Gypsy said that, while her mother was alive, she was lied to about having several medical issues, including cancer, and her mother tried to use Gypsy’s fake illnesses to scam people for money through donations. There’s times when you’ll be watching it where you’ll hate Dee Dee and you’ll feel sympathy for Gypsy, and there will be times where you’ll feel sorry for Dee Dee even, and then you’ll be thinking that Gypsy’s a little bit villainous, so just getting it right was really important to me.Fans are still freaking out over the ending of The Act, the incredible true crime series following the case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard who was convicted of plotting to kill her mother after years living as a victim of munchausen by proxy, or a situation where a caregiver makes up or causes an illness or injury in a person under his or her care, such as a child, an elderly adult, or a person who has a disability, according to Michigan Medicine. “Just knowing that someone’s real and is out there - I mean, she’s in prison as we sit here and speak right now. While King didn’t get the chance to speak to Gypsy prior to production - she’s currently serving a prison sentence for the second-degree murder of her mother - the actress explained the pressures of portraying a real person in this “complex” story. I just watched all these videos that I could find and just how childlike her movements were and how they changed as she got older.” King continued: “But I think what was super important to me, not just researching the story, was getting Gypsy’s voice correct and her movements correct: so when she would just look around or talk to her mom, anything I could do to make it as authentic as possible. “She’d spoken to her many times, so whenever I had a question or needed more answers from her, I would able to go to her, which was great.” She was one of our producers on the show who had an intimate relationship with Gypsy and her family,” the actress said. “We had Michelle Dean, who wrote the famous article for BuzzFeed.
To get into the mind of Gypsy, King went down an intense “rabbit hole of research” for the role, watching “any videos that I could really get my hands on.”
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