After decades of narration, the prolific female serial killer's story is finally being told through the voice of the most important people: women. Thank you, ambersealey
“I was certainly daunted by the fact that there had been so many movies made about him,” Sealey said. “ And then I thought,I don’t personally believe that any of the movies that have already been made up until now have really shown the real Bundy. They always glorify him. They make him out to be a male model — so smart, so charismatic, a master of disguise. I don’t see that.
Though Sealey stresses that she had no prior fascination with the convicted serial killer, she did have a personal connection to him. “My mother’s best friend was one of his ‘dry runs,’'' she said. “He was hitchhiking and had his arm in a sling and she picked him up and drove him somewhere. She would describe him as sort of creepy, with a sweaty forehead, awkward, and kind of pathetic.”
What eventually drew Sealey to C. Robert Cargill’s script is the fact that, on the whole, this wasn’t really a movie about Bundy at all. “It’s more about Bill Hagmaier, and the relationship between the two men,” she said. The back and forth between Wood and Kirby is intensely compelling. The latter is manic in his desire to impress the FBI agent he pretends to scorn, while Wood-as-Hagmaier quietly plays the long-game, waiting for a moment to pounce on the information he’s looking for.
“What I was trying to represent with that woman is: What is it like to be a woman in society, living in a world where we’re obsessed with these guys? We constantly make movies about them — and we I say ‘we,’ I’m guilty of that too. Why don’t we spend this much time on understanding other people? Why do we always remember Bundy’s name and not his victims? That to me is the most interesting part of it. I’m much more interested in her than I am in Bundy.
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