Michelle Dean on turning Gypsy and Dee Dee Blancharde’s story to life into TheAct — and why she needed a female-heavy writers room to do it
Photo: Getty Images, Brownie Harris/Hulu In 2016, reporter Michelle Dean wrote a story for BuzzFeed that became an unexpected viral sensation, called ‘Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered.’ For years Dee Dee Blancharde, who had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, had faked her daughter’s illness, confining her unnecessarily to a wheelchair and feeding her through a feeding tube.
I had not prepared for any kind of Hollywood interest. But when I started talking to the producers who were interested in buying rights to the article this woman named Britton Rizzio really stood out. She was thinking along the same lines as I was and she was interested in shepherding the project in a way where there were a lot of women involved. And then she introduced me to Nick because she thought he would be a good collaborator for me.
What were the biggest gaps that you had to fill in terms of things that you wanted to dramatize but that you didn’t have reporting on? The writers room was four women and two men, including Nick and me. Everybody was very keen on hiring women for this particular project. It was important because I think one of the things that can make the show unique is that it takes you into a darkened femininity, both in terms of like the way that Gypsy was infantilized as a kind of doll and the idea of the “good mother” and the kind of value that we put on it.
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