For Amanda Knox’s total grownup life, her story has been authored by different individuals, whether or not that be tabloid magazines — who labeled her “Cunning Knoxy” on the time of her wrongful arrest for the homicide of Meredith Kercher — or by true crime podcasts or different media retellings main as much as and following her 2015 acquittal.
To some extent, Knox has discovered the need to latch on to her story legitimate, admitting that “it says one thing greater about justice and media and human frailties,” and doesn’t begrudge different individuals for locating a “philosophical or emotional reality” from her lived expertise. That mentioned, it was time for Knox to do the identical together with her story in “The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox.”
“Like many artists, we take what we have now lived or what we’ve skilled and we flip it into artwork for a similar cause that any of those different storytellers are doing it with my very own story — one thing about what occurred to me, what occurred to Meredith … resonates with individuals, after which they attempt to make which means out of it,” Knox advised TheWrap. “And I’m doing the very same factor, it simply occurs to be way more intimately private to me.”
Knox added that her lived expertise enabled her to seek out new perception into the story that doesn’t simply come from a “supposedly goal outdoors view” that the majority retellings declare to embody.
“You possibly can truly be within the story,” she continued, “actually embedded within the story, and have a worldwide view of it. It is rather attainable.”
It’s Knox’s involvement within the Hulu restricted sequence that paved the best way for the finale, which Knox wrote alongside showrunner Ok.J. Steinberg. The episode tackled Knox’s covert assembly together with her prosecutor, Giuliano Mignini, years after her acquittal — and Knox famous this very scene is the rationale the present exists.
“It didn’t actually really feel like my story to inform till I made that selection to return to Italy, till I began making choices that solely I might make, and that had been knowledgeable by my private expertise of this journey that I had been on,” Knox mentioned, including that she wanted to go to Italy to confront the life she might’ve had, the life Kercher might’ve had.
Even with Knox hooked up as an govt producer, she wasn’t initially slated to jot down the finale, however as Steinberg conceived the ultimate episode — which she imagined as a one-act play between Grace Van Patten’s Amanda and Francesco Acquaroli’s Mignini — it solely appeared proper for Knox to be concerned within the interplay’s televised telling.
“Previously, in different relationships and with journalists, she had been advised, ‘belief me, this shall be good for you,’ and been let down,” Steinberg advised TheWrap. “I needed to make a gesture to her, to say, ‘your voice is widely known right here and it’s wanted right here.’”
The dialog between Knox and Mignini, which came about 15 years after she was first arrested for Kercher’s homicide and within the wake of correspondence between them, noticed the prosecutor not again down from putting her on the scene of the crime, however, as a substitute, supply a delicate acknowledgement of her innocence.
Within the scene, Knox selected to just accept the breadcrumb, as she acknowledged the inner battle that Mignini had been reckoning with.
“Perhaps … she was on the lookout for some absolution that he might ship,” Steinberg mentioned. “If he had been to say, ‘you might be harmless, I used to be improper. I’m sorry,’ and shout it to the world from a mountaintop, in fact, it could have modified her life. However finally, what ended up taking place, I believe, is that she obtained the absolution he was on the lookout for — possibly not consciously on the lookout for — from her, and he or she was in a position to present a sure portion of redemption.”
Knox famous that the ultimate episode gave him credit score for exhibiting up and standing his floor, whereas additionally sharing deeply private issues that had been illuminating for each events concerned. In essence, the episode gave Mignini the good thing about the doubt Knox was by no means granted.
“As a result of I didn’t obtain that good thing about the doubt, and I used to be dehumanized, I didn’t wish to reciprocate in that very same approach. I needed to interrupt the chain and do justice to the human frailty of all of it,” Knox mentioned. “No one is that this static factor that we simply decide — everyone seems to be an evolution. Everyone seems to be a course of. We’re all the time studying from one another and and by coming into battle and being challenged by one another, we flip the mirror round on ourselves.”
Following the dialog with Mignini, Knox hoped to honor her different relationships within the finale, together with together with her mom, Raffaele Sollecito, and final however not least, Kercher, whose title Steinberg famous has typically been yolked with Knox’s.
“The media appears to wish to amplify Amanda’s title over anyone else’s, and I assumed it was solely proper to return to honoring the life and the potential of the life,” Steinberg mentioned. “The montage actually is a mirrored image of her pleasure and her youth and her promise, and in contemplating the lifetime of Amanda, and Amanda’s case, it could actually’t be with out honoring Meredith.”
All episodes of “The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox” at the moment are streaming on Hulu.
