GLOW's Alison Brie and Marc Maron Promise More Wrestling In Season 2

For Maron, a longtime standup comedian turned influential podcaster, the role of washed-up filmmaker turned wrestling producer/director Sam Sylvia meant he had to re-learn some, um, old habits.

“I was told my character knows nothing about wrestling,” Maron says.  “So, I’m like, ‘This is gonna be easy. This is gonna be great.’  And then I just had to work up and get some old muscles in shape.  The ‘doing blow’ muscle.  The smoking cigarettes muscle.  The drinking muscle.  And it’s surprising how quickly those come back. (Laughs.) Obviously, I wasn’t smoking or drinking or doing anything real blow, but it was kind of fun.”

Maron not only knew his character but provided unique insight for the show’s creators.   He continues, “I knew he needed the black cowboy boots. I was hung up on aviator glasses.  And I had a very specific way I wanted him to do cocaine. And I said to them, ‘Look this guy?  No paraphernalia. He doesn’t show off. He doesn’t share it. He keeps it in a bindle cut from a magazine corner and he’ll do it with a pen top or a key.’ And I think it was Carly who looked at me and says, ‘We’re so glad you’re here.’”

As the audience roars in laughter Flahive adds, “In my laptop someone caught me googling ‘drugs’ [once].  And that job was ‘Weeds.’”

“Sometimes you don’t know what you are training for,” Maron says. “I was sober for 18 years, but goddammit I know how to do that shit.”

“GLOW” was the role of a lifetime for Young, a rare actor who gets to jump from behind-the-scenes to in front of the camera.

“I come from an athletic family and I was a cheerleader so I’m used to people’s bodies falling on me, but on the flip side I was a producer’s assistant for seven years and this was my big break which I’m very grateful for,” Young says.  “Coming in and having to do an emotional crying scene?  Like halfway through [production], I had a meeting with [Liz and Carly] and were like ‘Are you guys happy with what am I doing? Is this what you wanted?’  [And they said,] ‘This is why we chose you. You are Carmen. Keep doing what you’re doing.’  And after that it made me feel so safe. I think we say it a lot. Our set is a safe set.  If we want to go and have a complete meltdown we know everyone afterwards will be, ‘O.K., Brittany let’s do it again.’ It’s so positive and so encouraging.”

The night had a couple of surprises.  The creator of the original “GLOW” series, David McLane, was in the audience, as was one of the first “GLOW girls”- the woman behind Roxxy Astor.  What the packed theater was really hoping for was a tease of season two.  That didn’t happen, but the creators did inform everyone that there was a lot more wrestling in the new season.

“It’s funny that we are talking about wrestling so much and it takes us a second to remember that you haven’t seen how much wrestling is in store,” Flahive says.  “Like episode 10 [of the first season] is sort of like a preview.”

“GLOW” is currently available on Netflix.