NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning True Romance, Boyhood and Severance actress Patricia Arquette says her new true-crime drama, Murdaugh: Death in the Family, attempts to unwind the complicated, dysfunctional marriage at the heart of the notorious double-murder case.
"I was really interested in this co-dependent kind of dynamic with somebody who's deceptive and gas-lighting and betraying and loving you and [is] your partner," Arquette, 57, told UPI in a Zoom interview Monday.
"They're diabolical and they're a pathological liar and you have kids with them and they're your home and you've been through all this history and starting to see all of these things starting to be revealed," she said. "It's just a disaster that ripples out across the whole community."
Premiering Wednesday on Hulu and Disney+, the limited series is based on Mandy Matney's Murdaugh Murders podcast.
It dramatizes the stranger-than-fiction case of wealthy, corrupt South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh (Jason Clarke), who was convicted in 2023 of murdering his wife Maggie (Arquette) and 22-year-old son Paul (Johnny Berchtold).
