Colin Firth is simply as mystified by Michael Peterson as true-crime fans.
In the HBO Max series The Staircase, Firth plays the author, who was implicated of killing his other half, Kathleen Peterson, in December 2001 (he went into an Alford plea to murder in 2017). The British star speaks and moves with flawless resemblance to the Southerner, a job that the star informed E! News was the simple part of the function.
To Firth, the genuine difficulty was comprehending who he was playing. “It wasn’t so much, can I imitate him?” he informed E!News “It was whether the cadences, the sounds, the vocal foibles, and all these nuances could tell me something… I found it rather unfathomable.”
Firth discussed that he wished to comprehend why Peterson spoke the method he did, as he hoped it would “take me through how he thinks or how he presents himself.” But responses avoided him, regardless of having documentary video and more resources.
