Elle Fanning Opens Up About Starring In True Crime Thriller ‘The Girl From Plainville’

The trial of Michelle Carter broke new ground when the teenager was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the controversial “texting-suicide” case.

Kate Aurthur editorWhen Chloë Sevigny was first approached about playing a role in Hulu’s limited series “The Girl From Plainville,” she Googled the real-life case behind it — how the relationship between Michelle Carter and Coco Roy resulted in Roy’s death by suicide in 2014 — to jog her memory, and found herself jarred instead when she came upon a photo of Carter.“I remember seeing her in magazines, and immediately thinking she was guilty, and being, like, ‘What a bitch,’” Sevigny said with a laugh. “So like, wow: I’m really complicit in seeing this beautiful blonde girl and thinking that just because she’s beautiful and blonde, she’s a demon.”On the series, Sevigny plays Lynn Roy, the bereft mother of Coco Roy (Colton Ryan).

The First Lady, Elle stars as Michelle Carter in Hulu's The Girl from Plainville. Could the Emmys see the Fannings hitting the red carpet together? Someone call the Rodarte sisters, stat. More from GlamourSee More Stories© 2022 Condé Nast.

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found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the death of her then-boyfriend Conrad Roy in 2014. Her story has been dramatized in the Hulu series “The Girl From Plainville,” with Elle Fanning playing Carter, Colton Ryan playing Conrad Roy, and Chloe Sevigny playing Lynn Roy, Conrad’s mother. Carter made headlines in 2014 and 2015 when a Massachusetts judge ruled that her words (through texting and phone calls) coerced 18-year-old Roy into dying by suicide. She was sentenced to 15 months in prison, which she served from February 2019 to January 2020 —she got released 3 months early due to good conduct.In addition to “The Girl From Plainville,” Carter and Roy’s story has also been covered in the 2019 HBO documentary, “I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs.

Michelle Carter’s story, which is being depicted in the Hulu series starring Elle Fanning, there’s no denying the influence and its star Lea Michele had on the teenager who was ultimately convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the 2014 death of boyfriend Conrad Roy (Colton Ryan). After a brief moment, in which Carter recites a popular monologue in the premiere, episode four (“Can’t Fight This Feeling”) takes Carter’s fascination even further with a dream sequence involving Fanning and Colton performing a cover of REO Speedwagon. While speaking with ET, Fanning and Colton as well as creators Liz Hannah and Patrick Macmanus break down that unexpected musical moment and why bringing Carter’s pop culture obsession to life on screen was so important to the series. About halfway through the episode, after the Assistant District Attorney in Massachusetts opened an investigation into Carter’s involvement in Roy’s death and she’s no longer allowed to use the internet or communicate with anyone involved in the case, a lonely Carter goes for a walk outside.

Paramount+ has acquired Finestkind, the crime thriller from Oscar winner Brian Helgeland which stars Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace and Jenna Ortega. A drop date later this year on the streamer is scheduled.

now streaming, with new episodes out Tuesdays).“I watched [the documentary] ‘I love You, Now Die’ on HBO, and I was so struck by the real Lynn Roy. I wanted to help be a part of trying to honor her, and her son, and tell their story with sensitivity,” Sevigny, 47, told The Post. “The Girl From Plainville” is based on the real-life story of Michelle Carter (played by Elle Fanning, “The Great”) and her unprecedented 2014 “texting suicide” case in which she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the suicide death of her then-boyfriend, Conrad Roy (Colton Ryan).

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Andrew Garfield-aissance into another year is the upcoming true-crime series,, starring the 38-year-old actor as a detective investigating the 1984 murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her baby. Ahead of its April debut on Hulu, FX released the first official trailer for the seven-part saga also starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Rory Culkin, Sam Worthington and Wyatt Russell. Adapted from Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction best-seller by creator and showrunner Dustin Lance Black, the series depicts the events leading up to Wright’s (Jones) murder that upended the lives in Salt Lake Valley, Utah, and Det.