![]() ![]() It was never the task to recreate me.” She hopes the series will make people laugh, though presumably, for her, it is discomfiting viewing. “There are things that are a lot like me at that age, and things that are exaggerated. How did she feel about how she was characterised? “It portrays a 23-year-old,” she says firmly. Watching a fictionalised version of her life, Amoruso says, “was “crazy”. Watching things unfold, you get the feeling that this isn’t a protagonist whom the audience is supposed to side with entirely by way of explanation (and perhaps defence) Britt Roberston, who plays her, has said that the character “can’t make her way in life because nobody understands her story or gets who she is”. Naturally, fictional Amoruso is wearing a vest, jean shorts and knee-high boots. She is, predictably, a hot mess, and the opening scene has the usual visual and sonic tells of the bad girl: Suzi Quatro on the stereo, a car key with a disembodied Barbie head keyring. Its protagonist – based loosely on a 23-year old Amoruso – is unlikable and entitled: in the pilot, she gets sacked from her job in a shoe shop after eating her boss’s lunch. ![]() The first season covers the genesis of Nasty Gal. Now the story has resurged via Netflix, which has fictionalised #Girlboss in a series of the same name (minus the hashtag). ![]()
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