Charlize eron produced TV show a Netflix hit

26 May, 2017 - 08:24

South African born actress Charlize Theron is an executive producer on the popular new Netflix series. Britt Robertson is no stranger to having to emote on the screen. She played a foster kid who finds her birth parents in the CW series Life Unexpected and a young waitress kidnapped and held hostage in CBS Under the Dome.

The 27-year-old actress is now starring in the Netflix comedy Girlboss, based on the rags-to-riches story of Sophia Amoruso, who started selling vintage clothing on eBay in her early twenties and built the Nasty Gal empire that made her a millionaire. The best-selling #Girlboss, published in 2014, is the basis for the series.

Robertson says she thought acting in a half-hour comedy would be easy, but playing a version of the fearless and witty Amoruso, called Sophia Marlowe on the show, was energy-sucking.

It took more out of me than anything else Ive ever done in my life, in a good way. You want to be challenged. You want to be fulfilled and that takes energy, but ... its hard, she said recently.

Robertson had to change her look for the show, dying her blond hair to chestnut brown and adding bangs. She also rocked vintage clothing to represent Amorusos style.

I think it was really important for me to change the way I look. Even when we were doing the costume fittings we would have to put a wig on me. It was so hard to picture the real Sophia character I was trying to embody while I look like a bleach-blond surfer girl. It just didnt really make that much sense. I loved it. It was so much fun for me. Its so hard to keep up though because its not my natural color. My hair was not having it by the end. It was turning red and orange and yellow.

Amoruso stepped down as CEO of Nasty Gal in 2015. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy the following year and Amoruso resigned from the company.

Robertson says shes not sure if future seasons of Girlboss would follow the real story of Sophias life that closely.

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Sophias story is still changing so much as we speak, she said. Shes at a really crucial part where shes figuring things out a decade later in a different way so I think it just depends. Also shes a producer on the show. Im sure shell have some direction shed like us to go in, but maybe not.

She was very forgiving when we started doing the show and with my performance and with the writing; I hope we can take the things shes experienced in life because its very fascinating. I hope people would love to hear a version of the story that isnt just the media side, but well see.

Now that Girlboss has been released on Netflix, Robertson is enjoying her time off from the series.

For the first time I realise how important it is for me to enjoy what Im doing and have a good time in the process. Im really living right now. I went to South Africa. I went on a safari. I went diving with great whites (sharks). The last two days I went to Mets games, which are my favourite baseball team. Im really living. Im doing it all. This is my time to check off bucket-list stuff.

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