Actress Bree Condon Reveals Her Process To Portray Kimberly Guilfoyle Was 'Daunting'

The new film 'Bombshell' has recently hit theaters on Dec. 20 and is now available in theaters and on streaming services.

Actress Bree Condon reveals to 'Hollywood Life' how daunting it was to fill the shoes of Fox News host, Kimberly Guilfoyle in the film.

'Bombshell' gives an eye-opening look at the fall of one of the most powerful media moguls, Roger Ailes. But Bombshell’s focus isn’t Roger. It’s about the women who brought down the Fox News founder. Bombshell stars Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, and Margot Robbie as the fictional Kayla Pospisil. Bree Condon also stars a Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former Fox News co-host of The Five who is now dating Donald Trump Jr. She talked with HollywoodLife about her intense research process to play Kimberly.

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Bree Condon Speaks to Hollywood Life

“I thought a lot about it at first because it was a lot of pressure,” Condon told HollywoodLife. “I can’t imagine someone playing me right now. You really have to handle it carefully and you really have to do your best to do that person justice. So I made sure to research everything I possibly could on her. She did write a book called Making the Case, which helped me a lot. It was instrumental in building my character because she really talked about more personal matters. It wasn’t about her political beliefs or anything to do with her current position in the White House. She wrote it years ago. So it was more about her childhood, her journey through college, her first job, her values, her relationship to her parents, things like that. I’m more interested in how the person thinks and feels and not necessarily just what their political beliefs are."

Bree Condon's Interview with Hollywood Life

Condon continued: So that really helped me to find more of the core of who she is as a person and to find what we have in common rather than what our differences are. So that really, really helped but it was very daunting, especially as more and more press started coming out on her. Even over the last year, it seems there’s so much more, she did the interview on The View, which was very controversial. She’s very outspoken and that is something I personally really like about her, even though I don’t agree with probably most of the things that she said.”

Bree Condon's Role in 'Bombshell'

Bree read Kimberly's book and watched every single video she could get her hands on to study for her role.

“That was really important to me, to not try to imitate but to try to find the essence of her mannerisms,” Bree continued. “She has a very specific way of sitting, using her hands. Even her bodily relation toward her co-host I found very interesting as well as her voice and the way she carries herself. I probably watched every single interview that’s available online and studied it and practiced it and rehearsed it for months and months leading up to filming. First of all, getting someone’s voice is very important and she definitely has a strong voice. That was fun. But all those things really made up the little subtleties of her mannerisms, too.”