'The Girl From Plainville': Elle Fanning on That 'Teenage Dirtbag' Scene in Episode 7 (Exclusive)

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the texting suicide case, there’s been no shortage of fanciful moments that take audiences inside Michelle Carter’s headspace.

And that includes episode seven, “Teenage Dirtbag,” which sees Carter (Elle Fanning) on the receiving end of an unexpected serenade from her sister’s student choir.

Co-creator Liz Hannah, who wrote and directed the episode, and Fanning break down the episode’s final scene and how they landed on a cover of the 2000 Wheatus song. “We play a lot with the blurred line between fantasy and reality,” Fanning says of the series, including this particular scene, which doesn’t play out in a way that Carter was expecting it to, with Hannah adding that after “having spent time with her in the courtroom for two episodes, it really felt like an opportunity to get into her mind of how she was really feeling during this and how it was really affecting her.”After months in court, which saw the case go back and forth, both sides delivered their closing statements before the judge, who now has to rule in the unprecedented case surrounding the death of Carter’s boyfriend, Conrad Roy (Colton Ryan).

Throughout the episode, Carter’s composure unravels as the tension surrounding the question of her guilt becomes insurmountable.