“We had Michelle Dean, who wrote the famous article for BuzzFeed. To get into the mind of Gypsy, King went down an intense “rabbit hole of research” for the role, watching “any videos that I could really get my hands on.” “Of course, then I watched the documentary and then I realized that’s the story we’re telling, and I was like, ‘I really want to be a part of this project so badly.'” This is disturbing and crazy,'” King said. “I got the audition and I did a lot of research online, and I read up about it quite a bit, and I was like, ‘Holy mother of geez. King sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss telling the story of Gypsy and Dee Dee for the series, which is based on Michelle Dean’s BuzzFeed story “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom to Be Murdered” and turned into a HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest. Joey King‘s role in Hulu’s The Act, detailing the true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the murder of her mother, Dee Dee, is unlike any the actress has starred in before.
