Earlier than touchdown her breakout function on Abbott Elementary, Janelle James had her sights set on one other present.
The Golden Globe nominee just lately revealed she as soon as auditioned for Netflix‘s GLOW (2017-’19) a job she’s nonetheless “so salty” she didn’t land, almost 5 years after the streamer un-renewed the collection for a fourth and last season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I haven’t considered this shortly,” she prefaced on the Let’s Discuss Off Digital camera podcast. “One other factor I used to be enthusiastic about that I auditioned for as soon as was GLOW. Do you do not forget that? The feminine wrestling.”
Created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, GLOW (Beautiful Girls of Wrestling) was impressed by the Nineteen Eighties syndicated girls’s wrestling present of the identical title, starring Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin and a gifted female-led ensemble as struggling actresses who audition for the wrestling present.
“I actually wished that function,” she informed host Kelly Ripa. “It was for one of many feminine wrestlers and we needed to make up an ’80s rap and carry out it within the audition, and likewise do a combat scene with ourselves. I did this rap after which I did a spherical kick. And I keep in mind leaving that audition like, ‘Nailed it.’ And didn’t get that function.
Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Jackie Tohn, Ellen Wong, Gayle Rankin, Sydelle Noel and Marianna Palka in ‘GLOW’ (Ali Goldstein/Netflix/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
James added, “I’ve not watched one second of that present. I’m so salty. Possibly I’ll watch it at this time.”
The comic is probably going not as salty as followers of the present, after Netflix renewed it for a fourth and last season in 2019, filming two episodes earlier than the streamer reversed its renewal, explaining the pandemic made “taking pictures this bodily intimate present with its giant ensemble forged particularly difficult.”
