WME has signed Henry Eikenberry for representation. He just landed a key role in Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room, a seasonal anthology series from Akiva Goldsman and New Regency. The series also stars Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum.
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Emmy Rossum went to extreme lengths to get into character for her new series “Angelyne”.
The series is “based on The Hollywood Reporter‘s investigative article about Angelyne, L.A.’s mysterious billboard icon.”
It took Rossum around four to five hours in makeup every day to transform into the singer/model, with her getting blisters from the fake breasts she had to wear for filming.
Rossum also suffered tear duct issues from wearing two pairs of contact lenses and from the heavy eye makeup.
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The actress told The Hollywood Reporter, “The physicality of the character was challenging. The body is heavy, yet it has to feel light and effervescent.
“But I just kept focusing on how lucky I felt. This opportunity is really every actor’s dream. You raise your hand and you say, ‘Hey, I’d like to play this, and this is how I envision the story.’”
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She added of her transformation, “I found it to be completely liberating to look in the mirror and not see myself at all. At first, it’s unnerving. But feeling lost gives way to this real liberation — from myself and the hang-ups that can impede a performance.”
Rossum teamed up with her husband, Sam Esmail, to produce the five-episode limited series, and even he didn’t recognize her at times.
He told the publication, “When I say that there are times where I did not recognize her because she was lost in this person, I really mean it. This is my wife I’m talking about. It’s kind of eerie.”
“Angelyne” drops on Peacock May 19.
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streaming, the limited series follows Angelyne (Emmy Rossum, “Shameless”), nee Ronia Tamar Goldberg, who, for decades, has been an iconic curiosity driving around in her pink Corvette (think a more Hollywood version of the infamous Times Square Naked Cowboy) and appearing on billboards where it wasn’t clear what she was advertising — aside from her own desire for everyone to know her face. As depicted from a nearly unrecognizable Rossum (who’s buried beneath a platinum bouffant, fake chest and Minnie Mouse voice), Angelyne’s aesthetic is part Dolly Parton, part Barbie. The show compares her to a prototype of figures who are “famous for being famous” such as Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.
EXCLUSIVE: Henry Eikenberry (Euphoria), Henry Zaga (Beyond The Universe), Thomas Sadoski (Life In Pieces), Will Chase (Dopesick), Laila Robins (The Walking Dead), Sam Vartholomeos (Bridge and Tunnel) and Levon Thurman-Hawk have joined Tom Holland in The Crowded Room, Apple’s seasonal anthology series from A Beautiful Mind‘s Akiva Goldsman and New Regency. In addition to Holland, they join previously cast Amanda Seyfried, Emmy Rossum, Sasha Lane, Christopher Abbot, Emma Laird, Jason Isaacs and Lior Raz.
spoke with Inside Edition about how she feels about the portrayal.She explained that “Angelyne” is fictionalized and doesn’t give a full account of her life. “I had a glimpse of it and I refused to watch it,” she said. She went on, “It doesn’t do me justice.
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Emmy Rossum admitted it took more than 11 hours in the hair and makeup chair to transform into Angelyne for the Peacock series about the mysterious Los Angeles billboard icon. The 35-year-old former "Shameless" actress detailed the extensive process of playing the legendary LA local, whose known around town for driving her Barbie pink Corvette and became famous in the '80s when massive billboards featuring her portrait started appearing on city streets.
love to be like Barbie,” Emmy Rossum as Angelyne in the Peacock series of the same name. “She lives a painless existence. You can stick her with things and she won’t cry, she doesn’t hurt.
Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticStay in Los Angeles long enough, and you’ll have an Angelyne story. Decades after plastering the city in mysterious billboards bearing her name and Barbie-esque silhouette, the self-made urban legend can still be found zipping through the streets in her signature Corvette, a flash of bubblegum pink on the desert horizon.