Angelyne slams Emmy Rossum's miniseries based on her life: 'It doesn't do me justice'
The buzzy Peacock limited series Angelyne launched Thursday, starring Emmy Rossum as the buxom billboard queen of '80s La La Land lore — and it turns out we didn't have to wait long to find out how the show's titular subject feels about it.
After all, did we really think someone who got famous by essentially willing fame onto herself wouldn't steal the spotlight now that it's trained in her general direction?
Speaking to Inside Edition, the real Angelyne — if there truly is a "real" Angelyne — slammed the new series and said it gives a false account of her extra-large life. "I had a glimpse of it and I refused to watch it," she said. "It doesn't do me justice. Would you be flattered if someone played you and misrepresented you?"
Fair. A "glimpse" is almost always enough time to form an opinion on anything. Now, for someone who's an expert at pulling both stunts and focus, Angelyne couldn't be using this newfound attention on her life and ageless fabulousness to sell some merch… could she?
In the video above, Angelyne can be seen high-kicking out of her signature pink Corvette (at a reported 71 years old, no less) as she arrives for the Inside Edition interview. And when a fan on the street says he used to have one of her old T-shirts, she responds without missing a beat: "Oh, you should get another one. They're only $500."
This is a professional, kids. As such, it's perhaps best to take her umbrage with the show with a grain of salt. After all, Rossum has spoken quite positively of meeting Angelyne before donning extensive makeup and prosthetics to portray her.
"The one thing [Angelyne] told me was that she's a mirror, so whatever I saw in her that's the story I should tell and therefore it would be my story and not her story. And I thought that was so empowering," Rossum recently told The Hollywood Reporter. "I hope that she knows that this is a love letter to the fun and fantasy and the hot pink, Corvette-driving enigma that she is. I hope more people fall in love with her and appreciate her for what a trailblazer she is as the precursor to social media."
JB Lacroix/GC Images; Peacock The real Angelyne, and Emmy Rossum in 'Angelyne'
Belying the spirit of that fun, and especially the fantasy, Inside Edition's Jim Moret tried to get to the hot-pink core of who Angelyne is by bringing up the 2017 THR article that plunged into her backstory and inspired Angelyne. The billboard diva was ready to end the interview when Moret suggested that she "created" her Angelyne persona.
"No," she insisted. "I was born Angelyne!"
That's her story, and she's sticking to it. But perhaps we'll get to know the real Angelyne, or at least her version of the real Angelyne, when her self-produced documentary about her life comes out in June.
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