‘The Girl From Plainville’ star Chloe Sevigny: ‘It was tough material’
05.04.2022 - 02:17
/ nypost.com
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).
In 2015, a Massachusetts judge ruled that Carter’s words (though phone calls and text messages) coerced Roy into killing himself. She was sentenced to 15 months in prison, which she served from 2019-2020 (she was released in January of 2020, three months early, due to good conduct). Sevigny, who earned an Oscar nomination for “Boys Don’t Cry” and won a Golden Globe for “Big Love,” plays Conrad’s mother, Lynn “It was challenging to live in that headspace for five months [while filming].
It was tough material. But, we would try to find moments of levity within the show and offscreen,” she said.“The Girl From Plainville” is the latest in a string of true-crime related projects for Sevigny, who also co-starred in Hulu’s “The Act” about Gypsy Rose Blanchard (Joey King) and the murder of her mother, Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette).
She also played Lizzie Borden in the 2018 movie “Lizzie.”“Each of them held different appeals for me, but all in all, life is always stranger than fiction,” she said. “I remember when we were writing the ‘Lizzie’ script, there were so many details we wanted to include that were just mind-boggling.