While there, Betty confronted her about the affair.
Later that evening, Betty’s body was discovered in her blood-soaked utility room with 41 ax wounds.
Premiering spring 2023, the series also starsLily RabeandJesse Plemonsas Betty and Allan Gore.
Jesse Plemons and Elizabeth Olsen in ‘Love & Death’.Jake Giles Netter/HBO Max
there’s a part of people that want to label them with a personality disorder or a mental illness.
Let’s be clear, though: Glatter and co. are not glossing over what transpired.
“She did a horrible thing,” the director and EP says of Montgomery.
“But trying to understand everyone’s emotional place of where they are was important to me.
Betty is a complicated, layered character.
She actually had a career, but she also was going through a lot of things of her own.
I didn’t in any way want to make her a villain in this.
It’s horrible what happened.”
The story similarly inspired another series released earlier this year,Robin VeithandNick Antosca’sCandystarringJessica BielandMelanie Lynskey.
Olsen believes the continued fixation rests on the complexities of the human condition.
Glatter calls the upcoming iteration an emotional rollercoaster.
“Nothing is as it is acting like,” she teases.
“Hopefully you will feel pulled in many directions in terms of your emotional ride here.”
She points to the political dramaAll the President’s Men,centered on the Watergate scandal.
Love & Deathdebuts on HBO Max in spring 2023.
