The Love & Death star talks taking on the story of Candy Montgomery.
), the seven-part HBO Max series, which premieres today, stars Olsen as Candy; Lily Rabe as Betty; Patrick Fugit as Candy’s husband, Pat; and Jesse Plemons as Betty’s husband, Allan, whose 10-month affair with Candy preceded his wife’s demise. Following a 1990 made-for-TV movie starring Barbara Hershey and a recent five-part Hulu series starring Jessica Biel ,is just the latest project to revisit this true story, which Olsen feels is “stranger than fiction.
And just basic things like trying to figure out how she talks, because I don’t have a recording of her voice. [With] someone who’s moved around so much, there’s still ways to have regional qualities of speech, depending on how much time you’ve spent and where. She’s moved around all over, including France. I thought of her as someone who thinks of herself as this well-traveled woman because of being an army brat.
I think what’s interesting is sometimes when you have characters, there’s a truth that I decide about the character, and then there’s a truth that the director decides about the world, and sometimes those [truths] not being aligned could create an illusion of tension that could be interesting—or there could just be confusion. But whether or not Lesli thinks she’s just a liar, I don’t know.
We tried really hard to make everything specific to the lacerations that were discussed in the trial, when it came to shooting that. I have a hard time understanding going over to someone’s house and knowing where they keep their axe or knowing that they even have an axe. I don’t really understand another way for the axe to be presented into the room besides someone who lives there presenting the axe into the space. So that’s something that I believe was logical [in Candy’s retelling].
I think at that moment, she’s not pretending it didn’t happen; she is trying to figure out how the rest of her life doesn’t change at this moment. I think she’s in such terror that everything in her life is gonna be taken away from her, and she, in that car ride home, starts to plan. The only time she sits with that experience is when she’s in the shower [after she kills Betty] and then later in that hypnosis thing, which I have opinions about.
I don’t see the world as a place of “us and them” or “right and wrong.” This is the easiest way to explain it: If I don’t agree with someone on something that’s become politicized or whatever, and I have my opinion and I’m talking to someone who doesn’t share that opinion, instead of me just choosing to judge that person, I actually want to understand why they have that opinion—maybe how they were raised, what they’ve experienced, what their job is, what their parents’ jobs were.
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