'GLOW' star Betty Gilpin on her lead role in the hot button satire 'The Hunt'
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“The way this particular movie has gone, there’s been so much noise in the wrong direction,” she said of the controversy that led to Universal pulling “The Hunt” last August, referring to how conservative media took aim at the film’s “deplorables vs. elites” premise. Even President Trump issued disapproving Tweets that were widely read as slamming “The Hunt.”
“We’ve shown the movie to people on all sides of the political divide, and they agree that it was much ado about nothing,” he added.That’s not to say that landing in the middle of a heated media firestorm was easy for anyone, including Gilpin. In the name of self-care she avoids social media, because she knows even the “likes” and validations of strangers online can be a double-edged sword.
“You can get trapped in the Vanity Fair party inside your brain... and then you’re just an empty Evian bottle at a crafty table.”She’d been in a handful of indie films and landed supporting turns in bigger ones, playing Rebel Wilson’s BFF-turned-frenemy in the rom-com “Isn’t It Romantic” and Kumail Nanjiani’s crush in “Stuber.” But the more steady work came in TV, highlighted by runs on Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie” and “Masters of Sex.
That call took Gilpin by surprise. “I was like, ‘Craig — I’m a TV actor who nobody knows!’ Without being self-deprecating, just by the math of our business, movie stars get movie star parts,” she said. At the time she was filming “A Dog’s Journey,” the second film in theBetty Gilpin, left, and Alison Brie star as pro wrestlers going beyond the mat in Netflix’s “GLOW.”part. Which,” she added, “I was happy to do.
Shadowy string-puller Athena faces off against the resourceful Crystal in bruising hand-to-hand combat in “The Hunt.”
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