for us because for one it’s mostly an all-female set. And we think that’s important to create an atmosphere where risky things that manifest alive but with comfort and safety the tone and set of the show is very warm, cool, crazy set. It encourages us, men and women of all races and ages. It’s most definitely an inclusive show.
As the patriotic pro wrestler Liberty Belle on GLOW, Betty Gilpin rules the ring in rehearsed battles against her fellow performers. Usually thee victorious one on the show, in real life, she isn’t so sure for the actress nomination at the Emmys, where she has been nominated in the best supporting comedy category with seven other nominees. “I was face down on my living room floor in shock. I just wasn’t expecting [the nomination] at all, and I was completely knocked over by the news,” Betty spills to The Hollywood Reporter.
She dishes on how the second season of the 1980s-inspired hit focused on her character Debbie Eagan’s rage after her life was turned upside down in the show’s debut season.
“I mean, we’re learning [as a society that] all women have within them a person who is ready to throw a watermelon through a window pane. I think wrestling in a weird way is this perfect vehicle for [Debbie] to use that rage in a constructive and strange way. My brain was like, ‘Your body’s function is to stay as small and still and sexy and young as possible. And then when those things fade, maybe go live in a tundra and read the classics because no one’s going to want you around anymore,'” Betty hilariously declared. “And I think that wrestling was the first time where I was like, ‘Oh no, I’m not just obliques and nipples and calves and ankles.'”
She also gushed how her wrestling persona and how the alter ego is really a love-hate letter to the entertainment industry, where complex women are often ignored. “I try to play Liberty Bell as someone trying to be like a perfect Toddlers and Tiaras but who has severe instability happening behind the eyes.”
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:: PSSS, carebears, because we know you guys are our kind of people, the first and second seasons of GLOW are now streaming on Netflix. It’s a binging decadent delight.
Betty struts onto thee Stephen Colbert Show recalling her high school self, being part theater geek, part jam band stoner! Dig out all the funny below!
