GETTING THEIR HANDS ‘DIRTY’
The Envelope welcomes a select audience of Hollywood guild members and awards voters to consider some of the year’s most talked about films and TV with The Envelope Live event series. Each screening is followed by a Q&A moderated by an L.A. Times journalist. The highlights are here. Videos of the sessions are at latimes.com/screenings.
Recently, Connie Britton and Julia Garner, stars of the Bravo series “Dirty John,” screened the first episode at the Montalban Theater, along with creator and showrunner Alexandra Cunningham, executive producer Richard Suckle and director Jeffrey Reiner. The screening was followed by a conversation with L.A. Times writer Christopher Goffard.
“Dirty John” had been a Times story by Goffard about a divorcée whose life is put in danger when she falls in love with a man with a hidden past. Britton received a Golden Globe nomination last week for her role.
‘The reason I was so deeply drawn to playing Debra was because I actually recognized a lot in her from the standpoint of what it is to be a woman shaped by external circumstances.’ — CONNIE BRITTON, on her role as Debra Newell
‘It was very important that we understand that this guy was a living, breathing thing, that he was charming … why she fell in love with him. It was just trying to get people to find the other side of him.’ — JEFFREY REINER, on working with actor Eric Bana to shape his title character
‘What I noticed pretty early on was that she gives people chances; she is like her mother in that sense. She always hopes. And sometimes it can be to a fault.’ — JULIA GARNER, on playing Debra’s daughter Terra