Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell take a deep dive into the lives of Carole Baskin and Joe Exotic pre-fame.
In April 2020, the two tiger enthusiasts unexpectedly became the biggest personalities in America thanks to the runaway success of the Netflix documentary,. The seven-part series chronicled the escalating feud that emerged between the two as they fought over the livelihood of the big cats in Exotic’s captivity. Things came to an unexpected end when Exotic attempted to have Baskin murdered but ended up behind bars instead.
“The docuseries was compelling, but it didn’t really go deep,” he explains, pointing out that moments that “formed Joe fully” were left out. “And this, you really go deep.” “I was really interested in, ‘How did these people become who they became before they crossed each other’s paths?’” says showrunner and executive producer Etan Frankel.
“You see where he comes from. You see the homophobia, you see that suicide attempt, his husband of 17 years,” Mitchell says, with Frankel adding, “It was exciting to explore who Joe was in a functional relationship. And by all appearances, his first marriage to Brian was functional and loving and an equal relationship… He was proud of who he was. It’s a beautiful part of his story that deserves to be celebrated.
Meanwhile, for Baskin, that was years of emotional and physical abuse from the men in her life, going back to her first partner and the father of her daughter, who almost killed her in a drunken tirade, to a husband who stole all her money before disappearing. , McKinnon admits it was pretty daunting at first. “It was a leap, for sure,” she says. “Most of the things I do last three minutes and this lasted eight hours.
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