- When director Tommy O'Have initially talked about the film's collaboration with Catherine Keener, who would become the show's heinous child abuser Gertrude, on the beach in Venice, Catherine had the intention of turning it down.
- Catherine Keener said she was terrified to be as brutal as Gertrude. But the director asked her to think differently, and that was the real reason why they had to do it - never let this kind of child abuse happen again.
- Elliot Page , who was recommended to play the role of the abused child Sylvia , also felt a great panic when she first read the script. She said that her whole person was about to collapse, she couldn't believe it was all true, and she was facing the computer all night Reading the script the director gave her line by line, it felt like her heart was being torn apart.
- Because this case of child abuse at Gertrude Banizzewski's home is shocking. Catherine recalled how she understood the script and played the heroine who planned the child abuse case by herself. The play gets caught up in Gert's personality.
An American Crime behind the scenes gags
2022-01-28 08:20
Extended Reading
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Fay 2022-03-21 09:03:19
The film that I have never dared to watch, I watched it with my friends, but I still haven't finished it. It's so cruel, the little girl is so pitiful, what did she do wrong? ! Distorted human nature, a mother can actually do this, it is still based on real events, it can only be said that the reality is too cruel! May the girl's heaven be well!
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Abigale 2022-03-15 09:01:11
It's boring and uncomfortable. Anyway, I won't watch it again. The viewing process is very painful. The cruelty of the real case is far from the punishment of the unconscious collective that can be reached by the story.
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Gertrude Baniszewski: There are things in life we have to do, whether we like it or not.
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Leroy K. New: Are you scared?
Gertrude Baniszewski: I've been scared about a lot of things for a long time.