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# Betty Gilpin: The Time I Went Into a Full-Body Spasm for Six Days
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2018/08/betty-gilpin-the-time-i-went-into-a-full-body-spasm-for-six-days/
- Published: 2018-08-10T06:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-08T23:51:29.000Z
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-04-08 17:31, #ichris

Betty Gilpin plays Debbie "Liberty Belle" Eagan on the Netflix series GLOW. I'm currently a few episodes into season 2 but [Gilpin's description of life trying to make it as an actor](https://www.lennyletter.com/story/betty-gilpin-the-time-i-went-into-a-full-body-spasm-for-six-days?ref=chrisenns.com) puts a whole new perspective on the physical toll of being an actor - especially one acting like a female wrestler from the 80's:

> That week, I booked Glow, a show about female wrestling, and definitely the biggest part I'd ever had on-screen. I immediately began wrestling training between filming Masters. I'd get up at 3:30 a.m., workout, scream-drive through traffic to Masters, try not to be a terrible actor until rush hour, scream-drive through traffic to wrestling training, snort coffee before four hours of body slams, scream-drive home, and wake up to do it again. And again and again. I tried to Frankenstein a Sheryl out of my brainwomen, but they were in hysterics, sobbing into their bathrobes, trying to teach themselves Excel and linear thinking. It's fine, I thought. Once I get through this insane month, I will be fine. This is what all my successful actor friends have done for years while Crags and Ingrid had me YouTubing game-show winners. I could fake a Sheryl. I had to.