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“We’ve said it to each other a million times: We’re not getting rid of each other,” she said. King and Arquette had to trust each other implicitly, building a (healthy) mother-daughter relationship. She attributes the creative freedom she felt on the set, in part, to her costar Arquette, the current reigning queen of prestige TV. “There’s so much I wanted to convey on camera.” How, for example, would Gypsy’s posture change around her domineering mother versus when she was alone? Or with friends? “There was so much to do, and there was so much to consider in every single frame of playing Gypsy,” King said. Once those factors were nailed down, King worked on nailing smaller nuances. After working on an approximation of Gypsy’s distinctive voice, King was able to convince the producers otherwise. At first producers didn’t want King to imitate Gypsy’s breathy speech, lest it veer too far into parody-but the actress thought that was a mistake. She also had to repeatedly shave her head to mirror Gypsy’s hairstyle, as well as get accustomed to the fake teeth. Gypsy used a wheelchair most of her life, so King had to practice until she looked like a natural using one. There were immediate physical considerations King had to take into account. “And I re-watched the documentary I think no less than 15 times.” “I immediately started again going online and finding any videos I could of her, any footage at all,” she said.
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King was mildly familiar with Gypsy’s story before doing The Act, but she went all in when she landed the role.
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While a series as dark as The Act would be a departure for most actors, it was especially so for King-a sunny former child star who came up in fare like Ramona and Beezus and, most recently, Netflix’s teen rom-com The Kissing Booth. “When I first had my fitting.that was really one of those moments where I was like, Wow, okay, this is really happening.” “That was a huge moment for me,” King said, referring to the gap-toothed dentures she wore to look more like Gypsy.