Having become the latest inspiration for a constantly increasing biopic sub-genre on 21st century technological entrepreneurs, Whitney Wolfe Herd is in conflict about Hulu Slippery.
Although the founder and CEO of Bumble has not seen the film and is open to the representation of Lily James of her, now available to broadcast after her first TIFF this month, she admitted that she had asked her lawyer to “stop” two years ago.
“So, I can’t cross the whole trailer; it’s too weird for me,” she told CNBC. “No, I am not involved. Frankly, I was informed of this film after it has already left for the races. I think they had already written the script and did all these things.
“I even asked my lawyer two years ago:” What should I do? ” I don’t want a movie on me. Close it! He was like: “There is nothing
The herd continued: “I do not know if I will look at it or not. I am obviously at the same time terrified, and perhaps slightly flattered? But I think that the strangeness and the fear of that prevail over any flattery. Listen, we will just see.
James called Herd “Visionary” when she opened how “really inspiring” it was to play the Bumble Boss to the deadline in Tiff. “I obviously knew the two applications, Bumble and Tinder, but I did not know that there was this woman in the kind of epicenter of them, and I was overturned by her story,” she said.
“And I got into a rabbit burrow, of course, to search and learn everything I could about, and I found it really inspiring and a pioneer,” continued James. “It was a really significant experience to do a little in your shoes and recreate and dramatize this story in our film.”
After committing the anger of Pamela Anderson on the simple decision to portray it in Hulu Pam and Tommy (2022), James previously teased that she had “finished” playing real people, or at least “no icons”.
