“The trailer itself gave me PTSD.”
Since its release on Sept. 21,Ryan Murphy’sDahmerseries has drawn backlash fromboth viewers and families of the victims.
Now, a production assistant on the show is opening up about her negative experience on set.
Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer in ‘Dahmer’.Netflix
She also said she was often mistaken for another colleague.
“We both had braids.
She was dark skin and 5'10.
I’m 5'5.
Working on this took everything I had as I was treated horribly.
I look at the Black female lead differently now too.”
(Alsup has since made her Twitter account private.)
However, Alsup said that, overall, she found the experience “exhausting.”
Alsup and representatives for Netflix did not immediately respond to EW’s requests for comment.
Alsup is not the only one who hascondemned the adaptation.
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