![]() David wasn’t going to diagnose her, but this idea that there is something she is going head to head with during the course of this story, and it’s not being named and she has no support. I had read the first episode or two before I met with Lesli and David and we got on a Zoom, and we talked about this kind of relentless fear and feeling that Betty has. So then I read the script and I was really taken with Betty. I loved working with David so much on The Undoing, and I’ve had kind of a talent crush on Lesli Linka Glatter for a long time I love Homeland so much. I think Nicole has such impeccable taste in material, and then hearing it’s a true story. It’s so different from anything you’ve done.” And that’s always something that excites me to hear. Nicole Kidman called, I think the night before I got the offer, and said, “This role is coming your way and here’s why you are the person to play it. What drew you to Betty? And, was this the role they came to you about from the start? I really do feel I was introduced properly to the story through the job coming my way. And then I read the Texas Monthly articles and then I read the book, and then of course I read everything I possibly could. But as you read the script, you just think: It can’t all be true. And then I read the script and that sort of sparked a sense of a memory about it. Deep in the back of my brain I think I had maybe heard it once, but it wasn’t something that I feel I was aware of. How much did you know about the real Candy Montgomery case and Betty Gore’s death when this project came to you? I’m always so interested in that, as painful as it is,” she says.īelow, Rabe discusses the experience of being very pregnant herself while filming the infamous murder scene between Betty and Candy with her co-star and director Lesli Linka Glatter, something she calls “tremendously profound and tremendously painful,” while sharing why she believes the real Betty Gore was so misunderstood. “Betty is handled throughout the story, and there’s so much misperception about what’s really going on with her. ![]() What Rabe would find in her research and portrayal of Betty - the real-life Texas housewife who was murdered in the 1980s by her friend Candy Montgomery, played in the series by Elizabeth Olsen, when she was inexplicably struck by an ax 41 times - that she was able to relate to her more than she anticipated as she began to understand her more. “I always love when it’s like, ‘This is nothing like you and nothing like anything you’ve done.'” "Let me think about it and get back to you.“It always excites me to hear, ‘It’s so different from anything you’ve done,'” Rabe tells The Hollywood Reporter about her conversation with Kidman. "Well, thank you for your interest," he said. Instead, Gore replied as though someone had made an offer to buy a used toaster or television set from him. Yet a few weeks later, Candy pulled Gore aside after church choir practice and said, "Would you be interested in having an affair with me?" If she was hoping for a spontaneous love clinch and a Harlequin Romance moment, she didn't get it. No one would have mistaken him for Fabio. It may have been muskiness, not manliness like Candy, Gore was a plain man small of stature, neither fit nor fat, and balding. She got close enough to get a good whiff of him, and she perceived what she thought was a sexy odor. One evening during a church volleyball game, Candy nearly collided with a teammate named Allan Gore, a computer software engineer. But she didn't seem the swinger type, with her church lady's wardrobe and bookish eyeglasses. But with whom?Ĭandy was attractive enough petite, blonde and not yet 30. Over their years together, they had forged a comfortable partnership with two children, but Candy yearned for more. Candace Wheeler, an Army brat, and Pat Montgomery, a nerdy rising star at Texas Instruments, had met in El Paso on a date arranged by Pat's mother.
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