The crew relied on court transcripts to recreate what possibly occurred that afternoon in the small town of Wylie, Texas. Kelley used to frame this terrifying moment.

The story, and subsequent trial, became a national tabloid sensation in the early 1980s, which series creator David E. During a confrontation about Montgomery’s affair with Gore’s husband, the two engage in a physical altercation inside the laundry room that ends in the massacre of Gore while her infant child napped in the other room. The scene is the culmination of the seven-episode miniseries following the true crime tale of Candy Montgomery (Olsen), who slaughtered her friend Betty Gore (Rabe), striking her 41 times with an axe.

“This scene with two women, inside a laundry room, was the most profoundly upsetting thing I’ve ever directed.”

I have killed characters in horrifying ways,” Glatter says, summoning her decades of experience lensing some of TV’s most violent moments on series ranging from “Homeland” to “The Walking Dead.”Īnd yet, Glatter says filming the confrontation between Elizabeth Olsen and Lily Rabe, playing churchgoing housewives from HBO Max’s “Love & Death,” was the most intense experience she’s ever had on set. Hollywood stalwart Lesli Linka Glatter has directed countless hours of harrowing, often grisly, television.

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