Netflix announces Raygun documentary as breakdancer revisits viral 2024 Olympic firestorm
Aussies, break out your fave kangaroo pose: the nation’s most famous breakdancer is coming to a TV near you!
From the Olympic stage to the silver screen: Rachael “Raygun” Gunn’s disastrous breakdancing moves have earnt her a spot on the world’s biggest streaming platform.
On Wednesday, production giant Netflix announced a one-off documentary special chronicling the rise and fall of controversial dancer Raygun.
The Australian represented her country in break dancing at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with the then 36-year-old’s peculiar choice of floor squirming and kangaroo-inspired moves earning her zero points and setting the internet ablaze.
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Two years later and Netflix series Untold is ready to lift the veil on what really went down on that Paris stage — and how it impacted the Sydney-born performer.
The documentary revisits the fallout from Gunn’s controversial performance, examining the intense scrutiny that followed the then-academic in the weeks after.
“Nobody, least of all Rachael Gunn, expected themselves to become an Olympian,” a synopsis for the documentary said.
“But as Raygun’s performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics went viral overnight, so did the avalanche of memes, misinformation and conspiracy theories questioning how she even got there.”
Netflix produced the hour-long episode alongside Stardust Frames Production and Warner Bros. International Television Australia.
Producers behind the documentary said it would offer “unprecedented access to Gunn’s personal journey” as she navigated worldwide criticism.
The announcement comes just three months after the Olympian accepted a voluntary redundancy from Sydney’s Macquire University.
Gunn, who had been working as a pop culture lecturer, publicly expressed her concerns for “psychosocial hazards facing staff” at Australian tertiary institutes.
Raygun: Breaking Badly is expected to hit Netflix screens across the globe on September 1.
