Kate McKinnon Leaves Hulu's Elizabeth Holmes Show | Screen Rant
Kate McKinnon has exited Hulu's The Dropout about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. McKinnon rose to prominence in 2012 when she debuted on Saturday Night Live, where her popular impersonations of politicians like Hillary Clinton and Jeff Sessions have earned her two Emmy Awards. After breaking into comedies with parts in Ghostbusters and Rough Night, McKinnon stepped into dramatic territory with Bombshell, about Fox News's culture of sexual harassment and co-starring Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie. The SNL juggernaut looked poised to continue in that lane, but it appears she's now left her biggest upcoming drama project.
Deadline reports that McKinnon has departed The Dropout, Hulu's limited series covering the blood-testing company Theranos and its controversial founder Elizabeth Holmes. McKinnon was set to play Holmes, a chemical engineering wunderkind who dropped out of Stanford to found the buzzy tech startup that went on to achieve a $10 billion valuation but spectacularly collapsed due to financial fraud. Based on the ABC News podcast of the same name, the series is still going forward as the creative team searches for a new actress to replace McKinnon.
The Theranos story's themes of Silicon Valley chicanery and perception of women in the tech industry are ripe for TV and film, which is why The Dropout is just one of several properties either already released or currently in development.
In 2019, acclaimed documentarian Alex Gibney made The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley for HBO. Jennifer Lawrence and Adam McKay are also collaborating on the Elizabeth Holmes biopic, with Lawrence set to star. Though Kate McKinnon has exited this true-life drama series, she will be starring as Carole Baskin in Joe Exotic, which is based on Netflix's Tiger King and will undoubtedly be strange enough to match her eccentricities as a performer.
Source: Deadline
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