Elle Fanning on Losing Herself While Portraying Michelle Carter in 'Girl From Plainville' (Exclusive)
etonline.com, Elle Fanning is back with another standout performance as Michelle Carter in the streaming platform’s latest true-crime series,.
Adapted from Jesse Barron’s article by creators Liz Hannah and Patrick Macmanus, the eight-part saga retells the story surrounding the 2017 texting suicide case, which resulted in Carter being convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the 2014 death of Conrad Roy. “Her look definitely evolves and changes a lot, and she grows up a lot,” says Fanning, who underwent a dramatic physical and mental transformation in order to portray Carter, a lonely teenage girl who had a two-year relationship with a boy she briefly met during a vacation in Florida that largely unfolded over text message before he killed himself.
In total, the series spans seven years of her life, also recounting the fame and fallout that followed Roy’s death before concluding with a heavily followed trial that resulted in her being sentenced to 15 months in prison.
Needless to say, “it was an intense shoot” that lasted for five months in Savannah, Georgia, during the latter half of 2021, and required Fanning, who is also an executive producer on the series, to jump back and forth in time during any given episode.
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