"The fact that situations as ludicrous and as absolutely mind-blowing as this can happen-I think it just really rattles people. "The people we meet in everyday life usually have some facade of normalcy," she says. King thinks it's more about our fascination with the abnormal. Everybody was thrilled to have something that was so female-centric." "At no point along the way has anybody said all the things I used to hear when I was an entertainment journalist, like, 'They get upset that there's so many women in the show.' We had none of that. I've been doing this for 16 years."ĭean says it was important to have so many female voices on set. "I thought, This the first time I've seen somebody direct in a dress. "Our first day on set, had a dress on and looked so chic but was directing like nobody's business," Robb recalls.
Five out of the eight episodes had female directors. Tragedy can either pull you apart or put you back together."Īdds co-showrunner Nick Antosca, "It's a female story, and I think it's a story that looks into the darkness and the humanity that can happen in female relationships and mother-daughter relationships."Ī female story is best told by female creatives, which is why the writers room was made up primarily of women. "Mel and Lacy's relationship is definitely fraught, but strangely, they become closer because of this tragedy that's happened next door. " The Act is about how complicated mother-daughter relationships are," Robb says. Watching her relationship with Mel shines an even brighter light on Gypsy and Dee Dee's peculiar situation. They serve as their foils Lacey is a "cool" teenager who has a boyfriend, smokes weed, and fights with her mother. Their dynamic is amplified by Chloë Sevigny's and AnnaSophia Robb's characters, Mel and Lacey, another mother-daughter pair who live across the street from Dee Dee and Gypsy. As you watch the eight episodes, you'll find it becomes less about their crimes and more about a very strained relationship between a daughter who wants to break free and the mother who won't let her.
These layers make it very hard to hate Dee Dee or Gypsy outright as you watch The Act-and that's what makes it so fascinating. Gypsy was so fearful that if she went to the police, no one would believe her. But in the documentary, Dee Dee had paperwork in order to basically say Gypsy was incapacitated mentally and couldn't think for herself. "Yes, she did conspire to commit murder, and that is a crime. "Some people think Gypsy deserves no prison time, and some people think she deserves all the prison time in the world," King, who shaved her head for the role, tells Glamour. Joey King had a similar approach to playing Gypsy, by finding the logic in her character's decision to murder her own mother.
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