The killer? None other than her own daughter, Gypsy Rose.īut wait for the background. But that's all I'll say.Based on the true story of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard, The Act follows this sinister mother-daughter relationship as it unravels, eventually seeing Dee Dee murdered in her home on June 14, 2015. Don has been involved with every "Child's Play" besides the remake, and we're developing it together.
That's not to say that there isn't one, but you don't want to have a second season that is a pale imitation of the first.Ĭlark: Can you give any details on the "Child's Play" series you mentioned? Does it have anything to do with the recent remake?Īntosca: No, it's a TV show that's created by Don Mancini, the creator of the franchise. They gave us a lot of freedom and the budget and marketing and storytelling real estate to do it right.Ĭlark: Do you have any real-life stories in mind at the top of your head that make you think "I want to do this"?Īntosca: Not that fall into the same category as "The Act." The Blanchard story is so unique and specific that I don't know of another story offhand that checks those boxes. Hulu was incredibly supportive of our take on a sensitive and unusual story.
It's allowed us to take stories that might have been given a more lurid treatment in the past and tell them in a more elevated way. The proliferation of storytelling space has allowed for storytelling innovation. True crime runs the risk of being exploitative, and it's incumbent on producers, showrunners, directors, and actors telling true stories to be empathetic to the truth so it's not exploitative.Ĭlark: What did Hulu afford you that you don't think a traditional network would have? What did "The Act" gain by being on Hulu?Īntosca: 15 years ago, this show would not have been made, or would have been made as the TV movie of the week. You want to know what's going on in your neighbor's house. I don't find it discomforting because it's cathartic. Is that discomforting or do you see it as similar to why people love horror?Īntosca: I think it's human nature. It often indicates a user profile.Ĭlark: Do you find it disturbing at all that people take so much pleasure in watching these true-crime stories? The genre has really emerged in recent years thanks to streaming and has grown its audience so much.
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