When he first heard the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, Nick Antosca thought to himself, “How could this have happened? How could a mother do that to her child? I wanted to know more.” The TV veteran, whose credits as a writer and producer include “Hannibal” and “Channel Zero,” teamed up with Michelle Dean, who covered the true events for Buzzfeed, and together they translated it into a new Hulu limited series, “The Act.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Antosca above.
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The events, which were also detailed in the HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” are truly stranger than fiction. Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette) suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder in which a parent or caregiver induces or fabricates illness in another person to gain sympathy from others. She convinced her daughter, Gypsy Rose...
See Joey King interview: ‘The Act’
The events, which were also detailed in the HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” are truly stranger than fiction. Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette) suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder in which a parent or caregiver induces or fabricates illness in another person to gain sympathy from others. She convinced her daughter, Gypsy Rose...
- 5/29/2019
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