Kate Aurthur editorTo kick off Thanksgiving week, Netflix has dropped the trailer for Shonda Rhimes’ “Inventing Anna,” and announced the story of scammer Anna Delvey will premiere on Feb.
11.For Variety’s Show Woman of the Year cover story on Rhimes earlier this month, she described the origins of the show. In May 2018, when Rhimes read Jessica Pressler’s New York Magazine story “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People” — a viral journalistic feat that detailed the scamming enterprises of a charming young Russian woman, who had grifted societally connected New Yorkers — she responded to it immediately. “She’s got an eidetic memory,” Rhimes says, describing Delvey. “She speaks all these languages. “There wasn’t much different about.
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