‘True Story’: series co-star Aisha Alfa played professional soccer

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Peacock’s true-crime spoof “Based On a True Story” strikes a personal chord with the actress/comedian.“I was fascinated with true crime when I was a teenager,” Alfa, 43, told The Post. “I’m interested in people and the way they live their lives, so when something is outside of the norm it’s fascinating to me.“I’ve watched documentaries on different serial killers and now I have two young kids and as soon as I got pregnant it was like I was allergic to it,” she said. “I can’t think about these things and it makes me freak out.“I really wanted to watch ‘Dahmer’ on Netflix when it came out but I was like, ‘I can’t.

My brain will go crazy with worrying.”“Based On a True Story” stars Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina as Ava and Nathan Bartlett.

They’re experiencing a low point in their marriage as they’re expecting their first child — he’s a fading tennis pro reliving the past, she’s a real estate agent bored with her job — when they discover that their friendly plumber, Matt Pierce (Tom Bateman), is also the West Side Ripper, an infamous serial killer terrorizing LA.

Ava, a true-crime buff who joins her friends (including Carolyn) in afternoon soirees built around the genre, comes up with a can’t miss moneymaking plan: to produce a trailblazing podcast in which Matt, disguising his voice, will detail his grisly crimes … and promise Ava and Nathan that he will stop killing.What could possibly go wrong?Series co-stars include Liana Liberato, Priscilla Quintana, Natalia Dyer (from “Stranger Things”) and Annabelle Dexter-Jones.Alfa said she knew Carolyn suited her in several ways once she read a description of the character before shooting began.“The way I remember it, she’s in her 40s, she’s successful, sassy and open — and also,.