{"id":27433,"date":"2019-07-22T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1058560"},"modified":"2019-07-22T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:02:21","slug":"gypsy-rose-blanchard-reacts-to-joey-kings-emmy-nomination-for-the-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/gypsy-rose-blanchard-reacts-to-joey-kings-emmy-nomination-for-the-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Gypsy Rose Blanchard Reacts to Joey King&#8217;s Emmy Nomination for The Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201898\/rs_1024x759-181008134633-1024-blachard.cm.10818.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Joey King\" alt=\"Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Joey King\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Greene County Sheriff&#8217;s Office; Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.213071895425\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.504575163399\">\n<p><strong>Gypsy Rose Blanchard<\/strong>&nbsp;was &#8220;very happy&#8221; that&nbsp;<strong>Joey King<\/strong>&nbsp;was cast in&nbsp;<em>The Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hulu series, which is based on the relationship between&nbsp;Gypsy Rose and her now-deceased mother,&nbsp;<strong>Dee Dee Blanchard<\/strong>, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1054689\/2019-emmy-nominations-complete-list-of-nominees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earned&nbsp;Joey an Emmy nomination<\/a>. Now Gypsy Rose, who has continued&nbsp;to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1025245\/victim-or-villain-the-horrifying-truth-behind-the-story-of-gypsy-rose-blanchard-s-escape-from-her-mother\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make headlines<\/a>&nbsp;following the 2015 murder of her mother, is speaking out about&nbsp;Joey&nbsp;and the series, via family friend and&nbsp;representative,&nbsp;<strong>Fancy Macelli<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gypsy can&#8217;t watch <em>The Act<\/em> in prison. All that Gypsy knows of <em>The Act<\/em> is what her friends, her family and her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1032042\/gypsy-rose-blanchard-gets-engaged-in-prison-all-the-exclusive-photos-and-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fianc\u00e9<\/a> <strong>Ken<\/strong> have told her,&#8221; Fancy tells E! News. &#8220;Gypsy doesn&#8217;t plan on watching <em>The Act<\/em> and doesn&#8217;t really much put thought into these industry awards, but she was very happy that Joey King was chosen to portray her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>Fancy goes on to note that&nbsp;they don&#8217;t&nbsp;think Joey was given &#8220;accurate information about what actually occurred,&#8221; but&nbsp;that she gave &#8220;an amazing performance&#8221; and she &#8220;absolutely captured the essence of Gypsy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019112\/rs_1024x759-190212130815-1024.joey-king-the-act.ct.021219.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Joey King, The Act\" alt=\"Joey King, The Act\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Rich Fury\/Getty Images; Brownie Harris \/ Hulu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.239938080495\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"12.195046439628\">\n<p>&#8220;Based on her talent she deserves an Emmy, based on the content, <em>The Act<\/em> does not deserve an Emmy,&#8221; Fancy tells E! News. &#8220;We certainly support the actress, but we do not support <em>The Act<\/em>, as it was grossly inaccurate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following her nomination, Joey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1057604\/joey-king-just-wanted-to-do-right-by-gypsy-rose-in-the-act-and-she-got-an-emmy-nom-for-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened up to E! News<\/a> about her portrayal of Gypsy and wanting to meet her.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.340876944837\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14.936350777935\">\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s so many things I&#8217;d want to say to her if I ever had the opportunity to sit down with her,&#8221; the 19-year-old actress told E! News. &#8220;But it&#8217;s one of the things where I have to think through all the things I would like to say and narrow it down to one conversation, because all the things I want to talk to her about and all the things I want to say takes weeks, and I just want her to know first and foremost, I respect her story and that all I wanted to do was to right by her. And I hope she can see and understand that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, would Gypsy be open to&nbsp;sitting down with Joey? That would be a no, according to Fancy&#8217;s comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/07\/22\/joey-king-the-act-emmy-nomination-gypsy-rose-responds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ<\/a>, which state that Gypsy has&nbsp;&#8220;zero interest&#8221; in meeting the actress.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1058560\/gypsy-rose-blanchard-reacts-to-joey-king-s-emmy-nomination-for-the-act?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greene County Sheriff&#8217;s Office; Instagram Gypsy Rose Blanchard&nbsp;was &#8220;very happy&#8221; that&nbsp;Joey King&nbsp;was cast in&nbsp;The Act. The Hulu series, which is based on the relationship between&nbsp;Gypsy Rose and her now-deceased mother,&nbsp;Dee Dee Blanchard, recently earned&nbsp;Joey an Emmy nomination. Now Gypsy Rose, who has continued&nbsp;to make headlines&nbsp;following the 2015 murder of her mother, is speaking out about&nbsp;Joey&nbsp;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 20:08:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}