Two years before the #MeToo movement rocked Hollywood, many people’s reactions to then-18-year-old Marie Adler’s report of rape were disbelief. The young woman at the center of ProPubli…
wrote, produced and directed the series, working on the scripts as the conversation around sexual harassment and sexual assault began to shift under its new spotlight. At the time, Timberman says, “a big question was whether to stay faithful to the original experience [of the article] and allow for doubt” around Marie’s claims in their version of the story.
But from another storytelling perspective, Grant also did not want to write anything that could “tip at all into something that is rape porny. Those in Marie’s life, including her foster parents and some of the police who interviewed her, doubted her story enough to not only stop investigating her report but also to seemingly want to teach her a lesson about filing what they thought was a false report. When crafting these characters for the screen, Timberman says it was imperative not to vilify them but instead to create characters the audience could relate to and therefore would not be inclined to judge.
“Marie’s story is tough. It’s heartbreaking to watch this young woman trying to keep her head above water as the sea is rising around her, and I wanted to tell that concurrent with the story of women she’s never met, who don’t even know about her, who, without knowing it, are doing their absolute damndest to find the guy, which will ultimately bring some balance back to her life,” she explains. “I thought it was interesting to play those two against each other.
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