Elizabeth Olsen Continues to Say Questionable Things about a Murderer
Elizabeth Olsen on her #LoveAndDeath character Candy Montgomery: “She’s a very modern woman for the time and the place. She knows what she wants.” https://t.co/f3EjwcKsDm pic.twitter.com/4vJNUpvRDI
- Variety (@Variety) June 11, 2023
Previously on Elizabeth Olsen Sympathizes With a Murderer:
• "I oddly think we made the show she would want to have made. We really defend her, without trying to let her completely off the hook. But we are telling, I think, her story."
• "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...she hasn’t done a single interview since the trial. I can appreciate why someone would want their anonymity and privacy."
• “I fell in love with the way David [E. Kelley] wrote the first few episodes. [Candy] was just so optimistic and resilient and hopeful and striving for more and had a deep hole in her life. She didn’t have any resources trying to fill it. So she’s doing the best she can with what she’s got and I just loved that about her.”
Elizabeth Olsen is referring to Candy Montgomery, an American housewife who murdered her lover's wife, Betty Gore (who was also her close friend) on June 13, 1980 by striking Gore 41 times with a wooden axe before leaving Gore's body with Gore's 11 month old daughter. Montgomery was subsequently found not guilty on October 30, 1980 because she was more likeable than Gore or something.
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