I had read the first episode or two before I met with Lesli and David and we got on a Zoom, and we talked about this kind of relentless fear and feeling that Betty has. So then I read the script and I was really taken with Betty. I loved working with David so much on The Undoing, and I’ve had kind of a talent crush on Lesli Linka Glatter for a long time I love Homeland so much.
I think Nicole has such impeccable taste in material, and then hearing it’s a true story. It’s so different from anything you’ve done.” And that’s always something that excites me to hear.
Nicole Kidman called, I think the night before I got the offer, and said, “This role is coming your way and here’s why you are the person to play it. What drew you to Betty? And, was this the role they came to you about from the start? I really do feel I was introduced properly to the story through the job coming my way. And then I read the Texas Monthly articles and then I read the book, and then of course I read everything I possibly could. But as you read the script, you just think: It can’t all be true. And then I read the script and that sort of sparked a sense of a memory about it. Deep in the back of my brain I think I had maybe heard it once, but it wasn’t something that I feel I was aware of. How much did you know about the real Candy Montgomery case and Betty Gore’s death when this project came to you? I’m always so interested in that, as painful as it is,” she says.īelow, Rabe discusses the experience of being very pregnant herself while filming the infamous murder scene between Betty and Candy with her co-star and director Lesli Linka Glatter, something she calls “tremendously profound and tremendously painful,” while sharing why she believes the real Betty Gore was so misunderstood. “Betty is handled throughout the story, and there’s so much misperception about what’s really going on with her. What Rabe would find in her research and portrayal of Betty - the real-life Texas housewife who was murdered in the 1980s by her friend Candy Montgomery, played in the series by Elizabeth Olsen, when she was inexplicably struck by an ax 41 times - that she was able to relate to her more than she anticipated as she began to understand her more. 'Downtown Owl' Review: Lily Rabe Is the Radiant Hot-Mess Center of an Affecting Small-Town Tragicomedy
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