Betty Gilpin said goodbye to her hit Netflix series GLOW in a heartfelt ‘eulogy’

Just days after Netflix canceled GLOW, after production was halted on the fourth and final season, Betty Gilpin has reacted to the news.

While stars such as Alison Brie, Marc Maron, Rich Sommer and others reacted on social media, Gilpin, 34, who doesn’t have social media, reacted in a different way.

The actress, who played Debbie ‘Liberty Belle’ Eagan on the Netflix series, loosely based on the real ladies wrestling show from the 1980s, wrote her own ‘eulogy’ to the show for Vanity Fair, where she calls the role, ‘the best job I’ll ever have.’ 

She began by acknowledging that there are bigger problems in the world than a show being canceled.

‘If you are one of the many drowning in real-life horrors at this time and the musings of a sulking marionette would be the thing that tilts your van wheel into a pond, please stop reading here, and I wish you all the strength you need to get through this fecal hurricane of a time,’ she said.  

‘GLOW was canceled. I am sad. It was the best job I’ll ever have. Our business is a strange mix of attempting childhood dreams to a room full of asleep people and shirking dignity for awake tomato-throwers for rent,’ she added.

She added the show was, ‘one of the extremely rare times we got to do the dream for awake people.’

Gilpin also spoke about her role as Dr. Carrie Roman on Nurse Jackie, where, ‘you saw my areolas before you saw my face.’

There were ‘two lapsed playwright-genius women’ on that show who slowly transformed the character, and who would go on to create GLOW – Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch.

‘Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, I will be forever grateful to you. You changed my life. It’s sad and weird to end this way. But we did get to do it 30 times. I mean, I cried a lot on that subway. I never thought I’d get to do it once,’ she added.

Gilpin also joked that, according to the show’s ratings, ‘GLOW really only appealed to men in kimonos and women in cat hair, who, as far as I’m concerned, are the beating heart of the arts and the reason to keep waking up.’

She also recommended that people watch GLOW if you are, ‘feeling insane at waking up every morning to check your phone to see if the emperor having no clothes counts as being immune-compromised, and you need a break 

Gilpin went on to thank Beth Morgan for her ‘perfect costumes,’ along with makeup artist Lana Horochowski and hairstylist Theraesa Rivers.

She also thanked wrestling consultant Chavo Guerrero Jr., stunt coordinator Shauna Duggins and co-stars Marc Maron and Chris Lowell, before concluding with a heartfelt tribute to Alison Brie.

‘In a world with so much wickedness, I am so very grateful I got to spend three years in Oz. And in a real backhanded All About Eve move, in this metaphor I’m going to cast myself as Dorothy and Alison Brie as the Scarecrow. Because of course I’m going to miss you most of all,’ she concluded.

Her co-star Marc Maron also opened up more about the cancellation in an Instagram Live video, where he suggested Netflix let them make a two-hour movie to close out the show.

‘Let us wrap it up in a two-hour Netflix movie. Give the showrunners and the cast and the writers the chance to finish the story in a movie, right? Then it’s all fine. That would take the financial pressure off and the writers could play it out, we could shoot it out,’ Maron said.

‘The thing about shooting a movie is that when you have the whole shooting script you can be economical about your shooting. I think they could do it in less time than it would take to shoot the show,’ he added.