#Anna delvey movie series#

I think that’s really dangerous territory.

That disclaimer gives the show enough credibility so that people can believe more easily. This show is playing with a fine line-peddling it as a true story, but also saying, “except for all the parts that aren’t.” I think it’s worth exploring at what point a half-truth is more dangerous than a lie. Some people online think this is a fact-checked series. And I mean, yes, I am concerned about some very obvious, refutable factual inaccuracies.īut I’m more interested in this kind of true-crime entertainment. Part of the reason I didn’t want to speak up was because I think people will want to couch my statements within the Rachel-vs.-Anna narrative. I’ve seen enough of it to know my objections. I started and was like, I’m not sure I have the stomach for this.

I haven’t watched the whole thing yet-I’ve been skimming. How much of the show have you seen, and what was your viewing experience like? To me, it’s not making a statement but convoluting truth in a way that’s dangerous. I looked at it and I was like, Really? That’s where you’re going to go with this? So I had some unease, but nobody thinks that someone is going to be reckless with facts, especially when the character is given my name. To say a woman is someone else’s creation is counter to a feminist narrative. Rachel Williams: I was caught off guard when Netflix announced its description of the character Rachel. After overstaying her visa, Sorokin is currently in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement where she is fighting deportation and offering the occasional interview to press. American Express later protected Williams from the Morocco hotel charges.) Sorokin was released from prison in February 2021. (Sorokin was acquitted of attempted grand larceny in the first degree in regard to a $22 million loan she tried to obtain, and of stealing $62,000 from Williams. They didn’t see her as a felon who was convicted on eight charges, including second-degree grand larceny, theft of services, and first-degree attempted grand larceny. The way Williams sees it, Netflix and Shonda Rhimes were conned into believing that Sorokin was a special and even inspiring person-just like Williams was. You watch the spectacle, but you’re not paying attention to what’s being marketed.” “Having had a front-row seat to for far too long, I’ve studied the way a con works more than anybody needs to. “I think promoting this whole narrative and celebrating a sociopathic, narcissistic, proven criminal is wrong,” Williams told Vanity Fair in her first interview about the series.

#Anna delvey movie series#

And when the adaptation of those rights and Jessica Pressler’s New York magazine feature made its way to TV screens on Friday, in Inventing Anna, Williams was shocked to see the degree to which the series sympathized with Sorokin ( Julia Garner). But when Netflix reportedly paid Sorokin $320,000 for her life rights-allowing the convicted felon to profit from her crimes after she was forced to use part of the sum to pay restitution and fines-Williams was irked. She purged her recollections of the traumatic friendship in an essay for Vanity Fair and, later, a book, My Friend Anna. The show is written by Rhimes, with David Frankel ( The Devil Wears Prada) attached to direct and executive produce select episodes.Īdditional casting includes Anders Holm ( The Mindy Project), Jeff Perry ( Grey’s Anatomy), Terry Kinney ( Billions), Laverne Cox ( Orange is the New Black), and Alexis Floyd ( The Bold Type).ĭelvey is a fictitious name and personality-that of a wealthy German heiress-invented by Anna Sorokin, who, in May this year, was convicted and jailed for having swindled New York City hotels, banks, individuals, and more out of hundreds and thousands of dollars.Rachel Williams, the former Vanity Fair staffer who was conned out of $62,000 by Anna Sorokin, known as Anna Delvey, never wanted to discuss her former friend again. Inventing Anna is produced by Shonda Rhimes' Shondaland for Netflix. Moayed will play Todd, Delvey's lawyer, Smith will play Maud, a journalist, and Lowes will play Rachel, a woman whose blind worship of Delvey almost costs her everything. Julia Garner ( Maniac, Modern Love) will star as Delvey and Anna Chlumsky ( Veep) plays journalist Vivian. The new 10-episode limited drama series, inspired by Jessica Pressler's exposé in New York Magazine, will take place during Anna Delvey's trial, during which she forms a love-hate relationship with a journalist. Stage and screen actors Arian Moayed ( Succession, The Humans) and Katie Lowes ( Scandal, Waitress), along with playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith are among the cast of Netflix's upcoming Inventing Anna.