![]() “I’ve reached my limit, and I’m going to take care of this problem myself.” It was about keeping that momentum up even though we’re filming at the restaurant on one set on a soundstage, and then another set on a soundstage, and then we’re cutting outside to Colin, and making sure those things continue to communicate with each other. It has to be expelled, she has to get it out of her. ![]() It was written to screen, and she was doing it, but it was more like this internal moment for her. There was this moment where Toni Collette, as Kathleen, is standing in the shower and it doesn’t turn on. It was an opportunity for these women to speak to their experiences in a way that we hadn’t heard before. ![]() The exorcism of these bats is a metaphor for their relationship, just festering and not dealt with. Maggie Cohn: We knew Episode 7 was going to be that catharsis not only for Kathleen. She gets this big catharsis moment at the end of Episode 7, blowing the bats out of the attic. She’s not present in the documentary, obviously, but clearly, you saw that she could be a compelling character. IndieWire: You’ve spoken about building Kathleen out of an absence. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. The show’s very last moments handle this with an eerie sleight of hand, the sound cutting out on Kathleen’s voice as she shouts at Michael, “Why didn’t you tell me?” and smash cut to him alone, by the pool, in his truth. IndieWire spoke with Cohn about these accusations and some of the finale’s big leaps - including depicting a much-debated plausibility that Kathleen actually knew about her husband’s bisexuality, despite his eventual confession that she never in fact did. ![]() Ever the self-promoter, Peterson has done the talk show circuit saying he will not watch the HBO Max series because of its irreverence to the facts, as he sees it. But the real-life Brunet, along with de Lestrade, insists that the relationship didn’t start so early on, and that her editing on the documentary wasn’t in any way twisted by their romance. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Sophie Brunet, the director and the editor of the original French documentary miniseries on which Campos and Cohn’s show is based, have denounced this series as a work of garbled fiction.īrunet, played by a marvelously unhinged Juliette Binoche, is seen in the series starting up a romantic relationship with Michael while he’s imprisoned. Various figures affected by the real-life events, however, have spoken out against the series. The series, as Cohn explained to IndieWire in an interview, is all about ambiguity and being comfortable with not knowing the truth. How ‘The Other Two’ Cameos Became New York’s Hottest Club By pleading guilty, he was able to walk away with time served. Peterson became a free man after eight years in prison in 2017, escaping a life of incarceration through a legal loophole known as the Alford plea, which reduced his charge to manslaughter. ![]() Is Antonio Campos’ drama series true crime at all if there maybe wasn’t even a crime truly committed? Across eight episodes, writer/director Campos and writer/producer/co-showrunner Maggie Cohn reopened the Pandora’s box of the Michael Peterson (Colin Firth) case, in which a well-liked Durham, North Carolina novelist and would-be local politico was accused, convicted, and then cleared of the killing of his wife Kathleen (Toni Collette). That’s more or less the takeaway from the final episodes of HBO Max’s “The Staircase,” which exploded a wobbly real-life murder case into a fascination of true-crime-ish television. Maybe he didn’t push her, but oh, he pushed her. ![]()
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