It was an unusual pitch. Amber Sealey, the director of “No Man of God,” couldn’t shake the feeling that Luke Kirby, best known for playing Lenny Bruce on “The Marvelous Mrs.…
, best known for playing Lenny Bruce on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” was the perfect person to embody a very different historical figure: None other than Ted Bundy, one of the most infamous serial killers and a man responsible for the murder of more than 20 people.
“We sat together hashing out the challenges, concerns, peculiarities and nausea that would come with doing something like this,” says Kirby. “The good news is that I didn’t feel beholden to him as a person or to his legacy, because I don’t think he had a legacy at all. It was just a path of destruction. Not feeling that responsibility was freeing.”
Wood, who produced the film in addition to appearing as Hagmaier, says it also helped that the FBI agent didn’t see talking to Bundy as an opportunity for career advancement. He just wanted to gain insight into Bundy’s psychosis.
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