‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ Stars Kaitlyn Dever and Alycia Debnam-Carey on Belle Gibson’s ‘Captivating’ Cancer Scam and How Dever Nailed That Australian Accent
variety.comMax Gao SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “Apple Cider Vinegar,” now streaming on Netflix.
Stories about American scammers have proliferated the true-crime genre in recent years — Amanda Seyfried won an Emmy for portraying Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s “The Dropout,” Julia Garner played Anna Delvey in Netflix’s “Inventing Anna,” and Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway starred as Adam and Rebekah Neumann in Apple TV+’s “WeCrashed.” Now, a new Netflix miniseries from Down Under is looking to export a story that once dominated Australian pop culture in the 2010s to the rest of the world. “Apple Cider Vinegar,” which premiered on Feb.
6, stars Kaitlyn Dever as Belle Gibson, the disgraced Australian wellness influencer who claimed to have cured her terminal brain cancer through health and wellness.
But, as it turns out, Belle had never actually been diagnosed with — and therefore had never been cured of — the malignant brain tumor that she had used to shamelessly build her online brand, which included an online blog and a cookbook, resulting in millions of Instagram followers.
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