Elizabeth Gillies on Watching ‘Quiet on Set’ With Ariana Grande Over FaceTime, Reprocessing ‘Victorious’ and How Empowering New Movie ‘Spread’ Tackles the Porn Business
variety.comMax Gao For the better part of the last 15 years, Elizabeth Gillies has made a career out of playing sassy, snarky, strong-willed women on television.
After rising to fame in her mid-teens as the mercurial Jade West on the hit Nickelodeon sitcom “Victorious,” Gillies made the transition to playing similarly rebellious adult characters, co-starring as Denis Leary’s daughter in his FX musical comedy “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll” and reimagining the role of Fallon Carrington in the CW’s modern-day reboot of “Dynasty.” It was during the fifth and final season of “Dynasty” that Gillies was approached to star in and executive produce “Spread,” which premieres on July 19 on Tubi.
Directed by Ellie Kanner and written by Buffy Charlet, the new film follows Ruby (Gillies), an aspiring (and very broke) journalist who is forced to swallow her pride and take a temp job at Spread, an outdated adult magazine.
After impressing her boss Frank Ferretti (Harvey Keitel), an aging industry king who longs for his glory days, Ruby — in a last-ditch effort to save the company from financial ruin — is tasked with modernizing and diversifying Spread’s editorial strategy with a brand new app. “It was fun to work with Ellie and Buffy, and create a movie that I think dudes would enjoy, but also women wouldn’t be turning their noses up at and saying, ‘Oh, God, a boy movie about porn.
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