EXCLUSIVE: Kate McKinnon dropped out The dropout, Hulu’s limited drama series based on ABC News / ABC Radio’s podcast about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos.
McKinnon has been involved in the project from the beginning. Hulu het The dropout a series a straight-to-series order almost two years ago, in April 2019, with the Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live veteran as a star and executive producer.
The dropout continues without McKinnon, sources said. We are looking for a new actress to play the disgraced entrepreneur Holmes, with production starting this summer.
Meanwhile, McKinnon remains committed to portraying another infamous character based on a podcast in a limited series; she will star as Carole Baskin in Joe exotic, which is broadcast on NBCUniversal’s NBC, USA and Peacock.
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Produced by Disney’s Searchlight Television, The dropout produced by the podcast’s host / creator Rebecca Jarvis and producers Taylor Dunn and Victoria Thompson.
The dropout launched as a podcast at the end of January 2019 and has been turned into a two-hour documentary broadcast on ABC News’ 20/20 in March of the same year.
Holmes, a chemical engineering miracle, left Stanford to launch a healthcare technology company that promised to make a revolution in blood tests, which became Theranos. The strong-flying technological onslaught was eventually exposed as ‘massive fraud’, and in 2018 a federal grand jury Holmes and former chief operating officer of Theranos were charged with nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for distributing blood tests. with falsified results for consumers.
McKinnon is one of the most popular members of NBC’s Saturday Night Live where she has been since 2012. She has earned seven acting Emmy nominations for her work on the sketch comedy program, which won in 2016 and 2017.