Ripped from the headlines! True crime isn’t solely a podcast phenomenon — many chilling tales have additionally been dropped at life on the small display.
Renée Zellweger shocked viewers together with her main transformation for her function because the title character in NBC’s The Thing About Pam, which premiered in March 2022. The collection places the felony justice system beneath a microscope as police in suburban Missouri examine the loss of life of Betsy Faria (Katy Mixon).
When requested what impressed her to signal on for the venture, Zellweger advised Harper’s Bazaar in her April 2022 cowl story, “I wanted to do something that was lighter, which sounds absurd, because this is, you know, based on a horrific crime.”
The Texas native was a fan of the Dateline podcast of the identical identify earlier than teaming up with NBC and Blumhouse Television. “What makes Pam so fascinating is how benign she appeared,” Zellweger advised the journal. “Everybody feels like, ‘I know her. I know that lady.’ Someone who looks like your next-door neighbor or the lady who would babysit you turns out to make some choices that are, to put it kindly, illegal. This person was so outrageous, this sense of entitlement — I thought, ‘OK, as an actress, that’s fun.’”
Along with the Oscar winner, the forged options an A-list lineup, from Josh Duhamel to Judy Greer. Following the collection premiere, Greer opened up concerning the “heartbreaking” twists nonetheless to return all through the season.
“This is an absurd story and we are trying to highlight that and be very respectful to the families that lost their loved ones,” the 13 Going On 30 star advised Entertainment Weekly in March 2022. “We see more things unfolding in the back three episodes that are unbelievable. People ask me, ‘What is it about true crime?’ I don’t have an answer. I could also say, ‘Why do people slow down when there’s a car accident?’ We just can’t help ourselves. And this, to me, is one of the ultimate car accidents.”
Before Zellweger’s devious flip, true crime fanatics watched notorious instances play out on FX’s American Crime Story. The franchise started in 2016 with The People v. OJ Simpson and continued with The Assassination of Gianni Versace two years later. Darren Criss performed the antagonist on the 2018 season, which got here as an enormous shock to those that watched him sing and dance on Fox’s Glee.
“People always ask me if it’s hard to live with a dark character and I say it’s no more difficult than living with the darkness in our world,” the Broadway performer advised The Hollywood Reporter in November 2018. “I’m a happy-go-lucky person and I think that it’s because I embrace so much darkness and I embrace skepticism and negativity, and I’ve made my peace with it so I can be happy. In the same way that you can really embrace the dark, scary things about ourselves and with things about people like Andrew … you’re well aware of the fact that there is also light within this person and potential.”
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