Janelle James is trying again on a job that acquired away.
Whereas showing in Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Discuss Off Digicam podcast, the Abbott Elementary star was requested if she’s capable of watch initiatives she auditioned for however didn’t get. James then mirrored on the one function she “actually wished.”
“I haven’t considered this in awhile. 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,” James mentioned. “I actually wished that function.”
She continued, “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 struggle 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 function.”
To date James mentioned she hasn’t “watched one second of that present.”
“I’m so salty,” she added earlier than providing that maybe she would watch it that day after the interview.
In 2020, Netflix reversed its fourth-season renewal resolution on GLOW, citing COVID-19 points as the rationale they might not go ahead with the sequence’ ultimate installment.
GLOW had began manufacturing on season 4 on the time. It accomplished one episode and began a second earlier than the coronavirus pandemic led to manufacturing shutdowns for it and different sequence and movies.
The sequence earned 18 Emmy nominations and three wins over the course of its three-season run. The present, created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, was a fictionalized telling of the real-life girls’s skilled wrestling program referred to as Beautiful Women of Wrestling that launched within the Nineteen Eighties.