In an interview with the Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast (via Wrestling Inc), Alison Brie spoke about the new Netflix series GLOW. Here are highlights:
On watching the GLOW documentary: “I watched the documentary, which was really very interesting to hear all the women talk about their experience working on GLOW and so I could just get more of an idea of what a hit it was, like how quickly it landed with so many people. They’ve been very supportive of our show, but we really weren’t [meeting with the original GLOW performers] because we didn’t want to be stealing explicit details from their lives. Ruth is her own character. We’re not trying to imply that any of the women on that show slept with a married guy or any stuff like that, so you want to create your own person from the inside out.”
On being trained by Chavo Guerrero Jr: “I know [fans get mad when shows do not do pro wrestling right]! We were a bit nervous about that ourselves! But we trained with Chavo Guerrero, Jr., who is a pro wrestler and is from a wrestling legacy. His father was a pro wrestlers, so it’s major. He was the real expert on everything and taught the moves and the nomenclature. Chavo is the best and Chavo’s uncle, Mando Guerrero, trained the original women of GLOW, so that’s like a cool connection.”
On the actors coming to Chavo with move ideas: “We would bring in moves and be like, ‘look at this cool move! Let’s do that!’ And he’d be like, ‘no, that move wasn’t invented until 1994. We can’t do that on this show.’”
