There’s times when you’ll be watching it where you’ll hate Dee Dee and you’ll feel sympathy for Gypsy, and there will be times where you’ll feel sorry for Dee Dee even, and then you’ll be thinking that Gypsy’s a little bit villainous, so just getting it right was really important to me. “Just knowing that someone’s real and is out there - I mean, she’s in prison as we sit here and speak right now. While King didn’t get the chance to speak to Gypsy prior to production - she’s currently serving a prison sentence for the second-degree murder of her mother - the actress explained the pressures of portraying a real person in this “complex” story. I just watched all these videos that I could find and just how childlike her movements were and how they changed as she got older.” King continued: “But I think what was super important to me, not just researching the story, was getting Gypsy’s voice correct and her movements correct: so when she would just look around or talk to her mom, anything I could do to make it as authentic as possible. “She’d spoken to her many times, so whenever I had a question or needed more answers from her, I would able to go to her, which was great.” She was one of our producers on the show who had an intimate relationship with Gypsy and her family,” the actress said.

Gypsy became the subject of national news attention in June 2015 when it was reported that she had been involved in the murder of Dee Dee, who had abused her and forced her to pretend to suffer from multiple severe diseases. “We had Michelle Dean, who wrote the famous article for BuzzFeed. The Act tells the disturbing true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard ( Joey King) and her mum Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette). To get into the mind of Gypsy, King went down an intense “rabbit hole of research” for the role, watching “any videos that I could really get my hands on.”

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