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a few years ago, when it was still set to be a full-length series. It was one of her earliest auditions, so she thought she had the role on lock. She wasn’t yet used to the frequent rejection that comes with being an actor, and she remembers being proud of her performance. Now, she can look back with a laugh at her naiveté.came in 2011, then a feature film that was picked up, then dropped, turned into a series in 2016, and picked up, then dropped again.
When Thatcher received the script for a second time, even in its reworked format, she remembered the self-tape she sent in years before. “The story already has a very familiar feeling to it. It has this nostalgic feeling to it, the '90s, almost like a,” she tells MTV News. “But, just reading the scripts, it just struck me right away, and I looked it up. I looked through my emails back in 2016. I was like, ‘Oh my god.’” It felt like a good sign.
This time around, Thatcher landed the leading role of Becky Monroe, sister to popular girl Chrissy , whose murder shocks their small town and launches a local investigation set to uncover more secrets than anyone is ready to hear.Playing Becky was a treat for Thatcher — not just because Becky is a cool, alternative ‘90s girl, but because throughout the series, viewers will learn she’s so much more than that persona.
And then there was the added draw of working on a series that would launch Quibi, the mobile-optimized platform offering complete episodes for all its programming in 10 minutes or less. It seems like all of Hollywood was getting in on the trend, with
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Coronavirus Lockdown Will Boost Jeff Katzenberg's And Meg Whitman’s New Mobile Streaming Service QuibiI’m a Los Angeles-based senior editor for Forbes, writing about the companies and people behind the biggest disruption in entertainment since cable TV: streaming video. I write about the tech juggernauts, the legacy media companies and the startups pioneering new ways to reach the consumer. I’ve spent more than 20 years covering the intersection of entertainment and technology. My work has appeared in some of the nation’s most prominent publications, including USA Today, U.S. News & World Report and the Los Angeles Times. As a senior editor at Recode, I won awards for coverage of the devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. Email me at dchmielewski [at] forbes.com or follow me at dawnc331.
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