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- I feel so lucky to get to work on GLOW
with all of these feminist powerhouse women,
who are so intelligent and informed.
I don't write on the show, so it's like out of my control,
I do think it's a show that could have been made any time,
but the meaning has changed, - Hm-mm, yeah.
- even from when we started shooting it.
- You think you've got me, but then I come back on up
with the soon to be famous rough toilet paper, argh!
And then you know, it's fight, fight, fight,
I'm bad, you're good,
I'm winning, argh, kah, you're winning, uh,
argh, oh, step off, she's still got me,
oh, you stupid, American swine, argh!
Pull the hair and big finish,
vodka for breakfast!
You know, when we started shooting it,
Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, our showrunners
thought, we're making this show in the time,
where we're gonna have our first female president
- Right. - and that's where
- Interesting. - we're leading this story
- Oh yeah. - Hm-mm.
- and the election happened,
while we were shooting season one
and obviously the tone of the world changed
and it gave the show a different meaning
and a different importance.
You know, I agree that I think in the past,
I've felt much more timid about expressing,
and I do still feel a little bit timid
and you can be targeted and belittled in a way that's like,
"You're an actress, why does your opinion matter?"
But it goes back to what you were saying, Tracee,
about I'm a human being, I'm a citizen in this country,
- Yeah. - so I'm allowed
to have opinions, you know
and now we're living in a time,
where it is more and more vital to stay silent,
because you're afraid of losing part of an audience,
- Right. - Yeah.
- it would be a real shame, - Yeah.
- where I feel like in the past, I'd be like,
I am just an actress working on a comedy show
and like, I don't know,
do I wanna ostracize people who disagree?
But - that's the thing.
- there's such glaring issues. - Yeah.
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- I feel like with our show set in the '80s,
there's so much stuff that you wanna point out
about the injustices that were happening to women
and why women need to speak their voices,
- Yeah.
- Like the fact that it resonates so much now,
- I know. - Yeah.
- that we still need to be rule breakers
and fight for certain rights is just interesting,
I would say the same, that I don't think it's changed
the dialog of our show or how it's being made,
I guess it just makes it more relevant.
Early on in shooting GLOW,
Betty Gilpin, who's on the show with me
described our show as a Trojan horse,
like to get these like real stories
about women into like men's homes,
who expect to see girls in tiny clothes
like wrestling each other. - Right, right.
(laughing)
- But actually we're smuggling in like truth,
and like, into like, - Smuggling in truth.
(speaking together)
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- dynamic female friendships
(laughing)
and heart, relatability
and like stuff like that. - Yes.
- Smuggling about all of you in your leotards,
- I know. - jumping out of a horse,
- Yes. (laughing)
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- talking about female friendships.
- That's awesome. - Yes.
(laughing)
(speaking together)
- What is your personal show or performance
of 2017, 2018?
- Donald Glover as Teddy Perkins
has been haunting me. - Haunting me,
- Literal nightmares. - haunting me.
- [Alison] This is like a person I know,
to like to have him transformed into that character,
I mean, we all know him, but you know.
- No, that was really, - it was like,
it took me a couple of scenes even just to be like,
is that?
- I knew in the first moment and then I got lost.
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- Alright, we're living in, whether we call it
the Me Too era or The Times Of era,
I'm curious for you guys,
how your world and your perspective has changed.
- The conversations used to happen in tiny rooms
just with your best girlfriend,
like, I don't think this was okay,
- [Tracee] With a little shame involved.
- Totally with shame involved, - Yeah.
- and maybe I read it wrong, it was a doubt
and now it's like the floodgates are opening,
but in a good way, where everyone is,
the shame has been removed, the doubt has been removed,
hearing other women's stories
in such a open and massive way
has sort of given everyone permission to go like,
"Oh my God, I'm not alone,"
and like, "It's not okay."
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