Melanie Lynskey on Honoring the Real Betty Gore With ‘Candy’
variety.comWilson Chapman editorHulu’s new five-part miniseries “Candy” takes on one of the most famous true crime stories in American history: the 1980 axe murder of Texas housewife Betty Gore by Candy Montgomery.
For Melanie Lynskey, who plays Gore, the greatest challenge of the show was finding a way to play the character respectfully.“I wanted to make sure I was playing as true as I could version to life of her,” Lynskey told Variety at the “Candy” premiere at El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles Monday. “Which meant not sugarcoating anything that she went through.
I think it’s an important conversation to have, she had postpartum depression, and she really was struggling. I talked to an investigative journalist who had written a book on the case.
And he answered a lot of questions I had.” Even with all of that preparation, Lynskey admits that she can’t truly ever be sure that she did the real-life Gore justice.“It’s tough when you’re playing a real person who’s not alive anymore to tell you how they feel.
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