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When reached for comment, Rossum’s rep provided NYLON a statement by Peacock and Universal Content Productions: “This series has embraced the legend and legacy of Angelyne from its inception. Though Angelyne signed over the rights to her story to Peacock and met with Rossum while the series was being made, in subsequent interviews (that happened after this one was completed), the 71-year-old expressed her disapproval with how it all turned out. “This is more of an examination of fame - it's an examination of all the people throughout the last couple decades that have attempted to tell Angelyne’s story, and us pointing the finger back on ourselves,” Rossum told NYLON ahead of the series premiere. The setup challenges the viewer to think about the limits of a biopic, and to question whether you can ever truly tell someone else’s story (according to Rossum, you can’t). The series sees Rossum play a current-day version of Angelyne, telling her story, mockumentary style, with many flashbacks, retellings, and trippy, surrealist scenes sprinkled in between chronologically ordered facts. In addition to its themes of gender roles, fame, the weaponization of sex, and striving for the Hollywood version of the American dream, Angelyne is also a meditation on identity itself. The series delves into the background and psyche of the true life Angelyne, whose personal history is still relatively unknown, despite a 2017 Hollywood Reporter article that attempted to blow the lid off her story (and that prompted the creation of the series itself). In Angelyne, Emmy Rossum transforms into the woman behind the iconic billboards plastered all over Los Angeles in the 1980s - yards-high renderings of a perfectly coiffed blonde with larger-than-life proportions and a knowing smile.