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Janelle James Is “So Salty” She Did not Get ‘GLOW’ Position


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Earlier than touchdown her breakout position on Abbott Elementary, Janelle James had her sights set on one other present.

The Golden Globe nominee lately revealed she as soon as auditioned for Netflix‘s GLOW (2017-’19) a task she’s nonetheless “so salty” she didn’t land, practically 5 years after the streamer un-renewed the collection for a fourth and remaining 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 keep in mind that? The feminine wrestling.”

Created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, GLOW (Attractive Girls of Wrestling) was impressed by the Eighties syndicated ladies’s wrestling present of the identical identify, starring Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin and a proficient female-led ensemble as struggling actresses who audition for the wrestling present.

“I actually wished that position,” 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 bear in mind leaving that audition like, ‘Nailed it.’ And didn’t get that position.

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. Perhaps I’ll watch it at present.”

The comic is probably going not as salty as followers of the present, after Netflix renewed it for a fourth and remaining season in 2019, filming two episodes earlier than the streamer reversed its renewal, explaining the pandemic made “capturing this bodily intimate present with its giant ensemble forged particularly difficult.”