Max is touting strong viewership for its true-crime limited drama series Love & Death.
13.05.2023 - 04:15 / justjared.com
Elizabeth Olsen is opening up about the pivotal scene in Love & Death that she needed to use a stunt double for.
The 34-year-old actress stars as Candy Montgomery in Max’s retelling of the gruesome murder of Betty Gore in the 1980s.
Talking with The Hollywood Reporter, Elizabeth revealed the scene, and the reasons why she felt she needed to use a stunt double for the shoot.
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During her interview with the outlet, Elizabeth revealed that it was the scene she filmed with Lily Rabe, who was six months pregnant at the time, as her character was killing Lily with an axe.
“Lily was six months pregnant. It was awful. She had a double. And they also could erase [her belly] in post. But she was in a little shirt with a six-month belly,” she shared. “It was crazy. And she really wanted to do everything. Lily is a really physically strong human being, and so it was like real tension, physically, and there was an element where I felt safe because we had choreography, but there was an element where I didn’t want to do everything. So it was a lot of things.”
Elizabeth admitted that when it came time to wield the azxe though, she was “tapped out”, and was very uncomfortable.
“My experience with more fight sequences isn’t hand-to-hand fighting. And so it felt kind of scary at times,” she said. “Then there were moments where Lily asked me to, with the rubber ax, make contact with her body. And I tapped out and was like, ‘You’re going to have to do this with my stunt double.’”
Love & Death is streaming now on Max.
Just recently, Elizabeth got candid about doing her own stunts, revealing that it’s all a “waste of time”.
Max is touting strong viewership for its true-crime limited drama series Love & Death.
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came to an end with a bloody and violent series finale that also closed out the true-crime saga about accused axe murderer Candy Montgomery and the death of friend Betty Gore with an unexpected emotional touch. In an interview with ET, director and executive producer Lesli Linka Glatter breaks down the stunning episode and reflects on Elizabeth Olsen's award-worthy performance as Candy. Adapted from the book,, and a collection of articles by executive producer David E. Kelley, the limited Max series recounted the unbelievably true story about the infamous housewife and her neighbor who was left dead after the two got into an altercation over the fact that Candy had an affair with Betty's husband, Allan. In addition to Olsen, the star-studded cast includes Lily Rabe as Betty, Jesse Plemons as Allan and Patrick Fugit as Candy's husband, Pat. In the finale, audiences saw Candy take the stand after being arrested and tried for Betty's grisly death.
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