“It’s killing me all over again”.
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Since the trial wrapped over 20 years ago, Clark released a book about the case, started writing fiction and even appeared on a 2013 episode of “Pretty Little Liars”. And while the decision thrilled some and infuriated others it is, undoubtedly, the case which defined a generation (hence why it is the focus of American Crime Story, season one). Although Clark thought the series was a decent attempt at recreating the trial, she was unsure of whether or not she would watch the remaining episodes, saying, “I don’t know if I can make myself do it. I don’t know if I’ll survive it. It’s just so very bad”. It was insane. It got insane really fast, and it only got crazier as the days and months went by. “She’s fantastic. What a attractive nuanced subtle performance, she’s just phenomenal”. “She surpassed anything I could have ever imagined”. According to Rolling Out, the 35-year-old American actress will be portraying the character of attorney Shawn Chapman who will be working on O.J. Simpson’s famous legal team.
Clark admitted, however, that she had to apologize to Paulson for one of her style choices during the highly-publicized murder trial. “The next thing I paid attention to was the not-guilty verdict”.
She went on to praise Murphy for having “the vision and the guts to pull out the important issues” like race and sexism. I’m not a model. It was like living on another planet. “And sexism. No one wanted to talk [about that]”.
Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. “So we have to remember that”.
The actor has also said he didn’t want to meet O.J., who is serving time in prison in Nevada for kidnapping and robbery, before playing him on the screen.
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The new FX mini-series about the Trial of the Century takes some liberties with the truth; as former prosecutor Clark told Entertainment Weekly, it’s “not a documentary”, but rather a dramatization, and “they weren’t trying to “get it right” necessarily”.
