Lonelygirl15 - And Her Creators - Unmasked!
So a doctor, a lawyer, and a screenwriter all walk into a bar, and what ends up happening? One of the biggest Internet phenomenons ever.
It turns out that after all the whispering and wondering, Lonelygirl is a 19-year-old aspiring actress from New Zealand named Jessica Rose, and that her co-conspirators in the Lonelygirl saga are three guys in their late twenties – a med-school dropout, a lawyer, and a screenwriter who met at a karaoke-bar birthday party.
The Los Angeles Times pulls the cover off the simmering mystery that has had the Internet buzzing for months, and identifies its creators as Miles Beckett, 28, a former med student, Mesh Flinders, 26, a screenwriter, and Greg Goodfried, 27, a lawyer. Beckett met Flinders in April, the two clicked on an idea for a shy, precocious teenage girl character, and Goodfried helped get the project moving. With "two desk lamps (one broken), an open window, and a $130 camera," a sensation was born.
As for Jessica Rose, the filmmakers had gone to fairly elaborate lengths over the summer to shield Rose's identity on the Internet, but the actress has been walking around LA in plain view. (In hindsight, if you listen to her monologues, Rose's Kiwi accent seeps through not infrequently.) And Creative Artists Agency says the fledgling filmmakers are in fact clients, but doesn't reveal plans for what might happen down the road.
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