Director LeslilinkaG and star PatrickFugit revisit one of Texas' most infamous murders for hbomax.
As a director, story comes first for Lesli Linka Glatter. “Everyone has a story,” she says, and hers is as good as anyone’s. Before she was a filmmaker, she was a modern dancer and choreographer. She’d trotted the globe, spending time in London and Paris before working five years in Tokyo. One day she was in the Shibuya district, looking for a coffee shop, and had to pick between two.
“It’s about the women and the men of that era who did everything right. ... Well, why do you feel so empty?”Inside the coffee shop, she met an old Japanese man, who told this twentysomething American his life story. Friendship blossomed, “and he and his wife are like my surrogate parents when I’m living there. ... He would tell me these stories about human connection, and I knew I had to pass on these stories, and I knew it wasn’t dance.
is based. “When I read the story,” Glatter says, “I thought, 'You cannot make this up, it has to be true.'” In a way, it’s the perfect story for Glatter. One of her first major TV gigs was directing four episodes offor David Lynch – a mentor who she credited with teaching her the difference between “dollar scenes and 25 cents scenes.” That show was also obsessed with the seedy underbelly of Americana, and the connection is never stronger than in the murder scene.
Such stories come with certain responsibilities – after all, there were real people, many of whom are still alive. Patrick Fugit, who plays Candy’s husband, Pat, has played pulled-from-real-life characters before: Indeed, his first role as aspiring rock journalist William Miller inwas based on writer/director Cameron Crowe, who was around to give advice, “but he didn’t do that a lot, because he didn’t want to sway me.
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