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You’ve heard of the red badge of courage that soldiers earn during wartime? Well, Alison Brie earned the wrestling-world equivalent — call it the blue bruise of courage — when she stepped into the ring for Netflix’s new wrestling comedy series,  GLOW . Premiering June 23, the show features the former Community star as Ruth, a would-be actress in ’80s-era Los Angeles who finally experiences her first career break when she’s one of the first women cast in the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a real-life wrestling league that headlined a cult syndicated series from 1986 to 1990. (Read Ken Tucker’s review here.) “There were a lot of fingerprint-shaped bruises on my legs and butt,” Brie tells Yahoo TV. “One day there was a scripted scene where I was meant to have a large bruise on my butt, and I came into hair and makeup and pulled my pants down. The makeup artist went to make the bruise and said, ‘Oh, there’s already one there!’” According to Brie, as well as the show’s crea...