The “WandaVision” actor is set to portray the comedy legend in 'The Comeback Girl,' but many feel the role should have gone to a Jewish actor.
Tuesday, the series will chronicle Rivers’s life in the mid-1980s after she was fired from Fox’s “The Late Show” and her husband, Edgar Rosenberg, died by suicide.
“Trailblazer. Adored. Cruel. Diva. Joan Rivers had a life like no other,” the show’s promotion reads, . The “awe-inspiring” series promises to show how its legendary subject “persevered through near suicide and professional abyss to rebuild herself and her career to become a global icon.”, whose credits include “Dawson’s Creek” and the 2018 gay teen comedy, “Love, Simon.” Berlanti, Hahn and screenwriter Cosmo Carlson are its executive producers.
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