Nowadays, the quickest strategy to a profitable performing profession isn’t going drama faculty and never even being a nepo child — it is podcasting. Sure, GK Barry of Saving Grace fame is outwardly transitioning to the silver display. Or no less than the small display. And no, your eyes weren’t deceiving you, that was her in that opening scene of the brand new season of Netflix’s Lacking You, the streamer’s newest Harlan Coben adaptation.
Within the scene, Barry is seen in what seems to be your traditional useless girlfriend montage. She smiles into the digital camera as she lies in mattress, performs below a blanket, gazes over her shoulder and twirls her hair, as a male voiceover says, “I dream of you. Kissing you. Holding You. The texture of your pores and skin in opposition to mine. I really like you.” In the meantime, a person with tied wrists is seen driving a horse — earlier than promptly falling off. In line with IMDb, Barry, who’s credited below her actual identify, Grace Keeling, performs Vanessa. Vanessa, it later seems, is – spoiler alert! – a foot cam woman who’s {photograph} is stolen and utilized in a catfishing rip-off.
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Whereas that is Barry’s first foray into performing, she is not any stranger to being in entrance of a digital camera. Simply final 12 months, she made her first TV look in I am a Superstar…Get Me Out of Right here! and he or she additionally grew to become an everyday panellist on Free Girls.
So, how did GK Barry find yourself in a Netflix present. Apparently, the reply is easy: they requested and he or she mentioned sure.
“They approached my supervisor and mentioned, ‘We’re doing this new Netflix present, and we might love Grace to be a little bit half in it.’ And I assumed, ‘Nicely, I am not going to say no,’” she informed Cosmopolitan, explaining that she filmed her cameo in a day again in September.