Elizabeth Olsen and Lesli Linka Glatter on Why They Didn’t Reach Out to Candy Montgomery
‘Love & Death’: Elizabeth Olsen and Lesli Linka Glatter on Why They Didn’t Reach Out to Candy Montgomery https://t.co/KVxbB85TwP
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 1, 2023
Elizabeth Olsen plays Candy Montgomery, a woman who in real life killed her friend after striking her 41 times with an axe and was acquitted after claiming self-defense. The real Montgomery has not given any public interviews.
“I oddly think we made the show she would want to have made,” Elizabeth Olsen tells The Hollywood Reporter. “We really defend her, without trying to let her completely off the hook. But we are telling, I think, her story.”
On not contacting her, “I knew that she didn’t want that,” says Olsen. “And I really have a respect for someone who draws such a hard line after such a national story to have never done an interview after the fact. Besides participating in Evidence of Love, she hasn’t done a single interview since the trial. I can appreciate why someone would want their anonymity and privacy, even though we’re evading it by making the show.”