Patricia Arquette recognizes that playing a mother suffering from Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy in the first season of Hulu’s The Act so soon after playing a prison employee/inmate lover in Showtime’s Escape At Dannemora has left her “a little exhausted at playing crazy women.”
She acknowledged people have treated her like someone special since receiving so much awards-season recognition for the latter but, at the end of the day, “it doesn’t matter,” she said.
“I mean, it matters, but…your life goes on. You have dirty laundry” to wash, she joked.
The Act is a seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories. Written by Michelle Dean and Nick Antosca, directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, the first season is based on Dean’s 2016 Buzzfeed article “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered.” It follows Gypsy Blanchard...
She acknowledged people have treated her like someone special since receiving so much awards-season recognition for the latter but, at the end of the day, “it doesn’t matter,” she said.
“I mean, it matters, but…your life goes on. You have dirty laundry” to wash, she joked.
The Act is a seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories. Written by Michelle Dean and Nick Antosca, directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, the first season is based on Dean’s 2016 Buzzfeed article “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered.” It follows Gypsy Blanchard...
- 2/11/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
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