‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’ – Credit: Youtube/Hulu
Amanda Knox becomes an easy target in the official trailer for The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, the upcoming limited series from Hulu. Set to premiere on Aug. 20, the show recounts a dramatized version of the murder trial Knox faced in which she was wrongfully convicted following the death of her roommate, Meredith Kercher.
In the trailer, Grace Van Patten stars as Knox during her days as a bright-eyed student studying abroad in Italy. She learns quickly that her studies didn’t prepare her to be intensely interrogated by authorities in Italian. “In order to move forward, I need to go back,” Knox says in the clip, thinking back to 2007. “I had no idea that my dream was about to become a nightmare.”
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The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox grapples with innocence and interrogation as her life is permanently altered. The series also features Sharon Horgan, John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico, and Roberta Mattei. The first two episodes will premiere on Aug. 20 followed by weekly releases extending through Oct. 1.
Knox serves as an executive producer on the show. The scene recreating the questioning, she recently told Vanity Fair, was one of the hardest to witness being filmed. “I did not lose my shit on set except for that time,” she said. “We spent two 10-hour days doing this scene from all the different angles over and over and over again. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to get that right, so that the next person who is wrongly accused and ends up falsely confessing feels like people are more willing to believe them … I just remember sobbing.”
For Knox, having a deep involvement in the creative process was essential. “I wasn’t interested in having yet another person’s voice telling the worst experience of my life for who knows what reason,” she added. After spending four years in prison, an appeal trial found Knox not guilty of murder in October 2011.
“The practical reality of being a convict and having to prove whether I’ve been rehabilitated from a crime I did not commit, having to do FBI Background checks and get fingerprinted, have character recommendation letters [written] are all things that follow me,” Knox told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “It’s in the public consciousness. I was very publicly accused and my reputation [was] utterly transformed in the most negative way, internationally. There’s no pretending that’s not a part of my reality.”
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