Pilot time of year can be a stressful experience for any thespian , but forErin Darke , 2015 ’s pilot burner time of year was peculiarly depressing . “ I was take these scripts and just being like , ‘ Oh my god , what if I have to sign a seven - year declaration with this show ? ” theKill Your Darlingsactress call back . “ It was that belief of , ' theoretically , I need these jobs , but I do n’t actuallywantany of these jobs . ' ” Then , two months after pilot season had wrapped , another script landed in her hands : Amazon’sGood Girls Revolt , a show based on Lynn Povich ’s bookThe sound Girls Revolt : How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and shift the work . It was love at first read . “ [ I was ] convinced that I was never going to get it because I loved it too much , ” Darke says .
The body structure of news program magazines in the 1960s was much unlike than it is today : Male employees were the writers and reporter ; they were geminate with cleaning woman , who work as enquiry helper and fact checker , often without getting deferred payment for their study . Povich was one of 46 charwoman working atNewsweekwho , in 1970 , file a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission say that management at the magazine had “ systematically discriminated ” against its female employees “ in both hiring and promotion , ” and that the women were “ forced to assume a subsidiary part ” just because they were female . ( In the book , Povich writesthat her chief , Harry Waters , explained that when he enforce at the magazine , his editor program told him , " The best part of the job is that you get to have sex the researcher , " which , Waters said , “ reflected the position of women at the newsmagazines , both literally and figuratively . It reenforce in immature women that that ’s their post — it ’s underneath . That ’s as far as they can get . ” )
“ These cleaning woman were so extremely educated and so well-informed and were really being used for that intelligence , just not in an equal way , ” Darke say . Good Girls Revoltfictionalizes this engagement , swapping inNews of the Weekmagazine forNewsweekand featuring distaff employees in various situations in life fighting for acknowledgment and par .
Darke was called in to audition for Cindy Reston — who , unlike a number of the characters on the show , is a matrimonial woman whose life-time is very neatly planned out . “ In some slipway , she ’s already made all of the decisions to go down that path , ” Darke pronounce . “ In the pilot light , Cindy definitely starts a journeying of realizing that this life that she sign herself up for is perhaps not exactly what she want . For her to change her judgement about that and settle she wants something else is not an easy thing . ”
Darke roll in the hay the idea of being capable to wager a charwoman pretend those tough decision , and fell in love with the grapheme , who dreams of write a novel and whose hubby has set aside her to form as a subtitle writer atNews of the Weekfor a duo of years before they go a family . Then , after her initial audition for Cindy , Darke was called back in to read for Jane , one of the magazine ’s single research assistants . “ When they brought me back in for Jane , I was a little bit like , ‘ Well , I still really be intimate the show , and I ’m still extremely activated about it , ’ ” Darke says . But whenPitch Perfectactress Anna Camp was ultimately cast as Jane , Darke landed the role of Cindy — and she was overjoyed .
“ I was so happy because I had fallen in lovemaking with the grapheme of Cindy , ” Darke says . “ She ’s so different from me , but I retrieve perhaps in her I can see this alternate universe version of me where , if I had been lift in a unlike clock time by dissimilar people , that could be the individual I ended up being . Imagine growing up without ever make anyone tell you that you’re able to pursue your ambition , and then , as an grownup , making that discovery on your own and trying to deal with that . I have so much pity and beloved for her in that journey that she ’s on because it ’s a journey that I did n’t have to go on . ”
Good Girls Revoltfilmed its pilot sequence in New York City in August 2015 . If the pilot had been filmed for internet TV , executives would have resolve whether or not to pick it up , but Amazon ’s system make for otherwise . In November , the company releasedRevoltonline along with a few other pilots , and asked its users to range , voter turnout , and comment on the show . That feedback divisor into the caller ’s determination about whether or not to order a pilot to serial .
“ It was a unhinged thing to have the pilot out there , cognise that your hereafter and the time to come of the show depends on people watching it and liking it , ” Darke says . “ But there was also something great about it , because most meshwork pilot burner that do n’t get pick up disappear . I shot a pilot a few year ago with David Schwimmer that I get it on , and it did n’t get clean up . I ’ve never seen it . I do n’t recognise anyone who actually ever got to see it . It just disappear into the ethyl ether . This matter that you put all this work into — if it does n’t get pick up , it ’s expire . So there was something actually really lovely about the Amazon system and knowing that even if our show did n’t get picked up , the pilot would still be out there , and this thing that we had worked so intemperately on would at least get to be experience . ”Revolt ’s pilot currently has a rating of 4.6 star out of five , and the full time of year — which was shot in Los Angeles — will be available on October 28 .
After she booked the show and before filming the pilot , Darke did her research . She read Povich ’s Koran and watched CNN ’s seriesThe SixtiesandThe Seventies . But she still found that there were gap in her noesis of that time flow , which often goad other research during filming — peculiarly when the show ’s fictional cartridge clip deal real - living events . The pilot , for example , open with the execution of Meredith Hunter during the Rolling Stones ’s set at the Altamont Free Concert in 1969 , and other episodes dish out with aspects of Vietnam and the Black Panther movement .
“ One time we talked about the Tet Offensive … I realized that I in reality did n’t know that much about it , ” she says . “ I mean in general , this time period of time has been one of those things for me . I just had this moment of recognize , holy s * * * , the things that were happening in this country at the time — I have this unspecific surface knowledge of them , but did not know the detail . There are a few episodes that deal with the Black Panthers . I obviously , theoretically , knew who they were , but I ’ve been very interested in them since then because I think there ’s a correlation between that and Black Lives Matter today . ”
And although it ’s a period show , certain aspects ofGood Girls Revoltwill experience familiar , specially to its female viewers . woman stillmake less than menin the same jobs , areless likely to be given raiseseven when they ask for them , and account forless than 5 percentof the chief operating officer at S&P 500 party . “ I keep telling people that I find the show horrifyingly relevant , ” Darke says . “ I in spades came out of shootingGood Girls Revoltwith a renew sentience of the indigence to campaign for feminism . It was both a monitor for me of how far we ’ve descend , but also that it ’s not done . ”
Good Girls Revolthits Amazon on October 28 , 2016 .
